Duncan and Emma's Salt Spring Island Adventure!
Sowing the Seeds of Excitement… Who would have thought it would be possible to get excited about a Seed Catalogue (when you're only in your 30s!). So there I was, over breakfast, reading "West Coast Seeds" and getting – well – excited! At right an early photo of our veg garden in 2008. "Look they…
Fabulous Hiking on Vancouver Island in the snow!! With all our visitors gone and the dangerous slippy roads improving – which have both been very exciting – Dexter needs a good solid walk… So, Duncan and I decided to do a new hike on the 'Big Island' (Vancouver Island) and take advantage of the reduced ferry fares! And…
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…
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…
Alcohol update! So, to make our alcohol budget go a little further we thought we would make some of our own – starting with blackberry wine. But we seem to have got a bit carried away… This is a list of the alcohol currently in progress: Blackberry wine. 5 gallons – or approximately 30 bottles.We're…