Hey there... here it is Monday morning... EARLY Monday morning... Woody Flicker Pecker woke me up doing his love call on the chimney of the suite...ratatatatatatatttaaaaaaaa...over and over again. In fact I couldn't see him, but with my window open, I could hear him plenty good! I am sorry that I never got back to my blog all week...seemed like the week went by so quick with the nice weather. I came home to HAppy hour on our balcony on Wednesday... Deb, Ashley, Emil, Lorraine's golden retriever, Brandy, ( being dogsat by Deb and Ashley) and Ashley's cat, Phoebe,and Silky of course... a menagerie to say the least...The day was so beautiful, but once the sun started to go down, we moved inside for dinner... Lucky I had some frozen wings and a frozen pizza all ready to pop into the oven.. Kristen brought over a salad and we were good to go. That is one thing about this nice neighbourhood... we all pitch in when it comes to food, and it works out terrific. Saturday night we had a bonfire over at Deb and Ashley's with some of the neighbourhood there.. and loads of great salads and MArlene brought a whole chocolate cake oozing with fudgey icing. Alyssa made some beautiful roasted veggies...zuccini, red peppers,and mushrooms and onions... very yummy indeed...then we enjoyed the salads...pasta from Elli, Spinach from me, and Quinoa from Deb, as well as a coleslaw... all delicious for sure.
Oh yes, we had news of Derrick and Barb's new baby girl...weighed in at at 7 lbs, 14 oz. and her name is Meghan Makayla... isn''t that a pretty name? She is as cute as a button with a head of black hair and she looks like Ethan ,we think. Sweet!
Joyce came out on Thursday and we reviewed Grandma's old bible... still slightly confused over who's who... lots of info in there, but it is mostly the same stuff repeated over and over in a different order. It is a moot point as I am unable to load in my new Family Tree maker program and make it work... Lets say it was working at one point, then wouldn't even open due to an error message....over and over again... much to my disapointment. I have removed it at this point and will try to install it again when I have the energy. Seems I need to have most every other program and my antivirus turned off before it will be loaded in properly... forget it for the moment.
Friday I stayed in town and had appies and a drink with Judy Kirby, whom I got re-acquainted with at our grad reunion. We mostly knew each other at Crowe, She and I had a long chat over food while we we soaked up the afternoon sun on the deck at Jackson's Hole! Nice to reconnect again. Even Karen and her sister, Chris had dropped in on me at work during the week... I'll try to get them over for a visit before Karen leaves back to Duncan.
John and Ronda surprised me with a visit at work on Saturday... Oh yes, I worked for Carolyne on Saturday so there was half my week-end shot. It was nice to see John and Ronda again. They were down to pick up Ron and Phoebe's fifth wheel so they could go camp/golfing. Sorry to hear that Phoebe has come down with the dreaded cold that has been going around. John and Ronda were sick nearly the whole time they were in Nashville, but are on the mend now.
Sunday, I cleaned up and made a nice pot of chowder with clams, rainbow trout and a little halibut . It has bacon and a can of tomatoes in it for extra flavour, plus loads of veggies...potatoes, carrots, onions, and celery and even dsome corn from two cobs I had left over . I roasted up some ribs until the meat dropped off of them.. very yummy.
We did get numerous phone calls that Emil's Uncle George, in Canora Saskatchewan, passed away. He was married to Emil's mom's sister, Sophie. We were sorry to hear the sad newsof his death. He has been fighting cancer for something like 6 years now. He was always the happiest guy when we visited with him. He will be missed by his large family, most of which are in Vancouver...Carl, Brian, Wayne, and Karen ( I think) and then Donna and RoseMarie are on the prairies still. Our hearts go out to all of them.
So today is the day,the carpenters arrive and start in on our little reno job. with luck, their work will be done by the end of the week. They are going to stay in the suite ,as they are from Rossland. Actually it is Ron and Phoebe's grand-daughter's hubby, Jeff.
So that brings you up to date on a few things.
Oh yes, Sonia returned from Costa Rica on Saturday and is back to work this morning... good luck with that part of things.
I missed Lori's birthday...Happy Belated to you! and Lawrence's is coming up on Wednesday and then Kaleigh's at the end of the month... wow!
Now I will try to upload a movie of the dance from our grad reunion. You can click the off button to disable the playlist music while you listen to a 1967 rendition of GLORIA!Then I ought to see if my knee will tolerate a walk. I worked out in my garden yesterday afternoon ,and my knee was howling by the time I came in. A soak in the jacuzzi with filled with muscle soak from 2nd Nature helped immensely.!
Oh yes, Congrats to Lynn for doing the Relay for Life in Warfield over the weekend. I hope she raised her goal amount of pledges.
Have a nice week everyone... My writing might be sporadic or not at all...due to the onset of summer weatehr finally!
"The Creator"
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