The first week was beautiful; sunny and warm. The second week it turned cold, grey and rainy, which matched my health. I developed a persistent cough that kept me up at night and tired and frustrated through the day. I usually get sick when I come for these visits but can lay the blame firmly on the grand children as one, or all, of them are usually experiencing a "bug" of some kind. They are all fabulously healthy this time so no idea where I caught it.
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Life goes on ....lemon muffins and lemon curd.
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Mike and I went and got free compost
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and free mulch, even though Amazon hasn't delivered his raised bed yet.
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The "walk" to a park actually had Avery on a scooter and Maya on roller blades.
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This park
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was on a bit of a hill overlooking the river valley that contains the commercial area of the town.
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River had daily facials.. yogurt,
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brownie..... |
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Most of the seeds we planted last week have germinated. Lots of salad greens in their future.
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A break in the rain and we went for another walk. This is a huge off-leash park where Iggy enjoyed some fun running with the big dogs.
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Its about a 15 min walk to the stocked lake
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Mike plans to bring the kids fishing.
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When I was on the Recreation Committee in Paris I found it very frustrating that the council had allowed developers to buy their way out of providing green space in each development. Here there is a park in each little neighbourhood with a large green space, trees and play equipment. Our walk to the fishing lake involved stopping at 3!
Guest photographers:
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Nic and Dave's new system to drip irrigate the raised beds. (photo by Nicola)
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Rick and his daughter, Jen, took Spellbound out and successfully flew the Spinnaker, in preparation for racing season that starts next week. (photo by Rick)
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