5C's Que Pasa

I have to say my new income opportunity business is taking off on its own.  I am more than happy with how things are going and of course my daily income.

There is a second side to this company where you can play the auction online.  For those who might just want to play on the Penny Auction site for free just go here and sign up.  There is no obligation whatsoever, you get 25 free bids then once the form is completed you will get another 475 bids giving you 500 bids to play for free. Over the next few weeks I am then able to give you another 500 bids to play with again for free and with no obligation. You could win a $150.00 Walmart gift card for $6.40 if you hit your mouse at the right time.  There is jewellery, iPods, and lots of other great stuff.  If you win and don't want the item you can get the cash equivalent sent to you.  Last night someone won a $150.00 Target card for .07 cents.

Lots of deals to be had at no cost to yourself.

When you get to the site there is a box on the right that you can click on that will give you the scoop on how to play the auctions and  on how to bid to win or just dive in and go for it.  Have fun with it.  The Penny Auction is International so no matter what country you are in you can give it a shot.

We have had a very busy few days getting things done for the house.  Last night we just relaxed on our patio and had a fabulous dinner.

Cedar plank wild sockeye salmon.......a perfect end to the week.

Tags: food, money, Penny Auction, ZEEK

The lake is going down fast, guess the heat is helping.  Haven't seen the beaver since the flooding.  We heard that his dam was blasted to allow the water to flow out of the lake.  Sure hope he is going to be alright.  Hopefully he will rebuild.  Meanwhile we are seeing more and more of our rocky beach and the turtles and ducks are visiting.

The bottom 4 steps are grey from the silt which shows how high the lake rose. You can also see how the force of the water affected the movement of some of our boulders. Next job will be to rearrange the rock wall.

Last week Colin took our HHR into Mr. Lube for the usual oil change and service.  They mentioned to him that the car tire sidewalls were cracked badly.  So off to Canadian Tire where new tires were purchased just 3 years ago along with a 5 year warranty and a protection plan.  Higher end new tires were ordered, called Tiger Paws!!  Yesterday Colin had the new tires installed and much to his surprise we were only charged $118.43 for the balancing of the new tires and the disposal fee for the old and a new protection plan for $27.96.  No charge for the new much higher end tires!  What a wonderful surprise.  Thank you Canadian Tire.

Back on Stone Island, things are starting to heat up again between the local land owners, the edjidatarios de Barron and the high end golf course Estrella Del Mar Resort.  You may have read here on my blog that 2 years ago the road onto the Isla was blocked because of a land dispute. Some of our RV friends got stuck on the road onto the Isla.  That incident was resolved with an agreement to go to court which has happened but now they can't agree on the financial settlement.  In an already shaky tourist economy this may cause more problems for us RVers.  You can read the latest news story here.

Tags: Duck Lake, Stone Island, tires

So much is happening that we don't even have time to do take out dinner!!  Now that has to be busy.  Lots happening with the house, hard to believe it will be here in 3 weeks.

No not my paint color but the spray foam insulation.

They have started putting up the siding and I love the color we chose.  We are also in the process of designing our 10' X 44' add a room, often called a Florida room, or an Arizona room and here called an Okanagan room.  This will give us an overall home size of 22' X 44' when all put together.  Why you ask can't we just build it that way from the beginning….well it's just the rules of where we live.  We don't mind as we know the final product will be outstanding.  We are pushing those rules to the very limits and all three contractors involved are doing new things and learning a lot.  Guess that means we are too as we are the ones coming up with the ideas, inventing new ways of wiring the lights in both sections, plus, plus, plus!

Almost ready for painting, then the kitchen cupboards go in, the appliances and then things move even faster.

We have lots to be thankful for….we have the much desired sun and heat with daily temps at about 38C.  Thank goodness the inverter has been replaced and we can run our A/C.  An RV in the heat is like a hot hot oven and we don't have the cooling ocean breezes like we do on the Isla in Mexico.  Plus did you know that 2 desktop computers sitting side by side and being 'on' all the time generate a huge amount of heat?

My business is doing so very well that I have doubled my input in only 40 days.  Even I can't believe that I have made $2053.00 profit in such a short time.  Then this morning I realized that I am now earning over $102.00 daily.  I see margaritas and lots of shopping in my future this winter:)

We have 2 sets of friends visiting Holiday Park this week so have been able to get a quick visit in with each couple.  Colin is doing very early in the day and very late sunset type shots right now.  He is trying to get to Vancouver to do a full day of aerial photography but the smoke/smog is really bad.  Not only are we getting smoke from Colorado but now from Siberia.

Hard to believe but we can see it!!

Mother Nature is very powerful.

Here are a few photos of the rare pyrocumulus “fire clouds”.

So when a reader from Vienna tells me he is getting dust from the Sahara, I just have to believe him.

Tags: 319, construction, money, Sibera smoke, Stone Island

We have a new, well I haven’t ever seen it before, duck like bird on Duck Lake!  I had noticed this very long necked duck bird diving in front of our place for the last few days.

A Western Grebe!

Very difficult to get a good shot as it is constantly diving.  I do hope there are two of them as I found this photo on the internet….

It would be lovely to catch their mating dance. Likely it is too late this year.

It seems that this critter is just on the cusp of its breeding area which is why I may not have seen it before.  A very interesting bird in that it does everything in the water including nesting.  This is a good link about the Western Grebe along with a map of the territory they travel through.

Tags: critters, Duck Lake

As I mentioned yesterday, we were putting up and opening up our sun umbrellas for the first time this summer.

Colin found a bat napping in the folds of our table umbrella.

He actually is a cute little guy.....but from a distance.

So as Colin swept the bat off the umbrella, I tried to capture a photo of it’s flight…..it was way too fast but I did happen to notice…..

...that the bat veered right back towards the open RV door!! Fortunately it latched on the outside of the open door and did not go inside. Lucky us!

Once we got rid of the bat by sending it over to the neighbors we went back to check out the rest of umbrella. No more surprises. We even had diner under it later that evening.

Tags: 319, bats, critters