Folk Fest

Somehow, OD managed to trick me into attending a folk festival.
Was actually tres jolly, especially 'cos of the nalgene filled with Rioja (curiously puritanical views re alcohol at public occasions in BC, so meant to be an ethanol free zone).
Hols ran around like a hippy child, the sun sat over the ocean, bonkers music played and everyone had a fun time - I'd even do it again. Imagine that.

Skunks!

So, one of the unexpected joys of living in BC is the fascinating parade of different wildlife we get exposed to - we knew that an old, blind-looking skunk lived in the area, but OD was surprised to see a gaggle of junior skunks playing around on the side deck one afternoon - even worse, they appeared to be living under the back of the house......
One 'skunk-expert', a quick look under the side deck, and a phase of demolition later, we're now in a position to evict our unwanted Pepe LePeu guests - lets see if the trap-door works.....

Demolishing the deck revealed a whole new realm of building nightmares, so I'm currently in a phase of reconstructing the drainage behind the house - we filled a 20yd skip in a weekend and removed a load of junk that the previous owners kindly left for us - the work will never stop.

.....more new summerish photos

I'll post some more soon - we have quite a few more.......

Summer is (more or less) here.

OK, so it's been a while since we posted, but life has been happening to us, whether it's unexpected examples of mortality, too much work, having fun or having to read 'The Wild Things' to Hols one more time......
We managed to go on holiday, and went to Salt Spring Island - stayed in a sooper nice place, complete with very sloping floors, splendid hosts, excellent (unexpected) breakfasts, hummingbirds, a cute dog and a stack of free tomato plants - highly recommended if you're in that neck of the woods - weather was kind of OK - fine for wandering along beaches (which is what we mostly did), but not quite sunbathing weather - all in all, a really great week, and managed to get in a spot of rock-exploration, some kayaking, and a healthy dose of otter-spotting!
Of course, I, and then all of us, were in the UK recently - bittersweet times - just lovely to see everyone - family and friends -but so very sad for the reasons that we were there. Sorry that I didn't get to Cork, but I know that OD and Hols had a fab time.
Other than that, the usual outdoors stuff, managing to climb a fair bit with Sparky, ignoring the DIY that needs doing, slowly sorting the garden, going greyer, a spot of kayaking, fitter, happier, more productive.......
Hols continues to grow (how'd that happen?), get cuter and has a bigger vocabulary than me - obviously, she's a genius and child-prodigy as well - I just need to teach her a few key phrases and she could probably do my job for me - I imagine you only want to see photos of Hols anyway (this is what OD told me anyway), so I will quit rambling and post photies.

Happy Easter......

Happy Easter everyone. Luckily Kev brought a good supply of Cadbury's to tide us over! Enjoying a weekend of almost summer like conditions - after 5 months of greyness and rain we're pretty pleased to welcome in the sun. Just transitioning between the end of the ski season and starting into climbing, kayaking and mountain biking.......oh, and DIY. Plenty of things to do to keep us out of trouble....................

KC & the sunshine band

Kev is over right now, living the high life and getting some form of west coast adrenaline rush every day - he's trying to fit about a year's worth of action into 3 weeks......
Couple of photos here, though strangely, none of Kev - will try and rectify.

Evening snowshoeing

One evening after work, determined to try out Colin's snowshoes, I got a bit committed in an area where I should really have been using axe and crampons.... Oh well, a great evening, I was the only person on the mountain, setting sun on the mountains all around and the lights of the 'couve down below - nice.