A little get together with family

Sunny, cool and windy this morning, but still a nice day. We travelled to Michelle's this morning for a brunch to meet with our granddaughter Jennifer who works at Lake Louise and was en route to Slave Lake, Alberta for a friends wedding. She and her friend Alex had spent the night at our daughter, Tracy's place they all arrived at Michelle's around 11 o'clock for brunch. We enjoyed the brunch very much; four varieties of pancakes, fruit, whipping cream and real maple syrup and had an awesome visit, returning home around 1:30 p.m. Michelle had also baked Tracy a birthday cake as it is her birthday tomorrow and they will be in Slave Lake camping, so we had a little impromptu Birthday Celebration, what a sweet thoughtful thing to do for your sister Michelle. Michelle, Caitlin, Jennifer and Alex followed us home for a visit and to review the African pictures. Jennifer and Alex left around 3:00 pm for Slave Lake another 2 1/2 hour drive for them with a stop in Barrhead, so Jennifer could show Alex, where she was born and spent part of her childhood as well as her great-grandparents home. Michelle and Caitlin left around 4:30 pm.


We forgot our camera at home so no pictures of our get together at Michelle's but we did catch a couple of pictures at our place, just as Jen and Alex were leaving.

You can hardly see Oreo against Jennifer's black skirt.


Woody and I visited for a short time and then Woody fixed a trail sign re-installed it and mowed trails stopping for a short break, checking his favorite online forum sites. Laptops are wonderful we sat outside while he checked out his favorite sites he then resumed mowing as he headed for the tractor his comment was “I should be paying them to play with this tractor I'm having so much fun”! Oreo wanted to follow him but she was very good, staying here as commanded. She sat looking in the direction he had left for about five minutes then laid down watching and listening for about another 15 until I decided I needed to take her for a walk/play to distract her. When we returned from our little walk, I took the trimming shears and trimmed around the gate, some signs were totally covered up with overgrowth of bush and others were partly covered. Oreo happily followed me and stayed close; she is such a good girl. Woody and I are surprised at how many frequent this park, many vehicles stop here through the day and evening walking the trails or just taking a short walk around the facilities and checking them out. It is 7:30 p.m., and I can hear the tractor returning, guess it's time to have some dinner. We were sitting outside just enjoying the evening when a couple that come here very often pulled in (they previously had left their motor home here), they were waving and saying hello, they stopped and said they'd be over later, they had some goodies for us. They arrived a short time later, with homemade banana muffins and some cinnamon rolls, they made comments on how much better the park locked so we sat and visited shared an adult beverage, and of course, they wanted to see the African pictures so we spent some time sitting outside with the laptop viewing the African pictures, it was a wonderful evening.