VICTORIA IN NOVEMBER

Ah, traveling with a smoker. You know sometimes this view can be just a little scary!

He did make a new friend though.

We stayed at the Fairmont Empress and it was all right but I doubt that we would stay there again. Who knew though that they would come with dance lesson.
Hey Macarena!!

I proved to Heather that I really am quite stupid! No Dancing with the Stars for me.
So much fun though.

Now this was the weird part of the room, a giant faux fireplace. The girls loved it though and the mantle was amazing. It probably had been an actual fireplace years ago.

This is the 'birthin' the baby' face. I believe we saw it on Linds a few times.
Anyway, if was a fun trip and so good to see James & Johnny & Heather but the best part was hearing little 'Wazits' heart beat!!

Whew!! First Big Storm of the Season!

And what a whopper! Just short of a 16' high tide and I thought we were going to lose the lighthouse light in the backyard, if not by a wave then by a log but the winds peaked and the tide peaked and then everything began to calm down. Jim and I were worried about Chris and Darcee's addition so we tried to get out there about 8:30 to give them a hand but got to the end of street and that was it. Kirk's beautiful old Ponderosa Pine was covering the entire road. We finally did get out there about 2 hours later and what a mess. The addition was fine though, they just ended up with a couple of trees down and a whole lot of drift wood all over the lawn. And what got me most was the rocks that pushed up as well. As we all threw logs and rocks back into the ocean their neighbor (the one that lives in our house) came whipping down his driveway in his BIG tractor and cleaned up his yard in about 5 minutes. There was serious envy going on. It's probably a good thing that we didn't get that house cause Jimbo would have to have had one and I can't imagine the damage he could do...

Anyway the sun came out and all was well and the next storm is supposed to hit tonight. Lower tides and lower winds though. Good thing cause they still don't have all the power back on in the valley.

The other good news (so far) is that JD is home from the pet hospital. He's been one sick kitty and he still has a long way to go. He went into complete kidney failure and we have no idea why. Could be food but then Oz eats the same thing and appears fine. We're still having trouble getting JD to eat but he's really picky and he's not liking the vet food so we're going to try something else today or it's back to force feeding. I'm keeping my fingers crossed. He is now the most expensive animal we've ever had!!!
We sure love him though.

So that's it for now and guess what it's not a bird!! Cute little guy, eh?

Burning Darcee & Chris' House

Okay, so we didn't exactly burn the whole house just parts of it! What fun! Actually it was just the bits and pieces left over from their on-going reno. It was a good thing too cause it was damn cold out!

The renovations are going to be amazing. The very, large fireplace is sitting there, the roof is on and the windows will be in soon. It's going to be so beautiful.

Other than that we haven't been up to much of anything. I've been trying to get out and take some photos and I've even got an exhibition going on right now (too funny, I always get talked into something I don't want to do). Oh well, it's over next Saturday.

This fellow killed one of my little robbins, sad but I guess he has to eat too.