August 5 & 7, 2009

August 5, 2009
　
HEY ... how come nobody's climbing up beside me to eat my toast crumbs ? ( sniffle ) I miss Teddy ! We hadn't realized until today how affected Bo was by Teddy's illness and dying. He's been ... subdued. Today he returned to his normal enthusiastic self.
　
Tonight we drove to Penticton for the opening act of PeachFest, the annual festival celebrating peach harvest time. There was to be a 45 minute performance by the Snowbirds, the Canadian Forces' precision flying / aerobatic team. Because of very poor visibility caused by the smoke from the Terrace Mountain fire near Kelowna, the Snowbirds' show was limited to about 15 minutes of "low and slow" flybys over Okanagan Lake Beach. What a disappointment.
　
August 7, 2009
　
At 4:00 P.M. I picked up Joanne after work and we headed for Penticton, for more PeachFest activities. On the drive to Penticton we phoned Loving Paws Crematorium to see if we could pick up Teddy's ashes while we were in town. Uh-oh ... trouble brewing ? The owners of Loving Paws Crematorium were on vacation in Newfoundland this week. On Tuesday when we took Teddy in we had been served by an employee ... who abruptly quit this week ! Today the phone was being answered by a neighbour of the owners. The neighbour didn't know nothing about nothing ! I certainly hope there's not going to be a problem with Teddy's remains ! ! !
　
At Gyro Park in Penticton was the Aboriginal Village and a 2010 Olympics Winter Games "Dome" with interactive displays and exhibitions. I took a turn at the ice hockey skills display then we both experienced a bobsleigh simulator. I did extremely well at the biathlon skills simulator and when I was patting myself on the back afterwards Joanne's comment was "yeah, but you can't slapshot worth shit". HA HA HA HA HA !
　
At the Aboriginal Village we had a barbecued salmon dinner, then walked a couple of blocks over to Okanagan Lake Park to see the Lumberjack Games. We returned to Gyro Park and the Aboriginal Village to see a performance by Murray Porter, a Native singer / songwriter of The Blues. Great performance ! We were familiar with some of his work from an Indian Blues CD we have. His "signature" piece is "I'm a Red Man, singing the Black Man's Blues, living in a White Man's world".
　
DSK