Sunday ; Had to break into a neighbour's home this morning. They are away for a few days and there was an alarm of some sort howling inside since yesterday evening. WOW ... "B & E" is amazingly easy ! HA HA HA ! The propane alarm had malfunctioned as a result of a very brief power outage.
Packed a picnic lunch and headed for Osoyoos. Dropped off business cards and had a brief meeting with the Supervisor of Guest Services at Watermark Beach Resort. Will be taking some of her staff on a "familiarization tour". Drove back towards Keremeos looking for road near Spotted Lake up to top of Mount Kobau. Found it, drove it ! Research for Similkameen Day Tours. Also found Testalinden Lake up there. Drove back down to highway and to Osoyoos for picnic lunch in parking lot of Visitor Information Centre. Drove from Osoyoos to Oliver. Saw sign advertising freshly caught, wild Sockeye Salmon for sale. Very hard / impossible to get wild Sockeye Salmon ! Think maybe only Indians can catch them wild. Found pickup truck with three Indians and an ice and water filled tank in the back containing ...
< big eyes > ... salmon ! Caught on the "rez" near Port Alberni on the west coast of Vancouver Island. Nice salmon ! ! ! Bought a big one. Twenty bucks !
Drove from Oliver to Cawston over Fairview Mountain. Research for Similkameen Day Tours. Nice route, but not a "destination". Can't build a "day trip" around it. Might be good alternate / wilderness route from Osoyoos / Oliver to Cawston. Saw two deer ... and a large rattlesnake. HMMMM ... maybe a good "wildlife viewing" day trip option ! ?
Filleted the salmon at home, outside on the picnic table. WOW ! ! ! Nice fish ! Produced about four pounds of fillets. Isn't canned Sockeye Salmon about two bucks for a three ounce can ? !
Monday ; MMMMM ... barbecued Sockeye Salmon for supper !
Tuesday ; HA HA HA HA HA ... Bo is sooooo adept at picking Saskatoon berries ! I pull the truck up alongside the big Saskatoon bush / tree at our park's front gate, he and I climb into the bed of the truck, he stands on the bed rail and ... CHOMP CHOMP CHOMP CHOMP ... while I pick berries into an ice cream pail. What a funny little dog !
Wednesday ; Our Similkameen Day Tours rack cards arrived yesterday afternoon so today we went out to deliver them to five locations. First was the Keremeos Visitor Information Centre, followed by the Osoyoos Visitor Information Centre, Watermark Beach Resort, NK'MIP Campground, and finally, Spirit Ridge Resort, all in Osoyoos. I bought an RV part I needed at the RV dealer in Osoyoos. There was a traveller in the RV dealership looking for some simple "emergency" service work to be done on his trailer, but the dealership's service department was closed. I offered to do the work he wanted done, for a charge of five bucks. "Hey, there's no free lunch !" He balked at that, but reluctantly agreed. I did the work, and did it well. He paid me ten bucks ! We had a picnic lunch in "Bo's picnic park" on the waterfront of Osoyoos Lake. Bo gets excited every time we pass that park, expecting we will stop there for a picnic lunch. And he's disappointed when we pass that park and don't stop for a picnic lunch. We have our lunch there on most of our trailer delivery work days.
After lunch I spent the ten bucks on ice cream treats at Dairy Queen. We spent the rest of the afternoon doing day trip research, driving up Kruger Mountain and finding Blue Lake and Kilpoola Lake.
Saturday ; Well, today was a lot easier day of delivering trailers than last Saturday was, even though we delivered the same number of trailers and earned the same amount of money today as last Saturday. We drove a lot less miles today. And I didn't even get sprayed with sewage today ... as I did last Saturday ! After finishing our day with a delivery to Gallagher Lake, we went to do some shopping in Oliver at Shoppers Drug Mart and the brand new Canadian Tire. But both stores were out of stock of some of the advertised specials we were shopping for, so we'll have to go to Penticton on Monday.
DSK
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