Nice Soiree at Rynn and Licks

The men folk sitting around and shooting the breeze...

Now that was a good joke... Dick is laughing his head off...

Peter and Anne having a serious discussion...

Emil found a little buddy...

Anne having a blast...Whahoo!!

Sunday turned out to be intermitantly lovely...rain shine rainshine rain shine rain shine,shine rain, all day.
Peter and Elli and Joanne all came over for breakfast, which was running late , due to my inability to get the Blintzi to look like they are supposed to. Too much baking soda or not enough flour or something...maybe it was all just too much... needed more eggs...who knows? Lets say that several hit the ditch before the right formula was arrived at,so that each one could be made in less than a minute of cooking.
With four breakfast hopefuls sitting at the table, I was in a hurry to get them out of the fry pan and into the plates. All in all, they turned out fine enough with their huckleberry and strawberry or peach fillings, to make everyone full, and then we sat around an blabbed for an hour over coffee.
Eventually we migrated over to the boat and got it winched up out of the water and Emil and I put on the new name decals. Emil called her "Annie" in memory of his dear sweet mom, who always wanted Emil to have a boat.. now it is here when she is not...bittersweet, once again.

After five more weather changes , and having made the black bean salad, Emil and I drove over to Lynn and Ricks, where he had a golden crispy brown turkey being BBQ'd ...The smell was like Christmas in June! Yum. All of the neighbours brought delicious additions to the meal . Marlene and Bill made their famous baked beans and they also brought a beautiful cheesecake topped with peaches..to die for...Yum! Ann did up two of the best pies in the world...she sure can make a pie crust! One was apple and raspberry and the other was Apple! Elli brought stuffed mushrooms and a beautiful green salad and I contributed a black bean and cilantro salad and a plate of chocolate iced brownies... Yum again! The meal was fab with the turkey and gravy and stuffing, and within an hour the food was nearly all inhaled!
Meanwhile, I could hardly move,as my hips were giving me hell...probably from climbing in and out of the boat, the day before. We left a tad on the early side and called it a night! I went home and ran a jacuzzi with a scoop of 2nd Nature Muscle Soak in it. I don't know what the magic ingredient is, but the joints felt 100% better when I crawled out of the tub!

Well,Ithink it is time to hit the hay...the longer I sit, the stiffer my hips get...
I'll try to upload pics tomorrow,as two trys tonight only created an BX-t4589 error message...right... and good night... I'll have to tell you about Sonia's birthday trip to Vancouver to connect with her old friend, Lynn .

"The Creator"

Happy Birthday Sonia!

Its after midnight, so I can officially say "Happy Birthday Sweety!" I hope you've been having a wonderful week-end abroad, catching up with old friends and finding new ones... HAppy Birthday! I baked some Birthday brownies in your honour! Love Mom

"The Creator"

The Big Fishermen

The Captain, driving his boat today!..All Smiles!

Emil and his fishing buddy, John, on Thursday

John, Also known as Minnow Man!

This was John's fish. Actually, he won a buck from Emil for having caught the most fish... We ate the rest, but he took this rainbow home for Aunt Ethel!

Water going down,down down...yea!







"The Creator"

Big Fish

We took a little tour into Pilot Bay...very secluded and lots of moore buoys to anchor up to. We might plan an overnighter there sometime. Looks a little different than after an hour long hike into it, like the last time I visited Pilot Bay!

Silky has found her place in the boat to feel at home.


Here's big Bessie coming out of the water... I scooped it into the net! Carefully, carefully!

The proud man with his super sized rainbow...actually it is MY Supersized Rainbow!



OOOOOHHHHHH SOOOOO FINE! OH SO BIG! So Damn Long! It was about 15 lbs, but was somewhere around 34 inches long...

