Usually, I try to make my posts upbeat and maybe a little humourous.  I am afraid I cannot do that today. My sister and I have just lost our mother at the tender age of 87.  She would have been 88 on December 21st. It was a combination of an appendics attack, pneumonia, fluid in the lungs, three heart attacks and an unpronounceable intestinal disease she picked up in hospital. She passed away at home with the immediate family by her side. I hope you can understand why I have not been

 Oh dear, over two months since I blogged.  I guess that's what happens when you get up to your eyeballs in alligators. A bunch of us have been very busy putting our promotion together for the WA Platinum program, and we're not stopping now.  I'm STILL trying to figure out stuff on the Mac, but definitely way better than when I started here back in May.  And I have a LOT of people here at WA to thank for that. Another gorgeous day here today.  Spent part of the day putti

Amazing how much time runs away with you isn't it?  Can't believe it is three weeks since my last effort here.  Spent a few days over in Vancouver.  Our daughter and grandson are visiting this week, heading back on Friday.  Beautiful weather right now, with forecast temperatures in the 30C range this weekend.  That's pretty warm for us.  Managed to get a new water tank settled in to place for emergency use - in other words for fire protection.  Trust everyone

We have been getting somewhat desparate around here for some rain.  Not a drop for the past month!  The garden has been suffering mightily as a result, and we have to be cautious about water consumption as all we have is what we save off the roof.  If nothing else, we do absolutely need to keep the veggies watered daily.Yesterday - finally - we had a half decent rainfall.  The storage tanks came up quite a bit so we should be OK for several more weeks.  We generally get

A couple of evenings ago we had this sunset which I just added to my pics.  I have a hunch I missed the best part of it by about 10 minutes, but, oh well...