Change of plans

We came back to the coast on Wednesday. We stopped out of Merritt on the Coquahalla at a stream. Mocha was beside herself with delight. She jumped off a rock into the water at let out a yelp of delight as she sailed through the air. Today I took her to the creek here by Cultus, but she got too rambunctious and skinned her front leg on a large rock. At least it settled her down. Carol went with Mandy to Vancouver and they said they will have to deliver the baby early. So Connor will be here in a month or sooner, depending on the next tests. So we decided to stay and support her during this time of uncertainty. And we have to be here for the delivery. (Of coarse). We just have to figure out where to stay. Abbotsford doesn't have an RV park. I miss Vernon. It's probably hotter there, but they don't have the humidity like here, so it's more bearable. There I can sit in the sun and have my coffee, but here I have to hunker down with the air conditioning. My joints hurt like crazy here.

Evacuations

Yesterday they evacuated a whole area affected by the Terrace Mountain Forest fire, which is across the lake from us. We went to work for the City of Vernon, who were taking care of the evacuees. Our shift was 6 pm to midnight. I was the floor supervisor. Workers checking in the evacuees had to get their papers signed off by me, and I had to answer any questions the workers had. Carol was placed as supervisor for acquisitions. Her group of ladies made arrangements with all the hotels for lodging. Roughly 240 families went through the system and others that did not need services (food or lodging), could phone into a separate call centre. Today the fire retreated enough for half the people to go home, but they are still on alert to leave at a moments notice. We made some good contacts here for the future.

More Smoke

This is what the smoke looked like the next day. Kristen said it looks more like a volcano. At least the sky was clear straight up in the evening, as we went to the park and watched the space shuttle, attached to the space station fly directly over Vernon. It took four minutes to fly across the sky and was way brighter than the brightest star.

Forest Fires

First off, Carol found a car for sale. It is a Mazda Carol. She fell in love with the name.

The air is thick with smoke here in Vernon. There are three forest fires burning. This one is the Fintry fire. I took this picture from the east side of Okanagan Lake, up a mountain. The plume is coming up in the left side of the smoke. Forestry has one crew here on the fire, as there are no houses close by. All the other crews are working the two Kelowna fires as it is more populated.

The smoke drowns out the sun. Looking at these fires, I'm itching to get to work, but we have travelling to do.

Contraption

Here is a picture of my internet contraption. I mounted a dual antenna wireless into the inside of a wok. Acts like a satellite dish for internet. I saw one in Montana. I get someones signal from 7 km away. With normal wireless I get 3 connections but with it I get 17 here. I'll have to find a different mount. This is on my car wash brush, which works great. It has an extendable arm. I mount it to my roof ladder on the rv for height, and I can swivel it for range.

I took Lenny to the local Nissan dealer to take pictures with the Nissan Cube. My S-Cargo is the predecessor to the Cube.

This is my favourite place (My happy place).

We celebrated Jonah's 3rd birthday in Vernon.

Here's Zada and Jonah at the Vernon Car Show where I had the S-Cargo on display. It got alot of attention.

We could see the Canada Day fireworks from Micah and Kristens diningroom window.

Then we went to the coast for Lincoln's 3rd birthday.

No, this isn't a tribute to Michael Jackson. It's Caleb in his favourite Batman costume.