Trade Show

I am at the Brooks and District Trade Show this weekend in Brooks. I am promoting my listings, including listings at Lake McGregor Country Estates. Been a slow start to the trade show, but things usually pick up Friday evening and throughout the day Saturday and Sunday.

I stopped by the Nelson Homes booth, as they are here as well. I will be bringing back some brochures from them. They have brought out a couple of houses to the lake. These seem to be a more economical way to get a cottage up at the resort. They can build a cottage for less than $100/square foot. The ones they showed me plans of price out to be about $96 to $98 per square foot to build. These homes are built in High River and, depending upon the pitch of the roof, will cost between $10,000 to $18,000 to move to the resort. Just another option for those looking to build.

Boil Water Advisory

Issued on April l1, 2010 by Alberta Health Services.

A "Boil Water Advisory" is in effct for Lake McGregor Country Estates.

Bring your water to a rolling boil for at least one minute prior to using it for domestic purposes, including drinking, making infant formula and juices, brushing teeth, washing raw foods and making ice.

This Order is being issued as a precautionary measure until the safety of the water can be assured.

Water should be boiled until further notice.

For more information contact www.calgaryhealthregion.ca/envhealth or local health centre.

April showers...no wait...SNOW STORM!

April 13 and 14, 2010 are two days that are going to be remembered for a while as we had a big heavy dump of snow. The snow brought down power lines and broke power poles in the area, including the area between Bow City and Lomond. Stangely enough, Calgary got nothing! Lethbridge, on the other hand, had wide spread power outages.

The resort had no electricity right now and it may be like that for a few more days as crews work to resort power throughout the southeastern part of Alberta.

Well, we were hoping for some precipitation...and we got it! The good news is that it's supposed to be almost 20 degrees on the plus side come Sunday!

Clubhouse Update

"Please note that the club house will be closed starting April 12, 2010 to April 15, 2010 as we are having the carpets and tile clean." Looks like it's officially spring as its time to do some cleaning! We should be in great shape for summer!

Time to fish!

Got a phone call this morning from someone wanting to know if the lake was opening up, getting free of ice, so folks could go fishing! Well of couse there is ice fishing, but even people like me who don't ice fish are free to try their luck fishing off the shore! Gotta love spring time!