It's no longer chronological....

This is my latest granddaughter, Rachel Christine Black, born on January 31 in Calgary to Jerri and Victor. This is number 6. She is my name sake. I was so glad I got pictures right away. What a cutie put-tu-ty!! A welcomed sister to Madeline, Becca, Michael, Mathew and Roland.

The Blog is no longer in chronological order because I bought one of those fancy little external hard drives to put all my pictures on and it proceeded to dump or hide them all. Bev, a fellow boater, livaboard and computer guru, has it now and is working on finding the files on it. She assures me they are not lost.....forever, just for now. So I still have some pictures left, not all and now they are not in chronological order. So now I have to get creative.

This gives you a bit of an idea HOW MUCH snow we got so far this winter.

What a beautiful, snowy winter we have had at the club. This is a pic of the flower beds totally covered in snow. It is just gorgeous down here. It has been toasty warm on the boat and once we got frozen in, only for a day. We have two swans that are around the boats in the open water. It's awesome to see them in the freezing cold water, looking so comfortable.

This is a little lawn ornament that is still in the gardens at Lakeshore Yacht Club. Notice where his hand is. I thought it looked like a cool picture.

This term at school I volunteered to help with the Digital Photography Co-curricular. It was a lot of fun. I got to meet some senior students that I wouldn't have been involved with if I hadn't helped out. This is one of my pictures. We learned to work with Photo Shop and we visited the Art Gallery in Oakville, Fortinos, Kensington Market and the Royal Botanical Garden in Burlington. I loved the time with the kids and the Art teacher, Erin. I learned soooo much.

This is sister Diane and brother-in-law Dick from Washington and they are .... at the Great Wall of China. They went to visit brother David and sister-in-law Amy in China this past year and Diane just sent me some great pictures of them while they were there. What a fabulous place to go.

Anthony working..??.....this is part of Anthony's Work/Retirement Day. He is in the crow's nest in our boat reading. He has been doing a lot of writing and just came back from Ottawa where Michael helped him set up a webpage. I haven't seen it yet but I'll put it on my blog as soon as I know what the address is. Anthony is still bicycling in the snow and enjoys visiting friends, playing guitar, singing, playing darts. He went to Prince George for a few days to visit with Ginny and Wayne.

Anthony and I are all dressed up for the Appleby Christmas Party. Doris let me borrow her necklace. I don't have a lot of jewelry. Aren't we amazingly different looking than our usual attire. The party was fab. Beautiful decorations and marvelous food; salad bar, dessert bar, seafood bar, hors d'oeuvres bar, free alcohol, wine, beer, and cocktails, breads, sushi bar, dinner buffet, chicken crepes, cheese plates, and on and on.

It's January Already....man time flies!!!!

The Terry Fox Walkathon was a great event at Appleby. The students and teachers ran a half marathon. It was amazing to see the students coming across the finish line so early. I was a volunteer at the Finish Line. I had to dress up too. This is a pic of two of the Math teachers cheering on the finishers. All of the students had to run and some of the teachers did too. Some staff spouses pushed their babies ahead of them and roller bladed.

THE LAST BLAST is a the last weekend race at LSYC. Barb and Larry Large joined us on the race. Sometimes sailing races are not FAST. It was a gorgeous day and we had a great sail. It was soooo nice being in the water and not in dry dock. The motor was working great and very quiet when leaving the dock and coming back in. We had some difficulties with the transmission and ended up having to back into the Visitor's Dock. What a panic. Members at the club thought we were just practicing backing into the dock. NOT. It did work out OK and we didn't hit anyone and we did get docked. Persisit, persist, persist and eventually everything will work.

One the greatest things about sailing is the bow wake, the sound of the water rushing past the hull, the sound of wind in the sails and the movement...all those things are so difficult to capture in a still picture. This is the best I could do. Looking at these pictures really makes me miss sailing and summer. Did you go to the Boat Show? I love the Boat Show in January.

On the way back in from The Last Blast someone needed a tow. I was fun to help and be on the side of the rope that was doing the towing. Slow and easy is the rule. Here we are towing a fellow member in. Anthony has a good towing yoke already made up so that the tow is straight.
These beautiful lilies were in the LSYC gardens. The gardens at LSYC are looked after by volunteer members and the gardens were absolutely fabulous. I think they are the best gardens of all the Yacht Clubs that I saw in the summer. I love walking around and taking pics of the flowers.