Bard on the beach

Following the concert, we headed down to Vancouver and met up with Lynne and Ian for an evening on Granville Island and then a Beatles themed version of As You Like It.  It was really good!

Back to school

For some reason this felt like a really fast summer, but the kids are now back to school!  Ian is in grade 3, Katy 4, Max 6 and Sam 8.  Both Max and Sam now take a bus to the middle school (it stops a block from our house this year!), and I walk the other two to school each day.

Stairs to the back yard

We looked into hiring someone to build a path to our back yard, but it was super pricey, they wanted access over the rear neighbours' yard, and had low availability. At some point this summer Max and Sam were bored and asked what they could do.  Darcy armed them with clippers and sent them into the bush.  That kind of kickstarted a DIY project, that ended this weekend in a fine path and stairs to the back yard.  Now we don't have to scramble up the other side and hit our heads on the low hanging rafter!