Gibson House, British Columbia

Historical Gibson House--One of the First European Homesteads on Lake Okanagan

My Lovely Daughters Playing on the Front Lawn of Gibson House

Mist

Tabs

Pip

Beach Combing

Ground Squirrel Wanting to Join Our Picnic

Curious Ground Squirrel


The girls and I attempted a picnic at Gibson House. As luck would have it, it rained on us so indeed the picnic was literally on Gibson House's front porch. I would love to live at Gibson house. I so enjoy the pastoral view and mature treed front yard. I have always loved established yards with big trees and big lilac bushes--I suppose everyone does. Kelowna is such a new city that the yards and growth are always so young. 
Peter and I walked out of a movie last night: The Tree of Life. After 1/2 hour of viewing exploding lava and waves crashing to morose music, I decided life was just too short to spend it watching that crap. We ended up at DQ for blizzards--a blizzard a month keeps the doctor away!
My life seems to be an endless line up of pinched nerves and pulled muscles. I am always nursing some type of sports injury. Today, stopping to view the damage the deer did to my tomato plants caused a pinched nerve in my neck/back.  I had been doing my morning squats with weights in the back yard and stopped to water the plants between sets. One must not stop to view the tomatoes, I guess :P --Must recover for tomorrows 3h dance workshop!
Last day of swim lesson for my littlest girls. They are very excited as it is a day of play in the pool. Also, I always treat them with one treat from the vending machine in the pool lobby on the last day of lessons. It's amazing how excited one can get over the thought of choosing a vending machine treat.
Mist is camping this weekend with a friend and the friends neighbors at their lake front property. At 14 Mist is a very independent young woman.
We bought a car! The barcelona Red RAV4 4x4. It is loaded so we are excited about experiencing the luxury: a camera in the rear view mirror that shows what's behind the car, bluetooth, leather, push button start, sunroof etc. I am looking forward to driving it. I have driven beasts for so long (vans) and big cars with car seats. The RAV4 is actually fun to drive--a treat for me. We are down to one booster seat for Pip so we decided it was time to move to a smaller vehicle. The RAV4 is really fuel efficient too.

October Beach

I spent the weekend thoroughly enjoying the warm/hot weather. On October 1st and 2nd we hung out at the beach and even went swimming. Water is cooler than in the summer but not as cold as it was back in early June.

Weekend had a cloud of work hanging over it. My ethics review is due tomorrow. I'll have to cut this short and get back to it.

Tabs had her final soccer jamboree on Sunday and a party afterward. I had to work so Peter took her to all of the events. Tabs had a great day and her team won both games.

Mist had a sleep over at a friends, Pip and Tabs had a sleep over at their cuz's--all in all, a good weekend for the gals.

Peter seems to have cracked a rib playing basket ball. He plays with some of his former UBC students. He admitted to feeling like a "small fry" on the team as all his 20 year old students are over 6'2" and big boned.

I am in to super adventure/scary movies lately. No one will watch them with me--so I bravely watch alone. My recent favourites are :The Orphanage (Spanish subtitles)--very well done yet disturbing. The other is Broken (British)--almost finished it but had to pause it as it was getting too late and I have to get up before 6 AM to work out.

 One trend however, in N. American horror films has caused me concern. The evil force in many, many of the movies currently playing is an evil little girl. I don't like it. I think it demonstrates a latent misogyny in our society. In fact, in two horror movies playing right now, in Kelowna, the evil villain is a little girl. It is sick. I believe it is objectifying innocent darling little girls. And as someone who has worked with children her entire life, I can honestly say, little girls are not evil, not even close. Every single little girl I have known is a little darling. Girls have their insecurities as they grow up but when they are little, they are simply dear.

Pip is at preschool today and my big girls at home with sore throats and head aches. 

They better get well quickly as they have piano tonight. I have a yoga class early afternoon and a meditation group tonight. Monday seems a tad too busy. Might have to miss yoga today--too much more work to do on my thesis!