Random Studio Photos

Last Sunday of January

We had a fun weekend of caching. Rick had Friday off, so we went to the western part of town out by the airport to do some fun puzzle caching. There was not much snow at that time, but the day was too gray for pictures. We were pleased with our selves to figure out the Head's Up Cache  Head's Up . It involved figuring out a hidden code to find the coordinates.

                                                      
It snowed about 6" on Saturday night and then turned cold and clear. Sunday the temperature didn't get above -10C. We spent Sunday afternoon driving through the grassland taking pictures and finding caches.
We are now up to 601.

Edith Lake Road

Blackwell Trails

On Sunday we went out to the Blackwell trails so that miorrieave and Taylor could do the Mama Mia caches. It was a beautiful day with a mixture of sun and fog and frost on the grass. 

Mamma Mia
Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head
I Talk to the Trees

Since then MaliBooBoo , a local cacher, had added to the series:

Trailer Park View

Skiing and Caching

On Saturday we drove out to the Goose Lake/Lac la Jeune area and went cross country skiing. We followed an old road with snow mobile tracks on it and found 6 caches along our rounte. The snow was warm and not in very good condition and it was very much a challenge, but we had fun anyway.

Fun in the Snow

We finally had enough snow to spend an afternoon playing. This was up by Lac du Bois where the snow was well over 12" and the temp. was about -2C.

2011

Well ,the first week of January 2011 was rather surreal.

We had the stomach flu that we caught from Dave and Corrie and the girls when we had a late Christmas celebration on Jan 1st.

 We had a final acceptance on the sale of my Dad's house in Penticton, after dealing with some home inspection issues and a late deposit cheque. I'm the Power of Attorney who was making the sale happen, so having it finalized is wonderful! the closing date is Feb 28th. 

 On Thursday, my Dad had the fourth fall in two weeks , two of which involved paramedics. A spot became vacant in Complex Care at the Hamlets in Penticton and Rick and I dropped everything and went to Penticton and got him moved on Friday and Saturday. It was tremendously emotional, because my Dad knew enough to know he didn't want to move, but his dementia had gotten sooo bad that he didn't even remember the last fall a day later. The staff at the Hamlets were glad that he could move back on the same floor he was on this summer, but Dad does not remember any of the care-aids or the friend that he made from before. He has 3 ladies in the same little group with him and he did seem to be enjoying their company.  Even if he starts to complain now, we all know that this is the right place for him and he will have to stay.

We came home on Sunday to collapse and hope everything is smooth sailing for the rest of 2011!