Bravest Squirrel I've Ever Seen

As many of you know, I fed the squirrels that lived around the basement suite Darcie and I used to live in before moving to our apartment. Well to my amazement, the other day Darcie and I were watching tv when outside our window, on the 18th floor, was a squirrel that had climbed to our balcony looking for food. We couldn't believe it so I ran to get some food while he carried on going higher to the PH suites. I put some nuts on the balcony and waited to see if it'd return and it did. I got some pictures of it eating. Isn't that awesome! Bravest squirrel I've ever met.

Ondrej and Ivona's Wedding

Here's a couple pictures I got of Ivona and Darcie arriving at the winery. They're not the best. They're from my phone camera

After the beautiful ceremony, while the wedding party was getting pictures taken, the guests were starting a tour of the winery when a big storm blew through Kelowna. Here's some pic's of the aftermath

This tree fell across the entrance to the winery and broke some power lines

Here's the broken power lines. The other end started the fires

Here's the video I got of the two spot fires when they were at their biggest. This is just before they started putting water on them. You can see a truck coming into view with its lights on. There's a house just to the left of the largest fire and found out later it sustained heat damage to the side of it. This could've gotten way out of hand though considering the size of it before they put water on it and considering how much fuel there was to burn around it. It was put out within an hour or so. There was no power from 3:30 till 10pm so we didn't get to have the steak and shrimp we were supposed to have since there was no power to cook the food. The winery did a great job improvising though. We had a cheese and fruit platter, then pasta with chicken in it. Not sure if they bought it and served it or somehow made it.

Toronto's Garbage Strike Is Over

When the garbage strike was on, they had to use parking lots as a temporary drop off location for people to drop off their garbage. The parking lot in the park next to our apartment ended up being one of those drop off locations. The first picture is what the garbage pile looked like after the first time we noticed the parking lot was being used as one of the sites. There's fencing up to keep the racoons out and in the second closer picture, you can see where they're trying to soak up all the juices leaking out of the garbage bags by laying down sawdust, etc. along the sides of the pile.

This is what the pile looked like after we got back from our trip to Vernon for Ivona's wedding. Before we left for the wedding, there was a steady stream of cars coming and going and they'd started on the second and third rows of garbage.

This is them cleaning up the last bit of garbage in the last row - the stuff that had been there the longest. They cleaned it up pretty quick. They started the previous day in the afternoon. It was so grose watching them clean up though. As the back area got full, they'd hit the switch to compact it, and after they did they'd run away from the back because the bags were being squeezed and squished with over a month old bags of rotten garbage and it looked like the garbage truck was spraying water from the back end, that's how much liquid was being squished from all the old bags. It was so grose. They all had gas type masks on with rubber overalls and gloves. As of today, the parking lot was washed down and the fence was taken away too. The grass was finally cut in all the soccer and baseball fields too because those workers were part of the city strike as well. The park is back to normal again.