Weekend and the next 2 weeks...

We had a pretty good weekend. it started early with Shawn getting to come home Thursday evening...not Friday evening as planed. Aparently the Ship was out of eggs, milk and flour by supper time, plus the equipment they where to test that night would not work so they came home early.

Friday and Saturday I worked as per norm with the kids going to Before and After School care at the NAC, on Friday.
Sunday was my Birthday and we went for Breakfast at Jasmines, the food was good but the service was wonky...we got our drinks and order in quick but then Cameron got his food, then Shawn a few mins later. Emily and I got ours when Cameron and Shawn where half done.
We did a Wally World run for stuff for Shawn...and a few home items. And then it was back home for the reat of the day...nothing special. After a pretty good steak supper we finnished packing up Shawn for the Seattle trip, I cut his hair and we left to drop him off at the ship. They where leaving around 6am so to save getting us up at 5am to drive him in he opted to sleep on board.

Its now Monday morn almost afternoon and I'm home with the kids...PD day already.

As i'm writing this I get a call...I sent a Resume into the Base for a Cook job..I have an interview tommorow

Ready to garden..

So I did some shopping on Friday and today and now have a few plants to get in the ground.
Friday I got 23 plants at Canadian Tire for under $45.
Today I got another 12 for another $30

  The Mums...
 

Black eyed Susans, Shasta Dasiy, Cushion Flower, and Potentilla

Black Beauty Elder, Weigela, Euonymous, Flowering Quince, Coleus, and a Monkshood












Jacobs Ladder, Monkshood, Spiraea, Basil, and unknown perennials....

Lost... GIRRRR

So after turning my house upside down and giving it a good shake, I have come to the conclusion I have LOST,  mine and both the kids Birth Cert.... Dont ask me how, but they are no where to be found.

Shawn e-mailed to say if I could get passports then we might be able to take a trip to Seattle on the Ship. They are headed that was in the next few weeks and offered Shawn the chance to bring us on board. So I start filling out the forms and its going great untill I get to the part where it asks for info off the B.C....I open the file box find the right file folder and inside is everything BUT the B.C.s

If we had too I could express the new ones at $10 extra each but with only a few weeks untill the sail I will not be able to get the new ones and Passports done in-time... a "FREE" day sail would end up costing over $300...

Friday Sept. 4

So Friday we went out to Fort Rodd Hill with Lori and her girls to watch the Ship return from the Daysail.

I also found out that only about half the people signed up for the day sail showed up ...the reasion we could not go was that they had 350ppl on the guest list and could not fit anymore safely.

Some Pic's of whats been going on...

Trees Came down, 5 med. size ones from the middle of the back yard.

Before and After

The front now

Missing one huge tree, and the window bars

New safe stairs

Rain Barrol

Summers Over...almost

Shawn is back to work. We dropped him off at the gate on Monday thinking he was doing an overnight, maybe. 15 mins after I get home he calls to say they will be out until Friday, and could I bring him some stuff to get through the week. So its up to me and the kids to get ready to go camping on the long weekend.

So what did we do this Summer....

We went camping in Port Alburni (Sprout Lake).

We built stairs in the back yard, so now we can get down the hill with out sliding on our asses.

We got 2 new duo-flush toilets...love them, 6 or 4l flush...much better then the 13l ones we had.... esp with a septic system.

We got the rain barrow installed and 80% of the rock wall rebuilt

Replaced some of the missing downspouts.

Shawn cut more of the logs from the trees into burnable bits and we got most of it stacked.