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Living with my wild animal neighbors in a remote area of north central British Columbia, Canada. In this blog I relate stories of the wildlife that live around me, some memories,observations, travels and computing experiences plus other topics as the
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Clues that Fall is here
Officially Fall is meant to be here in just under an hour. It is like a summer’s day here though 23C/73F, but Fall has left a few clues around, that it is on the way.I still have this lingering fear of bears, although we haven't seen any around th...
Fire danger throughout BC
As we came home from church Sunday we could see smoke from fires across the lake, but no one lives over there so I suppose it will be allowed to burn out. There are a few small fires around us but so far nothing for us to worry about. It is a bit haz...
Eternally crass
This is a Google Earth picture of our village. To the right is the huge Babine Lake but there are three lakes at the back of the village about 2km or 1 mile into the bush from our place. I have drawn a line from where we live to the lake that Dav...
Anyone know what these flowers are
I know these are a bit crushed however I wonder if anyone knows what they are.Hubby wanted to go for a drive into the bush looking for a possible wood source the other day. So I grabbed the chance to go with him in order to get out of the house. We ...
Heads or Tails - Motion
Skittles has been running a meme called Heads or Tails for some time now and this week the theme is Motion. I have been watching lots of motion the last few days as there are several barn swallows swooping and diving in over our property . They ap...
Vancouver leading the way in openess
Vancouver, BC's city government plan to discuss in next weeks council meeting the possibility of adopting open data, open standards and open source software for all its data and information needs. It is believed that new opportunities will be open to...
Leaving at sunup for Vancouver, and murder update
We are driving down to the lower mainland tomorrow leaving as soon as we possibly can. We hope to get just outside Vancouver tomorrow evening and touch base with one of the daughters. Then on Friday morning take the ferry over to Vancouver Island. My...
You don't expect murder to happen around the corner
We are such a tiny village only 350 people but today the village is all agog with the news of a murder which took place last night. It happened to a relatively new person to the village who bought a house last year although I have never m...
Spring is starting to poke through
The top of my is rockery poking through today, the snow is receding slowly but as you can see we still have quite a bit. The rockery covers a really ugly raised man hole cover for the sewer line. So a few years ago we collected a lot of s...
Heads or Tails – Once upon a time
Skittles started a meme called Heads or Tails – today it is Tails and we have to start something with Once upon a time, well I am not a creative writer I have never been very good at that so I won’t tell any tales. However… Once upon a time, t...
I want a green roof too!
Canada's Largest Green Roof Julia Levitt April 8, 2009 4:00 PM You know an innovation has hit its stride when it becomes scalable. When we first started writing about green roofs, they were typically boutique projects -- and convincing city g...
Study in ice
Across frozen Babine Lake- part of the Bulkeley Mountain Range The lake contains large rainbow trout to 12+ lbs., cutthroat to 2-1/2 lbs. and Lake Char that are capable of reaching 35 lbs. Also the legend of Babalina a great monster...
Some dumb ass cowboy ....
We have a rogue bear careening about the outskirts of the village. We have enough of a bear problem here as it is without some dumb ass cowboy playing cowboy and Indians. I mentioned a couple of days ago that there had been a large male black...
A School for Ghosts
When I was rooms manager at the Qualicum College Inn, a hotel in Qualicum Beach on Vancouver Island, we would often participate in trade shows. Specifically those for the hospitality industry and the Sales Manager would travel to Vancouver, Seattle ...
Heads or Tails - Peace
Image via WikipediaBarb over at Skittles Place started a meme called Heads of Tails some time ago - This week it is about Peace or Piece Peace Arch is not a typical BC Provincial Park, instead it is a testament to peace between Canada and the Unite...
Marijuana look alike might solve pine beetle problem
So what can be done about Canada’s blight of mountain pine beetles who are savaging forests turning them from carbon sinks to emitters? Well, at least from an economic point of view the Government of Canada think hemp might be one of the solutions....
Coffee ritual
Every morning over our first coffee we watch the news and the weather report for British Columbia and always Whistler Village is mentioned. It didn't used to be mentioned but now it has become so popular with skiers and the fact that it is the Winter...
Nanaimo BC Capital of Google Earth
Nanaimo is on the east coast of Vancouver Island and used to be a main shopping centre for me when I lived on the island. Now it has become famous for its innovative use of the internet and Google Earth. Nanaimo ‘Capital of Google Earth,’...
Heads or Tails - Wonder
Skittles has a meme called Heads or Tails and this week we can write anything we like about Wonder or Wander, so I have chosen Wonder. Four of the natural wonders of British Columbia include: Quesnel Lake, BC is reported to be the deepest fiord la...
