Thursday 25 August 2016

July 17-August 16, 2016 Happy 84th Birthday to Joe's Mom .. and 50th Wedding to Uncle Bev and Aunt Joyce


Happy Birthday to Harriet Parker, some of her family


Some pictures of the big birthday party
Joe and I


Mary Lou


Francis


Betty and Sylvia


our host Donna and Syl playing his sax


great grand children


Megan, Sylvia, Susan, Elliot and Lily


Mary Ann and Jenny


Joe and Cath


Sue and Harriet


Syl and Harriet


Uncle Bev and Aunt Joyce
50th Wedding Anniversary


Joe, Lily and I


my sisters, Louise Pepe and Joyce Gateman


Lily and cousin Heidi Faust


Louise and Mike Pepe


Joyce and Rowland Gateman


Joe and I


Joe finishing up the cedar strip canoe


my first batch of dilled pickles


the first Friday of the summer months and a giant car show
downtown Owen Sound






we are in desperate need of rain, the water barrels are empty


a small batch of Grandma Ollie's dilled yellow beans


Lily and I get to baby sit, Jaxson, 2yrs and Hunter 4 months


the baby whisper, Sailor Joe


Joe doing what he likes to do the most, cut down trees, this one was dead at Sue's place


and in turn Sue does some wood turning for Joe


finished product


June 16 - July 16, 2016 new decks, windows and Clarity returning home after 18 winters away


prepping for Lily's new deck


12 x 12 and looking good … the weather was extremely hot and we where working on the
south side of her place


Martin and Kathy Parker, our friends since 1973, at Inverhuron Provincial Park
near Tiverton, Ontario … we have not seen each other for years


Lily needed some bifold doors for her house, I got 9 sets for $5.00, at an auction sale, here we are cleaning them
and painting .. we have used 3 so far in her house …. not a bad buy


Sue Allison is having issues with her internet, here we are blazing a trail thru the bush, about 250 ft for the cable that is laying on the forest floor


even though the cable is enclosed in a water hose the critters still find it
editable, the third time chewed thru in 4 years


Sue and I enjoying some quality time together and a great meal
we have been friends and business partners since 1973


Curry Chicken, Ceaser Salad and scapes


Joe working on restoring a cedar strip canoe for a friend


one of the boats that Joe and I are cleaning, north of Wiarton


a great idea for a mail box


our kitchen window is installed and trimmed out


next year we will build new cabinets and rearrange the kitchen 


our friends Terry and Kim returning on Clarity, from the Bahamas, I think it took them
7 weeks


Joe, Terry and Kim


Lily's deck is finished for this year, next year we will do stage two


a well needed rain storm, it has been 2 months of scorching weather and no rain


Lily is getting 4 new windows in her house, here Gary Shaw is installing one of them


the front picture window being installed


Lily and I helming her dress for a friends wedding


some of my dog sitting dogs, Scottish Deer Hounds
they are very quiet and very big


and they take over the couch … all three of them are show dogs