Last week of May and a "laundry tub".

Monday morning we were off early to Duncan to drop the motorhome off for it's final repairs. Hopefully they get everything done this time. After the drop off, Ray took me to breakfast at the Doghouse Restaurant, who are known for good diner food. I had a delicious eggs bennie and Ray .... had 2 pieces of pie!

Peach pie a la mode and coconut cream. Breakfast of Champions!

The guy sitting behind Ray said he always wanted to do that but was too embarrassed, but now the next time he comes that's exactly what he is going to do! lol Also one of the waitresses called Ray her hero! lol again.

Back home Ray headed back down to his "man cave" working on his lumber table while I did some house chores.

The rack is larger as it goes under a furnace which is suspended from the ceiling to avoid flooding.  Ray's hit his head enough on the support braces enough already.

The rest of the afternoon was spent on the deck. It was very hot out at 26C but felt like 29C ... almost hot enough to get into the cold water. lol All the heat generated a thunder shower late in the afternoon and then the sun was back out.

People are getting all of their "toys" back out to their cabin. This boat towing 2 sailboats ...

A Sail Past?

Tuesday morning I headed out early to Nanaimo for an doctor's appointment, while Ray held the fort down here. The landscapers came and fixed the irrigation today. Some of the heads needed to be moved as the irrigation was put in before the driveway was put in with concrete. Also we had extended the side garden in the back yard and needed to lengthen the small spray system. All complete now. While I was gone, Ray played in his shop for a couple hours.

I got back from Nanaimo about 12:30 and after lunch we sat out in the yard as it was quite breezy on the sundeck. Noticed that the smoke from the wildfire in High Level Alberta is now here high up in the sky causing a haze.

Will, our gardener, came to mow the lawn later on so we moved back up on the deck. With my right foot sore again from the nitrogen burn ... I stayed off my feet for several hours. (I managed to pick up plantar warts on my big toe probably a couple of years ago from a pedicure in the states we are guessing. As it was on the bottom of my toe I did not notice it until it started to hurt and then it had made more!) Now into week 12 of going in every 2 weeks and getting it burnt with nitrogen.) Can you say OUCH. Ray fed me internal medicine ... i.e. a margarita for pain. lol The warts are almost gone now I'm told ... maybe only one more treatment.

Wednesday morning, marine fog again on the lake. The motorhome should be finished today so we can go pick it up. It will be nice to have everything functioning again, ie water pump and know that all the caulking has been done. It has been about 3 years since this was partially done as the last 18 months we have not used the unit. We have tried since last fall to have this completed, but Revy RV did not have a bay large enough to put the MH in and the weather outside was not conducive to doing it. They have rented a bay for the summer to handle rigs as large as ours. I need to get it packed ready for our two week trip up island leaving June 12th as there are no "food stuffs" in it at all. That is only 2 weeks away!  I also still need to change the filter in the fridge and sanitize the water lines as it did not get done when I did the tanks. Hopefully everything else works ... time will tell. At least this will be a shakedown trip before we leave for our winter USA trip and we will have time to get anything done if we find there are still things not working well.

Ray and I picked up the motorhome at 4:30 pm. All done. Took them 2 days with 2 guys to redo all of the caulking on the whole rig. New water pump, rock guard fixed and new outdoor shower assembly. (The old one was leaking too.) So after a hefty bill we should be ready for our next adventure. While in Duncan we decided to try out a Sushi place called Japan Town ... not bad but not great, so we will strike that restaurant off the list. Back home some more deck time. A lovely day.

Kristi and Kat are currently in Nova Scotia and PEI enjoying a whole bunch of lobster. They are on a touring and eating extravaganza for a week. Wish we were there to eat all that lobster as well. Here are a few of  the pictures they have messaged me. The start of their trip the weather was not all that great but they persevered. True explorers.

My gorgeous girls.

Ahhhh Lobster Roll

View waiting for their table.

Kat had a whole lobster .. "the Money Shot"

Kristi with her clam fettuccine

Thursday morning more fog. Supposed to get up to 28C today and tomorrow. Today the plumber is coming to hopefully install a laundry tub in the garage. We are really missing one to use for cleaning dirty things instead of my kitchen sink. The fog dissipated by 9 and it was a gorgeous day.

The girls picture today ,... enough said, lol

What beer should we choose?

Gerry, the plumber arrived shortly before noon. As usual nothing in this house was put in the usual way so the laundry tub installation ended up taking 3 hours, but it is done now yeah!.

Nothing fancy but will do the job.. Ray will have to build me a shelf beside the sink so I can put paper towel, soap etc. next to it.

Ray and I hooked up the car to the motorhome for the first time ... and you guessed it NO TAIL LIGHTS! Ray went to Lordco and bought new plugs and rewired them and there is power to the plug, still nada. So Ford must have wired the car incorrectly when we purchased it over a year ago. We did not get a chance to try it out as moving the motorhome at Dad's was difficult.  Then, when we bought this house, Ray came over with the motorhome a couple of days before I came over so it was never tried out. The hitch hooks up correctly though. So now the car will go back to Ford next week for them to fix the wiring. As they ripped out a bunch of wires while fixing the rear wiring to tow the boat perhaps they took out the front cables as well??? The only good part of Ray trying to rewire he could work on tanning his back sitting on a chair. lol

Friday started out foggy again but the sun broke out again around 7:30 am. Another hot, gorgeous day. First up was giving Freya a bath. We can sure tell she is swimming lots as it does not take long for her to get really smelly. lol

I spent a good part of the morning using my laundry basket to restock the motorhome. That was a lot of heavy carrying back and forth in the hot sun. I also completed sanitizing the water lines. I will be ready by the 12th of June to head up island. lol

The rest of the afternoon we sat down on the dock as there was just the right amount of breeze in the shade to stay cool. At 4 pm Ray and I decided to take a short boat ride down the lake as it was still fairly calm out. Freya could not wait to get into the boat. My first time in the boat this season. Ray has been out fishing twice.

A lovely little tour around. A great day.