As you can tell we still have lots of showers, not that many heavy downpours, and not really very cold, but chilly and grey, so very grey. Temps daily around 10, 11 celsius or so. BRRRRRRR. And we are off camping next week, too.
Just heard from neighbours down south at our park that they have 80 - 90 degree temps, and are glad for the wind when it arrives to cool them down. There are perhaps only 10 or so folks left there in the park now.
Due to our hasty move of houses/move out/leave town/play music weekend down there we left some stuff behind that we should have brought home like our microcube amps, and we also left batteries in some things, and left some food products on the shelves that might not enjoy the intense heat of summer down there. Ah me, I might have to catch a package air and hotel deal and fly down to address those things.
Lary is planning to head off to Ontario to visit his mum soon, and tonight is our first flute circle evening, hope a few folks come share the music with us.
Should be enjoyable. It will be the first Friday of every month til we leave for down south once more. We hope to establish a routine and get a regular group meeting together.
We found Utopia Bakery, right in the heart of downtown Chemainus, and had a nice soup and sandwich meal there, used up one of our gift certificates from the Beer and Burgers night; we always enjoy Chemainus as it's small and rural, with the most lovely picturesque murals on the walls of many buildings there. It's maybe 45 minutes south of Nanaimo and part of the drive there is along pretty scenic country roads, with frequent views of the seashore.
I believe there are almost 30 murals now, scattered around town with yellow footprints on the sidewalks leading you around town to view them. And the gift shops are wonderful too, we bought another nut rattle from a store there which carries quite a few world music things, another thing that caught my eye was the Tibetan bowls, but I resisted for the moment.
There is a big Belgian horse and carriage if you want to ride around town too, it's a sawmill town that is still pretty active, but of course these days the BC mills are a shadow of what they used to be.
And recently a couple of mills in the interior of the province had very serious fires, they think it was combustion from the sawdust generated while milling pine beetle killed wood. What a shame, there were some deaths, and of course people badly injured as well.
That's about all my news, though I will report on how the flute circle goes later on.
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