It’s 11:35 on Sat. morning, and I’ve just finished listening to ‘This is That’ with Peter Oldring (?) and Pat Kelly on CBC Radio 1. I have to say again that it is one of the funniest shows I’ve ever heard. You can also find it on CBC online and on Itunes, I think.
Last Sunday’s hike was another good one. We went to Vista Pass at the southern end of the Pinnacles, a chain of peaks between Lake Okanagan and the Arrow Lakes. I got home just in time to shower and go to Marie and George’s house for a concert. George is a pianist and has lots of musician friends who like to play at his home because it has high ceilings and he has a very good piano. It was wonderful looking out the windows over the dry hills and the lake as music filled the room.
On Monday I went to the early showing of the film club movie. This week it was ‘Beginners’ by Mike Mills. It was well done but hard to watch at times because it made me think of Jim’s valiant struggle. Christopher Plumber played an older man who discovered he was dying of lung cancer not too long after his wife had died and he had come out as gay. He played the role really well and so did his lover (Goran Visjnic). He was exuberantly trying to do all the things he’d missed in life at the same time that he was dying. The parallel story of his son’s (Ewan McGregor) tortured attempt to start a relationship with an actress (Melanie Laurant) was sometimes cute, especially when the dog was around but so self involved it bordered on boring. The importance placed on being with loving family, friends, strangers and even dogs was a valid one, I thought. So many people I know are living this. It’s much more worth pursuing than the ‘bucket list’ of ‘must see places’ and ‘must do things’ that gets so much attention these days.
I’ve got a great doctor thanks to my physiotherapist. Soon I’ll see an optometrist, Doug Irwin from Thunder Bay. I’m getting hooked up to the medical community. I also am going to go on the outdoors club bike week in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho in Sept. I’d heard people talking about it, that the rides would be beautiful and mostly flat, and wanted to go. But I thought that the groups had been formed. And they had, but one couple cancelled and my friend, Priscilla, heard about it. She asked me if I would like to go with her and I said, ‘Yes.” I have a life, or at least the beginnings of one here in Vernon.
I will be leaving soon to pick up Caroline at Kelowna airport. I can’t wait to see her.
The view from Vista Pass
Me with the Pinnacles in the background
An old picture of Jay and Blake that Don sent me this week
Another of Don's pictures of the boys
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