Remembrance day

 

The image of the aging veteran or soldier remembering his buddies with a tear rolling down his face sums up this day; the one we call Remembrance day or Veterans day depending where you live…

Always a sad day(and even sadder as RULING  human kind just doesn’t seem to, “get” ,the message about  the futility of war…)

But I had the day off and have spent it so far rather unprofitably.

We DID go for a nice long walk this morning though. The weather was mildish but devilishly WET; not raining but the land so saturated that puddles are starting to form on top of the grass in the park.

Flooding is not far off…our little creek/river always overflows its banks but never to the point of threatening homes or streets. It just means that we can’t safely walk beside it after a certain stage.

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving!

It’s our Thanksgiving day today!

We are having a small dinner (had just asked H’s son and daughter in law) and suddenly thought to ask our very nice little tenant if she would like to join us.

She enthusiastically said, “yes!” so we are very happy that we thought of her.

She is, after all, very far from home and away from her family for the first time so must be a bit lonely.

Dinner is at 5pm; we are having chicken hot pot (lots of work but DELICIOUS) and rice and a lovely looking lemon cake for afters…

our mini holiday ; part 2

When we arrived at the Lighthouse motel  we were at an impasse as there appeared to be no one in the place, let alone the office.

The office itself had hung on it’s door,  a telephone tucked into a little pouch, with a note saying that the proprieter was in the, “Cottage”(one of the available guest accomodations) cleaning, and would the visitor phone her if anything was needed.

We were certainly in the country!

So we phoned and the young lady answered, telling us where our suite was and that the key to our “Oceanview”, suite was on the table (door unlocked) .

We saw this low building beside the main house; this was where the, “Oceanview suites” were located.

We thankfully unloaded the truck and settled in to the cute little place for a few minutes, then considered that it might be wise to get a few provisions and also to think about dinner plans, as it was already after 5 pm.

We drove up to Bowsera tiny little community with what looked like one main store, and a gas station.

Surprisingly, they had a really interesting selection of food available there, including tons of imported deli items and European specialities. There is a HUGE European community “up island”, and one feels as though one has been magically transported there.

We bought some lovely home made bread and imported apricot jam(which was to die for; it tasted exactly as if it was homemade)half a dozen eggs and some coffee cream. We had brought some food from home so didn’t need anything else.

Once back at the “Lighthouse”,  we made the acquaintance of the resident border collie, “Cody”.

|He was a sweet, SMART dog, who once introduced, immediately wanted us to throw a ball for him, OVER and OVER and OVER….lol

This occupied us for about an hour, then feeling hungry, we decided to check out a nearby Chinese restaurant.

Unfortunately they were featuring a smorgasbord, (we could have ordered from the menu, but didn’t know this) but this was ok as we asked the chef if he could make us some “Real” chinese food.

He complied and we thankfully took it back to our residence to eat it in peace rather than amongst the trammeling herd of fellow holidaymakers.

We spent the evening peacefully sitting on the ocean front patio, in the swing, watching the sun go down.

GORGEOUS.

have readers but no commenters…

Ok you lot, I KNOW that there are people reading my blog; I have ways of tracking this(plus wordpress has it’s handy dandy stats counter, etc0

I often post things thinking,”now this is interesting, or maybe others feel this way”; but save for a few loyal visitors I get few comments.

Perhaps it is the summer and heaven knows it is hot enough most places to make one feel lethargic.

Sigh.

Anyhow, I am going up island tomorrow straight after work so won’t be posting tomorrow or Saturday.  It promises to be even hotter up there but as we are staying right on the water, I think that we will be quite happy.

We don’t just stay in the one spot, but take little trips here and there; in fact we will be busy seeing all of our favourite things.

Have a good weekend and I will be posting on Sunday!

PS  Happy civic holiday to any Canadian readers!

and Happy BC day  to any from here!!

Hey Toronto, want to switch weather???

It continues to be scorching hot here in British Columbia.

It was recorded at noon to be 31 Celsius here( 87.88 Fahrenheit) and is now 32c(89.6 Fahrenheit). The Humidex says that it feels like 38c (100.4 Fahrenheit). It’s a heat wave!

We are dealing with it the best we can; but it’s a bit tough as hardly any  buildings have air conditioning.

It is STIFFLING in the residences and the supervisors worriedly tell us to ” keep hydrated” and to “take it easy”.

So after a grueling morning working in a wing which is south facing(no hallways have windows and the windows by the bathrooms do not open; go figure!) I took a break out on the deck for a few minutes with one of my collegues.

Wouldn’t you know it but the supervisor came along AT that MOMENT…lol.

But she was totally commiserative and said, “I didn’t see you(sitting there when normally one would be working) and again, to “take it easy”

Ironically , Toronto, Ontario, which would find the weather WE are having  THEIR norm, is having terrible rainy weather, with predictions of mild temps for the next few days and LOTS of rain.

Shall we switch???