Lots of Bubbles

We have finally gotten some nice summer weather here. Madrone would spend all day, every day at the beach if we would stay down there with him. He loves playing fetch and splashing. Blowing bubbles in his water dish seems to be pretty cool too.

I have been experimenting with hot process soap this summer. So far I have made about 6 batches of hand/body soap and one batch of shampoo bars. 

I'm also at around 50 masks sewn so far. My pattern and process has morphed, and I'm pretty happy with the last dozen or so. One friend of mine is over the 500 mark on mask making. She's donated all of them.

I have also gotten to make 3 batches of ice cream this summer. The ice cream freezer broke at one point, so I used the drill to turn the dasher for one batch. Fortunately,  I was able to fix the machine and it seems to be working fine now.

The COVID thing continues.  .  . The numbers in BC are on the rise again, though our cases per capita are still very low. We are being urged to keep our "social bubbles" as small as possible. 

Our bubble seems to include mostly family.

We had a nice visit from Dax and his girlfriend a couple of weeks ago, it was really great to see them. We continue to take lunch with Mum and Lloyd once a week in Shawnigan. The Langford contingent of the family have been up a few times this summer. Fortunately, when our brakes needed to be replaced, we were able to have all new ones installed on the van by our nephew. 

The garden has been going gang busters with tomatoes, squash, potatoes, chard, peas, and etc. Unfortunately, the rats seem to have found my tomatoes and decimated the recent crop. A trap has now been employed to remedy the situation.