Back in Victoria

Bus/Train interchange at Bridgeport Stn Richmond

Inflight pictures

Morning flight to Richmond

Still low fuel prices in Victoria

We broke the $1 per litre barrier tonight... going down!

Major accident near our place diverting traffic

This was due to a tragic accident that took the life of a young cyclist. 

It involved a bicycle and a tandem dump truck. Hug those you love! 

Clayton turned 20 !!!

Wow, our youngest turned 20!  Where did the time go?  Clayton we wish you the Lord's Blessing on this day and everyday of your life.  You are greatly loved.

Temperature roundup for a Saturday morning

DAYLIGHT SAVING explained ... best I've heard

Thanks Murr!

Now THAT is a sandwich!

Trista's new address

OT in the WHL

The Victoria Royals lost this game in a Shoot Out against the Seattle Thunderbirds. 

Saturday Soccer - California style

Thanks to my buddy Maurice for this picture. (yup, those are his feet)

This is NOT a donation!

When I was dropping Debra off for her Thursday morning shift at the BFM store, this was blocking the gate.  Can you believe the gall of some people to use thrift stores as their own personal garbage dump?

What a nice tweet!

Debra is getting some very nice compliments on her furniture.  She truly does VERY nice work.

From GasBuddy.com

This is a great app.  I check it on a daily basis to see if I need to run to the pumps before everyone in the city raises their prices.  Collusion?  No way. :) 

Karma bags a brace

That is three in two days!

By dogs, for dogs.....

His expression is priceless.

How cool is this picture?

It is from a website I follow called pdnphotooftheday.com

Victoria vs Edmonton on a Monday morning

In Victoria, we woke up to wind and lots of rain.  It is supposed to be this way for a good part of this week.

Murray sent this picture of the lovely fall colours turning in Edmonton.

THE opening faceoff to welcome the WHL back to Victoria

WHL hockey is back in Victoria after a 17 year absence.  The old Victoria Cougars relocated to Prince George the first year we moved to the island and we have been without ever since.  To fill the hockey void, we had/have a Junior A team called the Grizzlies.  For the last 6 or 7 years we have had the Victoria Salmon Kings playing in the ECHL.  Now, we have back in town the Victoria Royals and the home opener was a sellout.  Very loud and enthusiastic crowd.  Lots of fun and they won the opener 5-3 over the Vancouver Giants.

A French Touch

We have been very busy around the place over most of the summer and now into much of September.  What has kept us so busy??  A French Touch!  It is Debra's new business and you can find out all about it by following the link to her page on Facebook.  Click here.

Beautiful morning in Edmonton - from Murr

Murr mentioned to me the first time I posted this it was upside down.  This does look much better. :)

Deep Bay Sunset

We spent this past weekend up island.  On Friday night, Debra went to a baby shower for little Malakai (Josh and Jamie's new son)  Josh is Debra's brother Ron's oldest son.  We stayed at Mom and Dad R's and later that evening we were witness to a showing of the Northern Lights.  Pretty cool!  On Saturday, we hit a few garage sales and spent some time at Mark and Linda's (Debra's sister) store in French Creek.  Saturday night we spent in great conversation with M&D and we came home Sunday. The weather was very hot which made for a beautiful sunset.  The picture really did not do it justice. 

Old Water tower - Qualicum Bay

We were out garage saling on Saturday morning and got way off the beaten track.  Neat to come across this old water tower that we just had to get a couple of pictures of.  

Woohoo!!

How often have you witnessed your odometer ticking over to 200,000 km.  Our Honda Accord has served us very well since we bought it in 2000.  It had about 76,000 on it.

Corn Pops & Chocolate Milk Mix

Clayton's breakfast of champions! 

Roadside find

 Debra's friend Margaret keeps an eye out for any good pieces of furniture for Debra to refinish and a few weeks ago Margaret and her girlfriend found this piece of furniture for free on the side of the road.
The piece was in very bad shape, the picture above is after all the repairs and sanding.

 ....and this is the after.

Several pieces of the original hardware were missing, but Debra had bought these years ago at a Garage Sale.  They are of the same vintage and style as  the original, so these really suit this piece.

This is the label on the back.  Neat hey?  This was originally intended for resale, but we like the piece so much it just might have to stay. :)

Those Amazing Young Men in their Flying Machines

Trista and I took a walk along the Dallas Road waterfront very near to where she lives and watched these guys hovering and going back and forth with the wind.  Looks like loads of fun!

World's Tallest Toten Pole - Beacon Hill Park

The Totem was recently repainted back to it's original glory.  It's height is 127' 7".  

Our hottest day of the year (I think)

Yowza!  It was 30 degree's in Port Alberni this afternoon when we were there.  Victoria had it's heat as well.

Cathedral Grove

After spending an enjoyable late last evening and this morning with Mom and Dad R, Debra and I travelled to Port Alberni to see what the garage sales there were like.  Today, it was poor.  However, we did have an amazing fish and chip lunch at the Clam Bucket Restaurant, and stopped at Cathedral Grove to walk amongst the giants.  

(Thanks for that tip M&D) 

Decendants of Treebeard?

On the highway travelling to Port Alberni, very near Coombs.  These are amazing driftwood creatures.  Very well done. 

Parksville Beach

We travelled up island today to see Mark and Linda at the store and deliver a few more pieces of furniture.  After the drop off, Debra stayed with Linda at the store and I dropped by Parksville Beach to get my toes wet in the Pacific Ocean.  It was a bit windy so the kites were out and there were lots of families out enjoying the water and weather.