Our Really Big Weekend!

Boy, oh, boy...did we have a really big weekend.  It was so exciting!

First, on Saturday, Mrs. Nosy Parker is weeding along the side of our driveway when she spots a huge limo drive by.  A normal person would think "isn't that nice", but not Nosy Parker.  She drops her hoe like a hot potato, grabs her camera and walks jogs down the street.  Cool!  It's parked in front of Jack and Gwen's house.

It is Jack and Gwen's 50thWedding Anniversary and their children have arranged a special surprise.

See how nice they look?  They didn't know it at the time, but they are going to Sooke Harbour House with the whole family and they are staying overnight.  Shockingly, Janet was the only over-bearing neighbour taking photos...the paparazzi of our block!

The next day was our Monteith Street Summer BBQ.   All the neighbours get together and bring BBQ's, tables, chairs and potluck food.   This year it was held in front of our house.

Neighbour Gordon is getting huge mileage out of his chalkboard and easel.

We, sadly, were left inside the house, but decided to make a tag team out of it.  The TV room and Janet and Phil's bedroom face onto the front lawn.  I am too short to see above the window ledge, so I did the annoying barking routine and Rocker's gig was the Great. Big. Puppy. Dog. Eyes; just slightly above the window ledge.  Bam!  Success!  We got moved  to the driveway, behind the gate.  This did not work for us on so many levels, so I kicked it up a notch with the full on majorly irritating  barking. Finally, true success!

 Here we are enjoying our BBQ dinner.

This year, we extended the invitation to a couple of people on Lulie and the bottom part of Monteith

Look!  It's GrillMaster Phil and our long standing friend Ken, from Lulie.

It's Mark, Jack, Gordon, Mary, Wendy taking a photo of Janet taking the photo and Mr. David Burr's incredible knees!

Some of the delicious food our neighbours brought:

This is a guest that really, really wanted to come, that we managed to hold at bay:

Cutie Pie, Oliver - who is seriously a dog in a cat suit!

However, we did let Mr. Beau come on in!  We even invited him inside the house where the first thing he did was find Noodle's ducky.  Noodle's hasn't touched the ducky in weeks, but now, all of a sudden, it's a hot commodity!  You should see this ducky....there is not one ounce of stuffing!  It's hard to believe anyone would want this thing.

 It was tons of fun!