Weekend at K'san

   For a change, we decided to travel closer to home and spent the weekend at Hazelton, BC at the K'san Rv Park.  Lovely big park, full services with a reasonable cost.  We stayed 2 nights and they gifted us a DVD of the K'san Village and Gitanmaax culture.

On another note, I changed the heading picture on the blog, only to receive email from our mechanic son.  He advises we need airbags for the rear wheels " no seriously, you are going to burn through rear wheels with that kind of weight ".   Ah, more stuff.  I am all for the safety, so that will be a discussion this week along with eye doctor appointments, finishing the window on the main floor and making a Vinetarta ( Icelandic cake ) for the end of the month.

trying a new place this weekend ...

    We are getting ready to try a new RV place this weekend that is close to home.  If all works out, we will post some pictures.
     We have arranged and found some storage for all our household goods that is near to this house.  That is the first step in getting ready to put this house on the market.  So, now the work begins!  Donald picked up the new window for the main floor bathroom, and has installed it and almost finished it. It looks great.
      I have been busy figuring out my accumulated pension value from my job and a few other figures.  It is such fun ( not ).

back home

We are back home as Kim had to return to work.... someday soon, someday soon... that will not be the case! The weather has turned warm with 30 celcius temps, though not as warm as Ontario.

We are busy with laundry catchup, cleaning the RV outside and in, deciding where to go this weekend and general chores around the house.  Don's sister has noted on her facebook page that she is de-cluttering bigtime, and we will be following suit, that is for sure!

we're back!

It is so frustrating not to have internet access at the rv lot.  Hence, we are very tardy in our posts.  We have had a very relaxing three weeks here, with a visits at the start from our son and daughter in law, and then just doing little chores around the lot.  Donald didn't plan on any big construction this year, and instead built a lovely little terraced stair area next to the gardens.

 There is a large home being constructed down the street, and we managed to purchase some very good underlay landscape fabric that was left over.  The fabric was laid underneath the gravel to keep the weed population at bay.  We hope.

Another neighbour, Mabel, gardener extraordinaire, was cleaning out some of her perennial beds, and gave me some great iris plants.  She was trying to give away more, but at this point I have no flower beds prepared to accept them.  One of the roses was replaced, and will hopefully make it through the winter.  Our 3 year old rose is still blooming brilliantly.

And the new fifth wheel?  We have an appointment this next week to have a few items looked at, but generally we are quite happy, as it really feels like home. 

Today we started on the long trek back to the north country, enjoying a great day for weather.

Oh!  I forgot!  This morning, prior to doing the final pack-up, we were very much entertained by three mallard ducks in the bird feeding garden.  I didn't want to open the door and frighten them away, so this is the best picture I could get of 2 of them waddling away after their fill of sunflower seeds.

As you can see, what a lovely day to travel and take a few pictures along the way - this is Kamloops Lake, just about at the top of the highway.  Yes, it was a bit of a climb, and apparently the truck is handling the climbs great. I wouldn't know, as I can't see the temperature gauge, and I am sure Donald doesn't want me craning my neck over every 5 seconds to check.  

We took our little tomatoe plants with us to the rv lot, and they grew very well in the warmth of the Thompson/Okanagan weather.  Tonight, we enjoyed a few of the cherry tomatoes with our supper.  The travel arrangements of the tomatoes is unusual.

 

The bigger plants fit into the big storage compartments just fine.  Tomorrow we will arrive in Prince George for the day.

Hot at the Lot

     That sounds like a song title!  We have been way less busy with landscaping projects this summer - no dump truck loads of heavy rock!  Donald has a small project of some landscaping tie levels and berming and I have planted a new rose bush, as one was lost to the winter weather.  All the rest of the plantings seem to have faired well over the winter, which was very mild according to a neighbour.

 We spent a few hours at the beach and the water was warmer than we thought and very nice to cool your toes in!  There is new construction taking place around our little lot - some of the houses as big as 6000 square feet being erected - all I can say is - been there, done that, don't want to clean a monstrosity any more!  The 5th takes only a quick 45 minutes to give a good cleaning - whoo hoo! 

I will have to take some pic's of the garden and roses that are in bloom.  I think that will be todays big goal.  Ah, the life of leisure.