We continue to have spring in the lowlands and winter in the hills. I had two good cross country skies this week and I'm going snowshoeing tomorrow, but walking this morning with Miriam on the rolling hills above Goose Lake was the best. It was sunny and warm, a couple of meadow larks sang out, a bald eagle soared over our heads and some low lying buttercups and spring beauties brightened up the beige and flattened grassland. The rolling hills and valley of the north Okanagan remain my favourite landscape in this area.
Jay brought his new truck home after work today, a 1989 Toyota. He took May for a ride, shopping. Then I got to go. We went up a backroad and through some fields and rough patches so that mud splashed up and christened it. What a relief. The first car he bought was a mistake; it was too good. He was always worried about getting it dirty or scratched and May could not have driven it because it was a manual. Now he has an old truck for work and bashing around and May has a much newer Kia for a family car. She's almost ready to try her driver's test. At the moment Jay is out again with Jin Hee, showing her a bit of the backroads action.
Never a dull moment. We are not without our problems, but the ups feel higher because of them. My other lives, with my parents and with Jim seem in comparison to have been much less eventful than the one we are living now, and I think in fact they were, but then my memory ain't what it used to be. And I know I have a tendency to let the downside slide by. WHATEVER. We're mostly well at the moment and that's not bad.
Jay with his truck.
May at home in the kitchen
Reflections on Kal Lake on a morning walk with Jane and Miriam
First crocuses in the front yard
Jay's 35th birthday dinner
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