Ray's Kayak...9 years in the making...

This a labour of love so to speak...Ray L. has spent nine years cooking up this baby in his basement or shop and now it is done... a piece fit for a museum...but he intends to put it out on the lake at some point. We'll be watching for it. Thanks Ray for sending the photos my way...

 

 

 

 


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Amarylis Blooms!

 
Here's my beautiful amarylis ,at various stages of bloom...note they aren't in the right order. Do you have any tips to keep them so they bloom next year?
 
 
 


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Beddingtons.com

Beddingtons.com
This is a Canadian web store that sells loads of lovely looking bedding and towels. The shipping is very reasonable and is actually free if your order is over $150.00. I might have to check this out a little more myself!


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Taking it easy at Canon Beach

Our lovely hotel room at the Surfsand.Note you can see the soaker tub from the livingroom when the privacy screen is open. From the tub, you have the view down below...of the Pacific ocean and huge beach.

Nice gas fireplace and flatscreen tv. In fact there was a flatscreen in each of the three rooms.
We had a microwave, coffeepot, fridge and a toaster..perfect for our little breakfasts.
I liked the idea of having a coffee and looking out at the ocean...oh yes, I guess we can look out at the lake...but it isn't quite the same!

We enjoyed the complimentary turndown service too... those are little Ovation chocolates on our bed! I heard on the radio today, that some hotel in England is introducing human "bedwarmers"...employees dressed in complete suits who jump right into your bed and warm it up for five minutes while you brush your teeth or whatever...ha-ha...The bedwarmer person probably goes home exhausted and half frozen, then jumps under an electric blanket...

A bit dark, but you get the idea...big waves, loads of beach for miles in every direction. In the old days, the beach was the main highway for horse and buggy and for early cars. The Surfsand hotel was one of the first ones built on the beach, and also the first one to claim the beach in front of the hotel as private property. The state Governor of the day stepped in and created a law that gave the cars right of way to driving on the beach. To hotels, like the Surfsand, they took the legislation to mean that cars could drive on the damp part of the beach, but the dry sandy sand in front of their hotel was private and for their guests only. Another stink grew and once again it was thrown back to government , who eventually declared all of Oregon's beaches public...on all parts and none could be owned. I don't think it ever harmed the hotel's business, judging by the size of it and how they have totally renovated it since we were last there in the mid nineties.

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Haiti Relief

Haiti Relief

CBC Canada has this page set up so you can choose how you'd like to donate and to which agency. Funds will be matched by the govenment of Canada for any donations made. No limit now...so pick a charity and send money. They were able to pull out people that were alive today,after five days of being trapped.
Also, the Kootenay group of teenagers with Father Jim Reimer are at the Canadian embassy now, awaiting a flight out of Haiti. It was so touching watching the news forecast about it. The kids and members of their group took $2500.00 and bought 4500 pounds of rice which they distributed to needy staving people. When the rice ran out, they line continued on and on and this broke the hearts of so many of these Kootenay kids. It will be a memory engraved in their brains for the rest of their lives.


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