Linden Gardens

Fall Colors at Linden Gardens

Dahlias

Danish and English colors

Yesterday we entered the swing of daily life by once again visiting our favorite gardens on Linden Avenue in Kaleden. Fall is gradually establishing its seasonal colors and flowers. Today we are inundated with choices as markets, Fall fairs, artist's studio tours, and sports events vie for our attention. The bubble of high pressure continues to dominate as cloudless skies hover above us seemingly for ages, whilst Katia threatens more stormy weather elsewhere in the world. Yesterday there was a small earthquake off our west coast and some folk felt its rumbles here. Also at Athens Creek we have another blogger you should check out. Barbara is showing us what it means to live a new life with her Danish husband Kaj in Athens Creek Lodge, and Penticton BC....

Supper Time at the Cabin

Cabin Shoes

Supper Time!

Study in Green ( Chad likes Greens!)

It was quite an adventure entertaining seven visitors for a couple of days at our cabin, but we both thoroughly enjoyed ourselves, even though we were a little too mature ? to take part in the volleyball matches, and in the throwing of buckets of icy-cold well water at certain others, and in the long distance bicycle tours, we did have fun creating bonfires and having our meals cooked for us! Here are a few memories of some moments, the more active events however were captured on video....

Holidays Over

View from our Bed & Breakfast window in Squamish BC; Pacific Ocean in the distance...

The Three Graces at the cabin, Pigeon Lake Alberta.
From left to right: Jenessa ( Hanne's Grand-daughter) with Belinda and Megan, Jenessa's friends.

Resting spot, Rocky mountains near Revelstoke BC, yesterday afternoon.

We are safely back home now after a wonderful 2000 km round trip through some of Canada's most outstanding scenery; meeting new and old friends; being both happy (enjoying our family) and sad (attending the funeral of an old acquaintance); and warm (up to 35 degrees yesterday) and cool (four degrees at our Alberta cabin by Pigeon Lake one or two days). More of our trip later, but in the meantime here are three images from our journey.....

Rest?

Our commenters have been kindly wishing us a nice rest as we sojourn at our Pigeon Lake cabin in Alberta. Many thanks for your good wishes!
All is about to change this Labour Day Long Week-End as seven other folk are poised to descend upon us! At least we have to be thankful that we don't have as many in our family as Pat Mackenzie in Edmonton!
Hanne's Calgary family are driving up today, with a couple of their daughter's friends who are planning to tent here, even though it goes down to six degrees Celsius at night these days!
We are looking forward to their visit, then we plan to be back home in Penticton by Wednesday next week.
Enjoy your long week-end if you have one. Hope the weather is kind to you all.

Michael and Hanne
mhvetbo@gmail.com

http://mhs22.blogspot.com

We are still Alive!

We have arrived at our cabin at Pigeon Lake Alberta for the next few days, after exploring new roads and places in BC. Today is cloudy and wet with threat of thunder and a high of only 17 Celsius, and the constant sounds of tree-felling outside as the local municipality in its wisdom sees fit to diminish our wild trees in the name of safety. There was a huge old tree on our property that was always used by ducks for nesting purposes over the years. That is now gone and we can see why; it was completely hollow inside all the way down.
We discovered a squirrel or two had been in our basement sequestering bits of pine- cones in our furnace pipes thus preventing the blower from starting, so yesterday we had the repair man around to fix it. Last night it was so cosy we slept for eleven hours!
And so August draws angrily to a close, with much destruction on our Eastern coastlines, and many people losing their property and lives, as Irene ploughs its way North.
Our next post will probably be in September, when we arrive home to Penticton and edit our mountain of photos, and write our monthly newsletter!
In the meantime, stay safe and keep on blogging!

Michael and Hanne
mhvetbo@gmail.com

http://mhs22.blogspot.com

Sailing Lessons

Yesterday Jake went to the beach and spent ages sliding into the lake at Naramata. Today we drive Aunt Alix and Jake back home to Bowen Island and then take a little break ourselves, so there will be a gap in our postings.

Jake Sliding In ( Twin Towers of Penticton in the far distance )

Sailing Lessons

Break for Lunch

Meanwhile also at Naramata there were sailing lessons in progress, carefully supervised by adults. Enjoy the photos!

For Whom The Bell Tolls

Jake, Great-Aunt Clare, Aunt Alix, Great Grandpa Michael

Jake Tolling

The Burrowing Owl Bell

Jake and Hanne enjoying Quality Time together...

Seventy-one years ago Ernest Hemingway's famous novel of that name was published, describing the brutality of civil war in Spain. Let's hope the brutality of present day civil wars in Libya and Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq, and other countries, will soon draw to a close. Visitors to the Burrowing Owl winery were wondering for whom the bell tolled yesterday as young Jake pulled the bell rope in the tower! You can see the owl on the bell. We had perfect weather for our explorations. Today it is to be 34 degrees and more of the same sunny weather. We are visiting Naramata and Kelowna on the last day for our visitors today.