New Friend

Marianne and I starting our hour walk in Seal Bay Park....we plan for an hour but for some reason I go left when I should go right, but we make it back having gone a little further.


Here we are back home and good friends. We are both heading back to Country Maples and will have to circle the park for an hour.

Getting lost in Seal Bay Park

Marianne, by new walking partner and I are burning up the trails in Seal Bay Park....we have been lost twice and rescued by knowledgeable hikers....have you ever asked someone how to get home when you don't know where you are and they don't know how to get there?...Marianne's first mistake was thinking I knew where I was going, ha ha!.....we do manage to get back with our trusty guide dog, Havoc...there are 16 kms of trails and not well marked....
Pie Iron party tomorrow to celebrate Canada Day, sounds like there will be about 20 of us maybe more when the word gets out....Art and I are newbies, never seen a pie iron...will remember the camera and take pictures, I hope....
Did you know there is a flag for Vancouver Island?

Correction

The deer didn't eat my daisies, he/she ate my pansies.....sorry for the confusion....ha ha...a flower is a flower by any other name....still upset that I no long have pansies to admire...

Raining in Paradise

Another week has past, oh where, oh where has the sunshine gone???? The crops needed the rain.
Hunting for the deer that ate my daisies, and they were so cute with their sunny little faces, and people think deer are cute, I don't!!!!! The weather has not deterred our walks in Seal Bay Park, it was just Havoc and I, but now Maryann has joined us, much better, somebody to talk to and tomorrow we will attempt to walk down to the ocean and you think the hill at Country Maples is steep, ha ha....watching the movie, "Canadian Bacon"...I don't think we are that polite, clean or nice, well, maybe we are!....or have you seen the movie, then you know what I am talking about? We had Lady Lu for 8 days while Maurice and Gloria were in Ottawa, she was no trouble at all, loves to eat, gets canned dog food....great walker and little poops, ha ha...bye, bye for another week.

Where are all the pictures?

Let me tell you, I keep forgetting about the camera, so you just get to read...John Gibson came over for coffee this morning....right after he left, Art left to check in with Wal Mart....when he returned Chuck and Shirley had arrived from Country Maples for a visit and check out Seal Bay RV Park....then Harvey and Jeri arrived from Campbell River...while the 6 of us were walking around the park, Bill, Vicki and her sister Doreen arrived on bicycles (Doreen lives just up the street)....all our company in one day, now we will not see anyone for the next two weeks....the dogs and I will be burning up the trails in Seal Bay Park...will be up until midnight watching "Pretty Women".
Miss Royanne and Simmah...

Seal Bay RV Park

Spent one night at Cumberland RV on Comox Lake, had fun walking the many trails with Havoc and Lady, I call her Lady Lu.....they have the best fries at the concession stand...not on my list of to eat, but I did enjoy them very much..only 15 amp and water, no sewer.......I got lost in Cumberland, not really, just didn't turn on the right street, always seeing some extra sights.....now we are in Seal Bay RV and Paul has really improved his campground, we like it here....visited my favourite food store, Quality Foods...Paul (owner) wondered where all the Holiday Trails campers were, we are here....that counts...and internet that works...
Forgot to tell you about our yard sale...comments were our stuff was TOO nice, well of course, we sold all the junk in the other yard sales back when we sold the house...anywat, antique lazy-boy chair, antique stores offering us $100, no way in hell, would give it away first....anyway, packing stuff away and Art sells the chair to a very nice lady for $340, what a guy....snow to an Eskimo, ha ha...

Garage Sale tomorrow

This is going to be a busy weekend....garage sale at Royanne's and also helping out at the store and of course some wine making to round out the activities...it is going to be difficult parting with all my treasures but I guess they have to go sometime.....found the trunk with every drawing and card, Shane and Royanne ever drew or wrote, this will be saved until we are all together...memories, WOW! Also found the kids first baby shoes, really ugly, brown and black Oxfords....poor kids...
Next report will be about all the money we made, ha ha.....

Port Refrew

Have you ever been to Port Renfrew? Do you know where Port Renfrew is? We drove over there today to visit a cousin of Art's that he has not seen for 50 years....after lunch of a $1.99 Whopper Wednesday burger at Burger King (I love hamburgers) we headed out what was to be an 1 1/2 hour drive (took 2 1/2 hours)....we turned right at Lake Cowichan (we should have turned left) and after bumping along on a gravel logging road, asked directions, turned around and got back on track...then there was a 20 min. wait for the pilot car to follow for 10 kms (road repairs)....Art forgot the address but remembered the street name, lucky there is only 100 houses in Port Renfrew, ha ha...asked at the post office and Maurice (cousin) lives across the street with a beautiful ocean view...had a very nice visit and hope to see him again, he is in excellent shape for 77..... checked out the marina and RV park....more people live there than in town... but I don't think we will take the MH over.......there are no kids left to go to school, just native indians...the older kids take a 1 hour bus ride to Sooke.... I little too isolated for me I think....not even a gas station.....only a grocery store, liquor store and hotel and the worse is dial up internet.....whatever would we do??????

Where has the time gone????

Said farewell to our friends Dale and Jeanette but will visit them in Manning Park at the end of August when we leave the island.....Havoc bit my finger while stick fetching, will have to wear a bandage (no spelling for band-aid) forever as the nail is cracked in the middle and will catch on things, damn it hurt but I am fine now....then there was the day he tripped me walking in the trails, I fell on him, he yikes and growls at me and there I am flat on my face and he is still growling, pissed off that I fell on him.....had fun working at Woofles last weekend, I meet the nicest dogs.....Art made the most delicious crab quiche.....I think I lost my cooking job...am I sad....NOT.....Art is a much better cook and he loves to shop....me, not so much.....
Shane upgraded our computer and I have had to sign up for everything again, some fun getting back into my blog but finally made.....we got kicked off our wifi connections said we were using too many MB's only allowed 160 MB in 48 hours, satelite internet does have problems.....we are having fantastic weather, hot hot hot....thank heavens for a/c......hopefully I will type something new and interesting every week, having some difficulty remembering what I did yesterday, must write it down....