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Camping 2019, Day 5…

11 Thursday Jul 2019

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final day of camping was busy…

I woke up and sat outside for quite a while reading while the rest slept… the view out the window was beautiful… the campfire was still smoking from the night before…

and then took a walk with my son-in-law to check out the beach and the area around it…

on our way back to the campsite we watched a red fox cross the road in front of us… what a treat…

then it was off in the boat to fish… pulled up this odd looking drop along with some reeds, lol... finally I caught a fish… we got a small-mouth bass into the net, but due to a little issue with lines, we lost it before getting an official photo… the one in this photo my son-in-law caught a few minutes later… it is slightly bigger… but I did get to hold it…

the final fish of the day was another one for the daddy… a Jack…

then on to some tubing, swimming and back to the campsite… farewell to a wonderful time…

cleaned up the site, packed up the truck and headed home…

what a great time… besides spending time with my family, being on the boat is my absolute favourite…

Camping 2019, Day 2…

08 Monday Jul 2019

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another day has gone by…

up early-ish so that we could get in some fishing before the rain was supposed to arrive…

I sat patiently waiting for pickerel… sadly they didn’t want to play with me today…

the boys swam and there was some fancy kneeboarding…

we had an adventure going through a narrow section of the lake and found a new fishing spot with friends, but it was fairly windy so not much success… I did get to watch an eagle dive and rise up with a fish…

we headed back across the lake and while we were sitting out on the water the skies opened up… amazing how quickly the boys were able to get the cover on the boat and all fastened down… and of course, that is when the rain stopped, lol…

sky was looking mighty fierce though and when the thunder and lightning started up we headed for home…

poured for quite a while so there was reading and napping and phone games and board games in the camper…

rain stopped and we made a lovely dinner of bbq steak with baked potatoes, fried mushrooms and salad…

cleaned everything up and now one has gone fishing off the rocks with a friend, and the other two have gone to visit another site…

I am quietly drinking tea and reading… how lovely;-)…

Maui, day one…

11 Thursday Apr 2019

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what a wonderFULL day…

put my toes in the ocean… in Kahului and Kihei… so amazing;-)…

saw flowers everywhere… including red hibiscus hedges and flowering trees… enjoyed so many… just got a few closeups of some outstanding blooms that I came across…

tried, and loved, shave ice… had thought the concept was odd, so when we had one and it was so good, really got why people stand in long lines to get some;-)…

watched the sun set over the beach… some of us were chilly as the wind picked up a bit as the show was getting started…

a great day to be alive and on an adventure…

WWTB day 10…

08 Sunday Jul 2018

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the final day of my week with the boys while the rest of the family visit the East Coast…

tidied bedrooms, watched videos, went to a movie, read and mowed the grass…

relaxed for the remainder of the day…

we talked about the best things during our time together… biggest hit was our steak and lobster dinner… best camp happening was touching the snake… best thing for the older one was sleeping in and our visit to The Forks… not a bad list, lol…

suitcases, pillows, groceries, backpack and shoes all ready to go… then there were the happy faces as they got picked up, lol…

bye;-)…

2000…

08 Tuesday May 2018

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this is my 2000th blog post…

seems like forever since that December day when I signed in to WordPress to see how it worked… and wrote the first post… that was five years, five months and eight days ago…

over time I came to the decision that I would post something every day… and since I made that choice, have managed to accomplish that goal…

I have written about many of the processes that were involved to finish and close an estate, daily struggles and small steps in my new journey as I wear those big girl pants…

it has been cathartic…

every day is a new adventure…

reminiscing…

13 Saturday Apr 2013

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recently I had to work on the desktop computer because my laptop was being a bit fussy, and I spent some lovely moments checking out pictures…  the desktop shares pictures with the laptop but it doesn’t work the other way around… found some lovely ones of the garden and George… also reminded me of how long ago some things happened…

it always seems like it was just a couple of years ago that something took place, but when you check out the pictures you realize it might be that six or eight years have passed…

also spent some time going through photo albums and I took out a great one that Cyndi had made for us from our family trip to Courtenay… I realize that it was five years ago…

the top of Mount Washington was rather cool...

the top of Mount Washington was rather cool…

it reminded me of the trip across the country with the kids, and meeting up with everyone else there…  George was slowly recovering from his heart failure and couldn’t drive out with us… the doctor advised that he needed to fly which would be less of a stress on his body…  Crystal and Jeff and the two boys drove out around the same time and we had a lovely time together and got to see all the special places around Courtenay…

fun time at Goose Spit...

fun time at Goose Spit…

we all loved Goose Spit and had a wiener roast on the beach together… that year, on our anniversary, we took the little boys for a walk along the Puntledge early in the morning so that all the grownups could sleep in a bit…

it was a wonderful time and we had an adventure when we took a wrong path and wandered down a tiny waterway that didn’t really go anywhere… we saw slugs and bugs, and I got a wonderful picture of George and the boys stretching their arms out to circle one of the very large trees…

George and the boys stretching to reach around the tree...

George and the boys stretching to reach around the tree…

wow, five years… amazing what things have happened in that time…  how my life has changed…

adventure…

03 Sunday Mar 2013

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my friend picked me up and we headed out to get another friend before meeting the other BSers at a local restaurant for a birthday celebration lunch…

for a number of years we would purchase a gift for the birthday person and it became a very difficult process as we really all have everything we need or want…  so it has moved to doing whatever the birthday person would like to do, and usually includes eating out…

we were celebrating two birthdays because we hadn’t been able to make up our minds about what we would like to do or find a time…

on our way we drove up a street one over from our friend’s house and ended up in front of a woman in a van who got stuck in the ruts on the street…  right now many streets have deep ruts due to all the snow we’ve had lately…

the snow is above the heron's belly... first time ever...

the snow is above the heron’s belly… first time ever…

we sat and waited a few minutes as she struggled to get her vehicle out, but between the ruts, her lack of skill and the car parked behind her, she was having a rough time… finally we got out and went to help…  she was a young mom with at least 2 kids in the car… we tried directing and pushing the van as she tried to move it, but we weren’t quite strong enough… eventually a neighbour came out and he actually lifted the van as we pushed, and we finally got it moved…  it was quite the adventure…

once again it made me appreciate that I am completely over my surgery and well enough to be able to push a van with no side effects…

thanks be…