Catch up mid June

Maybe with summertime here in Canada, our posting should revert to once a week, like some bloggers do.  Seriously, where does the time go?  Our little blue dollhouse/studio building is just about complete and ready for me ( Kim ) to start quilting again.  Man, I think the last time that happened was in Yuma. Donald is fiddling with putting on a Victorian type screen door.  He had to apply brick molding before he could do so.  Of course, I was very confused as the building has no brick, but it turns out that it is just a type of thicker board around the outside of the door frame. That was today's task.

We made an extremely quick trip to Victoria last week, babysitting our little love on Friday, and running around Victoria on Thursday. Two days is not enough, but with a day each way for travelling and leaving the ancient cat back in the Shuswap's, that was all we could do. Next time, Rick and Paulette!

A couple of trips to Winfield and the RV dealer, and hopefully, this Monday will be our last trip there. Our floor is clunking/squeaking and they may tear things apart to get to the bottom of it.  Ouch. We'll see how that goes! 

On the way back after that, we are off to Eagle Point Golf and Country Club, just outside of Kamloops for a Memorial Golf Tournament.  There will be many retired and ex-railroaders there, with donations for the food bank and great memories of our close friends who have recently passed. Since we are travelling with the 5th, we can dry camp there. Handy!

And, just because that isn't enough travelling around, we hope to run up to Northern BC right after that. Maybe if we stayed put it would stop raining. Donald has constructed an awesome irrigation system here in the Shuswap lot for all our gardens and plants. Hah. It has been turned off for a couple of weeks due to the massive amounts of sky blessings. Now, isn't that a nice way to name the rain?

We drive from one HD to another... and another...

After the great time we had at the Escapee Rally, it was off back to the lot for some gardening, painting and general chores.  While some may think this is not fun, we just putter about and it is kind of fun.  Donald's knees however may think otherwise.  He did a great job installing Armstrong Allure flooring in the 'shed'. It is a beautiful black walnut hardwood look and the planks are very heavy.  They click together.  He was short one plank which we picked up today in Kelowna at Home Depot.

Why Kelowna? Yes, we are back at the RV dealer now that the parts had arrived to complete the warranty work. Are we finished? Nope. Now we have a substantial creak noise in the floor, which they agreed was not correct. So, they have to contact Jayco again as to how we will proceed with this.

Tonight we sit boondocking in the parking lot of the Real Canadian Superstore in north Vernon.  Recommended in our Days End book. Great spot. We stayed here last night. The campground rates have turned to high season, so we are not amiable to paying $85 a night. Have to love having your own power.

In the morning, we will check out the Vernon Home Depot store - remember me saying that perhaps we should live in the aisles? There was a metal shelving unit that we looked at in Kelowna that might work for the shed. ( aka studio ).

Oh yes, Our cat will only eat 9 Lives dry cat food. The bag is empty. Do you think we can find any? So I emailed Purina asking, as we have tried every store for the last 3 weeks. She is however, trying some old stuff that overwintered in the shed. Can't be choosy now, can you Juniper?

Chapter 33 Okanagan Escapee Rally

Here we are for the week in beautiful Salmon Arm, BC, participating in our Chapter's Spring Rally. It has been a TON of fun with a great bunch of people.  There is about 22 rigs here in the Elks Campground and we have power and water at each site with a big camp kitchen.  Donald joined the men yesterday to cook pancakes and sausages for breakfast and his Beanbag Baseball Team won the tournament.  He came back with his big prize of a small bag of Cheetos. He was pretty thrilled with that, really!

Last night was a sing-a-long with four musicians of the group, and then the big firepit gathering to end the evening.  Today we are off to Salmon Arm Golf and CC to golf the 9 hole course, and others will be hiking to Margaret Falls or shopping.  Later on, we are all out for a Chinese restaurant supper in town.

We have met some wonderful people, and as always, gathered more information about places to visit in the southwest and Mexico. 

Ah, I can hear the laughter and carrying-on... gotta go.

Catching up chores at home

Even though the nights are cold with temperatures about -2C, the perennials are growing so fast you can almost hear them.  Our little blue shed building, dubbed " the dollhouse" by the neighbours, now has a lovely deck out front.  Donald is a great builder!

This week, we are off to the Salmon Arm Elks Park, for 4 days of fun with Chapter 33 Okanagan Escapees.  There are a couple of building companies there we may visit to see about what we can put on this lot for a more permanent, but very small, house/park model.

This year's tulips

Drip Drip..good to be home

Our RV appointment was at Voyager RV in Winfield on Monday, and even with just a few little items it seemed to take all day. A new stereo system is on order as our ate a CD and a few other things, so we will probably go back sometime later in May.  We at least had time for an oil change on the truck at Jacobsen's GM in Kelowna, and then we were on the road heading north.  It was after 5 and by the time we arrived at Salmon Arm, we decided to spend the evening at the Picadilly Mall parking lot, where overnighters are quite welcome - they even have an awesome water and dump area. So this morning, here we are back at our little place in the Shuswap by 10 am, doing enough chores in the pouring rain to be able to get by till the rain stops.

My tulips should be blooming in a couple of days, and it appears I have only lost one rose bush. Fantastic. Also, Donald is in the good books again as the Bleeding Heart plant that I thought he killed is coming back. What a lucky man.