My Wonderful Vacation!

On my time off I am having a vacation at home. Just hanging out, taking the car in for servicing, visiting relatives, going to the dentist and other appointments at my leisure, staying up till 4 a.m. when I want, working on Grandma's cookbook and so on. I am having a blast! Now, if only I win the lottery, I'll be set - ROFL!

Then there's the little matter of THIS:

That would be my self-employed income in the proverbial shoebox, only I throw everything in a drawer. I plan on getting my taxes done on my time off. I'm going to NEED it!  zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. So - I'm still here, just somewhat occupied with all these fun things. :D

Trip to a foreign country on Wednesday afternoon..... :D

Just doing a little shopping in the community .... the Bellingham community, that is. :D Look at the clouds up there! I didn't even notice them at the time. Wicked. The wind was freezing but I had to take my coat off in the car because it was like a sauna! Good times.......



This guy's name is Archie. At least he had something to offer with his gig. Give the guy props!



And, of course, Trader Joe's. They have THE BEST frozen Naan bread. I am in love!!!!!!!

Ray and Barb's...

Rick checking out Ray's new car! It's kind of a grey-green PT Cruiser,
metallic finish. High seats so you get a great view of things.
Lots of room inside even though it's fairly compact. Really nice!

A pair of "wild and crazy" swingers!

Barb's car. Love the red. Peppy and smooth. Both cars are great!!!!

We had a delicious dinner. Salad with that wonderful peanut salad dressing Barb makes, cannelloni, parsnips, asperagus cooked in garlic (yum), Merlot for those who indulge, and then some tuxedo cake and a pastry from Cob's bakery. I forget its name. At least I didn't pig out! :D

Change of Name

I have always wanted a title with "blog" in it and tried and tried ... I've done a search on Google and no one else seems to have this one (all others I'd thought of were already taken and I didn't want to copy anyone), so hopefully I'm not "stepping on anyone's toes"  - hahahahahah.

Yeah, it's sad when YOU think you're funny....

Is it just me?

Has EVERYONE else in the world already seen tulips with these fuzzy/jagged edges? I've never seen them before in my LIFE until yesterday. I really need to get out more, I guess. Very pretty!

Just what we fricken need!

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There goes the cost of living!

(Sorry, I guess I didn't make that clear. :D )

Basically, my point was - now we're a supermodel city and everyone and their little dog is going to move to Vancouver and .... if we think it's expensive to live here NOW ......

It was a great day!

On River Road on the way to Wal-Mart, so many times I have wanted to catch the train trestle closing and then the train going across and then it opening again. No luck. Then today we were in the Wal-Mart parking lot after shopping and I was talking to my bro on the phone (about 5:26 p.m.) and we were chatting away when Rick pointed to this train across the water. I wasn't thinking anything except, yep, there's a train. Then after I got off the phone he mentioned that it's PROBABLY the train that goes over the trestle!!!!! HELLO, IN THERE, JUDELF!

So, I beat a hasty retreat over to Tim Horton's to grab a coffee, cause the train seemed to be going fairly slowly. I was hoping I wouldn't miss it - but, COME ON, I needed a Double-Double, eh?

Anyway, then I raced to the train trestle and .... I could see that it was closed! ARGH! Did we miss it?! But as we got closer, I could see the train sitting there on the other side - YAY!

Hey, look at the MAN on the train! Woo hoo!

By this time it's about 5:40 or so and nothing is happening. Rick is getting antsy and wants to go, I'm going "No way, hose, eh?" I think this guy is probably on a schedule and is waiting to go - like at the bus layover stops. Rick doesn't think they have a schedule, but I said we'll wait until 6:00 and if it doesn't go we'll just leave. :(

Sure enough, 6:00 rolls around and there's some action!!!!!!!

Sorry for the wobbliness of the video - I really need a tripod! Hope no one has vertigo - hahaha.

I decided to leave it with all the sounds intact - hopefully you can hear the train creaking along the tracks as it goes by.

Love the trains. You don't get to see many of them these days.

And then there's the trestle opening again. I seemed to have the zoom stuck and couldn't zoom out but had to leave it or I would have missed everything. Well, perhaps that would have been better - hahahahahaha. Oh well. Warning - could be very boring...... :D

Hopefully, it's tiny enough that it's not as blurry. I intend to catch it again one day and this time I'll set the darn camera properly! And that's RR saying 'There's somebody up in the booth!!!!!' (I can't take him anywhere! *G*)

Prime Richmond Real Estate .....

Neat Bachelor Pad - hahahahahaha. Penthouse with excellent view. :D

By the way, that's the same nest from a few weeks ago - he's just moving in I guess. :D

Jaime and George!

My niece Jaime - and her husband George!  You two are gorgeous!  :D

Their wedding was last year.

Love, AJ

Fruit

I think this is lovely! :D

Saw it at Sawasdee in October 2007.

Desi

1974 - 1999

Not much going on out there tonight....

God Bless The Freaks - hahahaha.

Lord love a duck - will it ever end!!!!!????

Grrrrrrrrr...........

Our snow on Sunday...

This was about how terrible it was today. :)

Meanwhile, on the Alex Fraser Bridge there were about 5 accidents and they closed the bridge down for a while to salt and sand it.

I think I like our snow better. :)

I don't even care about the Olympics!

But, there I was, out with Jenny taking pictures of the new rings along the road leading to Vancouver from YVR! We were disappointed because we expected them to be in colour! Bah! [The rings are 45 feet tall, use 20,000 low-energy LED lights, and can be programmed to turn on and off at various times, making for a stunning display of light - so the press release says. *g*]


Next, we trotted over to the "oval" and took a few shots. It looks quite nice all lit up. Of course, that never really translates with a little Canon Digital Elph! :D

There are some projection spotlights on the ground and the images are kind of cool:

Love the colours in this photo.

Then off to Starbucks for our obligatory pit stop. #2 and Blundell to watch the local riff raff!
Of course, we were front and center. :D

How to get yourself killed......

OR - what a fricken MORON!!!!!!!!!

Take a good look. See the stupid moron scooter driver waiting BESIDE the big SUV type vehicle!? He's waiting to turn left. I just could not believe someone that stupid! I hate people who don't know how to drive properly. Like bike riders who ride on the road, but then they get to a crosswalk and decide to drive across in the crosswalk - now they're a pedestrian? Don't get me started!!!!!!! :D

Rixie turned 60!

Yep - the big day last week! :D

Weird tree...

This house is at Park and Granville, north east corner. Very lovely house. Anyway, if I'm NOT mistaken - does it not look like they have chopped the top off their fir tree?! That's what it looks like to me. I've never noticed to it before, PROBABLY because it looked NORMAL! This just caught my eye today and .... well, it's certainly bizarre!