Miss Lulu and I in town.

This was in our local paper

The write up below was in our local paper. It is about my youngest son.



Sam Suzuki from Nicola Canford was just plain unbeatable in every event that he entered. The personable eleven-year-old won five first-place ribbons, and accumulated a perfect 50 points in the battle for the 1998 boys’ aggregate title.
Suzuki very nearly made it six-for-six as the speedster anchored his school’s relay team to victory, only to see his squad suffer the misfortune of a disqualification due to a bad baton exchange.

Miss Lulu's first walk in town. We only went to the track and river so it was not too much. I think she is a little overwhelmed with all her firsts. We the took her to meet Marilyn and Grandma. She is too funny she can not do steps yet. She did not seem quite as jumpy today. However you can see she is still very nervous. I am hooping she isn't idle. She does like to lay down lots. My like she will be lazy however with her being so black the sun likes her.

Dalton made a whistle out of willows. It was quite exciting it actually worked. Grandpa had been teaching them how to make them the other night.
Today we were so busy. I watered and watered some more. We took broken toys up to the garbage pile. We move our old play boat to the garbage pile. It was kind of sad to see it go. Allan and Miss Hyacinth put up an electric fence in our front yard. We went to town went for a 5km walk, did some shopping at Walmart. Pool stuff. Picked up kids brought friends over to play. Had very nice people pick our logging truck up for us from Kamloops. Used a giant broom to sweep the pool. We separated two fields of goats, then separated the sheep. We found two more baby chicks. During all of this Lulu made her self at home. She was so scared and jumpy. She did not know how to go down stairs she did three then rolled down the rest. Then after that she would not even try them. She is very faithful. She stayed with me all the time. She sits really well. She has lovely clumsy feet that she will give to me to shake. She really seems to trust me. Now however there is one downfall to Miss Lulu... she smells now and then bad gas smells. She is going to be a big dog so her bath room mess is big. I am used to little tiny dogs. Her stomach seems upset. I am thinking she is just scared. She did so much today all of it firsts. She lived in the pet store for a month in a small room. A nice small clean room yet still inside she was only outside to get to the vet for her vaccinations. I really love her she is perfect. I hope she stays good. I am quite happy she is not a little baby this is a little better for us. She seems to get along really well with the other dogs. She was with Candy and Star and she would gallop past them. Well I had better run I have to drive the kids in the am. The older school two need to fix their school timetables. I am meeting Savannah and her dog Roxy so Roxy can meet Lulu.

Mom if you are reading this tell Dad Dalton made a whistle tonight and it worked. He is taking it to his out door ed class. Also there are quite a few fires. Jordan did get to go out tonight in the helicopter to a fire in a remote area in the mountains near 14 mile shacken reserve. The sky was amazing tonight. I will put up pictures tomorrow. Tell me what you think of LULU. I love her she is the one I was telling you about. She has the same eyes as Poppy. Maybe she has a little bit of Poppy in her... you know what I mean. It was just suppose to happen. She maybe not be beautiful in the pedigree way but she is very sweet. I think you will love her.

Her pedigree is: her Mom a Fully registered (German working dog) German Shepard who fell in love with a boy named Toby who is a standard poodle (oops) he is black and white. She is going to be quite big. She has lovely clumsy feet and like to climb on my knee. Well I must run it is quite late.

Meet LULU. She is so wonderful. She is going to be quite a big dog she has big feet she needs to grow into. I have waited for nearly two years for her. I was waiting for a Border Collie but it kept falling through it just never seemed to work. If it had worked I would have picked up a new puppy last week.
I was in Kamloops on the weekend and I went to the Pet store to buy pond fish and we always take our time to look at all the animals and check out all the isles. I saw her in a pen. She had these most beautiful eyes. That looked right through me. I could not shake the feeling of her. I was awake half the night wondering if she was the one. After some soul searching I knew I needed her. So I phoned for some info and by four thirty I was on my way to pick her up. It all fell into place. I was actually nervous I have never bought one like this. My husband had to go to Kamloops and needed a ride home so woo hoo I had a reason to go to Kamloops. My van is sporting new tires and OMG it is so fixed it is awesome to drive again. So off I went with my kids.

Thought we should remember Maui a little. Look at this wonderful water. The colour is amazing.
Today we worked very hard. A lot of yard work was done today. We trimmed a big tree our willow. It is not the right time of year but we still did it.
I planted some veges, some flowers weeded moved large piles. The barn was cleaned. Toy area was sorted now to take it to the garbage pile. Our old play boat is going to the pile also. So much I want to do and it seems to take so long. I wonder if I will ever get caught up.
We start school exams tomorrow. Then this week is in full force with things to do. Track meets, museum visits, old house visits, awards days the list just goes on and on...and on ...and on...

