September 4 to 7, 2011; Back to work

SEPT 4, Sunday
A beautiful sunny day! I spent the day re-organizing and cleaning the front locker of the trailer then re-organized the upper locker. I read for a while in the afternoon then we had Happy Hour at Gail & Bob where Bruce and Joyce joined us. Dinner then a walk around the park and visited Herb and company for a while. For dinner today, we tried, successfully I might add, to cook a Roast on the rotisserie and it turned out cooked just right and had a very nice taste to it.


SEPT 5, Monday, Labour Day!
We decided to go Geo-Caching today; it is a beautiful day but very windy so shouldn’t be too hot. First though, I had to cut branches hovering over our lot from our neighbour’s cotton tree. I did a deep cut and as high as the cutters would allow me. IT has an extension on it which can reach quite high. I borrowed it from the Park.
We went to Adams Lake then Chase and the north side of the river all the way to Pritchard, a distance of approx 20 km and return home via Hwy TC 1. We found 9 caches and dropped off a “Travel Bug” at one of them. I’ve had this TB since the States so it was high time I dropped it off.
At home we had a drink with George and Paulette then it was dinner and relaxing evening by the fire.


SEPT 6, Tuesday, Park’s wound-up BBQ party
We went to Salmon Arm to pick up our mail and some groceries. We also drove to Chase so that I could pay a health bill which wasn’t covered by BC Medical. The wine place called and we made an appointment for Friday to bottle our wine.
At 4 pm, we drove to Scotch Creek Provincial Park and had our year end party with the crew from the Park. We had steak/chicken dinner with all the trimming and free booze. We came home at 8 pm, watched a bit of TV then went to bed.


SEPT 7, Wednesday, back to work for both of us
Val went to her job as janitor at Super Value and I went to the Park to work on projects which we never got to finish or do while on the regular summer job. The Park is closed now except for four lanes and those are pretty well full with retirees mainly.
At home, Happy Hour was at our place. Ron and Sheila stopped to say goodbye, they are headed back to Alberta. It was a very warm evening which made it hard to go to sleep comfortably but we did manage!!!