Our lovely state, she’s on fire again! This time it’s Northern California — to be precise, the exact area we’re planning on holidaying in later this year (says she with a wry smile).
There are 1400 (yes, fourteen HUNDRED) fires currently burning and officials say that the kind of dry vegetation conditions they are seeing (caused no doubt by the recent hot spell) are normally what we see in October or November!
So I’m guessing that unless we get lots of rain in the coming weeks, we’ll be facing more fires in California this summer. Bah!
Hopefully the last lot of SoCal fires left little around us to burn!
Categories: Only in Cullyfornia · The Old Country · Things that Make You Go 'NO!!!'
Happy birthday to our lovely Gran and Gran-Gran. She’s ninety-two today but to me she doesn’t look a day over seventeen!
We wish her good health and lots of love and laughs over the year to come.
Click here for last year’s pic
of the birthday girl.
Categories: Fam-damily · Things that Make You Go "Hmm ..."
This is way long overdue … but we’ve had visitors and a sick kid.
So. About our trip to Canada. We travelled up together, leaving Dave at a conference in Seattle, while Tau and I flew on to Victoria, where we stayed with Dave’s Mom and Dad.
We spent time visiting the extended family and exploring new aspects of our old stomping grounds … those that appeal to a two-year-old — the petting zoo at Beacon Hill Park, the Bug Zoo, feeding fish to the seals at the marina.
We also spent three days up at Dave’s parents’ cottage further up the island at Saltair.
Aside from visiting family, Dave and I also got to have a quick lunch (on our own) at our favourite restaurant. And a leisurely brunch on the patio of another favourite — again on our own while Tau played with his grandparents and cousins, a treat we don’t often get living away from everyone!
Here are a bunch of pics on our Flickr account.
Categories: Fam-damily · We Still Get Around! · We Still Have Fun!
Before we tell you about our trip to Canada, I wanted to tell you what our boy — yes, that cheeky one in the picture above — did the other night.
I was soaking in the tub while Dave got him ready for bed. “Go and say goodnight to Mommy. Quickly …”
So he comes into the bathroom with a big grin, “Night, Mommy …” Then his forehead wrinkles up and he disappears out the door again. I hear him running to our bedroom, shouting, “You NEEDA book …”
Huh?
He comes back, carrying the library book from next to my bed, Grace (Eventually) by Anne Lamott. “You needa a book, Mommy. You reada a book inna bathtub!”
And off he saunters to bed, very chuffed with himself!
Categories: Mister Kapister · Things that Make You Go "Hmm ..."
