This is the first post using my new Windows 8.1 laptop. So far most things aren't much different from Windows 7 and I've loaded nearly all of my most often used programs already with no issues.
We’re still doing the chores around the place here. There are lawns to cut, gardens to water, weeds to pull and we’ve done some planting too. Our hosts should be home tomorrow, or at least that was the last plan I heard.
We had a fun day yesterday with Aileen’s 89 year old cousin
Pat and his lovely wife Irene. We picked
them up at their condo down at Pacific Shores and took them on a mini tour of
the area. The main stop was at
Englishman River Falls where they had never been. We had a delicious lunch prepared ahead of
time by Aileen then spent the rest of the afternoon visiting in the motor home. I even got to show some slide shows to
them.
Last evening, I went to the Mid Island ATV Cub meeting in
Nanaimo and that was interesting. They
are having a minor crisis in that nobody wants to volunteer for anything so the
current executive is resigning en masse.
Don’t know just what will happen in the fall. I did get some good information about the
Cowichan and Alberni clubs who have rides nearly every weekend so I may be able
to get out with them.
We went for a nice walk along a trail near Qualicum Bay the
other day and I managed to get a few geocaches.
I’ve been out caching on several occasions in the past week, picking up
a few.
We decided to support the local community by gong to a dance
last Saturday evening. Well the dance
was a bust!!! The music was so loud you
couldn’t hear anything the door people said even yelling in your ear. I walked all around the hall trying to find
somewhere to sit that wasn’t hurting my ears but didn’t find it. I told Aileen that we were out of there. A couple of the helpers outside the door
offered earplugs but I said if you needed those, obviously the music was too
loud and should be turned down. They
agreed and suggested I demand a refund even though it said no refunds right on
the ticket. I complained to the chap in
charge and he gave us our money back. He
tried to tell me it was noisy just because they had removed the ceiling baffles
and someone else said it just needed more bodies to absorb the noise. However, at the last opry (coffee house) there
were very few people and the volume wasn’t a problem. No more Rodeo Grounds dances for me!
Aileen called me out to see a snake she found while weeding
Some fungi on a tree
A little rock embedded in sandstone at the beach the other day
Sunlight shining through some Arbutus bark
At Little Qualicum Falls
Little Qualicum River
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