As we sat on our little deck amongst the trees, sipping a glass of wine, a multitude of hummingbirds were diving, fighting and playing around us. This guy seemed to be the boss though…. Seemed like a good opportunity to test out the HD video on the little Canon Elph300 we just bought, so I […]
Oh, marvellous…. and there was me thinking I’d left all this behind…. Big Brother Interested In Your Garbage (Castanet) Read Article @ http://tinyurl.com/28sszbm Kelowna Council will be asked Monday to pony up approximately $1.50 to $1.70 per household per year for on-board computers, software, data collection and data hosting services not included in the initial […]
Found Merlin fast asleep on the floor, after a hard days mousing…. Blogging has been a bit light. Not much has been happening…. Although, the big news, I’ve been “selected” to be the assistant football/soccer coach for the boy’s U14 team this year. We’ve had a couple of training sessions and a friendly, exhibition game […]
Miss has reached 11 years old and the age old question arises, “What does she want for her birthday?”…. So, I suggested scuba diving…. It went down a treat. She loved it. After getting over the initial nervousness of being in a new environment, she was hooked. I saw her go under at 7pm and […]
So, after we had the Peachland fire a couple of days ago, an ominous plume of smoke strated rising on the horizon, on the opposite side of the lake, about half an hour ago…. Kelowna fire department and Ministry of Forests crews are at the scene of two separate brush fires near the end of […]
So, checking the news channels, I’ve got this for now…. Ministry of Forests and Range say fire is 18 hectares in size and is contained below the highway. 14 firefighters, 5 helicopters and one piece of heavy equipment are on scene. Calm winds are slowing fire behaviour. The plumes of smoke have certainly dissipated, (I […]
The word is that the fire is now at 15 hectares, so it’s still growing. And to make matters worse, some people are taking the logging roads to try and get round the Hwy 97 closed route….. then getting lost, stretching the RCMP resources further. More news as I get it….
I don’t see any planes, or "water choppers", so it would appear, from our view, that it’s under control for now…. it’s been very hot and dry for a few days now though, so, we wait and see. We have had some serious winds over the last 24 hours, but fortunately, they have died down […]
Er…. Bizarre creature washes up in small Ontario town…. Locals in a small Canadian town have been stumped by the appearance of a bizarre creature, which was dragged from a lake. The animal, which has a long hairy body with bald skin on its head, feet and face, has prompted wild internet speculation that it […]
Genius…. Thanks for asking if we wanted them, government of Canada and thanks for doing the homework on them before you forked out the cash, OUR cash. Let’s hope someone kept the receipt…. Full-body scanners are waste of money, Israeli expert says A leading Israeli airport security expert says the Canadian government has wasted millions […]