Kristi, Jason and Amelia come for the weekend. August 16 - 23

Wednesday, we're pretty tired after our fast trip and early mornings to Vancouver so we took the day off and mostly relaxed down at the dock. It's 38C feeling like 43C. Certainly too warm to do much outside but swim. 

Thursday it's back to morning chores and I a little shopping at Country Grocer. They have some beef ribs in their display. but they were really cut thin. I asked Ryan, my go to meat guy, and he said he could cut me a bigger rack. Turned out that Prime Rib's on special and he needed to cut more steaks anyways. Wow what a cut of meat, just like the barbecue joints. I put the Beef Ribs on the Traeger. Boy did they turn out fabulous.

Ready for their 6 hour smoke.

After the cook. Yummy.

Friday and another lovely day, but much cooler. We puttered getting the house ready for Amelia ... baby gates installed etc. The kids arrived at 4 pm and we sat out on the deck until dinner. We'd bought her a bubble machine and of course she spilt it and after washing the deck she just sat in the water lol.

Here are some pictures our friend Fran and Gerry sent us from their house in Kelowna. After they took  these, they were evacuated as well from West Kelowna. After several tense days, the fire did not burn up their brand new house and they were back home on Tuesday with an evacuation alert still on.

Our dinner tonight is Prime Rib and yorkshire puddings. Jason bought a few of these roasts on sale last spring for me to cook for them, and this was the last one. My barbecue rotisserie does a fabulous job and the meat, very tender. This lasted us for two dinners.

Relaxing after dinner with Daddy.

Amelia's feeling a little under the weather. Everyone slept poorly overnight and Amelia has a low grade fever. Trash truck time on TV.

Ray saw this "mean trike" walking through the campsite next door.

With the smoke from the wildfires coming into the valley, we mostly stayed inside for the weekend. So kind of a boring start to the kids holidays.

Fortunately we were able to take Amelia to Roy and June's next door to play on their swing set and into the new subdivision where there's no one with her being sick. She broke out in a rash, so Kristi's quite sure Amelia has the foot and mouth virus. Main symptom fussiness! and boy was she cranky for the 3 days. So unusual.

Roy and June's

The play park in the new subdivision up the hill from us is little known and rarely used so we felt comfortable taking her there.

On Sunday afternoon we went to Cobble Hill. Kristi and Jason wanted to check out a Golden Retriever breeder for the possiblity of getting a dog next spring. Beautiful dogs, I was even tempted to get a puppy ...

Back in the truck to come home, we stopped at another play park at the school for Amelia to play as there was nobody there. She is feeling better today by the afternoon.

Ray wandered around taking pictures of the huge trees on the school property.

Monday the kids left right after Amelia's nap to make it for her doctor's appointment. in Nanaimo where it's confirmed ... foot and mouth disease.  Apparently she slept better in her own bed Monday night so the kids slept better too. Quite the visit. Fortunately this virus does not usually affect adults. 

Tuesday, we spent the day putting our house back together, picking up toys, taking down baby gates etc. and doing laundry. It's quite cool outside with a breeze off the lake. No smoke though. We did manage to sit outside for a bit with our heaters on.

Wednesday, a cloudy start to the day. Definitely feels like fall with cloudy skies and cool temperatures. A technican came this morning from BMT Group in Victoria, to finish replacing the fabric on our drivers side slide topper and our big awning. They did get the big slide topper done, but unfortunately they did not bring the attaching fabric for the big awning, only the awning material so they will have to come back! Again, poor communication between their front office and the technicians. The rotten piece attaching the awning was the biggest problem. 

Ray spent the morning doing some work on the MH, bleaching the water tank etc and some silicone caulking in the kitchen while I did some shopping, then showed our gardener what stuff needs to be done this fall when we are gone. Hard to believe that 3 weeks tomorrow our winter vacation begins.

More company arrives tomorrow for the weekend.