Sorry all - I have not posted lately - mostly because I'm afraid to bore you! There has not been a lot going on of late... As June nears and we get closer to the end of our year (OK - it will only work out to 11 months as Tim and I and the kids came out here on July 31) we are wondering where life will take us next.
We spent some time starting last Saturday, May 1 at friends in the valley helping where we could as they put on their new roof. We took 4 days in there and went out to Alberta to get some more steel for the trommel Tim is building - completion date to be the end of May. Tim went back out to help on the roof yesterday and it sounds like they might wrap up today. Tim will come back out to the lake for a day or two - then move back into the valley for 4 or 5 days to complete his trommel and get it delivered.
May 1 also marked the first day we were able to drive out to the road with the trucks. It was a feeling of new found freedom being able to do that after almost 6 months of travelling it with snowmobiles! We made it half way out the previous day but turned around as we neared supper - it had taken us between 3 and 4 hours to make it through the section with the deepest snow - less than 10km. With lots of pushing, pulling and shovelling the two families made it to the summit. We knew the rest of the way out would (or should!) be good and we made it all the way through with few problems on the way to help roof the next day.
The friends who are putting on a new roof have a farm with cows, pigs and chicken and Nola was anxious every morning and night to help with chores - her favorite part being checking for eggs in the chicken coop. This has led us to the decision to get some chickens when we get to wherever we are going. I am a little afraid, OK terrified, of chickens - so we will have to set our coop up like the one we have seen out here - the eggs are easy to get at without having to even go in where the attack chickens are...
Back home we went looking for some land, but had no luck. There were either not enough trees on it, too much junk on it, too close to neighbors or too much money! We hope that in the next few months this part of our life falls into place as we decide whether to return to our previous home, or start a new one in the same area. It might be a tough fit - we enjoy it here when our nearest neighbors are 50km away - on the neighboring quarter will seem all too close for a while!
The bears are out and about now, lots of tracks and scat on the road - we saw a BIG black bear as high up in a poplar tree as he could get. I don't think I have ever seen anything as stark in contrast as a black bear in a white poplar. I only wish we'd had the camera - I could have gotten some great pictures because he wasn't going anywhere. In fact, he might still be there now...
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