Katherine Turns 80!

One of Janet's Thursday volunteer friends just turned 80 years old and it happened to be on their regular Thursday.

Janet wanted to make a surprise for Katherine, so covertly called her to make sure she was going to be at work on the 18th.  Then she let some staff members, Tracey, Julia  and Cook Dave know it was a special day and they were on board.  All systems go!

Janet sneaked into the kitchen with the cake and and hid it in the frig.  At coffee time, out came the cake with staff members singing Happy Birthday.   Then, in came some non-active volunteers who have volunteered with Katherine for years.  Katherine was super happy!

Janet was afraid 79 more candles would set off the smoke detectors!

From left - Ginger, Barb, Birthday Girl Katherine, Janet, Erin, staff member Tracy and Doreen.

They have two new fancy pants convection ovens at work which have yet to be installed.  The current ones are about 25 years old and are working on borrowed time.

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It's that time of the year!  Zucchini and squash!  Galore!  The very inventive cooks at Janet's volunteer job always manage to find a use.

This little cutie pie lives next door to us.  His name is Wolf and he loves, loves, loves me!  He has a little stuffed doggie toy that he has named Emma and gives his little doggie water from his sippy cup every night before bed and shares his soother.  My fan club is growing by leaps and bounds!

Janet and Phil's oldest couple friends, Brad and Laurie came for a quick overnight visit.  We walked to the beach, had a BBQ at home and went out for sushi.

They have known Brad and Laurie for 42 years!  Ouch!

 They brought with them $1M worth of maple syrup!  They have a cottage in Prince Edward County in Ontario and a neighbour makes maple syrup from other neighbours trees.  The bottle is even numbered!

Enough about Janet!  Let's move on to me and how incredibly cute I am.  I went swimming today and caught some sticks that Janet threw into the ocean for me.

Not to mention my really cute stick chewing pose.

It's all about the bum in the air and just so you know, not all sticks are created equally.   Move over, Watty Man!

This little cutie pie lives next door to us.  His name is Wolf and he loves, loves, loves me!  He has a little stuffed doggie toy that he has named Emma and gives his little doggie water from his sippy cup every night before bed and shares his soother.  My fan club is growing by leaps and bounds!