Very Mysterious...

On a sunny Saturday on October 17, Vince and I drove out of Prince Rupert along highway 16 (the only highway out of here) and found ourselves within the true north, strong and free, rugged wilderness just outside the city limits. After an hour drive we went down a service road for about 20 minutes and left our car behind and set out in our rubber boots. We hiked up, up and up to get to one of our favourite isolated lakes. Silence, peacefulness, no signs of human activity. Once there we searched out the old hidden canoe tied up in the trees and paddled to the end of the lake and landed on a sandbar. It was there that we discovered something quite mysterious. Watch the video below to find out what....

Haida Gwaii

a tree reaches out its hand, strange fingers bathed in light

a ship lays still

here's to the island

an old boat is quiet with many secrets

Spending my birthday Sept 6, on Haida Gwaii was a dream come true. So much beauty and stillness in northern Canada. Words cannot describe. One morning, we found ouselves in a little bakery called Moon over Naikoon, running on solar energy in the middle of an old growth forest. Later we walked in the fabled golden spruce trail and saw trees over 500 years old. We ate a lunch in another little cafe and read Life magazines from the 60's. We hiked to the Pesuta shipwreck and saw the rivers teeming with salmon along the way. We gazed out towards Alaska at Tow Hill and pondered our smallness on North Beach.

That's Some Zucchini!!

The highlight of our garden endeavours this year was our zucchini! Grown outside in our lovely Prince Rupert summer weather. It supplied us all summer and into the fall! Here is one of our biggies! Too bad we didn't have that ruler when we came across the Sasquatch print!!

Renos, Renos, Renos - a new bathroom

before... After...

We set to work or should I say Vince set to work at renovating our old and only bathroom and creating a great new bathroom to fit in with our heritage home. We decided to do this suddenly when our neighbors told us that they would be away for a month and could we house sit for them. Perfect, because we appreciated going over there to shower and do other bathroom related things when our bathroom was out of order. I have the before and after pictures here. I picked the paint colour - pea pod - and the mirror and lights and other accessories. Vince did all the work himself. Plumbing the new toilet and sink, putting in the new floor and all the electrical and the carpentry of the arched ceiling and built in cabinet. Super hero!