A walk along the Grey Canal

The Winery Tour
We drove all day on Thursday after leaving Calgary with a wet cell phone. Yes, a wet phone. Apparently leaving your BB in your dressing gown pocket and putting it in amongst other things of similar colour like wet towels in a pile in the laundry room for your wife to launder exempts a certain marital unit from responsibility when the cell phone gets washed. I suffered the slings and arrows for about 6 hours on the highway. I am still confused about whose fault it was….how could it be mine? I was just doing a last minute chore.
Anyway, lesson learned. Oh, I don’t mean a lesson about searching pockets or any thing like that. I mean that I learned a lesson about doing other people’s laundry. So, now I don’t.

However we have a cure for a wet BlackBerry. Take heed. After you have dropped your phone and as quickly as you can gather your wits, take the battery out and shake out as much water as you can. Then place the cell phone with the back off along with the battery into a bag of rice. The rice acts as a decicater and after 48 hours you can remove the phone and put it together and hopefully it will work. For the first two or three minutes it read a date back in 1979 and then all of a sudden it came back to life. Better than new because it was cleaner.

This morning we drove to a little cottage winery in Westbank, the first on our winery tour. We learned that although the winery might be small the vines were old and produced a very nice wine.
We went to Mission Hill, what a view!!! and then to Quail's Gate. Seems to be a wealthy, pretentious and profitable business....who knew?
Saturday
The day is glorious, the temperature is perfect and the trees are budding and even tiny leaves are showing. We went for a walk along the Grey Canal on the north side of Vernon.
I don't know what this tree is but the clusters of tiny brow flowers had attracted hundreds of bees. The buzzing was audible for several yards around the tree.

Ihad forgotten the camera on the day that we went to the winery but just as well, the wind was blustery and a the temperature plummeted. However, the next day we went to Kal lake park and walked the hill and the warm sun woke up the birds and the trees began to bud before our eyes.
Sherry is cooking a turkey and the incredible aroma is wafting through the living room. Guess I better go help or I might have to do the dishes