Happy to finally grow flowers and ride my bike

I was feeling a bit down last week... missing my flowers in the yard in PoCo... We were having beautiful sunshine, saw blossoms on the berry bushes, wild flowers were growing, the bird sanctuary had gone from brown to green... I missed my flowers; so I decided to do something about it :) With a shovel in hand I got some asters from B in the village, M gave me some hostas and astillbe, C across the street donated a few plants (I have to look it up the name. There are some plants growing here I have never seen before, weeds included!) and I dug up some lupins from the side of the road heading out of town. I've never been able to successfully transplant the ones brought home from our travels but there are so many here, they better grow! I brought come crococsmia, daises, black eye susan, sedum, and japanese anemone from back home. The only resident plants here are some cedar hedges, a HUGE poppy plant and a very nice shrub with little white flowers (I have no idea what it is called). I figured if we were still here next year, it would be nice to have a colourful front yard. However, I followed NO gardening rules I learned from my neighbour back in the 'hood because I had limited product to work. I did my best to take into account odd numbers of groupings, folliage colour/texture, height/spacing... and all that landscape design stuff. I just can't get over how big everything grows here. The berry bushes grow inches every day, buttercups that usually are low in the grass grow like flowers on a stem, there is a white wild flower that looks like yarrow but 10x taller and wider, some bigger lupins look almost 4 ft tall... this place has real garden potential. Enough about gardening.

So when I say next year, I do hope we are here another year... we have to see how work goes and then see if we can rent this place longer...? all very TBA but we are not ready to come back to the big city quite yet!

And I am very happy to be riding on two wheels again. My bike had been down and out for months but I got it fixed in Rupert last time we were off-island and it's good to go. Kinda silly to drive the truck 2 mins to work when a 4 min bike ride is the alternative. I even rode out to the baseball game in the village last weekend... when I got there I found out that they were waiting for me to start the game. Apparently I am on the team, as terrible a ball player that I am, but every game I have played we won; 'you are like a lucky pair of socks' they told me :)


Lots happening in the next few days: we are going crabbing tomorrow (a good excuse for B to buy a BIG crab net) and camp out at the beach for Saturday night, on Sunday there is a pole raising in the Village outside the Hall with a feast to follow, Monday is beach day for the school, Wed there is an awards assembly (J's teacher said we should be there) and Thursday is the last day of school! YEAH!


Next week my mom comes for a 'work' visit and then the boys will head to Rupert with B to visit family over there too. I'm looking forward to my quick trip south in July and then having lots of family relations come visit in August. It will be a FUN summer :)

I will get some pics on here soon to prove I am actually playing baseball (I usually play catcher, I can catch ok but I have a terrible throw back to the pitcher. don't laugh LF!), and show you the buckets full of crab we are going to catch this weekend!