Hello Everyone!
Well back to reality is right – sure is easy to come home and fall right back into busy life in the Smith House. Although I did take a day and spend it with my Father in Law at an Antique & Collectible auction – now I know what you’re thinking “She just told us about donating stuff and here she is buying more shit (OK that was my husband’s quote) but in my defense I only spent $17.88 – it really wasn’t as much as my F-I-L but then again he has a lot more room to store it.
So I felt obligated to give a brief story as to what the Boys did on their holiday from the girls. There is not near as many pictures but I will share what I can. We averted a near disaster as when I came home I was confronted with this:
Oh my Lord what is a guy to do – the rolls are empty and without a Mom/Wife here to change them!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!!!!
Ok I probably find that a whole lot funnier than the Boys will – and in all fairness the main bathroom had about 6 squares left on it – I had to stage the pictures.
They did keep busy – and apparently we weren’t missed much – well except that the cupboards & fridge were getting quite bare – or rather the stuff that I left in them was green and they were looking for food in other places. On the plus side Clark had all his & Cooper’s laundry done (yah) and the cat box was not in the shape I had imagined it would be.
Clark’s done lots of work on his truck – he has the motor mounted and is hoping to start it up before the snow flies…which being that we live in Northern Alberta could be 6-8 weeks from now.
We had bought a zodiac before I left so they decided to head out camping for a few days – they loaded it up, Cooper’s motorbike & the quad and away they went.
Stony Lake (http://wnms.pris.ca/brochures/boundary.pdf) was their first stop. Tight fit to get the camper into the stall – but they rammed it in there and had a good time. It’s just across the BC border and the fishing was great!
I do believe this is a jack fish – and they actually caught quite a few – only seemed to get 10 into the boat as they gave up a good fight – how exciting. Cooper loved it – he didn’t like the fact that the boat takes on a bit of water so it had to be pumped out regularly – this made him quite nervous (too many Discovery shows about boats going down I would say!) But they scenery was beautiful and the weather was nice for them.
I’ve not ever been to this lake but it looks kinda nice – we only have about 2 more opportunities to go camping so might not see it until next year sometime.
After spending a day & night at this spot they moved on to Gwillim Lake (http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/bcparks/explore/parkpgs/gwillim_lk/) – it’s near Tumbler Ridge and we had actually drove to it when we visited Colton while he was working in Chetwynd last year. It’s quite a large lake – and kinda spooky they said going across it in the little zodiac – Colton googled it and learned it’s 157 feet deep – yikes!! Anyways they bedded down here and alas only had a few nibbles – caught no fish.
The did however see a very cool wind farm somewhere on their travels – not sure where but they caught a couple good shots.
They told me that it was amazing how many there were and how huge the windmills are. I know there is another windmill farm somewhere near Chetwynd but this must be another one – who knew BC was so environmentally friendly.
Actually I should say who knew Northern BC was so environmentally friendly! That’s it for photo updates – Clark did tell me that he was very thankful he didn’t have to be head chef anymore and told me I should go on mini vacations more often as it makes him appreciate me more….
Hmmmmm…..where can I go next???
Cheers,
Shannon
You are one lucky lady, the boys had a good time and the house was intact when you got home.
Do you have a front loading machine, we do and I love it. The fuller the better and it uses very little water! I would never let my kids near a washing machine, when they were growing up we had one which required me to put the clothes through the wringer so not kid friendly. When I was a little girl in England my Nana had a copper boiler in the kitchen which require a fire to be lit underneath to heat the water then the clothes were poked and pushed around with a big stick, the clothes had to be carted down the garden path into the shed where a giant mangle rung the clothes out and were then put on the line which was had a pulley and raised the clothes up high so they avoided the smoke from chimneys, an all day job! A favourite time for me was to be able to wash my dolls clothes in a tub and hang them on a little line.
Auntie – not sure how this got posted under this. Yes when my older siblings were young my Mom too had the old wringer washer – now they are highly sought after antiques!! One wonders what Mike would have tried to put through the wringer??!!