What's New?

The Fox "N" Star greet you as you approach the new location for the Farmers Market on Cliff Avenue off of the highway. 

The Enderby Farmers Market has moved the last three markets have been on Cliff avenue. Each time they have set up in a different way, last Friday was in my opinion the best. They set up down the center of the street back to back, it was easier to get around and the businesses on Cliff were more visible. It was also wheel chair accessible. We had a big storm on Friday and the Market got wet around tear down time. It poured and the wind wanted my umbrella, I just ducked into the Museum for a brief visit with Naomi the new curator. 

Green Croft Farms

Dalarose has some elegant hanging baskets.

Fun Buns tasty too.

Music of the country

On July 21 Grindrod had a Music and Arts Festival, they set up two stages a main stage and an open mic stage for the 15 minuets in between acts. A variety of music was performed on the stages.  

I set up a booth for the Green Party and brought art stuff I had crowding the corners of my sewing room, to do crafts with the kids. They made pins for Mom, rings, hair doodads, necklaces, dolls, and had a great time. some of them kept finding things to make

The sky's have been interesting lately.

The artistry of the dugout canoe  in front of the Chamber of Commerce is a welcome inspiration.

The traditional Splatsin dugout canoe was carved by Tony Antoine , the rock work was built by Fred Koenig.

Thank you for this historical, finely crafted attraction, adorning our park and Chamber office.

Casa Bella Line Black and White

Princess Reanna in black cotton knit, long two tiered skirt with ruffled detail and versatile ribbed knit waist band. Tank with ruffled detail around neck and armholes. You can not go wrong with a comfortable long black skirt and matching top.

Casa Bella Hair salon at 706 George Street in Enderby BC. My line of clothing will be in the shop till July 27TH. If you see something you like but it's not in your size and I still have the fabric I can make it for you. Here we have the lovely Reanna who works at Casa Bella's modeling a few of the pieces. 

White cotton tank with ruffle detail. Black and white cotton, rayon gored skirt with pockets lined with invisible zipper closure. Reanna loves her pockets.

Black cotton tank with black and white gored skirt, matching purse slung over shoulder.  

Black tank with black and white skirt, matching purse with lots of pockets for all your needs inside and out plus a hook in a convenient place for your keys.

White tank with black and white gored skirt.

Also at Casa Bella's you will find black cotton knit 3/4 length sleeved tops and yellow cotton tanks with ruffle detail.

I am working on new items for the Arts festival Saturday July 28TH in the Maud street parking lot and Garlic related items for the Grindrod Garlic Festival Sunday August 19TH. Hope to see you then. 

Oh yes I will be making hats and head pieces, more garments and whatever gets done. Come with your ideas.

The Rivers Are High

It has been raining and on the few sunny days of heat the snow caps have been melting, swelling the rivers and creeks, widening and overflowing their banks. These are shots of the Shuswap in Enderby June 23RD to June 25TH.

June 23RD about   

Bee swarm, someone collected them. 

Slow pace, many snails on the 23RD

June 24TH and you could not walk all of the river walk with out rubber boats.

The boat launch by the campground.

Marker on the 25TH

Steve and the boys at the camp grounds on the river walk.

Bob, a Spider & The Chair

Unless you are disabled what do you know about being disabled? 

Our neighbor Bob is a Barber and as long as I have known him he has been in a motorized chair, which he uses to walk his fat Scottie dog Coco and generally get around town. Bob the Barber could not barber after he lost his legs due to diabetes, he was determined it wasn't going to stop him from  his work. Through E.A.T.I. Equipment and Assistive Technology  Initiative and CanAssist at the University of Victoria, they were able to come up with a chair they called "Betty the Barber Chair". The team of engineers Paul Green, Brandon Fry and Mike Lewis worked for seven months building the chair. Bob told them what his requirements were and they were greater than anything they had done so far. "Betty the Barber Chair" was their biggest project, you could get a very nice car for the price of this chair. It's two chairs, the chair the customer sits in and Bob's chair. Bob's chair is like a satellite that goes around the customers chair, Bob's chair also goes up and down and forward and backward. It has three motors and a generator in case the power goes out so he will not get stuck in the chair. Bob likes the quite ride of his chair. If he had any complaints it would be that they used the biggest guy (with legs and long arms) as a model for the chair. He's not really complaining but it would be nice if the chair could move closer to the customer. Bob just makes his seat belt looser so he can get closer. 

Bob the Barber Egely sitting in his new chair in his new shop  in Downtown Enderby BC

When they started the project Bob's legs were the same length. Bob developed a problem with his left leg and the doctors didn't know what the problem was, antibiotics made it worse, he was in the hospital for 6 weeks or so. A specialist looked at his leg and diagnosed a spider bite. They had to amputate more of his leg. Beware the Brown Recluse Spider, they have no intention of hurting you, just make sure it's not in your shoe before you put it on , and check under the covers before you get in bed, that is how Bob was bitten. Brown Recluse Spiders are nocturnal catching their pray by ambushing with a venomous bite. For humans it is always worse to be bitten on the fatty parts of the body, the venom eats it away at a fast rate. A spider bite can be misdiagnosed as the bacterial flesh eating disease. I have been doing a lot of shoe shaking these days and looking under the bedding before I get into bed.

The foot step they added afterwards, so no one would fall if their legs went to sleep while sitting in the chair.

The controls for the motion of the chair. Bob's motorized chair close by.

Bob and I sitting in the chair, with all his barber paraphernalia.

The base of the chair, to the left is what holds up Bob's chair.

This is one of the many old shavers Bob has, from the 1900's.

Bob cutting Tim's hair.

Bob in his chair cutting Tim's hair. Technology working and giving a man his business back.

I hope these baby spiders are not growing up to be Brown Recluse Spiders. They were on the steps of the front door. Does anyone know? What I like about spiders is that they eat the bugs that eat my garden.

Protesting Bill C-38, Please Vote NO

Some great posters at the Vernon Bill C-38 protest in front of Colin Mayes office, It was difficult to count everyone but I figured about 80 people showed up some with posters, some banging pots and pans, young and old. They came on bicycles, foot and by car from all over the large riding.