Rock path in front of the sweet peas and the Canada 150...
Rock wall completed
Ferns and hosta saved also
Northern Pintail
Family of four
Family of 12
Golden Warbler
Here's a different visitor!
Northern Pintail
One lone duckling - he didn't make it
Hooded Mergansers
Bottoms up!
Wood duck - rare in these parts
Canada 150 tulip
Eaglet
Gadwall
Female Red-Winged Blackbird
Eating one of the big cedar stumps ready for the fence
Sitting around the gas firepit
Sparrow
Gadwall
Wood duck
White pigeon
Teal
Rockery complete with red pot
First item on the smoker - flank steak
Lower fence
Blueberry bushes planted
Garden beds and fence
Eaglets are almost as big as the adults
Adult
Second item smoked - ribs!
Merganser babies
Continuing the path
Beds for beans and raspberries
Geese at the salad bar in front of our house
Lower fence with "lattice"
Heron at the Marsh
Mama duck just resting
Then this group showed up!
Red hot pokers in bud
Twice baked potatoes - part of Maureen's birthday dinner - tenderloin also!
Mike and Cynthia - our friends from Santa Cruz who we met...
Pender Harbour
Lougheed estate - Lougheed Hwy, Lougheed Mall - in Burnaby
Painted Boat Resort
Net-drying building - these are from the 1930's - some have been...
Cute little house
Seals
Eagle on our beach
New heron nest - in a very unprotected place
Babies in the salad bar
Right out front - still not one of our eaglets
Northern Shovellers
Two teals and a cinnamon teal in one shot!
Nine of these big canoes were portaged right by our house
From Fort Langley
From Fort Saskatchewan
Young adult in our tree
Having a drink
Father's Day dinner - simply amazing!
The Chef
Red hot pokers - now in full bloom
Sweet peas
Veggie garden making good progress!
A lot of landscaping (once the sun came out) and a lot of birds this segment. We've watched through our telescope our two eaglets growing from little grey beings to quite big birds. They are now poised for flight but we will miss this stage while we are away. Some of the vegetables will also be ready while we are gone but Kelly will tend to them, watering and eating them if necessary!
It's been wonderful getting to know our beautiful house and working in the garden. The amount of rain we've had has been a challenge - no point working in the mud but progress has been made. Mike and Cynthia, who we originally met in Nova Scotia and who we have visited a couple of times in Santa Cruz, CA stopped in for a nice visit from June 9 to 14 with their RV. They fully tested the sani-station, the 50 amp power and water hookup we have for our RV friends. Everything worked great and they loved it here. We went for a 90 minute tour around Pender Harbour in the SloCat.
Kelly has been impressive with two wonderful dinners he cooked for Mother's Day and Father's Day including Flapper Pie for Larry and with the work he's put in on the landscaping and the fence. While we are gone, he and the neighbour (also Larry) will complete the rest of the fence.
We're packing for our trip and the next installment will be all about that. We are going to celebrate our 40th wedding anniversary in Ucluelet this weekend then on to points north - including Alaska and the Yukon. We will be back the end of July!!