CELEBRATE PAGE'S BIRTHDAY!!!

A wonderful day spent together - celebrating Page style. (o=

visitors to 119 - come and go.

Christy and Ken (Christy and I went through the interpreter program in Seattle together) graced our home with friendly love and clementines from Dec. 10-12. While Page's dad, Tom, visited on Dec 19. We had a GREAT time with all involved. Having Christy and Ken over was a blast ... we gave them the house tour and all the project plans. We went to Milestone's (yum) and walked into Cook Street Village ... lounged around on our only piece of community furniture (our new watermelon colored couch) and we enjoyed delicious food prepared lovingly by Page (= .... and we rented Tommy Boy for some good old school laughs!

Professor Rossiter was good fun too .... we kept him busy on his first trip to Victoria. We brought Tom to The Sticky Wicket for dinner when he landed. Another meal was enjoyed at Milestone's on the water. We tootled around town in and out of the shops, we made our way to Butchart Gardens to see there display of lights, and had lunch at The Empress Hotel (not all in one day - he was here for a week=).

We also enjoyed home cooked meals and some classic movies at home - East of Eden and High Society. And before we shipped him off we enjoyed a decadent day at the Delta Ocean Point Spa here in town, massages for everyone!! We look forward to seeing more of Tom in 2007!

2007 welcomes more visitors as well !!!

Lee Rossiter ( Page's mom ). She arrives from San Diego, by way of Bellingham, on January 22 - it will be her first trip to lovely Victoria as well.

Tentatively - Tracy, Conner and Lucy are headed this way for a quick weekend getaway just after Lee departs.

Also, well-loved author and good buddy, Ms Julie Hunt, from SD is looking to visit in the VERY near future.

blogs on delay ... solstice right on time (=

hello hello

i am drafting up blogs as things are happening .... AND it is a bummer that i cannot upload the pictures that are fitting to the blog! INSTEAD of putting them on hold ... i will post them and when i upload all my pictures next month i will post those also (=

for those of you who check in just to see the pictures .... try not to let the text bore you. LOL

HOPEFULLY you all are still checking the blog for updates. Pictures will arrive mid-Feb.

happy holidays ... today is winter solstice.... enjoy!! each and every day will shine a bit more light your way til summer (=

happy in victoria

We took this photo on the front lawn of the Empress Hotel after Sarah & Joe's wedding in June of 2004. It was that visit that prompted our desire to live in Victoria. Today, nearly 2 1/2 years later, we received our visas, a nearly complete immigration process!

Early next year we will retrieve our belongings from San Diego and upon entry to Canada we will intitiate the "landing" process. Within a month of that entry date we will receive our "permanent resident" cards, which are valid for a five year period.

It is hard to believe we are really here ... it has been 5 weeks already!!

The lower level of the deck railings were removed today, I chopped a bunch of wood (to be used in the wood stove next year) and yesterday the newly reinforced compost bin was erected. Plans are underway for our remodel projects. Next week I need to get some drawings, as well as information for a building permit, at the city.

Christy and Ken head our way tomorrow ... we are super excited for their visit!

OH ... I nearly forgot ... we strung up our first string of seasonal lights tonight ... they look great!

one week later ... still a wee bit white (=

well ... it has been a week since the snowstorm hit .. and the street sides are now filled with piles of dirty snow ... a bit of white here and there due to just a couple days of above freezing tempatures ... as long as we have no more white stuff falling in the coming days ... all the white should be gone....