Duncan and Emma's Salt Spring Island Adventure!
A simple seedpacket from West Coast Seeds called "Pacific Northwest Wildflower mix". Scatter, water occasionally and here's what you get! GORGEOUS! Let's hope it seeds itself for next year as it says it will… And here is one of my giant Sunflowers close up (from seeds swapped at Seedy Saturday!):
Or so our wonderful new tenants call us… When we moved to Salt Spring we downsized and the plan was always to buy a rental property so we could have some income. It's notoriously hard to make a living on Salt Spring – with a population of 10,500 and a largely tourist economy. And finally,…
I can't quite believe how busy August got. Our own fault. Part of our plan to stay here was to downsize and also buy a rental propertyfor income/long-term investment. So we did it. At the end of July 2009. And then gave ourselves one month for some pretty major renos – as we cleverly got…
Found during renos on our rental property… ICK! This is NOT a Rat on a Stick. It is a dead dried rat that Duncan is holding by the tail!!!
There is apparently a saying on Salt Spring. That if you can't get rid of all your zucchinis – you don't have enough friends… I bet they don't say that about apples in the fall. But there you are. So, this little haul of Zucchinis – held by our dear friend Christina – is all…