Well, it has been a long while since I last posted here. We have been keeping busy with canning. We have now done apricot jam, blueberry
jelly, grape jelly, pickled beets, peach jam and canned peaches. We’ll do more peaches and some pears in a
while.
Geocaching has been a large part of the past couple weeks as
well. Aileen and I did a long day trip
over to the Greenwood area and cached up in the hills. We only saw two vehicles the whole time up
there. Lots of squirrels and chipmunks
and a couple bears but not much else for wildlife. The road ended a couple hundred metres from
the US border. We picked up about 56
caches that day. I also drove up to
White Lake west of Salmon Arm one day and did a maintenance run on the fifteen
caches I have placed up there.
Closer to home I have done a bit of geocaching but mostly I
have been putting caches out for others to find. I have twenty six placed and published and
people are finding them. I have plans to
put out quite a few more in the nearby area so they won’t be too far away for
maintaining. While setting out caches, I
several times heard Sandhill cranes high overhead on their journey south. A strange thing with them, they will be
flying in a perfect formation when all of a sudden they will start spiraling
around and back and forth. I wonder if
they ran into different wind currents and they are trying to find a more
favourable one to continue south.
Our friends from Penticton, Bev, Karen and Pat are going to
Cluxewe Resort near Port McNeill on northern Vancouver Island next week and
Aileen is going to be housesitting looking after Sidney the cat. He is diabetic and needs insulin shots twice
a day.
A couple weeks ago our daughter Bev was home for a short visit so we
drove up and visited with her and Kevin while they were laying paving stones on
a jobsite. We had a nice outdoor visit
and helped pack blocks as well. We did a
bit of geocaching on the way home.
We’re enjoying the cooler air and when it isn’t smoky have
the windows open for some fresh air. It
is much nicer for sleeping. We’ve been
to Karen’s a few times gardening and fencing.
The fencing had to wait for this cooler weather. We’re still waiting for our kitchen table and
chairs to arrive. I ordered them June 2.
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