You know your getting old when...

This is quite the heat wave we're having. We broke the record for the highest temp set at Vancouver Airport on Wed then broke that record again yesterday. The previous record was set in August 1960...it's scary, but I remember that day vividly! I went upstairs, laid on my bed and thought it was sure hot. The radio was on THE "in station" C-FUN and the anouncer said it was 91 degrees...of course we were in faranheit at that time! All the teens listened to C-FUN and especially to the DJ Red Robinson.

Wednesday night we were invited to #1 daughter's for a swim in their pool...Heavenly!!! Cooled us down nicely. Last night we couldn't go for another swim so I had a long COLD bath. This morning we have the nice cool breeze that we almost always have here so it is rather pleasant. I've got the windows open and the fans on to get the house cooled down because it's supposed to get hot again this afternoon. Better get off the computer so I can go out and pick some blueberries to have on our ice cream tonight.

Quite a Day!

B took the car in for servicing today...he even got the air conditioner fixed!!! While he was gone I had the house to myself so I got busy, put the big floor fan in the kitchen so it was nice and cool. and I made a double batch of Pineapple-zuchinni cake and a double batch of chocolate-chocolate chip zuchinni cakes. After I cleaned up the mess (I always make such a mess when I'm baking!) and got all the cakes out of the oven I decided to try something different.

My friend W gave me this cooker which is really interesting...only problem is the instructions are in German and I don't know any German...oh well...nothing ventured, nothing gained. The cooker consists of a shallow bottom pan, which you fill with water. The second part has a hose coming out of the bottom and it goes over the first pan. Inside the second part is a perforated liner into which you put fruit. Put it on the stove and as it cooks juice comes out the hose and runs into the bottle you have ready for it. I cut up a bunch of apples that had fallen off our transparent apple tree and put them in the cooker....what do you know??? It worked great! I got 1 3/4 quarts of juice then I let the apples cool a bit and put them through the colander and made a big bowl of applesauce.

Beside the cooker you can see one of the chocolate zuchinni cakes, which we just had to try to see if it turned out good...the rest all got wrapped up and put into the freezer before we started testing them as well!!

Back in Town

We got back from camping at Cultus Lake Thousand Trails with our daughter and grandkids. Had a great time. Sunday night there was a thunder and lightening storm. I'm used to living in a flat area where these storms blow over rather quickly...not so up in the mountains. It started late in the evening and flashed, rumbled and echoed all night long. I felt sorry for the the families whose kids were sleeping in tents...it was noisy enough in the trailer! Kinda neat though! We've been through lightening and thunder storms, hail storms, snow storms and even an earthquake with our old trailer. With this trailer we've been in snow and now thunder and lightening.

Yesterday we spent the day taking Mom over the new Golden Ears Bridge and headed out to Webster's Corners where Mom had lived on an 80 acre farm. Saw her old school and even drove up to the farm which is now subdivided into several farms. We went up what would have been the original driveway and saw the hazlenut trees and the old pond but it felt strange not see Grandpa's old dog come running down to meet us! Funny the little things that stick in your memory! Visited with my Uncle who still lives in the area and we also drove up to Rolley Lake Campground. We used to go camping there in our tent trailer when our kids were little...hard to believe that was 40 odd years ago!! Talk about a trip down memory lane!!!!

Cherries, cherries and more cherries!

My sister was in town for a couple of days. She came over with her daughter and our Mom and picked a couple buckets of cherries off our tree and we had a good visit. We also picked a couple of buckets. Friday we went to visit R&A. We met these people about 19 years ago when we were camping...of course I brought them a bag of cherries. Saturday we went to a bar-b-que and I was asked to bring dessert for 16 people, so I brought a cake and a big bowl of cherries. Someone else had also brought dessert so I got some bags and sent cherries home with everyone. Went to church today and gave some friends a bag of cherries. D phoned tonight and said how wonderful they tasted! Tonight our friends G&D came and they picked two buckets of cherries. They are so ripe and sweet right now, but we can't reach any more so the rest will be left for the birds...hope they enjoy them as much as we did!!

This tree hasn't produced much fruit for years and usually the birds get all the cherries. This year it's gone crazy!!! We must have picked at least 25 or 30 ice cream buckets of cherries off that tree!! I looked at the blueberry bushes and they are just beginning to ripen and it looks like there'll be a bumper crop of them as well...but those two bushes always do produce a lot of berries!!

Bridges

Here's a couple of pictures of bridges. The one was built of concrete in the early 1900's. The other is the new Golden Ears Bridge which just opened in June.

Home again

We managed to get away for a few days with the trailer. While we were gone it was the one year anniversary date of us getting the new trailer...can't believe it's already been a year and I'm still re-arranging things to try and find the "perfect spot" for stuff. It was also B's birthday. We were at one of our Thousand Trails parks. We were there for the first time just over a year ago and it poured rain. The day we got there this time it was also raining...was this going to be a repeat??? Fortunately it quit raining and we had a great time exploring the small towns nearby, swimming, reading, doing puzzles and visiting new friends. They have a big "bouncing pillow" there and the kids were having a blast walking, running and jumping on it...it looked like such great fun...too bad adults aren't allowed on it!!! They should make one for us too!!!

On the way home we overnighted in a casino parking lot. Went into the casino and had our birthday dinners. There were about 15 - 20 rigs in the parking lot and across the street there were about two dozen or more fireworks kiosks set up. They sell lots and lots of fireworks down there for the fourth of July! All night they were letting them off so I turned out the lights in the trailer and had a ring side seat to watch them!! They were beautiful albiet noisy!! I couldn't help but wonder how big a bang it would be if some of the fireworks hit one or more of the kiosks????

HAPPY FATHER'S DAY

Happy Father's Day to all you fathers out there, hope you had a wonderful day. After church today we went to our youngest granddaughter's dance recital then hurried home because #2 daughter and her family were coming to pick cherries from our tree and have dinner with us. Mom and #1 daughter also were here for dinner. I'd put some meat in the crock pot this morning and had a salad all made up, so all I had to do was cook some pasta and veggies when we got home. It's so great to get together with family!!