The Family Went West

From Number 3:

We arrived home from Fernie this afternoon. It was rainy and chilly in Calgary after two and a half weeks of sun in the East Kootenays. Pictures at eleven, one of these days.
Thanks again to Number 4 and please accept apologies for my forgetfulness in telling your daughters what lovely young women they are. It was a pleasure to have them around.

Dancin' at the beach...
Sun is still shining - we really miss Beth, Eric and Jo.
Let's do this again real soon.

The Family Goes West

A business headline today is "Sleeman's profit rises 41% in Q2". Wait til they see what the Cassidy family reunion has done for Q3.

The Family Goes West

Number 1 arrived safely at home at 2 a.m. Thursday morning. The luggage did arrive. Flights uneventful, except for unexpected 4-hour layover in TO. Air Canada played musical gates with not just my flight, but seemingly many others. No reason given. In light of breaking news on CNN re. flight issues from London to the US, who knows?

Everybody's fine here. Andrea and I had a great time going over the trip. Forgot the time and went to bed at dawn.

New computer has arrived and is up and running. Webcam to come. Echo Number 3's thanks to Paul and girls and to all of us for a very memorable time.

The Family Goes West

Number 3 has arrived safely home, as has the luggage: the agent in Nanaimo initially mixed up the tags with Number 1's, but all is well now. Flight was uneventful and on time.
Men are fine; Calgary is cool and overcast; apples are at their peak; bunny is stretched out in the back yard; new windshield has been installed. Have to pack for Fernie.
Thanks to Paul and everyone else for a fabulous get-together.

Before and after...your guess

IT'S ALMOST HERE!

From our little slice of heaven

144 hours to go for the gathering of the clan...

The top ten things this could be in Paul's sink (see previous posting) :

Number 10:
Something only an environmental lawyer would allow to grow in his sink...in the fullness of time as it were.

Number 9: Nothing a self-respecting beer-can chicken would leave...

Number 8: ?

Me and the Prez and one of our volunteers (Jen) at the bottle drive. Notice the pink apron (hand made by Nik) on Dr. John McLaughlin. He was a great BBQ guy and stayed for over 2 hours. We made $1,800 in donations for the team. Next big event is the Pink Ribbon Golf Event at Kingswood. Check out our web site at http://www.unbf.ca/runforthecure/Bottledrive.html

Close your eyes...
We can smell the salty air...
We can feel the warmth of the sun...
We can taste the hops in the beer...
We can hardly wait!!!

From the back yard of Number 3:

Here is our resident bunny ...

... and a friend who came to visit him (her?) this morning.

THREE WEEKS TO GO!!!!!!!!!

YIPPPEEE!!!

Gilligan???

This is in preparation for our ballgame on the beach.

Glad I was able to take one on the shin for our budding superstar pitcher. We're all going to want her to be on our team...

(Number 1)

P.S. Note the dancing queen superfan on the rail.

From Number 3:

More pictures from the kitchen Sink -

good thing they wouldn't give her a gun.

And now for something entirely different...

A President, a soldier, a tailor and... a master chef. (I wonder, did the chicken really have any say in this?) The end result was very tasty.

(Number 1)

the last of the grads

A President, a soldier and a tailor

As the weather slowly warms up and summer has finally arrived, thoughts again drift to relaxing sunsets on the beach.... Can't wait for all of us to experience this together. (Number 1)

Spent a beautiful day in Kings County on Sunday. Dropped in to Berwick and then had a great picnic (with Mom's potato salad!). Finally a sunny and warm weekend.

To all the Dads in the family - Have a wonderful day - you deserve it. Even Indy was nice to Lou...

To Dad

Happy Father's Day!

You look so girly...who knew?

Geez, you were busy in high school...

gives new meaning to the 69ers

From #3: A Brief Digression from the Graduation Theme:

If you thought Mum looked good in her graduation picture, check out this 1960-vintage photo, taken on a visit to Montreal -

It's that time of year to celebrate graduations. Starting from the top:

Found this the other day...thought you might like to see it.

It's a rainy day here and a perfect time to stay inside.

The pictures below are from the handsome prince stage. This one is from the frog stage - or more properly, the poliwog stage (Paul-iwog?). He was a long, yellow, hairy streak of misery for the first few months but his siblings and parents gave him lots of kisses and look what happened. [Note Nannie Jean doing her best imitation of Queen Victoria: "We are not amused".]

Happy Birthday, Little Brother!

Sorry, Number 5: you weren't yet a twinkle in Dad's eye.