Blog
Spring 2014
Vancouverites! This bike wants to ride! So, if
you have time, (I have a spare bike here if you like) and there are some fun
trails along the Fraser River (just below here). I need someone to let me “do it myself” to
make sure I can do everything myself.
Sue still has some plans to contact the city because I can’t push the
walk button and then get back to the curb. I should have something that lets
people know that I ride on the sidewalks to the trails because I’m
handicapped. Ok I don’t know what to do
about that - do you? I would love to go
and I usually don’t have any appointments on weekends, Wed pm, or most
evenings. So call or email me and we’ve got a date then maybe we could have
brunch or dinner at Romer’s Burger Bar cause it is on the tour!
I don’t know but I don’t remember the buds
forming and the flowers popping as much as I’m noticing them here! I hope you take time to notice them too, oh
go ahead and smell the flowers!
Well I was very fortunate to go to S. California
this spring to visit my friends Scott & Cathy Armstrong for a week and then
to Tarzana (LA) to visit my friends the Munro’s.
Here is Scott & Cathy who trained me to
stand up when greeting a friend and we had a marvelous bonfire on the beach
with an old friend of mine Rene Kelly & her husband Jeff.
We were the number one tourists as we rented a
douce coup and went for a ride and who else but me posed with the angel.
Ok forget pictures, I just have to write and get
this off before the news is old. Spring
is here so I’m making my plans for summer (Much the same as last year - I plan
to spend a majority in the Gorge, with a
little time here in Van. On my trip to
Ont I plan to visit the PM in Ottawa and see Jan & Jack’s apt and Mikala,
my niece Tricia’s baby girl, and spend some time at Lake Kashagawigamog,
visiting Windsor, my aunt Emily,
cousin Jane, Norma and the whole gang, and
inspecting the renovation retired Mark and all extra hands on deck did at the
120 year old homestead so that Norma could have a cute apt upstairs and be
close so she can take care of her 90+ year old mother Emie.
I usually take the bus
over to Sue’s in Horseshoe Bay have dinner with her (& family) and
sometimes brother Tom or my friends Betty Birrell Al & Sandi Safrata, Laura
Vittery, Mark McConkey. Last weekend my
friend Donny McQuaid came over and we grabbed a late lunch or early dinner (boy
I razzed him about that as it was 3 o’clock!)
I’ve got a good garden
here. Well I planted some kale, parsley
and seeds for lettuce and some onions, last fall and they are now going to seed
but I’ve been harvesting and will plant some new stock. Even though I’ve
pinched them off, I plan to harvest them, plant a bit of Red Shard and
tomato’s, then eat, eat eat. I read a lot about the community garden, (no
gmo’s) and may copy this protocol, and see if we can do one in the town of Mosier. You become good neighbours with the people
you garden with and share the great organic produce. An idea anyways.
I’m quite proud of my
niece Kate as she applied and won a trip with the Foundation “From Me to We”
where she’ll go to India in Sept and then she’s doing a cultural exchange with
a family in France and billeting a girl from France this summer. I know we’re not leaving the nicest planet
for the next generation, but they just seem to roll up their sleeves and make
the best of it and say, “Next!” To learn more about this organization go
to: http://www.metowe.com/volunteer-travel/youth-trips/ Well if I don’t get this off it will be old
news so you’ll have to tune back in to find out what happens in the next bat
channel blog.
Stay tuned. Peg
