Out For Lunch!

Our Super Star Nephew Brad and his equally Super Star Girlfriend Kim invited Janet and Phil and Jeremy for lunch today.  Brad and Kim are packing up all their belongings and heading east to Halifax with their two kitties.  Janet says they didn't see them all that often while they were in Victoria, but when they did see them, it was great as they are both such excellent people.  Janet also says she does not envy their road trip.

Check out Farmer Rancher Janet's garden!  She is beyond belief at how great it is!

We are having a big party in Camp Canada because our house is now 100 years old!  Janet and I trooped over to City Hall to go to Oak Bay Archives and get copies of everything they had on record.  Our house cost $3500 to build, which included the garage.  It also said the sewer was done by "Oak Bay's Own Men", which we can only assume is better than the ne'er do wells that work in Saanich.

Will you be long, Janet?  I have important shit stuff to do at home!

OK...I will relax for a few minutes.  I wonder if the Barnes family had any puppy dogs when the built the house 100 years ago.

"We" are sparkling up the house and yard for the party, which involved Jer filling in the holes in the driveway with concrete.  Janet thought it would be super cute if we could put our paw prints in the fresh concrete.  Sadly, only Janet thought this would be cute as both myself and Noodles resisted like crazy.

OMG...are we off to the gallows?

Didn't turn out that well, but hopefully in another 100 years, people will wonder who Noodles and Pashy were.  Janet says she is going to look into Heritage Designation that will make it really difficult for anyone to tear down Camp Canada in the future.  Phil says there are pros and cons to the designation.

I think I have enough toys to call it a night.  See you soon!

BBQ Time At Janet's Volunteer Work!

After the big excitement of Phil's black eye, we have, yet again, reverted back to Boring Land.  Capital B and Capital L.

They had a big BBQ at Janet's volunteer job that was sponsored by Two Burley Men Moving Company.  They fed about five hundred people.

Mustard station.  Ketchup and Relish were side by side.

Trays of lettuce, tomato and sliced onion to adorn the burgers.  They are stacked three deep on each tray.  This was Janet's job.

Burger lineup!

 After all these photos, the BBQ caught on fire!  In a major way!  Janet was too nervous busy to take photos, but was kind of wondering if it was time to call the fire department.  There were big flames and billowing black smoke.  Not too worry, it all burned out.  End result:  Janet smelling like a really bad campfire at her quilting lesson.  Janet says it appeared to her that all quilting advice was offered from across the room!

Fruit salad in the making:

Normally they don't give out milk to drink at Our Place, but last week, they had flat, upon flat of little containers of 2% milk and handed them out like crazy.  This is a small portion.

Farmer Janet is busting a gut, she is so proud!  This is the best veggie patch she has had in many years.  Amazing what fresh soil, fertilizer and paying attention can do.

Beans, planted in stages.

Check out the zucchini!

Potatoes.  Janet says she can literally watch the plants grow.

Check out what super handyman/son Jer made!  A dog poop bag holder!  How is that for convenient?

Gravy train.  Will the food appear anytime soon, Rocky?

Idiot Photographer Janet adjusted some control on her camera by accident, so many photos were all washed out.  Phil fixed it.  He says normally he will adjust the light by +1 or +2.  Janet's was adjusted to +17!

We slept as tight as a bug in a rug last night...all cozy and loving.  Noodles is really nice to me.

That's me on the inside, so Noodles chose to sleep by me.  Good night, sweet dreams.

Smackdown!

Wow!  Just when we thought we had run the gamut of interesting blog posts, Phil supplied us with rich and previously uncharted waters!  Phil was crossing the street close to his squash club with a bag on his arm.  A truck drove by so close the sideview mirror hit Phil's squash bag.  The driver stopped in the middle of the street, jumped out and started yelling at Phil who was walking away.  As  Phil turned around, the driver punched him so hard in the face, he fell onto the road.

One punch, five hours in the Emergency Ward, one broken nose, one chipped tooth and six stiches = this!  AKA Wild Man of Borneo!  If there is a contest for "Worst Wife At Squash Club", there is no question Janet will win hands down. When Stuart, the squash club owner called Janet, he asked if she was going to the Emergency Room to be with Phil.  Janet said no, she didn't think so as there was no point in both of them wasting their time!

Janet told Phil he didn't look too bad, which he couldn't believe.  He forgot that Janet sees people in her volunteer job that have often met that wrong end of someones fist.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Day three:

Still tryin' to make buck!

Day four, and now Janet thinks he looks increasingly like Muammar Gaddafi, when pulled out of the hole in the ground he was hiding in.

On a normal day, in a normal situation, we doggies think Phil is much better looking than this.  We wonder if Janet is exploiting that situation.

