Our second week in Barriere started out much the same as the first week. We had a quiet Sunday where we went to a local church and then had a relaxed day “at home”. Monday was another fishing day and we carefully chose to go to Allan Lake which is about 45 minutes drive to the west up on the Bonaparte Plateau. We drove through the area that was burned in 2003, but the fire did not reach the lake. We saw a couple of deer on the way up and grouse on the way back.
We were the only ones on the lake and set out with high hopes of catching fish. It was mostly sunny but there was a cool breeze on the lake and it always seemed to be blowing against us. Stuart did catch a fish, a squawfish, and it was so ugly that we released it right away. We had nothing after that, although we saw fish jumping and we trolled around for a few hours. Just one of those “off” days.
Tuesday was better as we went golfing again and had a really good time. They were aerating and sanding the greens so the putting was not optimal although it seemed easier to make some of the putts (go figure).
We were in Kamloops most of the day on Wednesday as I had day surgery. That has put the skids on our golfing for a week or two until I heal up properly, so we’ve created a list of chores for Stuart to keep him out of trouble. He polished the entire outside of the trailer and did various things around “home”.
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He hasn’t learned how to do things the retirement way yet—pick one or two “to do” items and spend the whole day doing them. He still has the tendency to get the list completed as quickly as possible, all in one day. We tried fishing yesterday at Johnson Lake near Adams Lake, but it was too windy when we got there. We tried to find another lake in the area that was calmer but we had no luck with access to any of the small lakes. So we had a lovely, though dusty drive on some new roads and had sole for supper instead of rainbow trout. We are going to Latremouille Lake on highway 24 west of Little Fort today. The weather is supposed to be good for the next few days and we want to take advantage of that. It is cooling off at nights now—only 3 degrees this morning (Yikes!!).
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