The Wolves Are At Our Door...

Not the proverbial ones, real ones. Last Wednesday when everyone went out for mail, Nola and I stayed behind to relax. We went for a little walk around the cabins and I found that the wolves have been to our beach just below the cabins. If you know us and have been here for a visit - you will know that is close - too close! The dogs didn't even bark - it must have been in the middle of the night on Tuesday and they slept through it! I noticed on my walk last Thursday that a wolverine was behind the cabin a couple hundred feet. It had walked down the main road a ways then turned down the trail that comes to the back of our cabin. Before it got too close it turned off into the bush again. The dogs did spend some time barking on Wednesday while everyone was gone for mail so it is possible that is when the wolverine wandered through. It is one of my favorite things out here to go out for a walk after a fresh snow and see what critters have wandered through. The wolves seemed to have moved on for now though, Tim and Paul went for a drive east of here on the snowmobiles and saw a moose kill that will occupy them for a while.

I am also honored to share that Heather and I have had our blogs featured in a publication put out by the Edmonton Journal. It went out on Monday, February 8. We received our copies in the mail today and it was so exciting to see our print "IN PRINT." It was also exciting to see pictures I took as a part of the article as well. For anyone who reads this as a result of the "Country Asides" article - we have one correction - we are from just outside Grande Prairie, Alberta, not Bonnyville. It was so neat to read from a paper how our dream has played out over the last several years.

We left yesterday and took the newly reopened trail out to friends who live at the end of it. We stayed the night there and had a great visit. We have spent a few days working - and this is hard work - snowshoeing in thigh deep snow ahead of the guys to break trail for them as they are cutting, then doubling back behind them to clean up the limbs they cut and the downfall they cut out of the way. The guys have the hard job too of sawing snow laden limbs from trees and getting "dumped" on all too often. Heather and Paul worked very hard on the trail while we were out at the end of January. Even though it is very hard work, I am glad that we got back in time to help out with it. It was very rewarding to drive through a near 40 year old trail in country we have never seen before and enjoy all the new scenery. I don't know how I will go back to driving a vehicle on roads to get where we need to go. I much prefer driving a snowmobile on trails to reach our destination now.