( 8:16 PM ) melrose
Finally! To-day ~ My 'Flower Basket' Quilt is complete. I started working on it in the Spring of 2018 and have worked on and off on it ever since. It has been a delight to sew as the colours seemed perfect and it turned out just as I had planned.
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( 6:11 PM ) melrose
Today, we went on a very interesting hike/walk along the the South Thompson River to the section of the River's Trail called 'Aviation Way'. So named, because it runs along Kamloops Airport. We had heard a long time ago that there was a large "stash" of old vehicles piled near the trail ... we had tried to find them previously ... but always decided it was just too far. To-day we found them!.
To begin, we walked a very long way on the sand bar shore along the river where we saw Eagles and birds.
Along the way, we came across a little English lady with her friendly nice dog. She told us that the metal vehicles and such were in the next small bay .. and that they were not on the shoreline - they were on a path going up from the river into higher land and to follow first , the path to the right from the river and then the path going to the left. They were not marked. It was a good thing she said they were not on the river bank ... or we never would have found them. The paths looked very old and not used too often. She also gave us an interesting piece of history: She said the vehicles and machinery, along with anything metal were put there many years ago to keep the shoreline from eroding when the river flooded. We had thought we would maybe recognize some of the old cars... everything was so rusted - we could not identify anything.
We followed the fence line path back to the start of the hike just in time to keep ahead of the rain storm that was bearing down on the Airport Control Tower and us ..... It was a very pleasant morning hike.
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