emma

We have made our trip to see our newest little grand daughter, Emma, and we are thrilled to bits.  Mother and baby are fine, and her big brother loves his babe.   It was good to be able to make a couple of meals for them, do dishes and best of all, take our wee grandson to the petting zoo and playgrounds while his family could get settled. 

The little hat and afgan were made by Doris, our neighbour at the Sands in Desert Hot Springs.  Just lovely.   This pregnancy, our kids took the advantage of a midwife, whom was with them all through her pregnancy, came to their home while she was in the early stages of labour, delivered the baby at the hospital, and then comes daily to their home afterwards to check on mom and baby.  She is also available 24 hours a day on the phone.  Such great support and totally taken care of under our BC Medical.

Donald is busy working on the new monster deck, installing the Trex composite boards on the top. Big job, especially in the heat we are experiencing.   We have to get it done as we have company in 2.5 weeks and then the Sands group is arriving mid August!

A blogging break for the summer

Our summer season looks like hair straight back and we're running.  Huge decks to be built by ourselves, a new grand daughter on the way, a visit to the north country, a " Sands " reunion in August that we are co - hosting, a Chapter 33 Escapees RV Club Rally that we are co - hosting and more.

We may make a post entry when our new little love is welcomed to the world..... but in the meantime, our building and garden projects are calling and all we can do at night is put our feet up and snooze on the couch!!! You know how it is.

Talk to you later........

We're home

Rick posted today about how they never envisioned staying in a Walmart parking lot as part of their RV'ing experiences. Ok, we're guilty! In fact, we stayed in the parking lot at Canadian Tire in Salmon Arm, which is allowed, on our last night before home.  There are no RV camping spots in Salon Arm that we like, and this 'site' has an awesome dumping station where we can do a super job before we get to the lot.  Our arrival back home is only about an hour away, and we arrived about 10 am.

We knew that our gazebo had collapsed over the winter due to the extreme high snow load in the Shuswap, so this morning Donald is trying to salvage what he can, see what can be fixed and whether the fairly new gas bbq that we stored under the gazebo can also be salvaged. It's all pretty much flat, so there is not too much hope!  On the bright side, we left the car out all winter with only a car cover and after hooking up the battery, she was ready to go! Luckily the collapsed gazebo missed hitting the car.

So, today is more unpacking the 5th wheel and starting on cleaning up the gardens.  The weather has warmed up and it's sunny and so away we go!

The gazebo WAS nice

Not smart yet.

We have left that rooster and all his crowing and made it across the border about 10 a.m. this morning.  Quite a few more questions than other years, but we were soon on our way.  Since we needed to get all " hooked back up" to some sort of internet and cell, we decided to stay a couple of days in Penticton to visit Rogers and Telus.  We don't even consider Bell, because of the way that they treated their satellite t.v. customers this past winter.   You may wonder why we are doing all this, but we do not have cable provided internet at our summer place, and rely on a portable wifi device, and our previous system was stopped in November before we left, so we didn't have to pay through the winter.

Now we are big time ( for us ) with I phones. I don't think we will be very smart with our smartphones for quite some time.  We do know how to turn them on. Oh, and have almost mastered how to call someone.  I called my mother.

It is good to be back in Canada, even if it is a little cooler. The blossoms were coming out on the fruit trees, there is green grass, people are golfing and the tulips and daffy's are very lovely.

Home in a couple of days.

Brrraaaccckkk and an RV problem

What started out as an early get go from Pendleton was not to be.  When I started to pull in our biggest slide ( table chairs and couch ) only one side of the slide would pull in and it seemed the motor would not engage the other side. Donald managed to push as hard as he could on the outside and since it was the rear and not the front, we limped out of Wildhorse RV Park to the nearest RV dealer, Thompson RV in Pendleton.  They, of course, could not fit us in for DAYS, but phoned and recommended the nearest RV repair shop, Drake RV.  Up the road we went, as the slide inched it's way further out.....

Drake RV is located at the airport in Pendleton, which was an old WW2  military base.  Their location is inside one of the original old aircraft hangers. Totally cool. They got us looked at right away, and it turned out the little sheer bolt that is a safety, broke away. To fix this, the underbelly had to be removed, but luckily that's all that it was and we were on our way in one hour, minus the one hour shop rate of $85 cash. Lucky Lucky. HIGHLY recommend these guys, they really know their stuff. Even if you need parts, give them a call.

The day's drive turned out to be later than anticipated, but what can you do. Stuff happens. What was the theme as we drove up from Pendleton, through the Tri-Cities, Moses Lake and onto Riverside, WA? Yes, it is farm country and all the way we saw" The Chicks are in ", " Baby chicks here "....
I do remember when we took delivery of our baby chicks many years ago, delivered by Greyhound Bus to the Feed Store.

Speaking of chickens, we are parked for two nights at Margie's RV Park in Riverside, Washington ( not recommended ). There is a rooster who seems to be quiet in the day, but crows all, yes all, night long. zzzzzz.  Border crossing tomorrow morning.

This rooster is not the culprit - image from Wikipedia