Duncan and Emma's Salt Spring Island Adventure!
STUCK deep in the mud! I can have a really good laugh about this because – well – I wasn't driving. Our truck got axle-deep in a wet field and we had to shell out $100 to get towed out! So, the story goes, we headed out to a friend's place for free compost (aka…
Mouse-capades… Well, we have just been woken 2 days in a row by the lovely Starsky. She hasn't had any teeth for a while now (5 years) but still managed to catch a whole horde of shrews, voles and mice when we first moved here last Summer (I counted something like 25). About 50% of them…
Yeeha! Now it's a REAL Salt Spring Truck Our poor pick-up truck took a bashing (from Duncan I might add) and now looks like a real Salt Spring truck! It's funny because when we got the truck (its a white, 1994, quad-cab F150 pick-up) in North Vancouver, it was a little on the 'old' side,…
Deer fencing finally complete!!! Hurrah! Finally the deer-fencing is complete and we can grow stuff! Sadly it wasn't quite soon enough for many of our bulbs this year – but hurrah anyway! AND, we can let Dexter off-leash without him disappearing off after a deer-scent. This is pretty major for us, because on Salt Spring if…
The Frogs have started!!! I am VERY excited. Last night our pacific tree frog chorus started! We share a pond with a neighbouring property and basically, for a period over the Spring and well into the Summer, every evening as soon as it begins to go dark, there is a fabulous chorus from the frogs! Spring is…