Our home ‘on the road’ comes home!

The last few weeks have been a whirlwind of activities. A number of friends from Edmonton stopped by to see us, and enjoyed some of our wonderful Okanagan fruit. We get so used to having so much of it around every year, we fail to appreciate it like we should. The first few years we lived here I went hog wild canning and freezing fruit … and we are still eating jam and fruit canned in 2005 … Horrors, I hope our grand daughter Ruth doesn’t read this blog! And talking about Ruth, we had the pleasure of having her and her hubby here for almost a week. They came from Seattle to take in a family wedding, and a grandfather’s funeral, two occasions that don’t really go very well back-to-back. We sure did enjoy them. Since Earl got back from Mozambique he has been wondering and worrying about how he was going to get our little RV back home. It broke down in Fairview last year on our trip visiting churches, and my nephew Dan Litke so kindly offered to winter it for us in his back yard. No one we know owns a heavy enough vehicle, and a long enough trailer to haul it through the mountains… so we prayed. Trust God, He always answers prayer, and meets our needs, no matter how difficult the situation looks. He also has his people scattered here and there, ready and willing to help a friend in need. We got a phone call from our friends Len & Eunice Schamehorn telling us they are on the way to Salmon Arm with our motor home in tow. Earl was one happy camper. Then the last weekend in Aug. my brother Henry and his wife Marion celebrated their 50th. wedding anniversary. Henry is in a home and suffers from dementia, but Marion was determined they should celebrate just the same, so she got busy and planned the event. She worked really hard at preparing him, and that is no easy task. Just getting him to put on different clothes is traumatic for him, and he hates bathing. He lives in Bastian Place, and they prepared a lovely buffet dinner on the patio. The weather was perfect, we had a sunny warm afternoon. Everything was as close to the ‘original’ wedding as possible, right down to the bridesmaid bouquets, the grooms tie and shoes. One of the best men couldn’t make it, but all the others were there. It was also a good excuse for us siblings to get together again, only Ed my youngest brother didn’t show up for the occasion. After that celebration, we had another one on Sunday afternoon. My sister Betty and her husband Henry’s youngest son recently married a girl from Australia and most of us had never met her. They invited us all to the lake and prepared some good food and we all had a wonderful time. All in all it was a great weekend, and we got some good pictures that will help us remember these occasions. Now Earl is up to his elbows in grease fixing the R.V. and even gave me sometime in the garden … we’re almost finished with our landscaping … finally. Now all we have to do is maintenance. We have a big yard and we are getting too old for all that bending, lifting rocks, hauling dirt and keeping the dandelion crop in check. Gotta run … till next time … -------------------------------------------------------------------- Here are some pictures for you to check out! ;) Earl having our RV placed back in our backyard! :) Randy and his Australian wife Heather! What a wonderful time we all had at lake... Us sisters had a chance to take a family picture while we were all together at Randy & Heather's reception at the lake! Here we are at Henry & Marion's 50th Anniversary Celebration! Henry & Marion's family...