I have a place!

I am so excited!  I have found a perfect place through a friend and can move in immediately. So I will take my time and move in slowly and get it just exactly the way I want it. It's in a great area for shopping and walking.  I can get out with Lacey and there are lots of walking trails around and I can walk to shop if I have to.  It is small with 2 bedrooms, kitchen, living room, laundry in suite, nice balcony, underground secure parking and it's in a locked secure building with intercom.  I can see the front door and intercom from my suite. There is nobody below me and there is nobody on the one side of the suite so it should be fairly quiet.

Things have been very busy and I have been feeling very well and peaceful. I have been spending time with family and friends and enjoying the gorgeous weather we have been having this month. I spent a few days in at Moms.  She had to have her kitty put down and she was really sad and depressed. We went to a cat rescue place and she adopted two older cats.  Both fixed etc. so she is feeling much better.  Her and I are going to Victoria in a week and we are both looking forward to it. We plan on doing some walking and touristy stuff.  :)

My last trip up to Celista was great.  The Celebration of Life was very nice and lots of friends and family came. Sue and Peter might be heading down to the coast in the next week or two so I will get a chance to see them again before the fall sets in.  I would like to make one more trip up before the snow flies.  We'll see how it goes.

Heading back to Celista

I am heading up to Celista on Thursday and will be up there for a few days. Sue may be coming back down with me for a few days too. Josh and I took Lacey out today and ended up in Yarrow. We stopped in a park and took a few pictures with his new lens. The pictures turned out pretty good! Josh took the ones of me and I took the pics of him.

Time flies.....

Wow, time does fly and I'm a bad blogger. All is fine with me. Life's ups and downs. I'm still living with my middle son for the next few months. He and his older brother are heading to Thailand for 3 weeks and I will be here until he gets back. Then I will start looking for my own place. As Josh says, there is no great hurry. We can look until we find the perfect place for me.

I would like to find a place that is within the shopping core. Right now I have my car but I may not always have it and so I have to make sure I am close to shopping. I also have my kitty and dog. Both are litter trained and house pets so we'll see how that goes.

I have been up to Celista once already this summer for 3 weeks and I am heading back up this week. Pete's mom Sandy passed away last week and they will be holding a Celebration of Life for her out at Sue and Pete's place. Lots of family and friends. She was a lovely warm person who will be greatly missed.

Mom's birthday is coming up in a few weeks and my brother and his wife and mom and I will be going out for dinner to celebrate. Then the first week of September mom and I are going to go over to Victoria and spend a few days at the Empress. With my brother Steve working for Fairmont it gives us good rates. My cousin Michael who lives in Victoria has cancer and mom and I would like to go over and have a visit. We are going to take the bus I think because we really don't need the car and it is expensive. This way we can just relax and enjoy and let someone else drive.

The girls and I want to have a camping weekend too. We are thinking we might do it at Judes as she has a nice big private back yard and we can lock ourselves in, pitch some tents, fire up the grill and just vegetate and read and visit and eat.....mmmm sounds heavenly. She has a hot tub too so we can just enjoy!

Now I am making some potato salad and then I am going to take Miss Lacey and a blanket and head over to the park on the corner and read and relax.

I love this little face.

Steve & Gabrielle

My brother Steve and my niece were here from Quebec last week. We had an excellent time seeing them. Gabrielle is 14 now and a very pretty and very nice girl. It was Steve's birthday on the 11th, the morning they were leaving. Mom wanted to get us all together for dinner so we went to the River Rock in Richmond. It is a Casino/Hotel and has a very nice buffet style restaurant. We went downstairs and played the slots for a couple of hours afterwards. Had lots of fun. Willy and Joy (my brother and sister-in-law), David (my oldest son), Mom, Steve and Gabrielle, and I.

 

Dave

 

Steve's Birthday Cake

 

Steve and Gabrielle

 

Joy told us if we keep our heads up our double chins won't show!
Steve & Dave in the back, Gabrielle, Me, Joy and Mom in the front


Me, Steve, Mom and Willy

Finally some sunshine

The sun is shining although it is supposed to be gone by tonight and the rain starts again. I just took Lacey and we went for a walk around the lake. Then we headed to another park and sat out and ate some lunch and read for awhile. It was very nice.

Mom and I have signed on for a repositioning cruise in September. The Norwegian Pearl will be on the Alaskan run all summer and then in September they reposition the boat to California and we have signed on for the Vancouver to LA 5 day cruise. It looks like fun! We leave on Sunday night and we wake up Monday morning in Astoria, Oregon and spend the day there. That evening we set sail again and spend all day Tuesday at sea. On Wednesday morning we are in San Francisco and spend the day there and then that evening we are back at sea and we sail all day Thursday. Friday morning we arrive in LA.

We are then going to spend a couple of days in LA and maybe take a tour and then we fly home on Sunday night. We haven't book hotel or air flights yet but the cruise is booked. I am going to go in and spend a day or two at mom's and we'll figure out where we want to stay and get our flights booked as well. Something to look forward to.

My brother Steve and niece Gabrielle are driving out from Quebec. They are travelling the last week of June and the first two weeks of July. They'll be staying at Mom's in Richmond which will be very nice for all of them. Can't wait to see them both.

The bread

It rose 3/4's of the way so it's a bit heavy and doughy but I am going to try again today and use a bit more yeast.

I've been reading the Hyperion series from Dan Simmons and loving it. Excellent! I've read the first two - Hyperion, The Fall of Hyperion and now I'm onto Endymion and I have the Rise of Endymion waiting for when I'm done. I've got a favourite spot to sit and read and the dog comes and snuggles up with me while I read. Sometimes I fall asleep and have a bit of a nap too.......