Monday ; I am stunned at the suddenness of Jack Layton's death from cancer. It was only a month or so ago that he was on TV announcing his temporary leave of absence from leading the NDP party in order to fight cancer. My mother-in-law and my father-in-law both succumbed as quickly to the evil of cancer. Both of them at a relatively young age, like Jack Layton. It's no wonder that Joanne was unable to believe that she could survive when she was diagnosed with cancer ... the first time. She was able to be more optimistic the second time.
It's difficult for me to express how grateful I am that she has survived. Cancer scares the hell out of me ! ! !
Rest in peace, Mr. Layton.
Friday ; Today was hot, temperature in the mid-90's. This morning we headed to Penticton to run errands. First in Penticton, then Okanagan Falls, and finally, Oliver. We wanted to end up in Oliver around lunch time. We had a picnic lunch in Oliver Community Park, then attended Bark In The Park, a BC SPCA fund raiser event in that same municipal park. There were a variety of booths operated by pet supply vendors and pet related organizations. Which was a tad boring, from a dog’s perspective. There was a demonstration of dog agility by an Osoyoos based agility club. I was interested in getting more information on that organization, with a view to perhaps joining the club. BUT ... it only took me a few moments with the club's people to realize that me and Bo, and that club, are incompatible ! Geeez, some "dog people" take themselves WAY too seriously ! It's dog agility, people ! They're dogs ! They just want to have some fun !
After Bark In The Park was the big special treat of the day ! From 4 PM to 5 PM, the final hour of the Oliver Community Pool's summer season, the pool was open to ... DOGS ! What a lot of fun we had ! Bo and I, and many other dogs and their owners romped for an hour in the large community swimming pool. Bo and I played with his special "beach doughnut", a styrofoam fishing net float he found on the beach in Teacapán, Mexico a few years ago. Bo loooooves playing "fetch" in the water with his beach doughnut. HA HA HA ... good dog, Bo, well done ! AND ... < snicker > ... we could entice Bo to slide down the kiddies’ slide into the pool by placing his beach doughnut on the bottom edge of the slide. HA HA HA ! What a silly little dog !
DSK
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Sunday, August 21, 2011
August 14 to 20, 2011
Friday ; Spent the afternoon and evening in Penticton. Ran errands all afternoon, had supper at a new Chinese buffet restaurant, then went to a free concert in Gyro Park. Part of the Sunshine Cabaret series of Friday evening and Saturday evening free concerts in the bandshell in Penticton's Gyro Park. Tonight's band was Fluxx, a local classic rock band fronted by a music teacher from one of the local high schools. As we were leaving Gyro Park we bumped into Mitch and Diane, friends and former neighbours of ours.
Saturday ; Very hot today, temperature approaching 100 degrees. Whew ... almost as hot as Yuma on April 1. HA HA HA ! Since we didn't have any trailer delivery work today ( ! ! ! ! ! ) we were able to attend a potluck dinner at Riverside RV Park Resort. I don't know why we bothered. The most gorgeous early evening weather imaginable, and everybody just "ate and ran". I don't understand the point of going to a communal dinner to just scarf down food then head home !
DSK
Saturday ; Very hot today, temperature approaching 100 degrees. Whew ... almost as hot as Yuma on April 1. HA HA HA ! Since we didn't have any trailer delivery work today ( ! ! ! ! ! ) we were able to attend a potluck dinner at Riverside RV Park Resort. I don't know why we bothered. The most gorgeous early evening weather imaginable, and everybody just "ate and ran". I don't understand the point of going to a communal dinner to just scarf down food then head home !
DSK
Sunday, August 14, 2011
August 7 to 13, 2011
Sunday ; Another hot, long, hard, lucrative day of delivering trailers. Temperature in the 90's. Drove over 350 km. / 220 miles. Keremeos to Osoyoos to Penticton to Summerland to Penticton to Summerland to Osoyoos to Keremeos.
We have a "Bo-gility" course built in our yard. One of the components, at this time of the year, is a little kiddy's pool. Today when we got home from work, there was ... a dead mouse floating in Bo's pool. YUCK ! Guess the poor little bugger was thirsty.
Tuesday ; Went to pick wild apricots today. WOW ... peak of the season ! I'm looking forward to having frozen apricots to mix into yogurt next winter in Yuma.
