We had our granddaughter Georgia visiting us until
yesterday. Her Dad came up Sunday and
stayed overnight then they left after lunch.
She sure kept us on our toes the whole time. Her appetite for reading has not diminished
at all, but still prefers to listen rather than do the reading. She really enjoyed all the blackberries we
found. The large Himalayan berries are
ripe most places we’ve been. I found
Aileen and Georgia a good patch to work on while Richard and I did a bit of
geocaching yesterday. I was surprised
the two were able to eat lunch afterward.
I’ve been out geocaching most days and so far have only been
stumped on one. It was rated as
difficult for a reason. I continue to be
amazed at all the old roads and trails the geocaching has shown me. I can also see why many people become sort of
addicted to it. It is certainly a good
incentive to get more exercise. More
businesses should get onboard too. We went
to a little bookstore on a side road yesterday only because someone had placed
a cache at their driveway. Since our
son, the English Prof, is heavily into books, he wanted to check it out. He bought one for himself and a couple for
Georgia so the store definitely benefitted from the exposure. Later, we went to the Dutch Import Store
because they had installed a cache and Richard bought some great Gouda cheese
from them.
Charlie and Sheila arrived home last night so our tour of
duty is over. Time for a vacation! We looked at their pictures and they sure
travelled through some beautiful country on the Teslin and Yukon Rivers up in
the Yukon. Aileen and I hauled four
loads of firewood with the ATV and an old trailer this morning from the long
stack Charlie had drying along a fence into the woodshed. The wood is really dry so we hope to get it
all in before any appreciable rain. We
have to pull the living room slide in to get the trailer past as the motor home
is parked on the only route to the woodshed. Mitzy,
of course, insists on riding back and forth on the ATV. She turned nine this month and is starting to
slow down a bit.
Seven weeks from yesterday is our planned departure date for
heading south this year. I need to get
cracking and get our travel health insurance in place. It is quite the process. The different companies vary so much in
their quotes. One company penalized
Aileen for her MS over $1200. Another
penalized me over $300 for not having had a physical in two years. So far, I haven’t found one company giving
both of us decent rates. We may end up
dealing with separate companies for each of us.
One company said no problem with my having had Valley Fever as it was a
onetime event. Another company wanted to
put me into a super high risk category for over a $1000 more. Challenging!
Aileen's sister Anne spotted this little frog in a rose beside the house here
This nice spider web was in the Monkey Tree the other morning
The beautiful background is caused by the reflection in the dining room window
Georgia and Aileen yesterday at the store with the geocache
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