Great Summer!

I spent the Summer at Arlene's houses and had the good fortune to have Craig Moffat join us for part of it. I spent quite a bit of time up the hill with Dave, Katie Skakel and their girls Grace and Delia, and part of it I rode my bike in the 4th of July parade and sat on the lawn afterward and enjoyed ice cream cones.

 

   

And we picked some of those yummy, sloppy peaches. It was a bit bumpy on my bike, but oh well.

    

I forgot so much but the pictures remind me about my good friend, Gordy, taking me to lunch with a doctor who experienced a similar accident while riding her bike. Different problems, but like me, Chistine Osbourne is struggling to get her life together but Gordy was nice to take us both to lunch at 3 Rivers. 

Now I did jet out to visit family in Ontario. This was taken at Cousin Marks' retirement party and here is a picture of Mark's Mom that Sweet Aunt Emie and my zany brother Jim.  Yes it's true we played a nasty joke on Jim, who loves Aunt Emie's butter tarts, in fact, he has been known to go straight to her freezer and eat them frozen. But this time we wrapped a box with rocks chilled in the freezer with words painted on the rocks in nail polish like "yummy" "runny" "joke's on you" ok he laughed but was very disappointed!

While there I enjoyed time with the "Giant Panda Bears" at the Toronto Zoo.  But "Giant" is a bit of a stretch as we've seen bigger black bears at the dump.  I also spent some relaxing good times at the Cottage in Haliburton.  But the weather was really hot when we werer in Windsor and Toronto and eveen the temp of the water dropped so I had many visits Ann & Chris Bishop, Dayle (Elstone) Hawkins, and Dave Thompson (down the road), swated mesquitoes and read many books.

 I was spoiled by Louise Johnston who lived close by and treated me to lots of visits where she picked up and delivered my laundry and always kept me in books. Leith Rogotte (to the left) was great and last winter spent more time as they (she and Jacques) bought a nice house on the golf course in Nicolas North sub division of Whistler.  So I expect to see them up here this year too!

I also had a wonderful evening at Maui Meyer's and his beautiful wife Jan's while John Trujillio (Tree), his wife, Stevie, and baby, Soliel, were visiting as they have been blogging while they've been wandering through South America tasting wine, climbing, kayaking, tasting wine.

Oh and here we are again with Gordy and Dave in front of a picture in the Hood River Inn where we just had a delicious dinner so, we had to get our picture taken in front of Peggy-o!

The gorge and all its crazy antics nothing like the 25 year (OMG) anniversary of the Pink Wedding where Lucy and Gary Gorman got hitched. Funny they always have some pink stuff to share. Maybe they look 25 years older but they never act it!

Well, I had a really great summer and I hope you did too cause I have lots more incriminating photos! I'll write again around Christmas time AFTER I open your gift!  (ha ha)