WEEK ONE OF BEING IN PENTICTON

 

This past week whizzed by

Busy doing this and that

Busy going here and there............

 

Cats just came right in

and made themselves at home

Susie tends to stay in the suite............she is 20 now and feels safe there

Bing explores the house and runs into Sweet Pea now and then

They tolerate one another

 

Here's Linda who is also Hunter's dog walker

out for the first pick of the season

Pinot Gris

 

Swimming lesson for Garen then ..............

 

Off to hockey

 

Is there a smile tucked in there somewhere????

 

Papa and Ethan giving Garen a pep talk

 

This was the deal

Dad and Garen would sit on the bench

Garen would put his feet on the ice

Garen would get a chocolate bar

but not the whole bar!!!!!!

 

Look out Gretsky.....Garen's first step!!!!

 

Oh boy

Someone sure grew over the past several months

Check out those long legs!!!!!!!!!!

 

Back to the pool a few days later

A happy happy little fellow

 

Graham showing us his outift

About a month ago he went to Whistler to play rugby

There was a theme

'People from Wal Mart'

The players had to dress according to the theme

We shop at Wal Mart?????????

 

Saturday morning Joe Jennifer and I went to the market

 

Huge knitting needles

I would like to have one of these throws

However

The cats would snag the wool for sure

 

Very interesting 'items' carved from wood

 

This young man's sign read

Help me go home

 

Jen and her dogs

 

This is Helen

She was telling me how people from all over buy her canning

It must be very good!

 

Heading back to O'Rourke house

One lady at the market had a chat with Joe

She told him her Bull dog weighs 65 lbs.

Yikes Gwennie is catching up

 

We went to the dump on our way home

Beautiful view of the lake as we came down the hill

 

Hockey Saturday in Canada

This is the first Ethan has played in some weeks

He had the cast removed on Friday

The cast was replaced with a splint

Skateboard incident

 

Ethan has switched from forward to D

 

Since Joe is 'laying low' until after his surgery he has decided to work in the kitchen and make Elderberry jelly

He is collecting the berries

 

We were out and about in the vineyard

Here comes Graham

Watch out Gwennie!

 

I'm not sure if Alice is enjoying her ride???

Typical 'boy'

No shoes!!!!!!!!

Glad I am not washing those socks

Wait a minute

I am washing his socks!!!!!!

We're here to hold down the 'fort'

while Lyndsay and Graham deal with the busiest month of the year

 

Monday morning

Picking day

 

Jennifer and I worked as a team!

It was fun to have her across from me

We chatted away

 

Joe was the camera man

Nice shot Joe!!

 

Jen's new little rescue dog decided to roll in the dirt

The dirt was ever so fine

Lots of dust too

 

Graham has been getting up in the middle of the night to turn on

the air circulator

Temps have been dipping during the night

 

 

Joe went across the road to the apple orchard where there was a 'machine' that was making apple juice from the apples

 

Juice ready to go

 

Dealing with the pulp of the apple......

The ground up apple

Yuck

 

Quite the set up

 

Picked 4 and 1/2 bins of Pinot Noir

 

Graham's friend Dave gave us a hand as well

There's that Gwennie

Never far away

 

This is the newest member of Jen's family

A Chihuaha/Pug

One year old

Ten pounds

Fiesty little thing she is!!!!!!!

 

After Angus died this summer Jennifer was not looking to having another dog then this little girl just fell in her lap!

She could not say no

She is her Mother's daughter

Ha Ha

Her name has been changed many times but as of today it is

Josephine

 

The grapes have been delivered to Ruby Blues

 

Jen checking things out before she heads back to Squamish

 

 

There she is!!!!!!

Lyndsay the wine maker

 

In go the grapes

 

 

 

This morning we heard a big bang

This guy hit the window

The woodpecker sat for quite awhile

I missed seeing it fly away

 

There is a family of white tail deer that hang out

at an apple orchard

I took my long lens with me today

He watched me as I walked his way but did not get up

 

A very good week!!!!!!!