April in Victoria

Things are going well in Victoria.  The weather was perfect last Wednesday, so I took the good old Coquihalla.  As I haven’t bought any new maps for Tom Tom, he got confused as I entered the new stretch of highway that approaches the ferry terminal at Tsawwassen, but I had anticipated this and was watching the signs, even if it involved speeding past huge trucks to keep them in clear view.  I made it to the ferry in record time but then had an hour and a half to kill waiting for the three o’clock ferry.

Mom and dad surprised me by being much more chipper than I had expected.  Mom has had a couple of bouts of leveling, late afternoon nerve pain but otherwise things have been going well.  We’ve been shopping for things mom really needed, I’ve cleaned the vacuum cleaner bag and got it working again (This is becoming an expensive maintenance plan), the balcony is spruced up for the warm weather season, we’ve been to Tim’s followed by walks at Willows Beach twice and done some of the other ritual things, so all is mostly well.

Staying at Barbara and Terry’s is, as always, a holiday for me, especially as it has been combined with a walk along the Gorge followed by lunch at a nearby, slice-of-local-life Chinese Buffet on Saturday and coffee and chats every morning. 

April in Victoria

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Some eccentric fences and a quaint old home on Gonzales Beach 

The front yard of the home with the eccentric fence

I've been reading Barbara and Terry's old 'New Yorkers' and realizing how much I miss their cartoons.  As 'the bucket list' craze has always caught in my craw, I got a real roar out of this one.