Transport Canada

Transport Canada
Click on this link to get your boater's Operators Card now. It will be mandatory in a few days for all operators of speed boats of any size. The cost is between 25 and 35 bucks if you search around, and it can be done online. Read the material, pay your money, then with the help of a buddy to administer the exam of 36 questions that you answer, you submit the exam and in moments, you have a temporary licence. A laminated one will be mailed out soon after. You only need to do this once as it is a lifetime licence.
FYI: All five exams submitted in our neighbourhood had the same questions. Unfortunately, with five sets of brains, no one aced the exam!
Here is the other website that might be less expensive! Freecourse.ca
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Durango Marigolds and Faye and Randy

The marigolds have taken off and are nearly two feet tall now with blossoms filling up most of my flower garden and obliterating the garden path. They look cheery and sunny and took nothing to grow. They are the Durango seed from Stokes. I see if saved seed makes them as big and beautiful. The amazing thing is that one plant can have yellow, orange and blossoms with red all on one plant. how do they do that?

Well, I believed that gfreen grassy stuff to be my daylilies, but it looks exactly like clumping grass. The thing is that the roots look like perrenial type of roots... but so far no flowers ...me thinks it is grass, but it is staying it neat clumps. I'll give it one more year and see what happens. If it fills the entire graden , then I guess I made a serious mistake. If it has neat little yellow daylillies, then I'll say hurrah! I dug them from the location where the short day lillies used to grow.

Roses are back in bloom and so are the amaranthus that Lynn planted for me. Aren't they incredible?

Faye and Randy came over for HAppy hour and appies today, then we ended up playing dice till everyone was bushed. It was a fun evening as Faye sure loves to laugh and joke around. The gals beat the guys 4 games to 2!

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The "K" girls..

First Day of school for Mackenzie...look at how cute and grown up she looks.


Look at all of thoe sunflowers...amazing! This must be at the Corn maze place that Eva took Kendra and Kenzie

Look at her go.. a budding roper ,no doubt...just like her grandpa!

What do you get from a maze of corn? Lots of corn kernals by the looks of it.
eva took the kids to the Corn maze for a day of fun.

Kendra practicing to be a great bronco bustin' cowgirl... and I heard that her roping skills were pretty good too! Morgan will be proud that she is practicing!

Oh my... the entrance to the maze...looks huge to me!

I'd say the girls had a fun day! Thanks Eva for sharing these with me. The girls are getting so grown up and get cuter by the day!
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Afternoon on the beach with Chunk

Note how Chunk is keeping an eye on Ashley's weiner while it roasts?



My sweetpeas are growing like crazy ,as are the weeds!



Marigolds are on fire!

Do you know what this plant is?

Hmmm...could it be a papaya tree? I think so!

I can't wait for the papayas to start growing!

Looks like Chenile eh? Lynn started these Love's Lie Bleeding or Amaranthus for me, and now they are four feet tall.. Thanks Lynn... they provide a beautiful display!

Deb and Ashley are looking after "Chunk", their daughter's ,boyfriend's dog

Emil just R& R'n it on the beach while the fire revved up.
Deb giving Chunk, what for!

My marigolds!

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Happy Birthday to Chris!

We had a mini birthday party at work today for my boss Chris... note the flambe cake going on !

Lani watches as Chris makes his first attempt at blowing out the candles

Thar he BLOWS!!!!!

All out...I think his wish will come true!

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Eva's visit!

Slightly out of sync here, but better late than never!On the Monday after Shawn and Cynthia's wedding, Eva and MAckenzie ended her Kootenay trip with a little overnight visit to our house! We had so much fun just laughing and reminiscing and taking a dip in the lake, that the time flew by way too quick. Mackenzie hit it off withthe girls and her and Maddie ran around and played from the time they arrived until the kids collapsed into bed after ten o'clock at night! After a day on the beach ( and Eva got up on waterskis by the way!) then an hour or more in the hot-tub, the kids were well baked and done, as were we all !Even Joyce popped out for dinner and some beach time too. We always seem to make it work out in order to visit with whomever is in town!Lynn too... we make a great trio!

Eva and KAleigh after their swim




Moi y Joyce

Kaleigh, MAckenzie and Maddie and Silky in the hot-tub!

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Campfire ban off in our area - We rejoice!

It has been a wonderful couple of weeks that have flown by, having first Kaleigh and Maddie, and now Sonia to fill our lives with more laughs and
excitement than we normally have around here! Sonia got up on water-skis on the first try, yesterday am at 9:00 in the morning. Maddie was the spotter and Emil drove the Boat! Last night we cooked our dinner over the open fire,down at the beach. The campfire ban has been lifted after all of our rain, so it was good to get at least one bonfire in, before they go back home on the week-end.
Lynn came out on Sunday and we all enjoyed a delicious turkey dinner after we spent some quality time at the beach. Not the heat wave of two weeks ago, but still pleasant enough for a swim.
Ok...time for bed...have a good one everyone!


Our first bonfire in a long time...and the dogs were tasty...hot dogs, that is!

Kaleigh and Maddie doing the "Chicken Dance " for us on the dock

Enjoying the weiner roast...It was followed by roasted marshmellows for Schmores!


And then the ducks came...and Maddie introduced them to Graham wafers

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Pre wedding Shots

Mom, Lori, Grandma Phoebe, and Auntie "M.C" Ronda

Sweet sisters , beautiful daughters, Sonia

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Shawn and Cynthia's Wedding

It was a terrific weekend with the whole Shumey Family to see Shawn and beautiful Cynthia get married,including all of our Shumey Nephews and Neices, plus my beautiful daughters and grandaughters. The setting was amaziang and the whole wedding was perfect to a tee. I have more pics to upload, but twice now, they wouldn't upload, so I'll try tomorrow with a new post.Meanwhile I am beyond tired as the fire alarm kept going off about every 45 minutes last night... Either humidity or miniscule flies that had a big hatch last night.
If you are out and about at 1:00 am, look up for the Perseides meteor showers...could be the best one in years. Our sky was fairly cloudy and hour ago, but I'll take another peak before bed.
Nighty night... More on the wedding later...

Lawrence detailing the groom...

The Shumey cousins ... Shawn Von, Annette S., Jamie P. Sonia W. and Chris S.

The Ring Bearer!

Dad walking Cynthia down the aisle

Her dress was a beautiful cream satin

being reminded by the JP to recall what it felt like to hold each others hands at this moment , years down the road

beautiful Cynthia

The flower girls and the ring bearer!

Signing the register

Inside the Seymour Golf and Country club

Shawn and Cynthia with Grandma and Grandpa

The funky cake

Cutting the cake

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