Farewell Lemon Thunder, 1991(?) to 2009

I’ve grew up with cats and birds all my life its always hard when a loved pet passes on. Lemon Thunder was our last cockatiel we got (when I was in grade 5) and was the only bird we had for the last 6 years. At a nice age of 18 or so … We are not really sure how old she was when we got her so, I’m going by how long we’ve had her. LT aka The Bird passed away yesterday (Monday) morning. I think the cause was from a mixer of this heatwave and old age.

First off … Happy long weekend to all the BCer’s (British Columbia Folk) out there, be safe this holiday Monday. This is the 1st BC long weekend I’ve been home for in years. I decided to stay put this year as I’m already missing two Saturday dragon boat practices this month and our last festival of the season is in September.

Though not everyone was able to showed up to practice (due to work and the long weekend) so instead of two boats (22 people per boat) heading out on the water, we had enough people for one boat and lets just tell you it was one of the best practices ever. I’ve always found teams that combine their A and B teams every once and a while will make both teams stronger. But this team doesn’t think that its either A or B. I disliked it that some of our A boat folk don’t know the names of our B boat paddlers.

Anyways there were not a lot of people at the lake or on the lake but the waves from the few motor boats made it feel like we were paddling in Hawaii. We decide half way though practice that it was getting to hot, so the team beached the boat and most of us went for a swim. We also got to watch 3 deer as they walked by in the trees. Though we didn’t see the two eagles that normally fly over us/watch us as we practice.

Yesterday I had a small group of friends over for a bbq it was great fun. No long weekend is compete without a bbq. That was the 1st bbq I hosted (without family around) and I was surprised that all there wasn’t any food left, so I can’t have left overs this week oh well… But I guess that’s better then having a lot of food untouched.

How was your weekend/long weekend?
With long weekends do you find yourself staying home or try to get away?