JULY 17, Friday, shopping day
Val went for a walk first thing this morning with Donna and her sister. Theresa and Ron are out for the week-end. We went to Salmon Arm to check our mail, e-mail, banking and groceries. I finally got my refunds for the RV insurance for our travel to Mexico and my medical refund. There is a cheque on the way for the laptop hard-drive so that will be the end of our refunds till next year. Lots of traffic on the highway today, a combination of the week-end coming and holidays I guess. A hot and sunny day today, near 35*C!
For dinner we went over to Donna and Marcel’s place for a BBQ with their family. We had a great time and sat by the fire in the evening. We went to bed around 11 pm
JULY 18, Saturday, Gateway
As we were watering the plants around back, two families of quails came rushing by. They were quite need to watch, especially the young ones. I took a couple pictures then we carried on. We took a drive to Scotch Creek to turn in our empty bottles and can, fuelled the car @ 1.01/Litre and exchanged a bunch of books at the local bookstore. Val couldn’t find any of her titles/authors but I did find and exchange 4 new “Coonts” book. I am really liking this writer.
At 4:30 we, us with Ron & Theresa, drove to Salmon Arm golf & country club to have dinner with Donna and Marcel and another couple. It was a sea food dinner with Alaskan King crab legs and a variety of other dishes including Salmon, Mahi Mahi and Cod. All this for $19.95 each. It was DELICIOUS! The place was packed and as we left, we made reservations for Aug 22 for eight of us as they are having whole pork roasted over an open fire. Donna was saying that it is worth every bite, looking forward to it.
On our way home we got “moon” by a guy riding in an old Ford truck. We watched him mooning every vehicle he went by. He (the passenger) would sort of stand up and stick hi bum out the rear window of the pick-up and wiggle his butt up and down and right to left. It was hilarious! We followed him for a while and watched but he finally turned off at Blind Bay.
We came home and watched a couple episodes of “WIRE’, an HBO movie series about gangs and cops in Baltimore, Maryland then went to bed.
JULY 19, Sunday, Gateway
Another lazy day, we read, watered the plants and visited with our neighbours. Donna and Marcel went home after dinner and we watched another series of WIRE then it was to an early bedtime as Val has to work tomorrow.
JULY 20, Tuesday, Gateway
Not much to report...our neighbours, Ron and Theresa, went home to the coast, Val went to work and I did little things around the house.
JULY 21, Tuesday, FIRE, FIRE, FIRE!
We had a heart stopping moment of excitement today! We went to Kamloops to get the insurance on the truck and to Costco to purchase a couple of items. We also went to a window garage to see about getting the window tinted on the car but the guy wanted $400, so told him to forget it and drove home. As we were getting closer to Chase we could see grey smoke in the distance and we both thought that whoever it was, had to be crazy burning on such a hot day and with the conditions being so dry and all. As we got closer to our park, the smoke looked like it was coming from or near our place. As we arrived, we could see the smoke coming from the side the hill where all the cabins are so we drove up and discovered that the fire was actually in the gully next to our park and just behind some houses there. A bomber and 3 helicopters fought the blaze for about 3 hours. The Bay by our park was full of boat looking on and the road in and out was blocked for about an hour as they fought the fire. It was quite spectacular! They did put it out without any damages being done to any houses but it was a scary moment for everyone. We had friends call us or e-mail us afterwards asking about it as they had heard on the news. That’s not the kind of excitement we enjoy and hope not to repeat it, especially with the big fires in Kelowna and houses being burned there.
JULY 22, Wednesday, Gateway
I finally got off my butt and washed the back of the rig. It was overdue! Val went into Sorrento to get her meds refilled. Heather from lot 2 came over in the afternoon and gave Val and me a haircut.
It was another hot day...35*C (98*F), BBQ tonight!
JULY 23, Thursday, Gateway
Val went to work today and I washed the side and front of the rig in the morning and the truck. It is clouding over but still very warm; 28*C right at noon. Got a call from the computer guy in Logan Lake that he has retrieve one DVD full of pictures and documents from the old hard-drive so I made arrangements to pick it up Saturday. He said that there is still more to retrieve so he is continuing with the process but in the mean time, we can check the files on the DVD. Some good news finally!
Val called to say that she is stuck at work and will be coming home late as the power is off and the garage door cannot be open.
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