It seems like the repair to where the antenna meets our 5th wheel roof, was successful. Today's weather is back to teeming rain in Victoria, and so far, there is not a drop in the bucket underneath the antenna crank. Good job, Donald!
Tomorrow we hope that the Malahat highway will not be as foggy as it is today, when we travel to meet Rick and Paulette. I will be taking pictures of some of my latest quilting projects and of the quilt studio building. No doubt the boys will talk of RV's and south travels.
Thursday has us driving off-island, back to Vancouver for a couple of days. We will be staying in Richmond, getting our fuel filter changed by the boy-wonder mechanic and having our " Christmas visit" with him. Other plans have been made to meet with Donald's Aunt and Uncle from North Vancouver, whom we have not seen in many years.
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Preparing to leave and our house was swaying
Kim is back from her visits to family in the province of Ontario, and our plans and dates are being confirmed. Last evening was spent with friends in the Colwood area of Victoria, enjoying a pizza and movie night. We watched The Hunger Games, and quite liked it. As that movie was book one of the series, now we'll have to read the rest of them. Books are always better than the movies, anyway.
During the movie, we were getting constant text messages from our sons, to call and contact them. Our house in northern B.C. is only 200 KM away from the 7.7 scale earthquake last night. Our youngest son said it was like being on the ocean, in 2 - 3 foot swells. No damage that he could see to the house, which is thankful. Excitement for them, no doubt!
This morning we joined our oldest son and family at the Blue Fox Cafe in downtown Victoria for breakfast. Mmmm. We managed to avoid the larger lineups there to get in and there is a reason for those lineups, as the food is incredible.
We are back at our RV Park, and Donald is repairing a roof leak. The spot on the roof where the TV antenna is, decided to drip away onto our bed while we were at movie night. There were torrential rains yesterday and more to come, so that has to be fixed while we have a dry day today.
Wednesday we are meeting Rick and Paulette for lunch, and Thursday we are off to Vancouver for a day or so, meeting our youngest ( earthquake boy ) who is in the city for work meetings.
During the movie, we were getting constant text messages from our sons, to call and contact them. Our house in northern B.C. is only 200 KM away from the 7.7 scale earthquake last night. Our youngest son said it was like being on the ocean, in 2 - 3 foot swells. No damage that he could see to the house, which is thankful. Excitement for them, no doubt!
This morning we joined our oldest son and family at the Blue Fox Cafe in downtown Victoria for breakfast. Mmmm. We managed to avoid the larger lineups there to get in and there is a reason for those lineups, as the food is incredible.
We are back at our RV Park, and Donald is repairing a roof leak. The spot on the roof where the TV antenna is, decided to drip away onto our bed while we were at movie night. There were torrential rains yesterday and more to come, so that has to be fixed while we have a dry day today.
Wednesday we are meeting Rick and Paulette for lunch, and Thursday we are off to Vancouver for a day or so, meeting our youngest ( earthquake boy ) who is in the city for work meetings.
Monday, October 8, 2012
We're having Thanksgiving in 2 separate Provinces
Don is enjoying Thanksgiving Dinner with our little grandson and all his Mum's family in Victoria. The weather there is a tad bit warmer than the weather in Ontario, where Kim is having Thanksgiving dinner in the city of Brampton, with her Aunts, Uncles and cousins. Wonderful.
Donald has a few chores to accomplish in Victoria, and of course they involve Home Depot. What manly task doesn't? He is helping to design an anti-grandson barrier to our kids' stair railings. We babysat him on Friday, and he took seven steps and is on his way to walking.. and then climbing! Such a happy wee guy and we loved our day together. Grandma hopes that he will be walking to meet her when she comes back to Victoria in a couple of weeks!
So, other than that, not much is new except to say Happy Canadian Thanksgiving to all. Allan and Lolita may be experiencing both Thanksgiving's this year for the first time!!!!!
Donald has a few chores to accomplish in Victoria, and of course they involve Home Depot. What manly task doesn't? He is helping to design an anti-grandson barrier to our kids' stair railings. We babysat him on Friday, and he took seven steps and is on his way to walking.. and then climbing! Such a happy wee guy and we loved our day together. Grandma hopes that he will be walking to meet her when she comes back to Victoria in a couple of weeks!
So, other than that, not much is new except to say Happy Canadian Thanksgiving to all. Allan and Lolita may be experiencing both Thanksgiving's this year for the first time!!!!!
Sunday, September 30, 2012
TP Education
It took us about two weeks to clean up the home ranch, put everything away and winterize the new building. Well, if truth be told, we didn't work very hard at it, since the weather stayed about 28 C and sunny every day. That certainly doesn't lean to hard work when you're retired.
We met with our RV Chapter 33 ( Escapees ) in Vernon last week, where we handed out cowboy hat fridge magnets that Kim made, and tour packages that Karen organized to all that came out for breakfast. When we get back in April, we will finish up the arrangements for our Rally which we are co-hosting at the end of May.
Yesterday we managed to leave our Shuswap lot about noon, and spent the night at Eagle Wind RV Park, between Langley and Abbotsford. Pricey, but very very nice. Perhaps it was pricey because the Snowbird RV Show was on at the Tradex in Abbotsford. Did we go? You bet, as it was open till 9 PM. Did we see anything that we were interested in? Nope. All the big rigs, whether they be 5th wheels or motorhomes continue to get even darker inside. Like living in a cave. Kim needs to be a designer. There was one thing learned though, and that involves TP ( shhh toilet paper ). Sanidumps.com had a booth with many jars of water and TP set up, like an experiment. The premise being: " What type of TP breaks down the best ". Yes, we know now what brand. It is not the brand I have in the 5th at present.
Today we left Eagle Wind about 9:30, and arrived on a beautiful ferry crossing to Ft. Victoria RV Park, and we will be here a month. Visiting the kids, babysitting....golfing....and Kim is off to Toronto for a couple of weeks.
We met with our RV Chapter 33 ( Escapees ) in Vernon last week, where we handed out cowboy hat fridge magnets that Kim made, and tour packages that Karen organized to all that came out for breakfast. When we get back in April, we will finish up the arrangements for our Rally which we are co-hosting at the end of May.
Yesterday we managed to leave our Shuswap lot about noon, and spent the night at Eagle Wind RV Park, between Langley and Abbotsford. Pricey, but very very nice. Perhaps it was pricey because the Snowbird RV Show was on at the Tradex in Abbotsford. Did we go? You bet, as it was open till 9 PM. Did we see anything that we were interested in? Nope. All the big rigs, whether they be 5th wheels or motorhomes continue to get even darker inside. Like living in a cave. Kim needs to be a designer. There was one thing learned though, and that involves TP ( shhh toilet paper ). Sanidumps.com had a booth with many jars of water and TP set up, like an experiment. The premise being: " What type of TP breaks down the best ". Yes, we know now what brand. It is not the brand I have in the 5th at present.
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Thursday, September 13, 2012
comment posting
Hey all. We're having trouble posting comments on some rv blogs... can't seem to find the place to click to post comments anymore.....advice?
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