Duncan and Emma's Salt Spring Island Adventure!
It's a white Christmas! Hurrah! We have 4 fabulous friends over to celebrate the holidays with us (thanks for coming Andy, Martina, Scott & Anna!) and the snow is finally sticky enough to make snowballs! Martina, Andy and Dexter at right with their Christmas day snowman! When Dexter saw the snowman, first he barked like…
Hurrah – I have an office!!! Finally I have an office (it's just the end of the dining room) but I don't care! I have been working in a 4ft x 3ft corner since the end of May. This is heaven!!! See below for the full progression in pictures. The plan is to finally…
This little beauty is called a Red-Breasted Sapsucker. He drills neat little rows of holes in trees looking for bugs and coming back later to enjoy the sap… He's about 9 inches long (so in between the large Pileated and small Downy Woodpeckers).
I think we finally have a name!! For our house/the cottage/property that is. We keep seeing the gorgeous (and enormous) Pileated Woodpecker (16+ inches long) on our feeder and flying around the property making it's chattering, laughing sound. See right! We also regularly see the cute little downy woodpecker (about 6 inches long with little…
First the deer, now rabbits!!! OK, so we held off on planting too much food and doing any landscaping because the deer just eat everything – bulbs, plant shoots, stripping bark off trees (and killing them sometimes). But we had this little ramshackle vegetable patch which we diligently cleared and planted up. Now, Duncan hates…