This dog is waiting for winter so he can play hockey with the kids. so now he plays soccer all the time. It is so funny to watch him. I have said it before he an amazing dog for my kids.
Today we went to Kamloops bought goalie skates and the boys all went skating. They totally soaked them the price was so high to rent the arena. While they were at the arena I went for nearly two hours to Art Knaps. I enjoyed every minute. I went to every isle. Checked every gift in the store. Read the labels on most of the roses. Checked the Lillies and checked out the fish. It was wonderful.
We also checked out Chapters, the Mall, Sears plant section, Walmart and the pet store.
Then we came home I gardened for awhile. We had supper. Then my husband went to town to pick up a truck to go to work for my brother tomorrow.
It seemed like we were in for a big storm but it did not come our way. We need rain. It is very dry out here.

Dalton trying his luck with snorkeling.

A little snorkeling anyone

Swimming in a very cold pool but it does not bother Sam
The other boys visiting shake so bad with the cold. They could not handle it.
Our mornings seem a little cool but it seems to warm up during the day. Today at the Art Knap parking lot it read 39.4 degrees

More High jump

Award winner

He loves high jump

We were getting a little worried here. He was ready to bail. So Dad and I went for a walk to the corner store and told him to go find his friends. He usually has to come home early from the district track meet. However he made it this time.

He won the aggregate champion award for grade five boys

This was today's efforts. Sam was amazing. He ran like the wind... He jumped over mountains... He flew like a bird...

Enjoying a brief moment when the sun came out in Kelowna.

Yesterday I made up thirty Lavender plants. I wonder if they will take. I do hope so as it is very hard to find any plants. I think some should make it but maybe my cuttings were not strong enough. Time will tell. HMMM I wonder how long I will have to wait until they let me know.... I am impatient.
Our skies have been grumbling for two day now. Quite a bit of thunder and a little rain not too much though.
Last night we went to awards night. Tanisha won top first nations social studies award. She did quite well in that class her marks were really high. After the awards we went to diary queen it seemed everyone else had the same idea it was so busy. We had quite a bit of a wait.
Today is a track meet so we will be in town all day. I hope the weather cooperates with us. Have a great day

In this picture only the tree way at the back is in colour

Look at this in black and white. Then check out the other two pictures. Tell me which one you like best

Fun check this out focal point black and white

This is a beautiful picture Miss Savannah took of the park i Kelowna. It looks so pretty we are going to try it black and white

Playing at the park. It was not really very nice weather.

My green house is cleaned out. Old plants removed and washed down all planted with different tomatoes. Hot peppers, grape tomatoes and Heirloom tomatoes. Oh yeah plus four turnips. I have no idea if they will make it. I thought I would try it anyway.

The last couple of days have been very busy. A lot of yard work has been done. A lot of watering has been done. It was quite cool today. We have had very grumbly sky's. My fire fighter comes home tonight then has to clear eight hours and then is off to another fire in the morning. He said one day at work he only walked on the ground ten minutes the rest of the times was spent walking on blown down trees. Sounds like piles of fun doesn't it.
I went for a walk this morning with Nana. I had to be in town for seven thirty so Tanisha could be at an Avid school breakfast. So then the boys and I had to kill time until it was time for school. My camper came home tonight absolutely knackered she felt really sick while camping. I asked her why she did not tell the teachers or phone home. She said. "You know we have a helper teacher who carried all the medicine in a container. She would have made be drink Buckley's" gosh I laughed poor kid. You can tell we don't have to give our kids a lot of medicine.

Today we left home quite early to take the kids to school and to drop off Miss Hyacinth so she could go camping with her school.Then we picked up Savannah and went to Kamloops. Allan had to pick up parts for the truck and it is a good thing we went today. He had the truck apart and someone phoned him to ask if he wanted to work. Which Is Very Cool!
I spent the afternoon watering plants, laundry and putting clothes away in my room.
I did go for a walk this evening. I actually went quite late. I was quite enjoying my walk it felt so good to go again. THEN....I had to meet up with a damn snake. I hate, hate, hate snakes I would have cried if I thought it would have done me any good. I was trying to figure out how to get by it without it seeing me. Then I thought what if it chases me... the tricky little sod tried to camouflage like the road. So I manage to tip toe by it and while doing that I became very jumpy even the music notes on my itouch made me jump. I was so busy being scared I nearly stepped on a dead snake. Then you know you can not trust those snakes. I thought what if he comes alive again... So I went to the end of my walk and then I had to go by it all over again. I was so desperate it actually crossed my mind to flag down the next truck. So guess what the damn snake was now in the middle of the road. I felt sick tiptoed and ran at the same time... pathetic I know...blame my sisters.
On that note I am off to bed have a wonderful night.

A blustery evening. Can you see bird actually I think a little boy was flying a kite.

The orange colour is so pretty