Canada Day

Happy Canada Day, eh! We are close to the water but it is still far too hot to do much outside. Norma planned to be out in the garden by 7:00 AM but we both slept until almost 9:00. She did an hour or so before she got chased in by the heat.

I ripped some cedar boards salvaged from the old fence and made a couple of trellis' for the rose bushes and some stakes for the garden but that was it for me as well.

There is activity in town today. Helicopters have been roaring back and forth along the beach as someone is selling sightseeing tours from town. Ships are sounding their horns and our two pair of nesting eagles are spending their day off teaching their young ones how to fish. Always fun to watch.

Our deer made a very quick incursion yesterday. Norma was out with the car and as she turned into the driveway coming home she startled two deer who were studying the gate. One took off into the neighbour's yard and the other somehow got in between two wire strands in the gate. Norma beeped the horn to get my attention and I yelled at her to open the gate and block the deer's way back around the house. I went around the house in the opposite direction and between us we convinced the deer to go back down the driveway. I don't know when she had the chance but on her way by she ate Norma's brand new white rose bush! I added more stainless steel wire strands to the gate and added some ties so there is no way they can get in that way again. No Way!