{"id":650,"date":"2009-07-31T15:23:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T23:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mixhart.ca\/blog\/?p=650"},"modified":"2013-11-29T17:08:33","modified_gmt":"2013-11-30T01:08:33","slug":"kootenay-lake-bc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/kootenay-lake-bc\/","title":{"rendered":"Kootenay Lake, BC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_oxIVHsQ4CdQ\/SnMPfLdwb7I\/AAAAAAAACKI\/OCmbhamFGoQ\/s1600-h\/IMG_3573.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 291px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_oxIVHsQ4CdQ\/SnMPfLdwb7I\/AAAAAAAACKI\/OCmbhamFGoQ\/s400\/IMG_3573.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364648609456353202\" \/><\/a><span>Joop<\/span> preparing his &#8220;Barbie&#8221; boat for our 3 h tour&#8230;.the weather started getting rough, the tiny ship was tossed&#8230;if not for the courage of the fearless crew, the Barbie would be lost&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_oxIVHsQ4CdQ\/SnMPKCo26hI\/AAAAAAAACKA\/_oSKSvP6Q1g\/s1600-h\/IMG_3589.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 334px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_oxIVHsQ4CdQ\/SnMPKCo26hI\/AAAAAAAACKA\/_oSKSvP6Q1g\/s400\/IMG_3589.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364648246309743122\" \/><\/a><span>Joop<\/span>, Peter and Tabs.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_oxIVHsQ4CdQ\/SnMO2bm31gI\/AAAAAAAACJ4\/vUHG86ACc-4\/s1600-h\/IMG_3569.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 264px; height: 400px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_oxIVHsQ4CdQ\/SnMO2bm31gI\/AAAAAAAACJ4\/vUHG86ACc-4\/s400\/IMG_3569.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364647909414917634\" \/><\/a>Peter <span>helping<\/span> Mist with her life jacket.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_oxIVHsQ4CdQ\/SnMOila5piI\/AAAAAAAACJw\/sPw2QfT9EUU\/s1600-h\/IMG_3574_2.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 386px; height: 400px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_oxIVHsQ4CdQ\/SnMOila5piI\/AAAAAAAACJw\/sPw2QfT9EUU\/s400\/IMG_3574_2.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364647568451675682\" \/><\/a>Fernando and Pip.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_oxIVHsQ4CdQ\/SnMOS7_ndqI\/AAAAAAAACJo\/e_CWgyrMMdg\/s1600-h\/IMG_3575.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 340px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_oxIVHsQ4CdQ\/SnMOS7_ndqI\/AAAAAAAACJo\/e_CWgyrMMdg\/s400\/IMG_3575.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364647299633346210\" \/><\/a>Tabs.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_oxIVHsQ4CdQ\/SnMODRV1EoI\/AAAAAAAACJg\/zHRJEl7MFbY\/s1600-h\/IMG_3582.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 280px; height: 400px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_oxIVHsQ4CdQ\/SnMODRV1EoI\/AAAAAAAACJg\/zHRJEl7MFbY\/s400\/IMG_3582.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364647030485750402\" \/><\/a>Fernando giving me a kiss&#8211;he missed his mom. However, boating has become a part of his regular lifestyle down here in the <span>Kootenays<\/span>&#8211;he lives the life of of Riley. (My pooch Fernando has spent the last month visiting my sister Theresa and her family in an attempt to train him&#8211;he had many bad puppy habits at my home&#8211;nipping Pip a lot).<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_oxIVHsQ4CdQ\/SnMNx21-CqI\/AAAAAAAACJY\/hW7WCzMGJJA\/s1600-h\/IMG_3583.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 321px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_oxIVHsQ4CdQ\/SnMNx21-CqI\/AAAAAAAACJY\/hW7WCzMGJJA\/s400\/IMG_3583.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364646731315022498\" \/><\/a><span>Kyran<\/span>, Hermie (Fernando&#8217;s best friend and cousin) and <span>Mistaya<\/span>.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_oxIVHsQ4CdQ\/SnMNfnAZZgI\/AAAAAAAACJQ\/GfB2iK2RePs\/s1600-h\/IMG_3610.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 336px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_oxIVHsQ4CdQ\/SnMNfnAZZgI\/AAAAAAAACJQ\/GfB2iK2RePs\/s400\/IMG_3610.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364646417826145794\" \/><\/a><span>Kyran<\/span> swimming with Fernando.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_oxIVHsQ4CdQ\/SnMNRRA6oQI\/AAAAAAAACJI\/YmEdeEU5_GU\/s1600-h\/IMG_3614.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 272px; height: 400px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_oxIVHsQ4CdQ\/SnMNRRA6oQI\/AAAAAAAACJI\/YmEdeEU5_GU\/s400\/IMG_3614.