Drive through Beacon Hill park on the way home. One of 2 new banners for winter. Some of the park moochers.
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Took the car out to get some supplies. Temperature is plus 1 at noon. Hot soups at Green Leaf Bistro hit the spot.
We just flew in from Australia (and boy, are our arms tired!).
Just a little under 12,000 km from Brisbane to Vancouver on Air Canada's direct, non-stop service. Little sleep. Little disturbances. Crossing the International Date Line this way is sort of like being in one of those time-loop movies (remember Bill Murray in Ground Hog Day in the early 90s?) Anyway, we landed in Vancouver just as the sun was coming up on the same day we left Brisbane at noon! Vancouver was chilly - snow pictures from the little plane window prove it. The short hop from Van to Vic (only 12 minutes in the air) showed snow accumulations diminishing as we approached home. Yay! Got a couple of quick pics of Sidney on our final approach. Some pictures of the Victoria & Vancouver airports before our long (14 hour) flight to Brisbane Australia.
Time for me to switch over to my OzAgain site! ozagain.weebly.com/ Up early (naturally) and taking pictures of a truly magnificent sky before I walked to the corner & realized I was not alone. Cruise ship passengers were seeing the sun rise over Victoria from an angle I never get to see. :)
The crew (thank you Mike & Pat!) finished up what they could, both inside & out on the last day before we fly south. We feel secure that our new room will not leak, and they will finish the outside work next week. All is good. And Jan will have fun using her artistic talents to finish the interior design in Dec. (and January?) Nothing to eat left in the house, so we totally enjoyed a large nacho plate at James Bay Inn! Renovation progress: the guys continue indoor work and Jan & I are still scouting for boards to finish the outside.
Up early again to move the car make room for the work crew. Nice tinge to the western sky.
I had thought there must be a fishing derby going on as there were a lot of small craft out beyond the breakwater on the weekend. I was right - it was the local salmon derby. Interior work continues - taping & mudding by Pat & Mike: Primer painting trim boards by Jan & me. We also went shopping for outside trim boards and found out there is a local shortage of kiln-dried 1x12 pine boards. Oh, and I started packing for OZ - we leave in a few days! |
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