Wildfires of Note - Protection Branch - Ministry of Forests and Range - Province of British Columbia

Seriously folks, there is a nasty fire ( 200) hectares raging in Kelowna on the Glenrosa side of the valley. 4000 homes have been evacuated, and it has skipped across highway 97 and is heading over the Goat ridge, down Gelatly way towards the lake. Lots of homes up in there, and lakeside is where we used to stay at the farm when we had the Stanali cup. Now that is a big huge condo development. Sounds like it all stands to go up in smoke. The mill has fire in the log storage area and the big family home ( Mill owner?) above, is completely destroyed.
This is where is gets dicey. Just up the hill from that is where Mildred and Phil live...on Morningside, ...just a stone throws away form where Sandra and Leo had their home, on Yorkton.
Up the hill further, another mile or two is where Warren and Kim live. Phew...all sounds very dicey. I hope they are safe and no one loses their home. It sounds like the fire is also heading towards Peachland and has the power out there..Terry and Shannon have their summer home in that area, so again I worry for all of our rellies and friends. I think I'll try the tv and see if there are any updates or news happening.

On the happier side,w e attended The Blessing Ceremony of Russel and Angie today and it turned out very nice indeed. I am happy I went! I'll fill you in with photos tomorrow.
Good night all, stay safe and extinguish all of your fires!


Wildfires of Note - Protection Branch - Ministry of Forests and Range - Province of British Columbia

"The Creator"

And then there was weather!

Returning from Trail , just before Thrums, on Tuesday


And the sky darkened!

At Lynn's, it was nice and sunny!
Lynn's gardens are so phenomenal, that I wish they were mine! She was picking her beans today! Picking! Picking!.. It will be 2 weeks before I see that! Her tomatoes are picking size ,,,just green... and mine are like marbles! Also green!

Love's Lace lost, ot amaranthus... call what you will, but Lynn has a few hundred of them growing everywhere! The babies she planted in my garden aren't this tall yet, but they are coming along. I had these in when we lived in Quebec, and their lovely chenille tail flowers grew three feet long!

We had a little visit with Lynn and Bob after I visited the doc to have my splints/stints removed... Zoweee! A little gory ( the removal) ,but boy oh boy...can I breathe! I don't recall ever having two freeways of oxygen such as this in my nostrils! The surgery was a success! Yipppee. I still have some healing to do, but the good news is that each nostril can breathe, unrestricted for the first time in my life! Woot Woot!

First it was sneezing and now it is yawning... Once I hit the pillow last night, I yawned no less than 20 times! It has started again after five yawns, I have tears running down my cheeks...
I'm tired, but not THAT much!
Well, maybe I am... I just fell asleep and had a mini dream.

I think I will call it a night...Love ya all!

"The Creator"

Garden Bounty/Ronda John's visit.

My new pansies are alled "Frizzle Sizzle" Cute eh?


My garden looks pale in comparison to Lynn's, but nevertheless, it is producing greens, onions, carrots,chard and today I said bye bye to the Spinach.

Ronda in my Garden of Eatin'/Weedin'

Emil and John and Ronda all went golfing on Sunday... Bea went to bed and took a nice long nap!

"The Creator"

Babies in the Yard

I should say Babies eating the flowers off my little plants out front..

One last look before heading to the field

On the move

Cedar Waxwings flitting around.. I call them Little Bandits!

Well, in case you hadn't heard, I had some nose surgery last Monday...no , not to tweek the tip or anything, just to improve the breathing. ( Deviated septum improved, tuberants dremelled off, sinuses opened up) A week later and I am still not breathing through my nose.!(That is why I am on the computer at 7 in the morning!)


A Big Fat HA!

However, today could be my lucky day. I return to Dr. Cook in Trail and he will remove the plastic splints/stints that are up each nostril and then I will let you know if the big sinus headcold that I feel like I have is due to my nose tubes or a real cold.

What is the worst thing you can do after nose surgey?

Did you say "SNEEZE?"

Well, yes, I have sneezed a hundred times and it is the worst thing a person could want to do after a fresh nose job. I won't go into the gory details, but I have learned to redirect my sneeze straight out of my mouth... pity anyone within ten feet!

Like I said, once these tubes are out of my schnoz, perhaps the breathing will commence, and then maybe the sneezing will cease.

Thank-you for all the get well wishes from everyone. I feel I am on the road to recovery now...ha-ha...thats a bit of a lie , but I feel generally not so wiped out and even made gingersnap cookies yesterday yum! I did get a reaction, I think to the antibiotics. I should have remembered to take some Probiotics at the outset, but completely forgot... Now my prescription is all finished, so with some luck, my inards should begin feeling better. I can't complain about knocking off a few pounds with a high colonic I didn't order!

The rainy days of late haven't made me feel too bad about missing anything. Unfortunately, I mostly feel like going for a nap every afternoon, so that wastes a good three hours of each day.

You would think that being home would give me an opportunity to do a lot of things that need doing. I see all that needs doing but, I just couldn't do much at all due to a number of issues with my nose. Long story short is I hope it is all for good, which I can't tell right now. It wasn't the most pleasant thing to go through, but everyone says it will be well worth it. I guess most surgeries are like that.

I have to give a big thank-you to all of the nurses and staff at Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital , and my sweet Emil, who tended to me after the surgery. I'll thank the doc when I know it has worked!

"The Creator"