May 19th to 21st - BC

May 19^th – Sun

We went to Claude & Val’s for coffee and shortly after Val & I joined their neighbor Donna to help prepare turkey dinner for everyone in the development.  The developer bought all the food and lots of women pitched in to cook.  We peeled & boiled 40 pounds of potatoes, chopped onions & celery for stuffing and boiled 5 dozen eggs that were originally planned for potato salad but someone else made potato salad so we made devilled eggs.

I took a break before peeling the eggs to make breakfast for lunch for us and Claude & Val.  When we finished cooking, Val & I took a walk around the park and I was introduced to more people than I could remember.  We had time for a drink before taking chairs to the community area for dinner at 5.  The weather was lovely so it was very enjoyable to sit outside to eat a great dinner.

After dinner, Claude lit a fire in their firepit and we sat out for quite a while longer until it cooled off and we were ready for bed.

May 20^th – Mon – to 100 Mile House

We packed up and went to Claude & Val’s for coffee again before hugging goodbye about 9.  We had an uneventful drive in lovely weather through Kamloops to 100 Mile House.  We stopped for breakfast in Cache Creek and lined up to dump our tanks in 100 Mile.  This was a long weekend for Canadians and lots of campers were heading home.

We set up at my sister Marg’s place, changed into old clothes and went to work!  We put oil in the steering system on the boat and helped clean it up so we could get it parked in the shed before it decided to rain.  We cleaned up hay from winter feeding in mangers so we could empty the wagon for the next job which was pulling up pallets that were under a stack of hay used in the winter.  Then we cleaned up the old hay that we knocked loose from the pallets.  I took a ride on the bucket on the tractor to retrieve a rope used to hang Marg’s pontoon boat in the barn.  A hook straightened out and the boat fell down so we had to put it back up.  Marg’s motor home has been parked all winter so she decided to try to start it and turned Terry into a believer when it started right up.

We carried perishable items from our fridge, did the few evening chores and have a well deserved drink while dinner cooked.  I helped Marg enter expenses into a spreadsheet which we didn’t finish as we kept stopping to watch DWTS.

May 21^st – Tues

Marg had to go to the dentist this morning so after morning chores (me) then coffee & toast, Terry & I mowed the garden area.  While I finished up the mowing, Terry got the chain saw and limbed a dead tree that Marg had pushed over with the tractor before it decided to fall on the chicken run.  We picked up all the limbs – now sticks – and dumped them on the burn pile.  As we were driving back on the ATV, it started to rain so we headed inside where Terry decided we should tackle another project.  We swapped a queen bed & dresser from one spare room with 2 twin beds and a dresser from another spare room.  Luckily, both rooms are downstairs.  Of course I had to sweep & dust while the furniture was out.  And just for something else to do, I put a bedspread in the washer.

Believe it or not, it was just now time to make lunch.  We had finished eating when Marg returned from the dentist & other errands.  Marg & I went to the shop to finish rebuilding 2 bird feeders for a friend.  I think it would have been just as easy to start from scratch.  I did the chores and then got dinner started.  Same routine – drink, dinner, computer, TV.  And I got to play with one of the house cats while trying to finish the blog.