Annual Japanese Festival in Vancouver

Sunday Afternoon in August

Had ourselves a little party on Dieter's and Diane's boat in Coal Harbour - at the entrance to Stanley Park.

Stan, Phil and Dieter


Diane


Stan and Dieter


Shatzee - Diane and Dieter's great dog


"Cute butt" shot

July at Caberneigh Farm

Happy Birthday, Nicole!


You never run out of gardening chores at Caberneigh


I'm never very far away from a computer!


Stan trying out the new tractor


My favourite - the Gator!

Race Afternoon at Woodbine Racetrack

One of Nicole's friends had a horse running and he actually won his race. It was great fun!

The Caberneigh Critters - Summer 2009

Lucy and her kittens - being fostered by Nicole and PJ. Lucy now has a home at the farm and all five kittens have been adopted and are thriving.


The newest addition - Kaden


What or who did you just eat, Elvis?


Buddy with his new brothers - he is a very happy dog!


Shopping at Lowe's for the new powder room


Penelope sleeping with Grandpa


...and in Grandma's purse


Willy wanted to try the new puppy bag.


It looks so exciting out there!


Mike (otherwise known as the 'man pet')painting one of the shelters he built in each paddock


Frito keeping two of the cats company


Frito very tired and chilling...


Frankie likes the bed too!

It has been forever since ...

this blog has been updated! This next month's holiday will be a good opportunity to catch up I hope. Too many other projects - there's
my knitting which has become almost an addiction; got into tweetering w/ a knitting group; visiting &being visited, etc etc. All in all a great summer which is being extended by a month in Palm Springs. Might be more of a summer than we want as the temp has been in the high 30's! Anyhow my plan is to catch up on my blog. We'll see.

Fun Night At Silvana's

Enjoyed a feast of salmon and prawns caught in the waters of Campbell River by her son, Alan. Great company and great food.

Phil, Sandy, Ken, Silvana, Fran and Wayne
Stan and Jocelyne


Got you! (Silvana, Kevin)


Grooving to 50's music on Fran and Wayne's Sirius boom box

C-E-LE-B-R-A-T-I-O-N!!!

After a year of ups and downs, Silvana is finally in her dream house.

Afternoon at the Vancouver Rowing Clug

Spent a wonderful afternoon with Diane and Dieter on their boat moored at the Vancouver Rowing Club. Dieter built the boat - all 42 feet of it! - himself.

First Mate - Dieter


Second Mate - Diane






Nice butts!

Our very laid-back canine companie, Shatzee(?) not sure on the spelling!

Grouse Grind June 26/09

For those not familiar with the "Grouse Grind", this hike/climb to the top of Grouse Mountain has been a rite of passage in the Lower Mainland. A person should do it at least once in a lifetime (sort of like running a marathon - once is enough). So we did it and "once is really quite enough". Here we are still fairly fresh probably less than 1/4 into it.


Seeing the 1/2 way mark sign really wasn't that encouraging - the body said you should be at the top already


Here we are having FINALLY reached the top!


Views from the Gondola, on the way back down. Much easier trip than on the way up!

Father's Day

Had a great dinner at The Keg in Burnaby. Somewhat of a wait outside (but hey! the weather was nice!), time in the bar and then, finally, dinner about an hour and a half later. But the dinner was worth the wait. Stan was a happy dad!