What August is gone?

Its hard to believe the cat days of summer are almost gone.
I guess I can tell where the time has gone, but we've landscaped the entire yard, and paved a new driveway over the summer. Not much time for play it seems to have been mostly work. We have one last vacation coming as we head off to the Sunshine coast this weekend. Should have lots of pictures to share after our trip. Until then...

Our lake view these days

I know I've been a bad little blogger, I haven't found the time to write a blog in about 2 weeks. Yikes. I would have to say aside from being very busy at work, we've been very busy in the yard. Turf is arriving Tuesday, we have top soil today and also underground irrigiation installation work over the weekend. I look forward to smothering the dusty clay with nice green grass. The air has been very smokey from a few surrounding forest fires so that doesn't help the air quaility either. Here is a nice picture of our lake view! Cheers.

Sighting of a strange bird

This would be the bird called the Karly Picker~! One a warm summer's evening we went to the water to cool down before bath and bedtime. Both girls had a super time. I also had a super time taking pictures with the smokey glow of the evening light with the forest fires burning in Washington. Its back to the grind of daycare, summer camp and work tomorrow.

Sunday August 6th

While I was out watering my vegetable garden yesterday I noticed that my grapes are starting to turn colors. I snapped a quick shot and thought hey this is cool. I've never had grapes before to watch their colors change. Seems they might be ahead of the season a bit, but I've never had grapes before. Today we are happy to welcome my cousin, her hubby and their baby boy to stay with us for the week. Summer in the Okanagan, its a great thing to share. Well I'd best go put some steaks on the grill and crack open a bottle of wine.

Holiday Day 5

I woke up this morning with the sense that holidays will soon be over and I still have lots to do. Maybe today. Its windy and overall not very nice out. Maybe kite flying would be fun?

Yesterday I had the pleasure of two visits. The first from Robyn and her little man Hayden. They came for a visit and to play pictures and we sure had fun! Turns out Hayden is a super model! Sometimes he was awake then he was asleep... we got some great shots.

Then Sue came over for coffee. We sat on the deck and chatted a bit and she had come to pick up her new canvas wedding prints. There were 2 of them and each canvas was stunning! Truly pieces of art. Sadly I didn't take any pictures of them before I let them go to their new home.

Holidays Day 2

Today was a perfectly good holiday day. No wall paper removal so far... maybe later. But we did have a great family over for coffee and pictures. Things went really well and all 3 kids are adorable. Makes my job so much easier. There is an evening farmers market this evening at the beach I thought we might check it out.