June 11, 2023

 

Good Morning! I found this page and was just checking it after all these years. This is a pic of a rose bouquet from our community garden. The whole bunch was laying on the ground splattered with mud. They cleaned up nicely. It’s Sunday, June 11, 2023 and it’s lovely and sunny out. 

Here is our gardens all abloom with roses today. Nice to see the sunshine back after two rainy days. What to do today? What are you doing today? 

June 20th 2019

"The Creator"
Hello old friends
Just checking in to see if this baby still works.
This last weekend we celebrated my daughter, Sonia's 50th Birthday !
We had an awesome party with about 50 friends and relatives from all over, and I think Sonia loved it all from the looks of her packing her Prosecco bottle around all evening.
Ok I will try to load up some pics to see if this still works.

Ok, I will try publishing and see what happens.

Hello Out there

"The Creator"I thought I would check in and see whats cooking? I haven't been here for a looong time, but I may think about getting back at it, now that my brain knows more about web pages. i belong to the Canadian Federation of University Women, here in Nelson, and have been looking after their web page. Thus I haven't disappeared off the planet, just moved over , so to speak.Now that I am retired ( for 2 years now) ,I may have time for a blog post or two. What do you think?
The determining factor will be if blogger has improved the photo uploading. I will try it out immediately.

Here are some pics of Patricia's retirement party last night at Kolmel's. It was lovely to visit with my old colleagues .

Casablanca lilies and others from my garden

"The Creator"

given up

Yes, it looks like I have given up on my blog... Seems that Facebook is readily available and an easy way to connect with people and it seems that I am there more often than here. I will give this another few months ,then close it down for good... Maybe I just needed a rest from it. Here I am retired and seeming to be running out of time every day...time for my computer and time to play... Then again it is a hot lovely summer that has kept us busy with the girls here and my retirement party and other lovely visitors...so times have been busy.
Today is Sunday and Emil and I will go up to the driving range so I can practice some more with my new Calaway golf clubs... they are fabulous, but I have to learn how to use them properly. I am looking forward to some pain free golf.
okey dokey have a good weekend, a good week and maybe even a good month. Don't be too hard on yourself and enjoy life!


"The Creator"

Spring flowers

Slater creek...full, but not overflowing!

 My rhodos 

Home again after almost three weeks away in Victoria  house/dog/grandkid/ sitting and keeping the household running while Sonia was away to New Brunswick with her new man Mike. She also got a chance to go see her sister annette ,in Halifax...which was a big thrill to both sisters!
I arrived home to find, that unlike sunny Victoria, the Kootenays have been suffering through many many days of wet soggy rain. I could twll when I looked at my flowers in my big pots...many had gone moldy, where as I expected mounds of fresh blooms by the time I arrived home. My tomatoe plants  are purple with cold and all in all much of my garden never grew from the seeds I planted before I left. Oh well, we can have late garden, so I will reseed some things like my beans.

Also, the lake has risen higher than normal ,giving everyone a big scare that lives along the lakeside.
Lucky for all concerned, the lake is going down...yea!
here are some shots od my flowers and the lake shore below my garen...

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 Looking east...


 
 A gorgeous white Clematis I bought from Lynn Bagnal when she was here... so beautiful  and blooming better than ever before!

 

 
 My beautiful Sarah Bernhart Peonies...at their end...



 
 That stick in the middle right of the lake is our dock!
 

LOOKING WEST  see...no sand burram as usual... just trees submerged on Dave's property


"The Creator"