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364646171404574978\" \/><\/a><span>Mistaya<\/span> heading into the cold water. The locals swear their Kootenay water is &#8220;refreshing&#8221; and think us Okanaganites whimps&#8211;but hey, we&#8217;re used to bath water down home in Lake Okanagan!<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_oxIVHsQ4CdQ\/SnMNBFXdZuI\/AAAAAAAACJA\/nmnnHo8n0Lg\/s1600-h\/IMG_3616.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 350px; height: 400px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_oxIVHsQ4CdQ\/SnMNBFXdZuI\/AAAAAAAACJA\/nmnnHo8n0Lg\/s400\/IMG_3616.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364645893399996130\" \/><\/a><span>Joop<\/span> fishing&#8211;he caught a fresh water mussel on his line!<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_oxIVHsQ4CdQ\/SnMMyOJ07OI\/AAAAAAAACI4\/gMak1M4XICE\/s1600-h\/IMG_3619.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 388px; height: 400px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_oxIVHsQ4CdQ\/SnMMyOJ07OI\/AAAAAAAACI4\/gMak1M4XICE\/s400\/IMG_3619.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364645638060698850\" \/><\/a><span>Kyran<\/span>(my nephew) \u00a0fishing while doing air-guitar.<\/p>\n<div>We&#8217;re in Nelson for a little vacation. We&#8217;re taking <span>Kyran<\/span>\u00a0back with us to <span>Kelowna<\/span>&#8211;he&#8217;ll be babysitting Anemone and <span>Artemisia<\/span> for a few weeks. We are also taking home our Fernando, the pug. I do hope he keeps up his good habits on returning to our wild home. He has had such fun in Nelson with <span>AuntieT<\/span> and family&#8211;especially with his cousin dogs Hermie and Archie.<\/div>\n<div>And SO SORRY Miranda and John, I guess Peter was right: as we <span>scarfed<\/span> down the Death-By-Chocolate cheesecake for breakfast, Peter said, &#8220;I bet John K has his <span>binoculars<\/span> on and they are waiting for us to leave before they dash over to finish off the cake.&#8221; But truly, we are sorry&#8230;but come on, it was Death-By-Chocolate&#8230;and Peter and I do have uncontrollable sweet <span>tooths<\/span>&#8230;. \ud83d\ude09<\/div>\n<div>-I&#8217;ll post the blog pics leading up to the consumption of the cake when I get home&#8211;we had a great BBQ the night before we left on our trip down here to Nelson.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joop preparing his &#8220;Barbie&#8221; boat for our 3 h tour&#8230;.the weather started getting rough, the tiny ship was tossed&#8230;if not for the courage of the fearless crew, the Barbie would be lost&#8230;Joop, Peter and Tabs.Peter helping Mist with her life &hellip; <a class=\"kt-excerpt-readmore\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/kootenay-lake-bc\/\" aria-label=\"Kootenay Lake, BC\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2204,1805],"tags":[1220],"class_list":["post-650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canada","category-travelandadventure","tag-kootenay-lake"],"aioseo_notices":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":2204,"label":"Canada"},{"value":1805,"label":"Travel"}],"post_tag":[{"value":1220,"label":"Kootenay lake"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"mixhart","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/author\/mixhart\/"},"comment_info":3,"category_info":[{"term_id":2204,"name":"Canada","slug":"canada","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":2265,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":1805,"count":179,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":2204,"category_count":179,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Canada","category_nicename":"canada","category_parent":1805},{"term_id":1805,"name":"Travel","slug":"travelandadventure","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1859,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":363,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1805,"category_count":363,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Travel","category_nicename":"travelandadventure","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":1220,"name":"Kootenay lake","slug":"kootenay-lake","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1220,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":3,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5628,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650\/revisions\/5628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mixhart.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}