September arives

View from the decks at Sha Sha Resort

Daylight is getting shorter, temps cooler, and the trees (maples) are just beginning to turn - though probably not for the best of reasons.  It's the last three weeks of our season here at Voyageurs NP.  Only programs left are the tour boat runs and the upcoming Ghosts of Voyageurs evening program.  Consequently, our schedule is getting a little weird.

Some color in the maples

Starting next week we work 1:30-10:00 PM on Thursdays and Fridays, then back to 9:00 AM to 5:30 PM on Saturday & Sunday until the visitor center begins to close on Sundays.  We plan to be moving on by the 22nd.

Some of the motley crew of law enforcement & interpretative ranges (and a volunteer or two thrown in)

Randy and Shirley left last Sunday and experienced some issues on the way home.  They're fine and we think they made it home OK, but our frig decided it needed to go on the fritz (again) in sympathy.  (It did this earlier this summer when Randy & Shirley had an AC unit go bad.)

It's the stinking thermocouplers that turn on/off the frig's cooling fans, again.  We heard a couple of pops yesterday afternoon while Donna was cooking.  By late afternoon we could see the fridge temp begin to climb.  Our quick, easy fix to the fans didn't work (replace the existing thermocoupler), so we had something a little more serious.  The local RV tech came out and help us troubleshoot the thing.  The thermocouplers work, but not when installed in the frig.  So we have the fans now wired to run full-time & will install a manual switch in a week or two to turn them on/off as needed.

In the mean time, Donna's farmed out our frozen stuff to one of the rangers, and both ice chests were full for the night.  All is OK now, though.  Maybe the ranger will give us our food back.  We did leave our ice cream with him (mouse tracks flavor), so we can only hope.

Anyway, that's our week.  Hope you had a good one.  Later, David