We had a very exciting and pleasant morning today...up at the crack of dawn ( Emil was) and then out to the boat by about quarter to eight. The lake was flat and calm and even Silky was finding it pretty okay in her hidey hole down in the cutty cabin. We first took a spin over to Pilot Bay...just a bit south of where the ferry docks on the Riondel side. A few years ago, Annette and Sean and Kaleigh and Maddie and I hiked into it from that side. It was a fairly easy going hike that took us right down to the lake in Pilot Bay at a site of what appearred to be an old sawmill site, as the beach ws mostly wood chips. As an extension to that part of the hike we continued to the other side of Pilot Bay where we could see many sailboats moored out in the bay> There is a little Picnic site with washrooms ,on shore, but when we went ,we never discovered the picnic tables until we already picnicked! Too funny.
Today , from the bay view, we could see all the picnic tables on the opposite beach and we could see where the potential is for a nice overnighter sometime, when Ann and Dick want to take their sailboat out.
We cruised out of the bay and headed down towards the mouth of Crawford Bay. This is where we had our first action...A ZINGER! Zing went the line, but when Emil tried reeling it in, the fish had escaped... whahhh
Ten minutes later, the rod bent right over and once again, it was a miss... Whahhh!
The all of a sudden a loud ZINGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG and the line was reeling off Emil's rod . He grabbed the rod and started to reel it back, then handed it to me to play the fish while got the net ready and stuff prepared for the great landing of "the fish". I had fun reeling in line, then letting the fish run with the line ,then reeling it back in. "Keep the Tip up!" Emil shouted And again I would reel in more line. He finally couldn't stand it any longer and took over the finer details of bringing Bessie to the boat. Once we saw it in the water, we knew it was a biggy! All I wanted to do was take pictures, while Emil was worried about getting the fish in the boat... He kept saying... "It's not a fish, until it is in the boat!"

When he pulled it out of the water, I could see that it was the longest fish I ever saw him catch! Whew! Him and I were both as excited as ever...lots of "ohhing and awwing" going on, but we both agreed it was the longest fish in our history! So that was our big catch of the day...
Now it is in steaks in the freezer. The tail part is going on the BBQ for tonight's dinner... Yum. Lets see...between the kokanee fish fry and John's incredible smoked salmon, I think I have consumed fish every day since last Sunday... Hows that for all of those essential oils???
To top it off, I cooked up the fish head and tail, strained the broth and made apot of fish chowder with bacon bits in it and tomatoes and milk and celery and carrots and potatoes. Yum.
Ever since making that Mexican fish soup, I do feel it needs some hot sauce, or jalapenoes, so we'll see how I feel about it closer to dinner!
Well, Linda called and is going to pop over to return some books. I think I need to sweep the crumbs up or something... and drink my tea.
Have a great week-end... so far, so good on our end...




"The Creator"

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Good Morning!

Thanks Eva, for the cute photo of your "Butterfly Princess"

The receding waters

Night one's catch of panfries...Yum!

Sunrise this morning... I think I miss most of the pretty ones....well, maybe we haven't had too many these days with all of this rainy weather.

The water has dropped considerably since this two day old photo. Water is still flooding our upper beach,putting it about a foot under water, however,at this rate, we could be seeing sand by the weekend. As soon as it is low enough, Emil can bring his new boat home to moor.

Forgive me for not blogging this week...Seems like time is short when you have a full fishing derby going on in your own house. Emil's fishing buddies, John and Wayne were fishing up a storm all week-end. When they weren't actually fishing, they were talking all about fishing,s o you can imagine the fish and fishy stories! Wayne left late Sunday night and then their were two...but that didn't diminish the yarns about the size of the fish! There is an ongoijng wager for who catches the first, the most, and the biggest fish.. So far it is a tie. They have come home with a delicious mess of Kokanee and yesterday John caught a small rainbow... All except the rainbow ended up in a big fish fry last night...complete with left over perogies... and that is why I can't blog at night...too full!

So John gave me an excellent tip when one is making a rhubarb crisp. ( He is an excellent chef).

Before you put the fruit in the bottom of your pan, line it with one layer of graham wafers. This soaks up some of the excess juices and provides a little stability to the base of the crisp.

So how is that for a good idea? He should have mentioned that BEFORE I made my rhubarb crisp on the week-end!

Okay, time to head for the shower and get ready for humpday at work. There is one more grad, up the valley ,s o we still have people looking for grad gifts....keeping us busy. Chris and Caro leave for a trip on the week-end, so I'll be manning the store with Niki's help for a week, on my own. Have a good week...I plan to!

"The Creator"

Flooding on the Skeena

Derrick sent me these photos taken on Thursday or Friday... Note where the highway is under water...

"The Creator"

Saturday and my Maiden Voyage...

Here's Emil' boat ,moored down at Peter's. Note the little stretch of H2O to wade through...before the pier! ( Note to ones-self...the water is colder than a tray of icecubes in an igloo freezer!) Avoid falling in...

Emil undoing the covers

Backing out is hard work!

Note that all the floor coverings are now snapped into place. Emil took me for my first spin in the new rig...out to Queen's Bay where we doodled along past all of the lakeshore cabins and homes. To me, the boat ran well, and the captain was incredibley happy to be a Cappy!!

The three amigoes. Wayne ( middle) arrived late this safternoon, followed by John( to the right) an hour later. Take about worse than hens! We've heard a few dandies tho..enough to keep us all laughing! Thank goodness for his buddies arriving when Emil needed it the most!







