Three sisters in Dawson Creek. Carol and Della's road trip.
Dirt!
Carol and Kristen quilting.
This bird appeared at our place and seemed stressed. I could come right up to it and it would not fly away. I gave it some water a couple of times, then it flew away after a couple of hours. When I was barbequing it flew back and kept me company.
Last night we had an electrical storm here. Made a beautiful sunset. Nice lightning going horizontally across the sky. The storm started two fires in the area.
Carol left on a road trip to DC (Dawson Creek) with a friend, so now I'm batching for a week and a half or so. First thing I did was head to the meat store and load my smoker with meat. The top rack has a rack of baby back ribs, sausages and a pork loin. The second rack has salmon, chicken thighs and short ribs. The chicken was the best I ever tasted, moist and flavourful, like ham.
The Okanagan has unique cloud formations, like the prairies have.
The other day I saw some guys getting the honey out of hives, so I stopped in. That was a unique experience with all the bees buzzing around me. I was not wearing a bee suit. I got one sting for my efforts, not bad for the hundreds buzzing around me.
Yesterday we went boating with our friends Yves and Sandi on Okanagan Lake.
Here's Yves after jumping off the back of the boat to cool down.
Here's a view of our property from the lake side. It's just to the right of the house in the picture.
I made a batch of my famous ribs in the new smoker.
And I am perfecting a recipe for beans. This batch has bacon and chunks of ham.
We spent a few days in Abbotsford and went with the kids and grandkids to the Canada Day Parade.
Then on Sunday Lincoln celebrated his fourth birthday. Melanie made the beautiful cake.
We took Robert and Jessie out for dinner to the Red Baron Restaurant and Jessie had the Ultimate Burger. It was 10" tall with 2 patties, bacon, chorizo sausage, fried egg, onion crisps among other things. Not too many people finish it. Jessie did and received a pen for his accomplishment. He also ate the fries and two cokes. Then this morning we left back to the sun in Vernon.
