By the calendar, this was a short week at the end of a long weekend. Didn't seem like it though. We spent most of Easter long weekend in Melfort with friends and family and then repeated the long drive north to La Ronge. Saw the strangest thing in Melfort - a lot overflowing with U-Haul trucks and trailers. Rather odd, considering one year ago there was not a truck in Melfort to be rented. It would seem that people are moving into the northeast!
We moved last year, this lot was empty.
As you can see by our snow gauge, the snow is definitely on the way out! The Montreal River has opened a stream of water well into the lake and there is water on the ice elsewhere. Spring has definitely sprung in the North.
Tomorrow, I am off to the northern community of La Loche. Stay posted for possible Sasquatch sightings!
We moved last year, this lot was empty. 
Since travelling to Green Lake, I have been to Pinehouse Lake twice and once to Sandy Bay. Sorry to say, there were missed photo opportunities a plenty. Have you ever met a house on the road? If you're from Saskatchewan, you likely have and will know what I'm talking about. But 
nothing could prepare one to meet not one, but two houses on the road to Sandy Bay in the middle of winter! Alas, this was a missed photo opp, that I'm glad I missed. Following two houses over the twists and turns of the rough and rocky Sandy Bay roller coaster is not for me. Since I have no recent photos of Sandy Bay for you, I've included a summer photo taken near Sandy at Island Falls, the oldest - but not the most remote - hydro-electric project in Saskatchewan. As you can see, it's pretty rugged country!
