Seedrioru update: Talgud and a surprise event!

Last Saturday was a beautiful early spring day in Southern Ontario. It was an opportune day for some “talgud” work at Seedrioru.

In full compliance with the COVID 19 social distancing measures, Seedrioru esimees Eric Tiisler directed several jobs with a diligent crew of volunteers. With the swim pond drained for the winter months, one of the large jobs was the dismantling of the deteriorating 60 year old deep-end dock and jumping platform. In seeing that long-lasting wood structure being ripped apart, one couldn’t help but reflect on the all the camp kids, sauna users and other guests who have enjoyed running down the dock and jumping into the pond over so many years. Wonderful memories for so many!

The next big task is to demolish the thick concrete pier and rebuild it (hopefully as solidly as originally built by the “previous generation talgulised”) over the next month or two so that it is ready for the approaching summer.

Having seen the “talgud” tasks completed for the day, Seedrioru was witness to another wonderful surprise. Late in the afternoon, far off in the clear blue sky, appeared a single engine airplane seemingly heading in the direction of Seedrioru. Closer and closer, and lower and lower… the plane seemed to check out the Seedrioru grounds. The plane then banked with a wide turn and returned lower yet, and lo and behold it landed on Seedrioru’s upper field!! Several surprised “talgulised”, with beer in hand, went quickly to check out the flying machine and who was the daring pilot. We were happy to see that it was our esto buddy Eric Coverdale as the pilot and he said he was just up for a joy ride from the Guelph airpark. And after a short stay and chitchat Eric started up the engine and took off cleanly back into the clear blue sky.

With that unique airplane landing event, Seedrioru has once again shown JoeKaaru and Kotkajarv that is first and most famous (tongue-in-cheek) of the 3 Ontario eestlaste retreats!

Trevor Crossmann at renewal of swimming pond.

Plane lands at Seedrioru. From the left: Max Luiker, pilot Eric Cloverdale, Rudi Zutis, Uno Tiisler.

Photos: Toomas Eichenbaum