Christmas Light Story!

Well, today we found half of our light set is returned! It seems the thief cut the net light set in half and returned one side to us! We got the side with the male socket ( I guess that is what you call the end you plug the next set into)...any way it was hanging in a bunch on the far side of the tree today....Of course it is of no use to us other than I can take the lights out and save them for replacement bulbs.... I wonder why they did this, are they trying to tell me something???? We are going to buy another set tonight, maybe a should buy a few extra boxes and just leave them outside by the tree in case our thief needs more....ha ha ha...I can laugh now that I am over being totally p----- off! So what do you guys think of this, you can leave a comment here is you wish! Maybe tomorrow I will get a photo of the lights outdoors.

Christmas Spirit

I was going to take a photo of our house decorated for Christmas tonight now that we have snow...but guess what....someone stole one set of my net lights.....now I have to try to find some more to buy and there are not many out there here in Kelowna...I am P----!! I wonder how they can feel good about their home decorated with stolen lights! GRRRRRRR......

Snow :( Monday Nov. 26th 7:00 pm

Just to let you know, it started to snow here about 45 minutes ago....I AM SAD....some photos of the house will be posted later tonight.....

New Scrapbook Pages Added to Slide Show

Well I have not posted here for a while. I have been busy putting up my Christmas Tree and Ernest helped me put out the outside decorations. I will take a photo once we get some snow, somehow it just does not look right with out snow here in Kelowna. In Yuma last year we enjoyed seeing the decorations with out any snow but then we knew we were in the desert and it was fine.

We have been busy going to Ringette games and Soccer games, the granddaughters like it when we watch and we love to go. The girls are happy we will be here for their school concerts and their visits to the mall and senior centers for Christmas Caroling. I wish we were home in January to see Rayven sing and Brayden play his guitar in their concert (from their music school). We will be home in time for Meeca and Mikayla's dance recital as that is in May or June.

Ernest is doing good, he has to have his colon checked again but it should be fine, had a bit of blood in his stool but we forgot to stop his baby aspirin a few days before the test. He also has to have his eyes checked again for pressure behind the eye. We are a bit concerned about that as he just had it done in October and now the doctor has called for him to come in for 2 appointments early in Dec.

We took the motor home in to have the satellite dish replaced and they found the one installed at the factory was installed wrong and we had a leak...there was not sign of it from the inside of the motor home! They kept it in the shop to dry out and then they are fixing it. We were driven home and are waiting for a call as to when we can go down and get it. It was a good thing they found that problem before it got too bad.

Well so much for my news, I will post some photos soon but if your interested take a few minutes and view the slide show of my scrap book pages...I added 6 new pages.

My Nephew Came to visit!!

My nephew Todd (aka Tyson) found a dog (named Ernie) and he returned it to its owner here in Kelowna this weekend. Since my very dear sister is in Yuma already we got the honour of a visit with Todd and his family. I had 3 of my granddaughters for a sleep over so they could play with Todd's daughter Megan! Sorry Irene but you "JUST HAD TO GET TO YUMA BEFORE US, HA HAHA!!"

Here is the story of Ernie, the lost dog. As told by Todd...I copied it from Todd's chatline!

This weekend, I found a very passive and calm dog that was wandering around, completely disoriented and lost in the Peterhope Lake area (looks possibly like a Jack Russell cross with coarse hair). I need your help to find its owner to return it to its proper home -- or if I am unable to locate them -- to possibly find it a new home.Here's the dog's story:This past weekend, while I was fishing and camping at Peterhope Lake with a group of my friends, I found a stray/lost dog that was in desperate need of help. It was well below freezing on the first night (Friday Oct 26th), and this dog had survived the cold weather and evaded a pack of coyotes that we heard yipping. He was quite stressed when we found it on Saturday. It had been spotted by two separate groups, walking around for approximately four miles to six from the camping area (in both directions).It was extremely hungry and devoured a hot dog and some bread that I fed it. I picked it up and snuggled it under my jacket by the fire until its body temperature came back up to normal and he seemed to perk-up a bit. His joints in his legs were very stiff and he limped whenever he walked, as his poor little feet were quite sore from walking on the gravel roads, for who knows how long. Later that evening, he ate some steak and spaghetti that I cooked for the crowd.I have no clue as to when he originally went missing, but his nails were quite unkept and long. I have attached some photos to hopefully help to identify him! I can only assume that he ran away while camping in the area with his family, or ran away from a cabin or home nearby. I asked a local resident, who had also seen the dog, but was unable to approach it as it shied away when he approached. He told me that he has lived there for quite some time and had never seen this dog before.So, I let the dog sleep in my canopy with me Saturday night and rather tha leaveing it there to eventually die, I took him home with me today (Sunday) to stop at Merrit to check with the local SPCA. I was told that Merrit doesn't have an SPCA anymore, so I took it home to Maple Ridge.Hopefully someone in the Kamloops area can ask around or contact me if they recognize this dog from the following photos:

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I do not know if the links will work here but that is ok if they don't.

Now for some photos of the kids here at Auntie Dale's...

My Birthday Celebrations!

My birthday was Oct. 20th but with our grand children's busy schedule we had the family dinner on the 28th and then Ernest and I took the grand kids 10 pin bowling and dinner for my "kids party" . The "kids party" started quite a few years back when I surprised the grand kids after school and took them to "Scandia" for a birthday party for me put on by me! I told them I never had a birthday party like they have when I was small and now I want a fun party too! Now as they are getting older this is our second year to go bowling. So here are a few photos of my dinner, put on my MARNIE & Brad and then some from the bowling party...some of them are a bit blurry as I let the little ones take the pictures. The kids now just like fooling around in the photos....no more posed perfect of them!