Houseboating Together Again…

Houseboat vacationing means a lot of family and wet towels in one place…

It also means gourmet meals shared in the making and the partaking. 

 

It means a little swimming in the rain and a lot of hot-tubbing, 

cuddles and cat naps.

It means a little hiking and a lot of stone throwing on the beach.

 

A first birthday,

a first fish,

 

and first some-mores on the beach.

 

It even means a little shopping on the water!

It means being together, all together for an end-of-summer’s vacation again after 10 years of growing up and multiplying, sandwiched between the first-born’s leaving home and the last-born’s flying away.

It means celebrating a slice of shared life before parting ways again,  till next time…

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Sweet rememberings of our last houseboat vacation, when we were younger, and fewer in number…

--LS

And you shall bless the LORD your God for the good land He has given you…Deut.8:10

Island Living…

We don’t actually live on an island, but still… you’ve got to take a ferry to find long flat miles to pedal… So one fine morning in order to make the most of some pre-fall sunshine we took off for Vancouver Island to pedal…

Ironically, our ultimate destination was another much smaller island…

via a smaller ferry…

Lovely country roads wend by pastures and quiet haunts… even a picturesque marsh.

We even got to do some walking this time around…

up a woodland trail in cool dappled shade to an overlook of …

the lighthouse station on Chrome Island!

Now that would be a little place to live; we’d have to get a stationery tandem!
I think I shall count my blessings…

Whew! by day’s end we’d pedaled 68 miles and I was more than ready for the ferry ride home…

--LS

 

He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. Ps.23:2