June 1st
Well, today is very busy, the day
before we move our stuff into storage. Last night I took a load by myself
in the truck with bins of clothes etc. down to Macktush.(2 hour drive)
Got there at 8pm and spend the next hour unloading! Finally relaxed
in front of the fire and eating take out chicken and it started to rain.
Oh well, at least it did not rain while I was moving stuff. I
stayed overnight, up at 6:15 am and back on the road at 7am to Nanaimo. (2
hour drive) Then I packed another load into the truck and we drove
to Errington, 45 minute drive, to his brothers and dropped of all the shed
stuff. After a few more stops, we're finally back at home at the somewhat
empty house for 3pm to finally sit down. I sat in my lazyboy, drank a beer
while Ray napped to rest as he is still recovering from his
"rotorooting surgery" last week! Tonight will be spent doing
the last of the laundry and last of the kitchen dishes. We start the big
move at 8:30 am tomorrow. My last day of work is next Wednesday where I
can say "I'm retired!". Probably will not blog until after
that.
Jim and Sandie (2012-06-01
17:38:17)
Retired is one of the best words
in the English (or any) language. All your hard work will be so worth it when
you can just relax - next week.
June 10th
We moved out of the house on
Saturday June 2nd and into our summer home at Macktush Creek
Campground into the fifth. As of June 6th, we received
the money for the house and it's also my last day of work! I am officially
retired. Tomorrow (Monday) will be wonderful as I don't need to go to
work. Now if I can only get the dog on the same page! Up at 5am
every morning so far!
After constructing shelters, tarps
etc. It finally feels like home. We have an open concept design....
a kitchen overlooking the living room which overlooks the ocean. We have
a formal dining room (the bug tent) and guest bedroom (tent with a raised air
bed). Pretty good eh! Ray is to try and take some video that we can
add to this post.
The weather hasn't been great yet, but we are staying warm and dry. Baked cookies for Ray today,
the first time in probably 5 years. Well off to take another walk and
then campfire.
Retired!!!!!!!
June 20th
The weather has been fairly lousy
so we decided to go to Vancouver for Father's Day and see my Dad, stay at our
son Garrett and his wife Sandra's place, and take Ray's mother out for lunch
for her birthday on the Monday. Sure showed us that we still hate the
busyness of large cities! Back to Nanaimo on Tuesday morning for Ray's
appointment with the pain clinic in Nanaimo. We are staying at a motel
for two nights as my office is having a retirement dinner for me on Wednesday
night.... cannot believe it! Anyways we will be back at our summer home
on Thursday afternoon after doing a shopping trip to the grocery store.
Jim and Sandie (2012-06-20
16:38:11)
It always feels so good to be back
home again. And I know how you feel about large cities. Really don't like them.
2012-06-28 13:01
It is hard to believe that another
week has gone by. We spent two very busy days in Nanaimo after coming
back from Vancouver and got back to the campsite for around 3pm last
Thursday. Ray spent the weekend getting the boat ready so that we could start
putting down the prawn traps and crab trap. Everything seems to be
working fine and on Monday we had our first feed of prawns for this year!
Ray headed to Nanaimo on Tuesday
for his appointment at the Nanaimo Hospital Pain Clinic so it was up to him to
do all the “town shopping” and he did not get back to the campsite until 5:30
pm after leaving camp at 8 am. It was a great opportunity to clean the
trailer top to bottom as no one was around to bother with my generator.
Monday night we befriended the
people at the campsite across from us. They were from the base at Comox
and were from Search and Rescue. They are parachutists. The four guys
with one with his two sons were here for a week to practice GPS and fish.
They had an exercise Tuesday afternoon with the helicopter on the back
logging roads. I got a few pictures of the chopper as it flew right over
my campsite a hundred feet or so above.
Wednesday morning we took Steph
and his 2 boys out to show them how to fish sockeye. We lost 5 but got 4
in the boat. Were they every happy and excited. (Everyone else in
the canal caught nothing as the gillnetters and seiners just finished the
day before.) Next we took them to pull the prawn traps and crab
trap. We got 68 prawns and gave them too them. They were so
thankful. They promise every time they fly over us with the big chopper
or the search and rescue plane (The buffalo) they will radio us .... pretty
cool.
I got creative for dinner as Ray brought back fresh pork back ribs. I smoked them in the Bradley
smoker for 2 hours and then slow cooked them on the Bbq. (With my special rubs
and sauces.) They were awesome.
Today, Thursday, we had several
people over to watch the Euro Cup Soccer semi-final as we have a TV set up in
the bug tent. Everyone is warm and out of the rain. Sunday is the
final so hopefully it will not be raining as more people are expected to come
and watch and the 10 x 10 tent is only so big!
