30 March 2008
April is Almost Here
30/03/08 05:57
Another week gone by. I can't believe Doug, Geiger and I are coming up to our one year anniversary in Canada. Where has the time gone? We all have settled in very nicely and really enjoy our new home on the Island. The weather is very nice today so we decided to take a drive up the Island a little ways. I had not been to Parksville so we drove up there and wandered around a little before heading back to Nanaimo.
We took a different route back and ended up on the south side of town. We saw we were close to Petroglyph Park so we decided to stop and check it out. The pictures attached are from our visit. We were not able to see all of the petroglyphs due to leaves and such on top of them, but we did manage to get pictures of some of them.
Earlier this week Doug and I came home from work to find our neighbor in their front yard looking at a chair. We were not sure if she just bought the chair and wanted it in the house or wanted to get rid of the chair. Well we asked if we could help and it turned out it was a new chair so we helped take it in the house. We ended up chatting for awhile and she told us a story about her Easter Adventure. She was having the family over for Easter and had gone out and bought all sorts of things including a big sheet cake with strawberries, whip cream, cherries and other sorts of good stuff. When she got home she realized she had no room in her fridge so she decided the weather was cool enough she would put it out on the patio table on the deck for the evening and it should be fine. During the night she had a visitor who decided to check out the cake. The raccoon ripped off the plastic wrap, ate all of the frosting and toppings and then proceeded to claw through the cake itself. Her son kept saying it looked there was a couple of spots the raccoon did not touch and he thought he could salvage it. She wasn't going to serve raccoon leftovers though, so no cake for Easter dinner.
Doug and Barbara went to a garage sale in Lantzville on Saturday. I had signed up for some additional hours so I missed the sale as I was at work. However there is a big sale coming up in a couple of weeks at the FireHouse in Lanztville that we are all planning to attend. It will be a bit different from other sales we've gone to though. No prices are marked - you just offer them what you think the item is worth to you and then you haggle.
Continuation of British Columbia History:
The Lion's Gate Bridge in Vancouver was completed in 1938, the worst year of the Depression, and was financed by the Guinness Brewery Associates.
International movie star Russell Crowe's grandparents lived in Kelowna, British Columbia.
In Vernon in 1891, a young schoolteacher, happy and excited to be starting her new job, was asked by a Railway Superintendent to remove her white shoes because they were widely associated with prostitution.
In 1897 the first motion pictures shown in British Columbia, commonly referred to as 'the flickers,' were screened in the Trilby Music Hall in Victoria.
In 1902, the first automobile rambling through Victoria was an Oldsmobile.
During the Gold Rush, good quality champagne was a suggested remedy for yellow fever.
We took a different route back and ended up on the south side of town. We saw we were close to Petroglyph Park so we decided to stop and check it out. The pictures attached are from our visit. We were not able to see all of the petroglyphs due to leaves and such on top of them, but we did manage to get pictures of some of them.
Earlier this week Doug and I came home from work to find our neighbor in their front yard looking at a chair. We were not sure if she just bought the chair and wanted it in the house or wanted to get rid of the chair. Well we asked if we could help and it turned out it was a new chair so we helped take it in the house. We ended up chatting for awhile and she told us a story about her Easter Adventure. She was having the family over for Easter and had gone out and bought all sorts of things including a big sheet cake with strawberries, whip cream, cherries and other sorts of good stuff. When she got home she realized she had no room in her fridge so she decided the weather was cool enough she would put it out on the patio table on the deck for the evening and it should be fine. During the night she had a visitor who decided to check out the cake. The raccoon ripped off the plastic wrap, ate all of the frosting and toppings and then proceeded to claw through the cake itself. Her son kept saying it looked there was a couple of spots the raccoon did not touch and he thought he could salvage it. She wasn't going to serve raccoon leftovers though, so no cake for Easter dinner.
Doug and Barbara went to a garage sale in Lantzville on Saturday. I had signed up for some additional hours so I missed the sale as I was at work. However there is a big sale coming up in a couple of weeks at the FireHouse in Lanztville that we are all planning to attend. It will be a bit different from other sales we've gone to though. No prices are marked - you just offer them what you think the item is worth to you and then you haggle.
Continuation of British Columbia History:
The Lion's Gate Bridge in Vancouver was completed in 1938, the worst year of the Depression, and was financed by the Guinness Brewery Associates.
International movie star Russell Crowe's grandparents lived in Kelowna, British Columbia.
In Vernon in 1891, a young schoolteacher, happy and excited to be starting her new job, was asked by a Railway Superintendent to remove her white shoes because they were widely associated with prostitution.
In 1897 the first motion pictures shown in British Columbia, commonly referred to as 'the flickers,' were screened in the Trilby Music Hall in Victoria.
In 1902, the first automobile rambling through Victoria was an Oldsmobile.
During the Gold Rush, good quality champagne was a suggested remedy for yellow fever.