Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation: Run for the Cure

Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation: Run for the Cure
Support Barb and JAmie in Kamloops by sending them a donation for the CIBC Run for a cure!

Diet Pepsi..Most improved contest

Diet Pepsi
Wait for the Pepsi page to load, then go to where it says vote on the pics. Stacy is a gal from the Kootenays, and her pic is the girl sitting on the fence in the yellowed picture, so give her a vote!
Vote for the girl from the Kootenays..
Thank-you!

Random Photos

The two QT pies...K& K!

Here's what to do with those ripening pears...Follow the Brenda Streudal recipe and add pears for your fruit. Drizzle with a chocolate glaze!

Yes, it tasted delicious! Thanks Lynn for bringing over the pears! Yum!

Sunday, out in the boat. Emil fished, but they weren't biting our line that day. It was a gorgeous sunny day. I felt like a cat lying in the sunshine at the back of the boat with Silky curled up next to me... What a wonderful way to relax! We did our usual route out to the main lake and then tootled down towards Crawford Bay, and up into Crawford bay ( rather rocky for the most part.) Emil reeled in his line and then we set off to find a sandy beach to pull the boat up onto for our picnic. We were somewhat surprised to discover that each beach had three or four boats in it already! Also,we discovered that many of the beaches were small rocks instead of sand and the waters in front of the beach were also heavily populated with large rocks. ...hence no boats there!
In the end we brought our picnic back to JAnice and Gord's beach at Balfour, and interrupted them from work for a few minutes to soak up the sun. All in all, the day was a pleasant way to wind down a busy week or two.
Time for bed... Seems like this tooth is acting up again and giving me some kind of ache in the face...not to be confused with egg in the face!

School chums reunited

Our old neighbourhood friend, Janice ( nee Palm), payed us a visit last Friday night

Here are the three of us old time friends..Janice looks great, as does Lynn!

Janice with her hubnby ,Walt, and their fifth wheeler behind them. Their friends had and identical rig!

Here is all of us at dinner These are JAnice and Walts's friends, Peter and Rochelle, in the front of the photo...Nice folk ,and they all got along famously. We all had a good chin wag about kids and grandkids. LAst time we connected, was for Lynn's fiftieth.

Auntie MAry, Correna, and Kenzie

Here's cute Kenzie on her first day of grade one...hard to believe she is growing up so fast!

Correna and Auntie Mary Koochin...Look at those tomatoes!

Harvesting the crop!

Mo-gan and Uncle Paul. Thanks Joyce for the photos of Uncle and AUntie and your visit up there while Correna was home. I'll see Joyce tomorrow after work at Touchstone's museum for a look at the show "Two Chairs". We try to see the exhibitions,as they come.
Time for my beddy now...my feet are sore and the Steven King novel ,"Cell" ,is getting pretty interesting....all about the demise of the world,due to people talking on cell phones...guess that won't be me, as half of the time, mine is D-E-A-D!

Random Summer photos

At Leah's wedding

Day trip to Kaslo with Auntie Joyce

The water looks warm...

Now that the bed got made...

More Kidlet pics

Oops, these aren't my kidlets...just imposters

And then was the three little pigs...

and the three aliens
And presenting...K and M!

The Beautiful Mugwumps!

The ever moving Mads

Sisterly Love

He's my favourite Grumps!

Open your eyes,Granny

Saturday at Camp Shu-Shu

Bringing down the tubes

Outside Ken and Jan's trailer

Two of the first guinea-pigs to go for a spin!

Pulling the Annie up to shore..

The Annie and the Tube...

The Beginning of the Stan Ali Cup and the Brian Miller Memorial

One of the first arrivals of the day...

Ali outside their Clampet-mobile..or should I say Retro-trailer...Cute eh?

And inside the Clamp/retro mobile!

Camp is all set up...now to discuss it all...

Even Lorraine showed up for a visit on Saturday... Ya should of golfed Lorraine!




Lovebirds, Stan and Ali, for whom the golf tournament was named for



Stan and Diane on the beach on Saturday



Annette and I getting some liquid courage to go tubing...



