This has sure turned into a wet Spring. Nothing like Eastern BC and Alberta
though. The forecast keeps promising
better weather a few days ahead but we never seem to get there. We enjoyed the Grandfriend’s Day at Georgia’s
school. After school was over for the
day, we and Richard picked up Georgia and went out to Langford where Georgia
was having her last play group of the season.
Prior to dropping her and Richard there, we went to Bin4Burgers where we had
very excellent hamburgers. When we went
in the door first off, one of the waitresses said hi, your name is Georgia,
right? It seems she worked with Georgia
several years ago at Frank Hobbs School.
Another small world moment!
I took Cousin Neil and wife Carol geocaching our last
evening at their place. Neil and I had
gone up Mt Prevost after lunch. I wanted
to check it out as there was some discussion about spreading Mom and Dad’s
ashes on the mountain.
After returning to Errington and my brother’s yard, I listed
our pickup on Kijiji, Craig’s List and Used Nanaimo. Used Nanaimo was where the most replies came
from. I had quite a number of people
interested and managed to eventually sell to the second person for my full
asking price. The buyers wanted to have
it inspected by their own mechanic so I drove it up to Campbell River for
that. He gave it a great report. Aileen and I met the buyers a couple nights
later in Courtenay to make the transfer.
We hated to part with the truck but it just didn’t make economic sense
to keep it.
I did up the brochures to hand out at Mom’s service. I used the same template I worked up for my
Dad and Sheila’s Dad a couple years ago then had them printed at a local
shop. Sheila and I folded them one
evening. I copied some old pictures of
Mom with my camera and cleaned them up in Photoshop Elements. The next step is to put them together in a
slide show to display at the memorial service on the 30th.
This past Thursday Aileen met Heather, the lady we bought
the motor home from, in Courtenay for lunch.
They get together once a year or so.
Heather bought a nice apartment with a beautiful view looking over the
ocean just south of Campbell River.
Aileen would love to have the view but doesn’t want to be in a strata
(homeowner’s assn.) again.
On Friday, we drove down to Mill Bay to meet Richard and get
Georgia for the weekend. On Saturday, we
went to a 65th birthday party for my brother Sam put on his
kids. There were several family members
from out of town so nice to catch up with them. We were
fortunate to slip through the afternoon and evening without rain actually falling. It was very threatening though. We took Georgia for a walk in the rain this
morning. She enjoyed about a quart of
salmon berries we found along the way. She’s
like a little bear when it comes to wild berries.
Grandfriend's Day at Frank Hobbs Elementary
Aileen,Georgia and Richard
Checking out the classroom
Day Lilies at Cousin Neil's
The Cowichan Valley from the top of Mt Prevost. For those who read Rick and Paulette's blog, found on my sidebar, they live up in the top right of the photo. That is Cowichan Bay coming in toward the two lakes.
One of the roses outside Charlie and Sheila's dining room