Zoey fetches Ball

Zoey loves to go and retrieve her ball and when we get fed up throwing it she keeps dropping it down the stairs.

Not a good picture very difficult as she is very fast.

Dinner Dance

Patrick and I went to a Valentine Dinner Dance at the Somerset Cricket Club to raise funds for Motor Neurone Disease it was a very good evening.

Waiting for  Dinner  right to left Mike, Susan, Margaret and me.

Right to left John, Clair, Eric and Susan.  Patrick is not in the photo's as he was taking them he did not get everyone on the table.

Chairman on the dance floor.

The people on table 14 organised the event

Super Bowl

Tried to stay awake to watch the Super Bowl as I knew Tyler, Cody and mum and dad would be watching it did not finish until 3.30 am unfortunately fell asleep but have recorded the whole game.

Left Bronco Bear to continue watching.

Bronco Bear getting excited

Brought back happy memories making bears with Tyler and Cody in USA

Visit to Vets

Misty and Zoey had to go to the Vets

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Playing by the computer before we left wondering why they have not had any breakfast.

Misty did very well very small scar poor Zoey not so lucky.

Zoey wearing her T-shirt to help with the healing

Zoey likes to stay very near and Misty is keeping an eye on her.

Poor Misty has no one to play with so watches TV alone.

Fitbit

Taken a long time to get here as most of my walking I try to do on the flat or down hill,

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Misty Stuck in Sofa

Misty managed to get inside the box section of the sofa, she has done it before and got out this time she had got too large to make her way out.

Patrick had to take it all to pieces this meant removing the bed draw and then taking the sofa apart lets hope she dose not do it again.

Zoey was upset and tried to get in to help her as you would expect they were both very quite for the rest of the evening.

At least it meant we could clean behind the sofa 

Walking

After looking at Alan's record for running I took a look at how far I walked in 2015 not great as I wear my fitbit all the time.

I must get a lot more active as most of my good days last year was while I was in USA.

My goal is too loose weight this year and get more healthy Patrick and I are also going to go swimming once a week.

Yearly Totals

·         887,205 steps

·         3128 floors

·         371.1 miles

·         583,401 calories

Misty and Zoey

Cannot believe how fast the Kittens are growing up.

Taken when they could both still sit on my mouse mat.

Zoey likes to fetch a ball this is her waiting on the top of the stairs for me to throw it again if she gets fed up she sends it down herself

Misty got fed up waiting to play with Zoey so decided to pull down the Teddy Bears                                                                          



After playing they still need to cuddle up together thinking up more trouble they can get in 

Weymouth

On Monday we went to Weymouth first really good day since Christmas the wind was blowing hard but there was some shelter and it was good to walk along the beach.

New sand sculptures still work in progress

Christmas Cake

Val made a lot of Christmas Cakes again this year this is the one she made for Patrick and I.

Boxing Day

The weather over Christmas was a lot of rain but on Boxing Day we managed to get out for a walk with Barry, Sarah, Jake and Daniel.  We decided to go to Nine Springs very muddy on the way up but out of the wind it was lovely.

There was lot more water than usual

Jake a rare picture with Daniel

If you look carefully you can make out the bird

On our way to the top

Rag Day at Bridgwater Colledge

Motor Neurone Disease has been chosen as one of their charities for the year so Mike and I went along to man a stall for the day with information about the disease.  Some of the staff did an Ice Bucket Challenge and I thought this photo taken by Mike was excellent.

Tyler Swimmer of the Month

Patrick and I were very pleased to hear that Tyler was Swimmer of the Month.

Camping in Moraine Park

This is a bear box  you have to store all food and toothpaste

Alan took us camping in the Rocky Mountains on Friday,

A bit of a shock to hear that the night before a bear had been in the camp site and had damaged 15 cars we were told to make sure all food was in the bear bins.  This was not good news for me as I have to get up in the night and did not fancy walking to the restrooms, I must say I was glad there were plenty of trees and large rocks.

While setting up the camp this lovely deer was right beside our camp space.

Tent set up 

Siew Gin quickly had the fire alight and the evening meal started

Ready to eat

The boys had a great time climbing on the rocks.

It was so peaceful in the park and in the evening we toasted marsh mellows on the fire, sleeping was fun Patrick and I had Tyler and Cody went in with Mum and Dad.

Machine Room

The room is almost finished the ceiling has been re-boarded and plastered and we have decorated and painted, laid a new carpet.  Just waiting for a new blind should be here soon.

Every thing has been washed and oiled the machines have not looked so clean in years.

We have rearranged the room so that all three machines can be used at the same time and it has given us a lot more space.

My automatic machine is now in front of the window so I can look out at the garden, draw back is I can see what needs to be done.  It will be a lot better when the blind is up as this room gets a lot of sun in the afternoons.

Alan's House UK

We went up to Bristol this weekend to check out the house and to go to Daniel's party.

Here are some pictures of Patrick and Barry haymaking.

The front and back lawn looked like a field 

Patrick working on the back lawn

They spent a lot of time renewing the cord and cleaning out the grass

The broken fence panel

Almost finished

We left the garden looking much better

Rain Rain Rain

The rain started before Christmas and went on and on, when we returned from a lovely trip with Alan, Siew Gin and the boys we noticed something on the ceiling in the extension but no water coming in.

Within a few days we had this.

The surveyor informed us it was plaster fungus it appears there was a small hole in the roofing felt and the water had been seeping in and it looks like the some of the roof timbers will have to be replaced as well as the roof.

Patrick managed to remove the fungus and all of the ceiling tiles and we have been waiting for the contractors to come and repair the roof before we can take down the ceiling and have it replaced.

Patrick's Easter Holiday

We were so far behind with the garden due to the bad weather that we decided to spend the time getting the back garden into some kind of shape and we are very pleased with the results although so tired we can hardly stay awake when we sit down.  We should have taken pictures before we started showing all the weeds.

   Before we started to put up the fence to divide the vegetables from the flowers again the bad weather blew down our old fence.

New fence up

Patrick mulching the flower beds, they had been weeded and treated and I do not know how many wheelbarrows it took to cover all the beds.

The rockery had a make over

Patrick then dug the veg patch

 Me in the greenhouse potting up, Patrick managed to cut off my head.