Garage Sale

Had a large garage sale to clear out everything not currently in use. Thank heavens for a double garage and 4 large borrowed tables we organized yesterday. I overheard Suzanne saying on the phone,  'yes, my mother is here and she cracked the whip'. Not really true, they did it themselves. Cleared the entire garage with leftovers donated to the Sally Ann.
  Lucky us, we finished our day with dinner at M and F's. What a delight to have an extended family. We all brought food, the kids watched a movie while adults visited, hide and seek in the back yard and great company.

Weiner Roast

We met 2 other families at Bonnybrook Beach tonight for the 'end of the school year' wiener roast. First time our Firefighter has let us have a fire, below the tide line of course.

Lexi roasts the most perfect marshmallows, her specialty. 

 We had a blast. The sun came out for the occasion and we even got warm.

Going to Gibsons

This was interesting. Ron had his heart checkup in Surrey, which was perfect, so then I jumped on the Skytrain and went downtown through New West and Burnaby, new route for me. How things have grown and changed! We passed the Canucks arena, a different view.

 I have never seen the bus so packed going to the Horeshoe Bay ferry, standing room only.

We hung out that evening. Lexi read us the book she is writing and then we all told about the most embarrassing things that have ever happened to us. Hilarious. Unfortunately, I seemed to have had the most, could it be my maturity?

We get the Cake

We had a great gathering at Carol and Johns to celebrate all the June birthdays. There are about 8 of us and we've already celebrated a special 65 and 70 but  tonight we got the cake.

There was Kareoke, pool and lots of conversation.

On the covered patio by the fountain, in front of the fireplace.

Gateway Gardens

We joined friends looking at a modular home in this complex, then joined Pete and Sandy to see how they've done theirs. This is a 'breezeway' porch Pete is adding.

and here are Sandy and Celine in the kitchen. A lovely life style.

Great Nanny's Scones

When Penny and I were in nurse's training in downtown Vancouver, we used to visit Penny's grandmother, Great Nanny and she would feed us fresh scones. Her original recipe was from her mother back in Scotland. We stopped by and Ron was just pulling 2 trays out of the oven. Guess how much we enjoyed them hot.
I don't think she had measuring spoons in those days.

Great Nanny's Scones
  

2 cups flour

2 small hands of sugar

1 tsp. point of soda

1 small tsp salt

3 large tsp. baking powder

1 tbsp Crisco or margarine

1 tbsp butter

1 egg 

3/4 cup milk

Cut butter and Crisco into flour

Mix cheese, raisins, or any fruit or

spices, sundried tomatoes, chives

or anything you want to the dry

ingredients.  Make a hole in the dry

mixture.

Mix wet ingredients and add to flour

mixture just enough to blend.  Pat into

a flat shape with lots of flour on your

hands and cut into the shapes of your

choice.

Bake at 400 degrees for about 20 mins.

Adele`s Birthday

The ladies met to celebrate Adele`s important birthday.