Countdown

The "to do" list is becoming shorter every day as we prepare to leave our sunny summer abode for further travels.  Donald has worked very hard all summer on the massive decks around our place, and they are beautiful.  He decided to go with Trex decking for the main upper deck, and even though it was pricier than treated decking, we feel it was so much worth it.  No worries about staining and cleaning every year.  The sun and heat in the sunny Shuswap is really tough on wood decks.

Yesterday we put away the lawn and patio furniture and most of the 5th wheel is packed up.  Last evening, we had our Escapee friends, Bob and Karen, here for taco supper. A good time! I had to apologize that supper was tacos, but they loved it and I got to use up more items out of the fridge - less to haul!!!

Some of our neighbours have left already for the winter, so with the cooler temperatures and now the rain, it is a sure indication that fall is here.

Our 19 year old cat managed to make it through the summer, so I guess she'll be a traveller once again. More news once we're on the road .....where was that list again?

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.