"The Creator"

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"The Creator"

Supreme Court Ruling,favours HEU

So much to say...so little time...
So the first great news is that the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in favour of the unions! Yea! This means that now, according to the new law, any language that is agreed to through Collective Bargaining , comes under the Charter of Human rights, and can not be revoked by any government. What that means, is that Bill 29, that was rushed though, by Campbell's government in 2002 and appealed by the HEU and other Unions, has essentially been thrown out the window.In 2002, a binding contract that had been agreed to that protected jobs was essentially erased when Campbell's government went into those contracts,and eradicated those agreements. By contracting out services, such as laundry, it caused thousands of health care workers to lose their jobs on account of the government's power. Now the government has been given One year to fix all the damage they did. We'll see how that all transpires, but for now,it is a huge win for the Union and also may mean that those who lost jobs and homes, will be compensated in some way.
Emil was elated to say the least, since it has been a long fight, and it was with great sadness that many single moms had their jobs slashed, and in many cases, it was Emil who had to deliver the bad news. Let us hope that justice will do the right thing. The decision was declared in the Supreme Court of Canada...6-1...and no appeals are possible... They are calling it New Law. Hurrah! A small victory for the peons. Thus, if your negotiate a contract, it will be binding , and no government, in the future can take it away... yippee cay Yea!
"The Creator"

Lost and Found dog...Victoria/Esquimalt

This must be someone's baby...possibly from Westaskwin...found in Esquimalt by Kaleigh. Now, you can tell that it is someone's dear pet, because look how it smiles for the camera...too funny eh! Kaleigh saved it from death on Tillicum when it was heading towards the traffic... Odd looking pooch...maybe a cross between a Maltese and a Pomeranian? If you own it, leave me a comment with an email or phone number and we'll get backl to you in the am...

"The Creator"

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More Pics...

My Peonies,after the wild rain storm last night...(that kept me awake!)

Joyce looking over her new flowerbed....

Baby colt taking a nip out of Morgan's arm....

Mama Jack giving baby a nudge...

Now she is giving him a talking to...yep, I can't recall the baby colt's name!

Thanks to each and everyone of you for your emails today... I haven't been able to reply to everyone, but I appreciate that you wrote and sent pics and good advice and all.


I managed to get poor Silk all clipped and cleaned up,sans the bath, last night. Maybe she'll get a bath tomorrow night!


I payed Joyce a visit after work today and she had a nice dinner all cooked for me. She is doing so well, I was impressed! We even took a walk down to the field to see the new colt of Morgan's. It made me realize, that I haven't really visited out to Joyce and Morgan's for a long long time...


I'll load up some pics and call it a night!


"The Creator"

Weekend News...

The three brothers

Beautiful headstone with a Pansy motif in each corner




We finally took Mom home to rest in Grandforks...drove her past the old homestead and told her how she did such a fine job of making the property look beautiful. Sad to say, the new owners have tried a few things...a green house and new trees and raised garden beds, but every part of the yard was a foot tall in grass and no signs of flowers or garden being planted..


The good thing is that we made thousands of wonderful memories there when Emil's mom was alive and healthy. Those are the sweet memories we have to hold onto. We congregated at the cemetary. John and ronda brought down the beautiful headstone and we brought the urn, and Lawrence and Lori brought Christopher, whom I hadn't seen in years. ..Yep, he is all growed up into a pleasant young man. Lawrence had recorded Jessica singing Now Comes the night... a peaceful song that brought tears to everyone's eyes when Lawrence played it . Lori brought beautiful pastel peach coloured roses ...one for each of us to put at the gravesite, and Ronda brought a beautiful bouquet of mixed flowers to add to the fragrant cream and purple lilacs that came from my garden. We all said our good-byes and each of us poured in a handful of blessed sand over the urn, and that was about it.





Ronda and John and Emil and I met at the golf course and we had a hot afternoon of golf... a perfectly pleasant way to end the day.


On the way home, we encountered a moose calf up on the Blueberry Paulson... all legs and it was a movin'!





So Kudos to Correna...She ran her first ten k. run and made it in an hour and 9 minutes!~ That s awesome C! to boot she hit the front page of the Edmonton Journal...


She is to the right and wearing yellow...number 7765..Way to go Correna!


To top it off, the race began at 8:00 in the am! That is a feat unto itself...just getting there...so she says! I'm impressed!

Those are the highlights of the week-end...I'll write more another day... Sorry for not blogging...jsut too much on the agenda this past week...


"The Creator"