Saturday ; Today was a very hot day, temperature well into the 90's. Our trailer delivery assignments today were a little less demanding than in previous weeks, and our mileage travelled was a lot less. We had a very upsetting confrontation with a campground owner, leading to a confrontation with our "boss". Late in the evening I'm still simmering !
DSK
We have a "Bo-gility" course built in our yard. One of the components, at this time of the year, is a little kiddy's pool. Today when we got home from work, there was ... a dead mouse floating in Bo's pool. YUCK ! Guess the poor little bugger was thirsty.
Tuesday ; Went to pick wild apricots today. WOW ... peak of the season ! I'm looking forward to having frozen apricots to mix into yogurt next winter in Yuma.
Saturday ; Today was a very hot day, temperature well into the 90's. Our trailer delivery assignments today were a little less demanding than in previous weeks, and our mileage travelled was a lot less. We had a very upsetting confrontation with a campground owner, leading to a confrontation with our "boss". Late in the evening I'm still simmering !
DSK
Sunday, August 7, 2011
July 31 to August 6, 2011
Sunday ; Happy 50th Birthday to my brother Russell
Went for a walk alongside the river. Bo had a dip in the Similkameen. Read and napped with Sully in the gazebo.
Thursday ; Today marks two years since Teddy's death.
Saturday ; A hot, long, hard, lucrative day of delivering trailers. One in Penticton, three in Osoyoos, and one in Summerland.
DSK
This morning we went into town to see Kars Under The "K", the annual classic and antique car show in Memorial Park in Keremeos. "Under The K" refers to "K" Mountain, behind the town, and overlooking Memorial Park. The photo below is of a 1926 Ford Model T fruit truck. Very appropriate for Keremeos, "The Fruit Stand Capital Of Canada".
After lunch we mounted a large concrete bird bath on the stump of the dead Douglas Fir tree we had removed last week. It's okay ... but small consolation for losing the tree. Using a pick axe we dug two holes in our lot where we want to plant another tree and a Saskatoon bush. Digging holes in our lot is almost impossible since it's scree / talus / rock slide shale that's been compacted by a huge compactor piece of equipment.
Monday ; Hot today ! Went into the nearby Crown Land forest and dug out two small Douglas Fir seedlings, then dug out another small Saskatoon bush from the forest around our RV park's "burn pile" area. Transplanted the two small Douglas Fir seedlings and the Saskatoon bush onto our lot. Let's hope for the best ! Late this afternoon we washed the truck. WHEW !
Thursday ; Today marks two years since Teddy's death.
Saturday ; A hot, long, hard, lucrative day of delivering trailers. One in Penticton, three in Osoyoos, and one in Summerland.
DSK
Sunday, July 31, 2011
July 24 to 30, 2011
Sunday ; Well, today was sunny and hot. Finally ! The hot weather is at least a month overdue !
Today was a relatively easy day of delivering trailers in Osoyoos and Penticton. Except ... we lost Bo's tie-out in a campground in Penticton. On Wednesday when we go to Penticton we'll return to South Beach Gardens Campground and hopefully his tie-out will be there at site G-18.
In the evening we went to Princeton for River Road Theatre's second of three productions this summer ; Barefoot In The Park by Neil Simon. Play was good. On the way to Princeton we stopped at Bromley Rock Provincial Park to have a picnic dinner. Picnic was great. We like Bromley Rock !
Monday ; It rained for much of today, a rather odd occurrence for this area at this time of the year. Today Joanne received an unsolicited job offer from the owner of the two fruit stands where she worked for the past two summers. She turned down the offer. I'm disappointed, considering what a colossal failure Similkameen Day Tours seems destined to be.
Tuesday ; One of the main reasons why we selected lot 89 at Riverside RV Park Resort was because of the beautiful, tall Douglas Fir tree. Over the last two years, due to Tussock Moth damage, it slowly died. Today we had it removed < huge sigh >. I just want to cry !
Wednesday ; Another long, hard day of running errands in Penticton. And Joanne went to Penticton Hospital for a mammogram ( half a mammogram ? ), the last for this year of her many annual cancer screening procedures. We also went to South Beach Gardens Campground and retrieved Bo's tie-out which we had left in site G-18 on Sunday.
