Kastle's Journey: Amelia comes for the weekend. - Sunday April 14

Sunday and I'm fully engulfed with Amelia's cold... Yuck. Love the kid but wow! Anyway, I managed to plant my vertical herb garden. The other planters will have to wait as it's still way too cold overnight.

Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, more puttering, still feeling crappy. Fortunately Ray is ok.

Thursday morning we headed for Nanaimo. We're on Amelia and Olaf duty while Jason got ready to go on his fishing trip with friend Adrian from Saskatoon. He was out the door at 10 am. We played with Amelia and Olaf and then took Amelia out for an early lunch at Smitty's. Ray dropped us back off and headed out to his doctor's appointment.

Hiding from the "bitey, bitey, puppy" lol

Checking Papa's vitals before his doctor appointment.

Ray picked us back up at 1:30 and we headed to the lake. Kristi is working today and won't arrive at the lake until dinnertime tomorrow. It's a beautiful afternoon, so we're able to play outside on the road with her scooter.

Can we go into your boat Papa? It's my favourite thing. lol

Fuelling up Big Blue.

Busy day. After dinner, walking Olaf, snack it's time for bed at 7 pm. Amelia went right to sleep and Olaf pretty much did the same thing. Fortunately both "babies" slept through the night without any trouble.

Friday morning we all relaxed a bit for Amelia's morning routine. Amelia up at 6:50 am, Olaf was up about 6:30 so Ray took him outside.

Morning cuddles with Olaf as long as you had a chewy in your hand otherwise you were the chewy! lol

First up Amelia had to feed her puppy breakfast. It is her chore to look after him. She does a great job. Then she gets to have a rest watching her Paw Patrol.

Next up Amelia and I made blueberry pancakes for breakfast. More walks with Olaf and then Puzzle time with Papa.

Friday morning our gardener Sean arrived and we got a load of topsoil dropped for the redoing back yard. He started at 8 am by himself for the day and Saturday had 2 more guys to help finish off. Sean moved all the slate into our trailer ready for Jason to collect for Kristi's new garden.

Slate removed.

Now this is a load of slate for Kristi's garden! Your welcome Kristi!

Yard thatched, filled with topsoil and seeded and all finished by 11 am Saturday.

More Amelia fun. Her noggin sure takes a beating, last weeks bruises :)

Teaching Olaf to do stairs. It only took one day and he's off.

After a busy morning and afternoon, by 3 pm she's crashed on the couch waiting for Mommy to come.

After Amelia helped us make our pizzas to cook in our gas pizza oven for dinner, it's time to play with her bubbles upstairs.

Everyone to bed early after a busy day.

Sunday morning Grandpa, Kristi and Amelia went fishing down at our dock.

More puzzles

After Kristi and Amelia took Olaf for another walk, it's time for an early lunch at Jake's at the Lake. Kristi's taking Amelia to the fair at Cowichan Exhibition Grounds this afternoon.

Apparently Amelia wanted to go on every ride, some more than once, by herself. She had a blast.

They spent of 2 hours of fun before the rain started, so theyncame back home to the lake. She's a tired little girl after the constant stimulation and made for a cranky little girl. She had another little nap on the couch. The puppy kept us busy.

Sunday morning, Amelia and I made waffles for breakfast. We kept Amelia busy and the puppy while Kristi packed up her car with the ton of stuff lol

Time to pack up toys .... Take my picture so I can show my Daddy what I built.

We were supposed to keep Olaf one more day for Jason to pick up, but the darn thing would only pee on our floor, not on his pee mat. With our yard all reseeded, he couldn't go out their either so Kristi just took him home. He would have to spend part of his day in his crate until Jason got home.

Monday morning we woke to a beautiful day. The heavy rains from yesterday stopped. Our new lawn is well-watered in. We both just puttered on stuff and then sat outside in the front for the afternoon enjoying the sunshine and staying out of the cool wind.

Our neighbours Mike and Debra came over around 3:30 pm for a chat and ended up staying for dinner. Great to catch up since Christmas.

Quick Spaghetti dinner with salad and Texas Toast.

Tuesday another gorgeous morning, to be enjoyed before the rains begin again tomorrow. Still too cold to plant anything in my planters. We went out for dinner and then to the Eagles Tribute Band concert in Duncan. It was fabulous.