October 1-5, 2010; Gateway

OCT 1, Friday; Gateway
Well, we have 14 days to our departure! We are both looking forward to it. I am also reverting back to our usual daily blogging as you will notice.
The morning started very foggy with low clouds but by noon, it had burned off and we had sunshine and warm temperature. I took the car in to the garage in Sorrento to have the front wheel balanced as it has a bad shake in the steering column around 110 KM. As it turned out, I have to buy two tires as the front ones are splitting along the tread. It never stops! They had to order them in as they only had winter tires in stock so I will be going back on Tuesday and in the mean time, I had them put the rear tires in the front and the bad ones in the back in case of a blow-out!
We went to Chase in the afternoon and got two movies for later then came home. The traffic is getting pretty bad near Rodrick-Haig Provincial Park as this is the salmon run which happens every 4 years. A very big event here on the North Shuswap!
For dinner, we went out to our usual pub, the Billy Bong with Donna and Marcel then came home and watched a movie


OCT 2, Saturday, Gateway
Sunny and warm again today! Bob and I went into Sorrento to see if we could find a 30 amp breaker for my shed but didn’t find one that would fit the box so came back home. The traffic on our road was horrendous because of the salmon run and the activities happening at Rodrick-Haig Park. We had to fight that again as Val and I went into Chase to return the movies and get two more.
We went to Lillian and Bob for happy hour (not the Bob above). Ron and Sheila were there too; they just got back from a trip across Canada and Newfoundland this past summer. In the evening we watched our movies after cooking steaks for dinner.


OCT 3, Sunday, Gateway
We had to go to Chase to return the movies in the afternoon so that meant being caught in the traffic around the Park which was much worse than yesterday. We came back home and visited with Donna & Marcel and Gail & Bob for a while before heading to Dan and Heather for dinner. She cooked a turkey dinner with all the trimmings and it was delicious. Present were Jack & Mim and Ed & Judy. Last year we had all met in Yuma for X-mas and this was a kind of reunion before we all leave for the south. D&H have a small camper van so cannot cook for big crowds nor fancy meal so this was their way of doing it which suited all of us. The evening began with a fire and happy hour and ended with a delicious desert consisted of individual apple pie with whipping cream. We had lots of laughs and it was a successful evening. We came home around 9 pm as they both had to work in the morning.


OCT 4, Monday, Dr’s appointment in Salmon Arm
We got up early today to make our appointment. After walking Tucker, Bob waved us over and we learned that he had been victim to robbery attempt around 2 am. Two kids were involved and he did tangle with one of them but he managed to run away. Fortunately, nothing was taken except for an electric bug racket which they broke to pieces. They had also stopped at George’s place and he had woken up and scared them away. George came over to help Bob. Unfortunately, we never heard anything; otherwise, I would have been there to help too.
We locked everything and then went to Salmon Arm for our doctor’s appointment. We first stopped at the vet. to get Tucker examined and get some meds for his joints then it was our turn at our regular doctor. We stopped for our mail and lunch, bought a couple of small items then came home. We stopped at Spooner Electric to get my 20 amps breaker which I had ordered a couple weeks ago.
It is cloudy now but warm still. We went to Jack & Mim for happy hour and home-made chicken soup, compliments from last night left-over bones at the dinner. We had a very nice evening with them and finally came home around 8 pm.


OCT 5, Tuesday, more preparations.
Sunny and warm once again, just can’t believe this weather! Everyone is saying that it will be a cold winter. I took the car in to have the two rear tires replaced. In the afternoon, we went to Chase to do the laundry and picked up 2 movies for later. Once back home, we dumped the flower pots for the winter and I built a cabinet for our liquor and wine.