It doesn't seem to matter where we live, there are stupid bears. I remember in North Van a bear lady came to my door. She was handing out pamphlets and basically told me that: I had to cut down my fruit tree in the back yard, toss out my bird feeder, no composting, freeze my scraps and only put them out at an ungodly hour with the garbage on garbage day, keep my containers in the garage, not out by the house. I told her no, I was not doing any of that and if they wanted to fine me to go right ahead.
I remember too telling her that we left our garbage cans out because I didn't want a bear ripping my garage door off. And to keep the little bastards out of my garbage can I poured bleach on the garbage.
She was horrified and actually told me that that was cruel for the bear!!! I couldn't believe it! It could keep its freaking nose out of my container thank you very much!
Now I live in a place that doesn't have a garage, its a carport. So now what? I read in the paper that I now get every other day in my mailbox (shovel list) that there is a team of do gooders going around ticketing people that put their garbage out the night before or have them sitting out beside their house. Well what the hell are we supposed to do? Put them in our kitchen? So stupid.
We went down to rib fest last night. There was awesome music, people we knew (like cousins that live in town), delicious choices of all types of ribs, beans, corn, coleslaw, pulled pork, chicken, spuds..... Mmmmmmm! Kathy picked me up on the way down and we even got a stellar parking spot. And it wasn't stiflingly hot.
We got our drinks, and our dinners, found a great place to sit, and....the sun disappeared and the wind started to seriously blow and it got cold. Really cold. We were goosebumped and freezing! So we ate up and left! I'm still glad we went down though...it was fun and the food amazing!
Unpacking is slowly, and I mean slowly, coming along. I love unpacking. I have a huge box outside filling up with more stuff I am eliminating out of my life. Moving to this place is kind of like moving from the big city to Kamloops. Everything is smaller and more manageable. I can just step out my door and toss stuff into my garbage or recycling containers. This place is so much easier and I love love love it!!!
The other big plus are the two sets of stairs. When I first moved in I was creaking painfully slowly up or down the stairs, hanging on to the banister for dear life (I don't have depth perception and fall a lot). Now I zip up and down, still hanging on cuz I am blind, but nothing hurts, I don't get puffed out and its so much easier. That happened in one week!
Peter and Graeme and Zoey, Peter's sister, were here for a few days. I missed them after they left. The evening of the day they left, I went up to my tan purple room and got the most awesome surprise! Sitting in my room was the most beautiful massive bunch of purple roses. It was truly exquisite along with the most wonderful note. Peter is truly a gem. I will post a pic of them...not the best pic but you will get the idea. They really are beautiful.
Well I best get at it. Its only six am but I am wide awake and raring to go. More boxes to sort and unload. Its like Christmas! TTYL
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| THE VIEW FROM MY GUEST ROOM BALCONY. I THINK IT LOOKS LIKE TUSCANY |
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| AREN'T THEY BEAUTIFUL? |
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