Condo Move

Well the condo is all organized. Our tenant of 4 years moved out last Saturday and our new one moved in today. We love our condo and will look forward to living there when we finish RVing. It's close to town and surrounded by deck on 3 sides so it's very bright and airy. Feels like you're living in a treehouse. This is the entry past the fountain in the spacious courtyard.

St. Paul's Nursing School

Here's a picture of our nursing school entrance taken at our reunion in 2002. Today Penny and I went into St. Paul's Hospital for the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Nursing School in 1907. We had 11 women from our class there and about 550 attended in total. It was very well done. The archivist brought many, many photos depicting the activities right from the beginning of the hospital, early nuns and nursing classes. We went from 12 hour days to 40 hour weeks with a day and a half off per week. What progress. We laughed about leaping to our feet whenever a doctor entered the room, 'mystery balls' - a dinner entree we all gagged on and which we never did figure out and nine o'clocks. We also remembered our wage, free room and board for the first 6 months, $6/month when we got our caps, $8/mon for 2nd year and the grand sum of $10/mon for third year. We just managed to get over to Dunker's Donuts for ice cream and coffee which we poured on top - our treat. We're now planning a reunion for our 45th in September.

The Girls

Now that you've seen Trey, here's the girls. This was from Christmas, so look how Trey has grown.
W are certainly enjoying being home with our friends after spending 6 months away down south.
We always have fun Friday nights at pool with them and joined 2 couples for dinner this week.
We've been busy with the condo as one tenant leaves Sat. and a new one moves in next week. I've had the carpet cleaners, plumber, and painter in and it's looking good. I updated the 5 planters on our 112 foot deck, so the place looks great. It's only a block and a half to the center of town, so when we have to give up RVing and get our scooters, we'll be able to scoot right over to the action.

Slowed down

Man, have I slowed down on my blog. Actually, the reason is that I've been up to my ears in activities. We've been very busy with doctors, dentists etc and then my crown fell off and away I went again. Still must check the eyes for my developing glaucoma and I'll be perfect for another year.
I went to Bellingham with Suzanne and Trey, age 7 months, this week and loved it. He is such a good little guy and it was so nice to spend a day with him while Suzanne shopped. I got some new flip flops, black with rhinestones and the neatest black beaded slip on heels. Feel quite spiffy.
Here's my cutie pies.

Happy Mother's Day

I had a lovely Mother's Day weekend. Chris and Julie with Josh, Zach and Isaiah came over for a visit on Saturday with a beautiful purple flowering plant and card. Sunday Ron and I were heading to Sawbuck's for brunch when Paul called to say he had flowers for me. We picked him up to join us and more flowers, big purple irises. The motorhome looks gorgeous with the green upholstery and now purple accents. It's very nice to have a one on one visit instead of a large crowd, so we enjoyed being with Paul. Next we headed to Vancouver. We drove past English Bay shown here, with ships in the harbor, paintings and sculptures by the shore. We toured around Stanley Park seeing the evidence of the many trees blown down in a terrible storm last winter. Quite astounding, the power of the wind. Then we stopped in at Peter and Brenda's and visited them for 2 hours. It was a cloudy, cooler day but no rain.

The Big One

We had a great party with our friends and neighbours from the last 4 years here in the RV Park at a party for Marilyn's 65th. We all wore black and white and the hall was decorated appropriately. We had a great time with about 54 people that have come and gone over the years. Unfortunately Marilyn and Gary are leaving as they've been transferred back to Alberta. The neat thing is that we get to meet down south in the winter.

Family and friends

We've been really busy since we've been home. We enjoyed a very nice visit with Chris, Julie and the 3 grandsons in Abbotsford. I'm involved with 4 other women stating to organize a reunion for our old colleagues from Realty World, the real estate company we worked for from 1979 to 1989.
I had a great visit with Penny Mast, a friend since we graduated from nursing at St. Paul's in 1962. We went down to Crescent Beach for lunch and a good dose of sea air. Our family went to Crescent Beach as kids and I moved there in 1962 and raised my kids.

Gardening in Gibsons

I have really enjoyed my time with these 3 grandchildren. Oh, and their parents too. After lunch, we headed off the the swimming pool, even Trey went in the water. I was delighted to see how well Hana is swimming and liking it now. I really enjoyed being there with the kids. Later we went down to the beach where we looked for sea glass and interesting stones. Then we headed up to Anita Lindblom's Blue Dot Art Studio where we saw all her incredible handpainted ceramic tableware and watercolors. She has 3 distinct styles, bright modern abstracts, a flower series and modern, somewhat asian looking. Suzanne bought me a beautiful salad bowl for an early birthday gift that I love.
Monday, I picked up some pansies to fill in the pots I'd done in the fall, so the girls and I did our gardening in lovely sunshine and kept our eyes out for the deer. One day last fall, there were 5 deer in their front yard. I found out the hard way, after planting $42 worth of beautiful winter pansies, we found that the deer think they're delicious - gourmet deer food. We resorted to pots on the steps and this worked fine, apparantly deer don't climb the front steps.

the steps and this worked fine. Time to go home today.