Pincher Creek, Alberta

Aug 1st - we are on our way from Swift Current Saskatchewan to Pincher Creek, Alberta. After our lunch stop at Medicine Hat we next stop at Taber for more groceries. We drove through Lethbridge and Fort McCloud with no stops as we are heading home. We are in the foothills of the Rockies now. There are quite a few windmills, but not many of my photos turned out this afternoon. We get to Pincher Creek and find the Sleepy Hollow campsite by about 5:30. We are beside the creek in a well treed campsite. We get parked and its a bull's eye level ! We have pasta, basa fish, salad and white wine. Walk after the supper dishes and back to the camper for our chunky monkey ice cream desert. We could not find Cherry Garcia ice cream. It was 36 degrees out today, but we have air conditioning. We are comfortably snugged in by 8:30.

At home: I have managed to get the house plants watered and watered a bit at the back, as well as top up the pond. I uploaded my videos of the Greek dancing to you tube and have one at the bottom of the page today. Dan and Carol should arrive in an hour or so, as they were catching the 9:00 ferry they said. It rained a bit last night and the trees are just starting to turn colors.

More photos of the windmills in the fog.

At home: I finished resetting the edging rocks of the pond today. When I turned on the pump it would not work. Pat had a look at it and found that the impellers were woobly and worn out. We went to Cannor and acquired a new one. I installed it and have the water running out the waterfall at the desired rate.... I might slow it down just a bit more. I have the pond half filled with water and the pump off. There are no fish in the pond, now and won't be all winter, so the pump can stay off. I also got the piles of sticks and clippings moved into the compost bin. Pat used his leaf blower to pick up more leaves and dumped them on the veggie garden. I am going to start putting down mulch on that garden patch, and just move it aside to plant seeds in the spring. Hope I can get enough mulch to make this work right. There should be pictures when I have it filled, and the Japanese garden area cleaned up.

Amsterdam, Holland - June 1, 2008

More photos from our day trip to see the preserved windmills, wooden shoe factory and the refurbished fishing village.

Yesterday, Arthur, Rosemary, Pat and I went to Cobble Hill to have a look at the corian countertop manufacturers. We will probably get back to them to come to do a measurement when our cabinets are installed. It was a beautiful sunny day. We stopped for lunch at the fish and chips shop. After talking with the guy from Countryside Designs - just off Nightingale Road -- we had time to stop at the Blue Rose nursery, and at a Used car parts place.

Amsterdam, Holland - June 1, 2008

Our tour visited the collection of windmills that have been preserved. Despite the foggy morning, I think I got a few good photos.

I made chicken, vegetable, noodle soup. I have one jar frozen. We are eating less salt in our meals. The soup we purchase is full of sodium. So, we are trying to stay away from the store bought. I am starting to make up meals and things for convenience; and freezing them.