Sunny at the moment, but as they say, wait a while.....It has been off and on rainy and grey, cloudy and chilly since we got home, though we have been out for walks and other doings in between rain showers. Not much of it is heavy rainfall, but it keeps the temps down and the days grey and somewhat dull and drab.
Over the weekend on Saturday we went out with friends to a pub for a beer and burgers benefit for the Child Development Center, it was enjoyable, and we came home with a gift basket, some fresh chicken breasts, yum yum, and some gift certificates for a bakery cafe down in Chemainus. It's called the Utopia Bakery Cafe, and is Dutch. Chemainus is a mill town that has been transformed by many many historic and natural history murals, and is very attractive because of that, and a very nice theatre that kind of anchors the town. So we will have to go down and investigate that soon. After the fund raiser we went back to friends for coffee and cake. It was a lot of hard work done by Long Lake Chiropractic, and I think a lot of folks bought some nice merchandise and had a good time too.
Sunday we started by meeting our camping friends for breakfast at the Qualicum Golf Club, they put on an inexpensive and nice buffet, and then we had a walk along Qualicum's pretty seaside. Nice fresh air and good to stretch our legs too. Great to catch up with friends at the same time over breakfast. Later we attended a seniors trade fair which was interesting.
Not much else remarkable, except to say that the wildflowers are blooming all along the bypass highway here in town, a friend Jet and I walked along a few days ago, from the Northfield Road parking lot we headed north, and there were fawn lilies, shooting stars, some other pretty things like Oregon Grape in bloom, and Jet even found a trillium, which I convinced her not to pick.
Sister Sue's renovation of her kitchen/dining room is coming along fine, it's a huge job as she had the whole thing ripped up and transformed from a pokey small awkward kitchen- taking out walls and encompassing the dining area into a large new kitchen with a nice island eating area, all bright white cupboards, from Ikea. The walls aren't painted yet, they will be a soft greenish yellow I believe, but it's all coming together wonderfully. Flooring was installed, and new countertops and sinks to come as yet.
Our niece Gill will be married in Victoria at the end of July, she lives in Dubai, UAE, they are arriving with Tristan's mom Mrs H in tow this coming weekend, and they will be here for a night, then off to Victoria to stay in the rustic, very rustic family cottage for a night or two, and check out the wedding venue which will be outdoors in the meadow at the lake. The church is downtown in Victoria, and the reception will be out at the family lake, so the logistics of all that with some international and out of town guests will be very interesting. They promise to transport folks from the church to the lake for the reception, and back later to their hotels, which is quite a distance. Luckily she has a wedding planner for the logistical challenges, as they aren't living here on the island.
Our front garden is very pretty right now with pale pink flowering rhododendrons, pink heather, pieris, and other pretty shrubs like azaleas springing into bloom gradually. It's a pretty time of the year on the wet coast, as everything springs back into green life once more. We can still see the sea in glimpses from the house, but later as the deciduous trees get more and more leaves on them, we lose a bit of our view. There are both wild and domestic rabbits that hop around wild in the townhouse complex gardens, and at times the deer stroll through to make a meal out of our gardens too. We share things with them, often the deer come later in the evening when we have the blinds closed.
Lary and I have decided to host a monthly flute circle, so this coming Friday night we will have visitors to get together and play and enjoy our beautiful flutes. We hope that people will come, and we plan on holding our get togethers monthly, first Friday of the month, 7PM, like Annie does down south. Perhaps that way we might have some regular get togethers to play our flutes, and develop the Nanaimo Flute Circle as a regular event on the Nanaimo music scene. That way we can also utilize our home, as we can meet either upstairs or downstairs.
That's it for now.
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