I have been back living in Kelowna for the past 18 years after going to university and living on the West Coast for 10 years. I share my home with my 3 daughters, husband Roy and our dog Jayne. In the summer I work as a Landscape Design Consultant helping people plan their gardens around the various perennial and annual plants that thrive in the hot Okanagan "xeriscape" climate. In the winter I wri
te; magazine articles, sports stuff, education briefs and I snowboard with the family up at Big White. I am working on a book with my 12 year old daughter about her pet rat Puff who died of cancer a couple of years ago. My eldest daughter Courtney has the luck to have her locker right across from the "Class of 79" class picture at KSS and, unfortunately for her, she looks just like me! Court will be part of the 2009 grad class - things sure have changed in 30 years. No more bush parties or kidnap breakfasts! Group dinners, group dates and group sleepovers are the norm. I'll have dry ribs, Canada Dry and a bowl of dry roasted almonds at my dry grad thank you very much! See you all in August at the winery! Ha! Photo from left – Caryl, Courtney, Cate, Roy & Cassidy
