Rekindling Week

This past week has been spent catching up with old friends and I'm about to see two more today. After camping in the mountains on the farm with a friend who lives in a bus, we headed to Kelowna to driveway camp again, this time outside a friend and former roommate from university who had since married her teenage sweetheart and they now have four growing boys. We went for a pedicure and lunch which was just amazing as my poor feet were long overdue for a tidying up and new polish. We strolled along the river, did a bit of shopping, hung out in the house while she went through her mothering chores, and shared meals with the family. 

Nash had a visit with their kitties in the catio aka the screen porch they have claimed. It did not go well. He felt very threatened so needed to climb up high. His tail and back fur were straight out! So I cuddled him until he felt safe enough to go exploring the room. I cat-sat and colored in my coloring books. Yes, coloring books. I have embraced adult coloring books. No, not pornographic coloring books, but not Little Mermaid either...mandalas, cool designs, paisley, flowers, you name it. There is a whole collection now that it is trendy to color. I have about 100 markers and pencil crayons, and four coloring books. Yeah, you could say I'm into it. It is very relaxing and you get a real sense of completion when finished. The deisgns can be as simplistic or intricate as you like. I opt for something inbetween - intricate but not finely so, as I don't have a steady hand or the micro-pens you need to color those types of designs. I always had a box of crayons and a regular coloring book on hand over the years but it always felt rather juvenile and I had no interest in the designs to color. Now I LOVE it. Check it out sometime...

From Kelowna I then hit the road towards Chilliwack to visit another friend and former roommate. We used to work together in Cape Breton. We went out for dinner with her fiance and then hung out in the RV with Nash and talked for hours. We had coffee this morning and from here now I am heading to Abbotsford to visit a friend at his new cafe he and his wife opened. I'm heading to Port Moody after that where a friend from high school lives. We've caught up a few times over the past decade when I've been on the west coast. She has a new puppy so there is severe cuteness coming. I'll be heading back to Vancouver Island on a morning ferry and heading to Cobb Hill to see about a possible sewing job before settling back in Victoria for the fall. I'll likely just camp on residential streets at night and at the beaches and parks during the day until I feel like settling in at a more semi-permanent space. Ideally I would like to just driveway camp as I don't need to be plugged in once my solar panels are hooked up this week. I'd like to stay within the city limits and get a scooter or small motorbike to travel around on. So we shall see what transpires. 

Nash has been rather entertaining at times, and still very much a kitten and a cat. When I was shooing him off the countertop as I had just frosted some warm brownies and they were right beside him. He grabbed on when I swooshed at him, both paws in the dripping warm chocolate frosted brownies and then hit the floor with both chocolate paws...I had to act fast or face cleaning up chocolate paw prints all day. I was able to grab him and clean the paws up quickly before letting him run off and lick between his toes. Another more nightmare inducing episode involved the toilet in the RV. So it is a simple toilet system with a black water tank and you simple pull the lever around the right side of the bowl to release a bit of water to rinse the bowl as you open the trap to the black water tank. I had left the door open while I went and so nosy kitten that he is, Nash was in exploring and just as I stood up and turned around to immediately flush, up jumped kitty and straight into the bowl with his front paws, just micro seconds before I opened the trap. It still gives me chills to think what I would have done had he fallen into the black water tank...I can't even think about it. So moving on. Nash just LOVES his little tent and crawling under things to sleep, so I may make him a couple more tent beds to try out some designs as I am considering designing some cat products like beds and tents. I want to try them out with Nash first. Meow...