June 9th to 13th - 100 Mile House

June 9^th – Mon

Marg went to work and the rest of us continued playing computer games before having breakfast.  We went to Timber Mart to pick up some shelves for the Women’s Center (where Marg is working) but the manager(Ralph) doesn’t work on Monday and no one else knew what was arranged.  We got Gina – Ralph’s wife – involved and found out that the shelves hadn’t been paid for so we went to get some groceries while Marg got things straightened out.

The shelves turned out to be industrial strength metal with each of the three boxes weighing about 150 pounds.  An employee at Timber Mart helped with the loading but Terry had to do the main lifting with a regular size hand cart to unload.  We were all happy when that job was done.

Dinner was in the crockpot again so not too much work to finish preparation.

June 10^th – Tues

We all went to Kamloops this morning.  Our first stop was Costco and we had lunch there as well.  Then to Princess Auto and Price Matters where there was only one bag of cottage cheese perogies left.  Now it was time for a visit to the casino which was not as fun as the last casino stop!  We stopped at Dairy Queen in Cache Creek on the way home for our Blizzard/Banana Split/Peanut Buster Parfait fixes. 

June 11^th – Wed

Marg went to work and Pat & I started painting the new fence.  Terry ran another errand for Marg and picked up a small freezer at Sears and delivered it to the Women’s Center.  Francis & Nicole stopped by with a small job for Marg.  Francis is making window boxes for a friend and tried to cut supports out of 2x10’s with a jigsaw.  It wasn’t too successful so Marg used her band saw to cut the pieces.

Marg & Pat went golfing but my arm has been sore – not helped by throwing pieces of wood on Monday – so I wimped out and stayed home with Terry.

June 12^th – Thurs

Similar to yesterday – Marg to work, late breakfast for the rest of us, Pat & me painting the second coat, Terry with no errands.  We used up all the paint so Marg stopped on the way home to get more – can’t have an idle work force!

We went to Francis & Nicole’s for dinner which was wonderful as usual.  Nicole is a very good cook.  We enjoyed watching a couple of young deer at the salt lick & water bucket beside the garden fence.  Nicole knows which plants that deer won’t eat and it is amazing to see them totally ignore those plants outside the fence.

June 13^th – Fri

After breakfast, I continued painting the fence and the others took the tractor & ATVs to clear a couple of trails that Marg uses for snowshoeing & skiing in the winter.  First they had to cut down a tree that was bent over a fence.  I had just finished painting & wrapping up the brush when Terry came back on an ATV to get water so I went back with him rather than catch up the blog.  Marg made good use of our help and we cleared more than she thought would get done.

We just had time to clean up and have a drink before we went to friend Toni’s for dinner which was to be a wiener roast.  We had huge rumbles of thunder and then rain just as we arrived at Toni’s so we thought the wieners might be BBQ’d.  We sat inside for a while, the weather cleared and we had our fire & dinner.