Pete n Holly's World

We celebrated the last sunny beautiful day of fall this last week with Birthday golf.  We did very well, Pete lost two balls and found two balls, and Holly  lost two balls and found three, so we went home winners. Lisa Morrish and Holly went to market to see what they could see.  Holly bought some applewood smoke cheddar, smoked pork chops and an apple fritter just to fritter away the day.  Lisa bought some apple cider and also ended up frittering away the day.... ahh the delicious foods of market day. Speaking of delicious food.... Did you know that you can buy worms in a can, out of a vending machine, just as if you were to buy a can of coke.  Guess what is in the silver can in the above picture. That is right ...... It is a can of worms, and we opened it.

Many things have happened over the last 2 months, unfortunately I don't remember any of it.  Summer ended, and it is fall now, I believe my favorite time of year.  It is quiet, and the air is slightly cool, leaves turn spectacular colors.  And it begins a series of celebrations, starting with our Anniversary. We had big plans for the day, and they got squashed.  So we made more big plans.  We decided to start with breakfast out, followed by canoeing, followed by a fancy dinner.  Here is a video and some pictures.                                     This sun flower has nothing to do with the anniversary, we just saw it on a bike trip to the ice cream store. Tess likes to sleep by the portrait of herself.  She can't stop admiring how lovely she looks.

Hello Everyone, Summer has finally arrived and all the work preparing for the Summer Camps is done, though not necessarily completed. We have been experiencing hot, humid weather through out the last two months and it makes the work more difficult. To cool of we have resorted to Ice Cream parlors around town. Here is Holly choosing one from 24 flavors, Holly has put together a "Kids Day Camp" for GBCC. This is a new program for GBCC and will run 4 weeks, M-F, 8am - 5pm, with children ages 6 - 10. Part of the activities is an animal care program so she needed animals, (insert joke here). She located 2 Guinea Pigs, a Rabbit and a Pygmy Goat. Here are some photos: This is "Pancake"  This is "Cookie"  This is "SniggleFritz" Of course we don't work 24/7, so we planned a trip to Buffalo, NY to do some shopping and mail some documents. Here is Holly, who managed to find a matching bag to carry her purchases. Here is another ...

 Well, the warm weather has finally hit Canada and we can all come out  of our igloos and get some new skin cancer. No doubt  our relatives from Saskatoon will be visiting soon.  The warm weather means that the "Camp" is getting  very busy with guests. We have a full schedule , (with only a few multiple days off together), from now until mid October.  Long days, short nights and constant battles with forces we cannot see.  Tess & Boo Boo got a much needed trim and have their pool filled for those  wild "Pool Parties" with the neighborhood dogs, cats & squirrels. We  enjoy the various restaurants in the area. One such place has an appetizers with  multiple dipping sauces called "Tower of Rings", You can see why: Holly has been studying and preparing for the first year of "Day Camp".  We had a group of young men, from South Africa, come for a week and do some volunteering for us....

Welcome to the launching of Landmark Video.  Also known as, "How we amuse ourselves" These are vidoes that we shot from some scenic places in our area.  Some of the "history" we may have made up a little. We basically point the camera and say "Go" and the person just has to start talking.  It is how to have fun on a budget. 

Happy Spring Everyone! Birds are chirping, Buds are blooming, Bugs are infesting, Pete's busy building. One of Pete's big projects was putting a new ceiling and exhaust hood in the kitchen.  It started on the outside roof and ended in the inside. Just for fun, to see what the secret world of animals is doing this Spring, we put Pete's game camera up at "Ground Hog's" house. "Ground Hog" keeps a very tidy front porch.  His home is by the pool, and we often catch him in his Hawaiian shirt and straw hat lounging by the pool.                                       Much to our surprise,  he is friends with "Bunny Rabbit" and "Black Cat".  It is pretty sad when a ground hog has a more active social life than you do! One warm day a herd of butterflies swarmed the area. Trying to capture the flitting creatures on film, kept Holly occupied fo...

February has been a good month to decorate boring walls. The bathroom known as "Pete's" needed a curtain; so a questionable curtain was created using a fabric remnant & pheasant tail feathers. Next a little ambiance was added to the dining room with a couple of candle holding sconces. Notice the romantic glow... look close. ( I asked Pete how to spell ambiance and he said "n-i-c-e", I thought that was funny)                                                           In the bedroom we added some pictures. Holly did the drawing and Pete picked out the framing. Another team effort rewarded with ice cream. Yeah!!!!                                                       When we ran out things to ...

Yay we did something. We went cross country skiing. Last October we found a cross county ski instructor on Kijiji (Canada's Craig's List) He set up a December date. December came and went...no snow. Then on to January..no snow. Finally he suggested we drive up to the snow. So last weekend we took about a 2 hour road trip and met Dan and Joan for a lesson. We were not sure what to expect. Holly fell A LOT. It hurt a few times. Pete did very well. It was a 3 hour lesson and very much worth the money as Dan and Joan give all kinds of information. After a beautiful day of falling, I mean skiing, we headed home to whine about how sore we were and were to become.