Tomatoes for Pat

Pat, your little tomatoes are coming on strong, took a bucket of tomatoes over to Arts today, there

will still be a load for Tuesday.

Some bunches look for like grape clusters

Veronica in Keremeos

 Veronica our young granddaughter has come to Keremeos for two weeks for a visit and to take swim lessons at the local pool.  She came at a great time the fruit is beautiful.

Our neighbor to the right (Art) said the grapes will be ripe within the week for picking and don't they look great.

Missy cannot wait and says they taste pretty good right now.

 Then the neighbor behind (Ernie) caught Ron outside and said get some boxes and pick yourself some peaches as they are very ripe.  The trees are so plentiful and the fruit is so big it is hard to pick without damaging the fruit as it has grown around tree itself.

 Ernie has a lot of trees and we picked selectively from about 4 and got two huge boxes full

 Veronica thought this was great and of course it is peaches everything for the next while.

 Ron says they are as sweet as candy and fall right into your hand.

It is a great place to spend the summer.

Looking forward to Matthew our youngest grandson to join us next week.

Jeep Ride

We decided to take a day off from chores and went for a Jeep ride and did some geocaching.  We found a few, it was fun getting back at it.  Elaine found a dear friend.

Good day out.

Elmer and Doris' 60th wedding anniversary

We had the most wonderful time at Elmer and Doris' 60th wedding anniversary party.  Lynn, Tracy and Terry did so much work, it was a royal party.

Lynn is decorating cakes these days, is not this one so very beautiful?

 Elmer and Doris cutting the cake

 David and Michele Jones from Kamloops, Elaines cousin that we had not seen in so many years.

 Doris enjoying her special day.

 Eleanor and Stanley Jones from Penticton(more cousins)

 The happy couple

 Erroll Anderson and Doug Rowland our up north cousins

 The head table, the original wedding party

 Ken and Nora Jones (cousins from Princeton)

 Lynn (Elmer and Doris' youngest daughter)

 Elaines mom had a great time and won all the prizes

 Rhoda (Errolls wife)

 Sonya ( Elmers sister, Doris' maid of honor)

 Tanya and her grannie

 Tracey(Elmer and Doris' oldest daughter)

Fishing

Went up to Revelstoke to pick up Matt and Veronica so they could come visit with us in Keremeos for a couple weeks.  After dinner we decided to go try a quick fish on the river.

Veronica studying the situation.

 Matthew caught a fish the only fish first cast out but did not manage to land it, he says he has a hex on this new rod and reel.

 Ronnie trying to keep busy so posing for Grannie.... what a clown

 It was a beautiful spot, Sean trying his hand at it.

 The sun was setting and made a beautiful scene.

A day out for Mom

Decided to get Elaines Mom out of the house for a day and took her for a drive over the back road from Summerland to the old Jones Ranch on the 5 mile over Princeton.

Mom and Ron waiting for their picnic lunch down by the creek.

Our new ride made it comfortable to get there.

 Not much of a deep pool as the water was running very fast.

 At this time of year the bottom field is a little muddy and Ron was pleased to get to try out his 4 x 4.

 The only Jones' we found at home were Janice and Dave (Eleanor and Stan's daughter), was good to have a little visit with them.

Wrigley Field

Today was our baseball day but I had one more thing I really wanted to see right downtown Chicago so we got back on the L for our last trip downtown.

The cultural center has the largest Tiffany glass dome ever created, and I had to see that, it was beautiful.

So was the whole Cultural Center, all marble.

 Then we grabbed the Red Line and headed north to Wrigley Field, what an awesome experience.

 We had great seats, can you see the seats over on the houses across the street, that was one home improvement that probably paid off, later in the game they were pretty full.

 The Chicago Cubs beat the Pittsburgh Pirates today 4 to 1

 The best thing was the atmosphere, the park is so old there is no jumbotron, no piped in music and so the park was alive with old time vibes.  The organ was played by an actual person and the crowd was so full of fun with their singing and chanting.  I think it felt better than the old Yankee Stadium.

What a great way to end our stay in Chicago.  Had fun getting home got on a bus that we were pretty certain was ours but it was so packed you could not hear when to get off or where we were.  But heh we made it and are ready to head out in the morning.