Rain, Rain, Rain! January 28th to February 1st

Sunday, I had 2 of Betty's kids here who live back east, to pick out some stuff they wanted to take and collect all of Betty's personal artwork off the walls. Quite an emotional event for me .... Felt really intrusive as they wanted a bunch of my Dad's stuff (from my mother's time) and I kept having to say no. Fortunately they will not be back until the house is sold and emptied to pick up an organ and antique hutch that was written in the will and the barrel of things that were Betty's. A hard day for me.

Monday, Ray took me out for lunch at an old pub in Port Moody, The Frog and Nightgown. We have not been to this place for a number of years. They are a well-known British Pub that serves "Toad in the Hole", a giant yorkshire filled with roast beef or steak and mushrooms. We opted for a lighter meal before going to visit my Aunt Norma in advance of her birthday.

Look how "dapper" he looks. :)

Aunt Norma and Uncle Ken Christmas 2017  Love those guys lots. 

With the visit from Betty's kids over, this past week has been busy with junking out cupboards and filling up a bagster bag in preparation for bagster.com to pick it up. Wednesday the rain held off for most of the day so it was the time to get  the first load out ... the rest will have to wait until the house is sold which probably won't be until end of April at the earliest. Some junk collectors came buy and asked permission to go through the bag. They had already picked up the stuff Ray had left by the road, a file cabinet etc. Ray said yes, as long as they put it all back in the bag the way it was. It turned out they took a bunch of stuff and are coming back for some larger items that we could not fit into the bag. Yeah. More stuff gone that I do not have to pay for to remove or figure out who would take it as a donatation. They even took Dad's old mattress set. A great time-saver. Ray was able to put the last of the smaller items of junk from the greenhouse into the bag as there was more room. :) I think we have gone through every cupboard now and have only kept things I need to still use or things I will give to Larny when we empty out the house.

The house is starting to feel "more like our home" with removing reminders of Betty and Dad. Getting rid of all the clutter and old nick nacks, putting in our things, clothes and kitchenware etc. and having our new bed is awesome. Glad we are in a "bricks and sticks" at this time of the year here in the Lower Mainland only because of the horrible wet weather. Being in a motorhome with this dampness day after day would be a challenge with the dog. Fortunately we do not have any flooding issues here as they are having in other parts of Vancouver and Vancouver Island. Ray's brother's place has been flooded under the house twice over the past few weeks as French Creek has swollen so big, it has changed course. In Lantzville a whole chunk of road has collapsed and fortunately a lady who fell into the hole with her car was rescued successfully.

Hard to believe she made it out alive! (from Google)

Other washouts on Vancouver Island (from Google)

I am still busy with "estate stuff" and paperwork. If all goes well, Dad's Will should be probated by March 1st and then I can put the house up for sale. Finger's crossed as both Ray and I are already pretty tired of this weather, especially when our friends are having 26 C and sunshine in Arizona.

We finally got our new car back this week with the towing hitchplate installed. Love our new ride it is taking me a bit to get used to all of the new "gizmos". lol