Part of the Saturday gang



The Clampet-Mobile and Gerry's trailer with Jessie's tent in back



I think we can safely say that from here on in, the StanALi cup may be known as the Brian Miller Memorial. The week-end started on Friday,when most week-ends do,except we started it off with the arrival of a few early-birds..Stan and ALi and Dar and Gerry and Woody and Diane and Ken and JAn. The idea was to get a few things done in advance of the big party.






Emil got the moose roast all cooked up and everyone pitched in to help him get it on the table. I had to stop in town for last minute produce, so I was late and of no help what-so-ever!






Friday night shot by with last minute things getting accomplished till way late. That was fine because nothing stopped Emil from getting up early to head out to Castlegar with Stan to pick up the Go Hut ( potty) and to get Annette from the airport.






Meanwhile, Sandra arrived and between Dar and her and Diane and myself , we started in on the chopping of veggies for salads and the peeling of onions for the perogies. It was a mini factory, exploding with bowls of veggies in every corner and then it mulitplied tenfold when Janice arrived with more fresh Creston Veggies...cucs and red and yellow peppers and all sorts of home canned delights!






The bowls filled and containers got labelled and by early afternoon, we had Sunday's dinner under controle. One small factor was the fact that we didn't really know how many people were coming. Meanwhile , the golfers,at least, were moving in with trailers and tents and tent trailers and filling up every corner of the yard with another abode. Call it Camp Shu-Shu or Clampetville, or as our neighbour said when he saw it"What the hell have they going there...a Carnival?!" Did I mention that after a little fun, the boys erected two tents!













The afternoon was splendid and warm and a perfect day to hit the beach. Annette Arrived in time to get her swimsuit on and head down to catch some rays. Bea was coaxed down to go for a tube ride. Emil had the boat whipping everyone around and finally it was time for the old me to climb up into the pilots seat of the tube ( centre one) with Annette on one side of me and Stan on the other side. We started off slow enough, but as Captain Emil Nemoy got the Annie wound up, he had us whipping along at high speeds... I yelled "Lean" and we all leaned over to the side the tube was heading and before you knew it,we were going 200 miles an hour over the wake in a whiplash that made our heads dizzy! This was fun...so-much fun! Well worth the experience!






That is how the day went...a little work and a lot of fun and so nice to have Annette home and all of our dear friends ,setting up camp and hanging out. Lets say-The pre-party got off to a good start!






Since it is half past my bedtime, I'll have to contnue tomorrow night. I have uploaded a new slideshow on my Facebook sight...much easier to upload pics there, so check it out.




















"The Creator"

A Sad Farewell to Brian Miller

New Year's Eve..2004 Brian is next to Emil, back row

Brian ,contimplating for one second as to whether or not to go on the dunebuggy ride. Him and I had the blast of our lives that day.


A full Frenchy for Laverne at the stroke of midnight!

And those were the happy times...New Year's Eve in Yuma, Laverne and Brian



Just before all the kissing began at the local Legion..New Year's Eve.



We learned today that Laverne took Brian to the hospital after he was in a coma. Sadly, he passed away shortly after, without any suffering. Laverne is a sister to Stan and Sandra,Warren,and Gerry and Randy. Brian was a quirky kind of guy that everyone loved, mainly because he could laugh at himself, could laugh with others and knew how to have a fun time.
Only last month, he was diagnosed with a brain tumour and then after further investigation, it was disclosed that it was two tumours. His options were pretty much out the window, as it was too late. He will be missed by his Son Scott and his wife Sue and their children, James and Mia,as well as their daughter,Trish and her hubby Wolfe,and their children,Thomas and Shandra. Mostly he will be missed by LAverne , his golf partner,and partner thru thick and thin. Yuma won't be the same without him. The StanAli golf tournament won't be the same without him. The whole gang will feel the void. Coming up this week-end is the big StanAli tournament at Balfour this year, followed by a BBQ at our house. This year, we'll be doing it for Brian and having it in his honour with a party for him that he can look down upon, proudly. Brian, you were a kind, hard working man, a friend who we will all miss, especially at this tournament.
Take care and God Bless.
Friends and Family are welcome to attend this farewell on Sunday, September 2nd, in the afternoon around 3:30 at our house. Maybe it will be called the Brian Miller Memorial from here on in.
"The Creator"