Sunday, August 7, 2011

(posted by Greg)

Friday was mostly a day around home for Monica and Marley. Monica slept quite a bit but the two of them did some chores around the house. I worked a full day on Friday. After dinner we picked up Bhannu ( our former minister's wife) and had  a cup of tea with her at the foreshore park on the Fraser River in Burnaby.

On Saturday, our niece, Bronwin, was participating in an art show ("Art in the Park") at Alouette lake in Maple Ridge. Monica, Marley and I picked up Barry and Sharon (my brother and sister-in-law) and had an nice afternoon looking at art. Bronwin does nice work (I particularly like her pet portraits- her website is http://www.wix.com/graphicmutt/artofthegraphicmutt). We didn't buy anything but had a nice day and a nice pub lunch with my niece and grand-niece (Jan and Amanda) on the way home.

Monica had a sleep after we went home and after she awoke wanted to go see the fireworks display on English Bay at the Festival of Lights. Over the years we have gone there quite a bit and Monica felt that she wanted to see it again this year. We went fairly early and I was able to drop Marley and Monica fairly close to the beach with our chairs, tea and radio. I then parked the car but had to park quite a distance from the beach. It was very pleasant sitting on the beach, people watching and watching the sun go down. The fireworks was spectacular ( I think one of the best that I have seen). The crowd was very big and getting away from the beach was slow and crowded. However, Monica felt strong enough to walk the 12 blocks uphill to the car and did a good job of walking in the crowd.

Today, we went to visit Oma and Opa and spent a couple of pleasant hours with them in morning visiting and doings some little chores. It makes us unhappy to see Oma so weak and having to work so hard to cope. Ingo continues to work to get their situation under control. The rest of the day was spent at home. I bought groceries and Marley went to the Whitecaps game with her friend Courtney.  We had some fresh kale from the garden and tried our friend Barbara's recipe for Colcannon. We also had our first feed of fresh broccolli from the garden. ( We were able to eat organic without increasing the mortgage on our house.).