Duncan and Emma's Salt Spring Island Adventure!
So recently we went on holiday to Mexico – my first trip and our first holiday featuring lots of sunshine in over 4 years. Our last two summer 'holidays' were in fact to our place here on Salt Spring where we pulled broom and thistles and moved house. Anyhow, where am I going with this?…
I was thoroughly amused by this week's Driftwood (our local weekly paper) front page. It said: "Bush buys Island Parcel. South End acreage ideal for duck-hunting." Apparently as told to the Driftwood by a realtor, not wishing to be named, the Microsoft Yacht Octopus was anchored off the South end of Salt Spring Island and…
Well, in the last couple of days a few of our daffodils have come out, I've seen Bumble bees, Rufous hummingbirds at the feeder (back from Mexico) and today I actually ate lunch in the sunshine on the deck. FABULOUS! It's amazing how once you start growing food and being closer to nature how important…
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…