Sitting here trying to look very, very busy, so decided to say hello.  Its a lovely day here, and I have been viciously attacked by a flu bug or something so I'm feeling guilty about not being outside helping Jack - thus the desire to look busy.  He thinks I'm paying bills online.

This morning we finally got the hot water fixed in the RV.  Had to take it about 25 miles away, so dropped the car in at the local service station to get them to look at the tire/rim - whatever is causing the wobble Jack can feel when he drives at high speeds - at the same time. The RV took just an hour to fix.  Then we spent a happy hour in McDonald's talking to an older couple who used to RV back in the day.  "We were snowbirds - went to the dessert - you know in California.  Do you know California?"  and from there they entertained us with some of the most hilarious stories.

So the RV problem was just a breaker, but its hidden behind something else so hard to get at.  The car's wheel shimmy was a bent rim, so he's getting a used one from the wreckers.  Ya gotta love this service station.  Its in the village of Fort Langley and its called Fort Horseless Carriage Service Station.  And it looks that old.  Nice guys.  

Fort Langley grew up around the "Birthplace of British Columbia" - a fort which housed a Hudson Bay Post - the first British settlement and where they negotiated the border between Canada and the U.S. - or something like that.  The fort, now a National Historic site where they do a lot of re-enactments and stuff, is a couple of blocks from the main street.  The centre of the village has a lot of old style buildings.  Its a neat place, where they have retained the ambiance and character of the past.  That attracts a lot of movie makers.  Since we arrived there have been two movies filming on main street.  One is a Christmas film so they have fake snow machines, loads of trees have been decorated and such.

I keep finding new things to love here.  Today it was holly trees - they are covered with red berries and just a picture.  Some of these trees are huge.  There are also hazel nut groves near us, along with vineyards and high bush blue berry farms (their bushes are leafless but  look purple in the sun).  Pretty cool.

So, we have now started to set up for the winter.  Today Jack got the water pipes all heat taped and insulated. The cable hooked up for the TV and so on.  Tomorrow we tackle the add-a-room and the skirt and finally can unpack and find things we haven't seen for more than a month.  

So far we've had a couple of frosts, and were warned today that it can get down to -10 in January.  We are not worried about the cold.  Are set up for that.  We are a bit antsy about the wind storms though.  If we get a real bad one we could blow away with the add-a-room and awning. So we have to hope we don't get any of those (wind storms).

Was talking to Mom tonight - didn't get her until late because she went down to the turkey dinner.  She actually sounded very chipper when she answered the phone - then a few minutes later it was like she remembered she was supposed to be working me to feel sorry for her.  She finally admitted she had a good time and the meal was very good.  So hope she stays cheerful!

We are slowly getting ready for Christmas - its hard to put a stop to Christmas shopping, but we have to. We all agreed that our gift this year would be being together.  Just hard to remember that sometimes.