The people went on Sunday to see the U.S.S. Nimitz which comes to town every few years.  With 3000 naval personnel onboard, they drop a huge amount of money into downtown Victoria.  The aircraft carrier was launched in Esquimalt Lagoon, which Janet assumed was in Esquimalt.  Wrong!  It's in Colwood and the ship was so far out, you could barely see it.

Where are the aircraft and the cool "Top Gun" type guys with the air signals?

A huge branch broke off a tree behind our house on Beach Drive.  This is the second one in six months.

Please, Phil.  Bring up our cookies really soon!

I, Pashyminders, defer to Noodles and let her take the lead on the cookie scramble.  It's only fair...Noodles is 12 years old and I am only 8.  I'm also a teeny bit scared of being first in most situations.  I'm a kind and considerate puppy girl!

Janet and Phil had "Flintstones" for dinner.  They are beef ribs that Janet cooks in the oven in broth for couple of hours and then Phil BBQ's them.  They said they were delicious.

Doggie bookends.  Good night!

Another Day, Another Ball!

Softballs, hardballs, tennis balls, tee balls....you name, I have found it at the park down the street from Camp Canada.  I overheard Janet mentioning to Phil about ball season coming to an end.  Will this be bad for me, Ball Dog Extraordinaire?

Searching high:

and searching low:

At one point in time, my entire body was inside the bushes.

Persistence is key to my success.  And, voila!

Unlike Noodles some doggies, I believe in the Golden Rule:  Hard work pays off.

Hard balls are the easiest to chew apart, so I am only allowed to keep them for a little while.  Janet figures I must have brought home around 30 balls so far this summer.

Janet travelled back in time.   Two weeks ago, she had the binding sewn on her baby quilt disaster and had started to hand sew on the remainder.  We mentioned previously the quilt was not square and she had cut the binding too wide.  Take it all apart, trim up the binding, get Ken to square it and here we are again.

Janet needs to plan her quilting projects around the vacations of her private instructor, Karen.

Due to the bad location of our satellite dish, we cannot get some channels in high def.  This was not a problem at all when Janet wanted to watch "The Good Wife".  Guess what...now Phil wants to watch World Cup Soccer, but the only channel with hi def is in Spanish!  Problem!  Two years in, this might actually be dealt with!    Janet is busy learning how different countries are spelled in Spanish and was reminded how Bronwyn tried to learn Spanish on the Insect Repellant bottle many, many years ago when they went to Club Med in Mexico.

Different from English.

Rats, its the same!

This week, the people had Shrimp Pesto Pizza for dinner.  Janet needs to use up the pesto she made last summer before it's time to make more!

When Janet isn't busy not squaring quilts and making pizza, she is Farmer Janet!  Check it out!  She is pretty excited as the last two years have been complete failures.  Now, she is kind of nervous as the neighbours said they think there are racoons back in the shed and she is worried about going back there.

On the far side:  peas, lame rhubarb and tomatoes.  Close by, radish, zucchini, pattypan squash and potatoes.

Beans.

We end off the day at Camp Canada with parmesan cheese rinds.  Yummy!

Noodles doesn't roam around the house too much anymore, but when she does, this is her favourite spot.

If food is going to fall on the floor, this is where a guy needs to be.  Even the cooks at Our Place wipe up after Janet if she is serving!

It's Official...I Am One Of The Gang!

Yessiree.....It's Oak Bay Tea Party Weekend and I am now an official Oak Bay Puppy!  Cool!  Not sure why, because life hasn't changed all that much, but whatever, here I am!

First, an Edamame Party:

Not sure why this is so exciting, but Noodles and Rockers were all over it, so who am I to disagree?

First order of the day:  the Parade!  Janet loves any parade and it doesn't matter how lame it is, she always cries.  She's not sure why...could be the pride of the participants or the excitement of the little kiddies watching, but without fail, she cries.

Small tykes, waiting for the action.

Janet says she hopes this the closest they get to a fire engine.

Chillin' and watching the parade.

Then down to Willows Beach for some musical action:

It's the Vic High Rhythm and Blues Band.  Janet LOVES them.

Happy dancing folks:

We would have done almost anything to chomp into the Baron of Beef.

Tons of little tykes enjoying the rides.

Next day...the party is over!

Bye, rides.  See you next June!

Janet is still working on her first official quilt disaster.  Thus far, she has had a pretty good run, but the party is over with this one.  Wouldn't square up and Janet cut the binding too wide.  Now all taken apart for Dr. Construction/Quilter Man Ken to square up with his official manly Carpenters square.

Is it OK if I dine whilst relaxing on the floor?

Janet, I know for a fact there is a ball under your bed.  Can you please get it out for me?