The Story of guy and gal!

Got the flue so will catch up with you as soon as I am better.  Still warm here but a little windy at the end of the day.  Not complaining..............Have a Mexican Navey Ship at our stern tonight...........so we should be safe!!!! Good night  Lue

I know we have all been pretty occupied with the Season and all that goes with it:  family, friends and oh so much food and drink!!!  With the Christmas Season nearly behind us we can get back to normal  whatever that is????   You know some traditions celebrate well into January as no one is really certain when the exact birth date  was, so to  my  Ukrainian friends and brother in law Bill -- Merry Christmas.  (Could someone write back and tell us how to say/spell  that in English??)

Our calendar brings us a brand new year and inevitably some change.   For some of us we just wish we would wake up and whatever it was that we wanted to change--it would have been transformed in our sleep.  You know like old Scrooge?  Oh! that our life would be that easy.   Here's a little story that exemplifies how some folks just accept change. My eldest sister Colette from Kelowna sent it to me: A little old lady sold pretzels on a street corner  for 25 cents each. Every day a young man would leave his office building at lunch time and as he passed the pretzel stand he would leave her a quarter,  never taking a  pretzel. This went on for more than three years during which time the two of  them never spoke.  One day as th...

"If I knew being a Grandfather was so much fun, I would have done that first!"  Grandpa Petri               The last few years has blessed us with a total of eight grandchildren.  Periodically we include them in our blog as they are very special to us both.   The following are not true stories and the names have been changed to personalize them with our own grand kids.  The pictures are legit though!!!  Trusting that you will enjoy:   A grandfather was at the beach with one of his grandsons when the four-year-old  ran up to him, grabbed his hand, and led him to the shore where a seagull lay dead in the sand. 'Grandpa, what happened to him?' the grandson asked. 'He died and went to Heaven,' the Gandpa replied. The boy thought a moment and then said, 'Did God throw him back down? Grandma had spent some time teaching one of her grandsons  The Lords' Pr...

Come back tomorrow to see the next episode of our visit plus some highlights of the past Year  2009!!

wow!!!!!  Did the year go by so quickly!  Looking back we certainly have been blessed!!   For Claes and I the year has been very exciting as we began to really pull together all of our hopes and dreams to set sail on the WhiteShell.  Right from the start God certainly instrumented opportunities and opened many, many doors to assure us that this was what we were suppose to do.  Our house sold in four days,  we were both given jobs to top up our travel account after a loss in the economic down turn,  our family and friends continued to encourage us and give us their blessings to sail away!!!  Some of these gifts included temporary housing, dinners, and much prayer. This picture to the right is us and our good buddy and potential fourth mate when she so chooses to visit us---Judy Collins! Brad & Jan Minton from Comox As we got closer to departure day Claes was able to finalize many important projects.   We both quickly settled into li...

As you can see from the pictures we had a great time once we all caught up with each other.  Their plane was late as there was a terrorist threat in Detroit so you know how that goes............everything slowed down.  They did get here all in one piece and  finally the rendezvous was made. We walked up the dock to scout out the place and enjoyed some lunch at a very small little Mexican cantina.  The owner knew Powell River and especially Bernie and his family very well. ( Bernie is the vegetable guy there...he travelled back and forth between the Okanagan to sell fruit and vegies in the summer.  In the winter he and his lovely family travelled down here.......He was a customer of ours when we had our business.  What a small world we live in!!)  Back to the cantina........this fella was drinking rum when we got there at 11:30 so need I tell you more?  He fell in love with Denise and eventually was jilted so turned and immediately gave Judy flo...