The New Brunswick girls are gone.

Yup, Lyse, Wendy, Leslie and Peggy along with the four dogs left this morning.  It’s soooooooooo quiet here.  Just for you Wendy. lol  Had a great visit with my old pal Lyse.

Our gas heater is giving MJ a hard time.  Was making noise, so she cleaned it up and now the gas won’t come through.  Grrrrrr.  Will have to wait and see if she can fix it.

A few pics that Lyse took of the gang.

 

Donna & Mike                     Charlie & Lynden

That would be moi and MJ

Peggy, Leslie, Moi and MJ.  That is water in my glass.

Lyse                                                                  Wendy

The weather here has turned just a tad cold.  When the sun come out it’s ok, but with clouds, it can be quite cool.  Beats rain and snow.

Old friend is visiting

An old friend whom I haven’t seen in about 27 years Lyse Audet and her partner Wendy arrived last Tuesday.  What a nice visit.  We have not stopped talking about the good old days. Two of their friends arrived yesterday.  They are on a trip of a lifetime that started in July in Fredericton, N.B. and will end in May 2014.

We went bowling with them and 4 other friends on Saturday and had a ball. 

We had our US Thanksgiving dinner on the 28th with about 40 people, what a feast.  Everyone brought a dish and we all enjoyed all the goodies.

Last night, we went to a Chinese smorgasbord.  Another yummy dinner.

Last night the wind picked up like crazy.  MJ brought in the slide just to save the awning covering it.  Still windy now, but not as bad.

Friends of ours, Linda and Ian had to put down their 6 year old golden retriever Ben on Monday.  He was full of cancer.  We are all very sad on the ridge as everyone knew Ben.  He would sit on your feet and push into you to get pets.

Rain has finally stopped.

In my last post (yesterday) I said the rain had stopped.  Yep, it had stopped for about 15  minutes and started as soon as I had published my post.   It rained til : 10:30 last night.  Total of 28 1/2 hours.  Now, am I to assume this is all the rain we will get this winter?  Last winter it hardly rained at all.  Wishful thinking on my part????????????????????

Rain, rain, rain.

Who said it never rains in the winter in the desert?  It has been raining steady from 6 o’clock last evening and just stopped a few minutes ago (3 pm).  But, it’s better than where we are from.  The weather in BC is in the minus Celsius.

Our friends from Logan Lake, Lynden and Charlie got here about a week ago.  Friends from Vernon, Mike and Donna arrived yesterday.

We have started bowling.  Our buddy Lynn organized a bowling night at the army base.  There were 9 of us last Monday.  Lynn, Wayne, Eric, Jim D, Jim B, Lynden, Charlie, MJ and me.  Cathy was with us also as an encourager, spectator.  We all had a ball.  Looking forward to going again next Monday.  Maybe will have some pics.

We have also started guitar and uke playing on the ridge (our area of the BLM).  We have Linda, Louise, Wayne, Lynn, MJ and me.  Here are a couple of pics. of us at Wayne and Lynn’s house.

Uke lessons for me have started two Mondays ago.  I really need it.  lol

My Uke teacher Gord stopped by to lend us his vocal chords.

Louise, Leona, MJ and Linda

Wayne

We have moved.

Yes, we have moved to a quieter place.  We did not move to Timbucktu, but just a ways up a little hill.  Still close to all our Snowbird friends.

We bought new reclining chairs.  Awwww.  so comfy.  One of our friends Jim bought our old chairs.

And, we broke down and got our fridge repaired.  We did all we could with the advise of our friend Gerald and other friends here, but the cold box gave up the ghost. 

Jim,MJ and I moving our two 6 x 10 panels.   Easier than dismantling them and rebuilding.

View of our set up taken by our buddy Trevor.

 

Jim (standing) bought our chairs.  Jim (sitting)  helped put the chairs in the truck.

 

Our yard at night.

One of the local inhabitants.  Was quite small.

New back of fridge.

TTFN

Fridge is not on the fritz.

Nope, we did not have our fridge rebuilt, just had to pay for a service call.  Two days after the repair guy came to tell us we needed a new fridge or rebuild ours, it (the fridge) started working right again.  The fridge fairy sprinkled magic dust and it works, or maybe it’s because MJ took a hammer to the cooling pipes.  We spoke to our buddy Gerald from Quadra Island who told us we were making a big mistake.  He was right.  It has been working fine since.

Went to Yuma yesterday and bought 2 new recliners.  We get them on Tuesday.  hee haw.

The weather is still pretty nice.  High 70s to low 80s.  Wish everyone could have a great life like we have.

Last night’s sunset.

These burros have learned to turn the water faucet on to get a drink.  Now, if only they learned to turn the tap off.

Marie, this is for you only.

You only get a blog when I write one.  If you get my email notifications, you don’t have to check every day.  I am not like some other bloggers, (wink wink) that write their daily activities.  Have a great farewell dinner.