Friday ; Today we dug a very small Saskatoon bush ... more of a Saskatoon twig, actually ... out of the forest and transplanted it in the back of our yard against the rock wall. Wish us luck !
Saturday ; Today was a hot day, temperature reaching into the 90's. Our trailer delivery work covered a lot of miles today ; Keremeos to Penticton to Osoyoos to Okanagan Falls to Penticton to Summerland to Penticton to Keremeos ! And our final delivery of the day, at Wright's Beach in Penticton, was the most difficult positioning of a trailer we've had in two summers of doing this job. But ... we make a good team ! We attracted quite an audience, most convinced that I wouldn't be able to get the trailer into the site. HA ... take that !
DSK
Today was a relatively easy day of delivering trailers in Osoyoos and Penticton. Except ... we lost Bo's tie-out in a campground in Penticton. On Wednesday when we go to Penticton we'll return to South Beach Gardens Campground and hopefully his tie-out will be there at site G-18.
In the evening we went to Princeton for River Road Theatre's second of three productions this summer ; Barefoot In The Park by Neil Simon. Play was good. On the way to Princeton we stopped at Bromley Rock Provincial Park to have a picnic dinner. Picnic was great. We like Bromley Rock !
Monday ; It rained for much of today, a rather odd occurrence for this area at this time of the year. Today Joanne received an unsolicited job offer from the owner of the two fruit stands where she worked for the past two summers. She turned down the offer. I'm disappointed, considering what a colossal failure Similkameen Day Tours seems destined to be.
Tuesday ; One of the main reasons why we selected lot 89 at Riverside RV Park Resort was because of the beautiful, tall Douglas Fir tree. Over the last two years, due to Tussock Moth damage, it slowly died. Today we had it removed < huge sigh >. I just want to cry !
Around supper time I went for my daily bicycle ride. On the road a few sites down from us I found ... a baby rattlesnake sunning itself on the warm asphalt ! I went home, got gloves, caught the snake, took a couple of pictures of it, showed it to the neighbour's three year old granddaughter, then took it across the highway and released it. The danger with baby rattlesnakes is that they haven't developed the maturity to know how to moderate the volume of venom they release when they strike. So ... when a baby rattlesnake bites, it releases all of its venom ! Very dangerous !
Friday ; Today we dug a very small Saskatoon bush ... more of a Saskatoon twig, actually ... out of the forest and transplanted it in the back of our yard against the rock wall. Wish us luck !
Saturday ; Today was a hot day, temperature reaching into the 90's. Our trailer delivery work covered a lot of miles today ; Keremeos to Penticton to Osoyoos to Okanagan Falls to Penticton to Summerland to Penticton to Keremeos ! And our final delivery of the day, at Wright's Beach in Penticton, was the most difficult positioning of a trailer we've had in two summers of doing this job. But ... we make a good team ! We attracted quite an audience, most convinced that I wouldn't be able to get the trailer into the site. HA ... take that !
DSK
Monday, July 25, 2011
July 17 to 23, 2011
Sunday ; Went to the Hedley Farmers' Market today. Even allowing for the fact that it was Hedley ... that was a pretty poor excuse for a Farmers' Market !
Saturday ; Well, today was a nicer day of delivering trailers. Warm weather, relatively easy deliveries, no sewage mishaps, no bitchy customers.
After we returned home late in the afternoon, I checked e-mail and ... HUH ? ? ? There was an e-mail from a cousin of mine ... whom I had never met ! He was passing through Keremeos and wanted to visit. Around 6 PM. And I was reading that e-mail at ... 5:40 PM ! ! !
Fifteen minutes later ... my cousin Geoff ... a few months older than me ... dropped by and we visited for a couple of hours.
DSK
Saturday ; Well, today was a nicer day of delivering trailers. Warm weather, relatively easy deliveries, no sewage mishaps, no bitchy customers.
After we returned home late in the afternoon, I checked e-mail and ... HUH ? ? ? There was an e-mail from a cousin of mine ... whom I had never met ! He was passing through Keremeos and wanted to visit. Around 6 PM. And I was reading that e-mail at ... 5:40 PM ! ! !
Fifteen minutes later ... my cousin Geoff ... a few months older than me ... dropped by and we visited for a couple of hours.
DSK
Sunday, July 17, 2011
July 10 to 16, 2011
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
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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