Going to Calgary for about 2 weeks

Early in the morningI can see the rising sunGonna pack my suitcaseGone for a long, long runGot to catch a GreyhoundDrive through the night and day.Mick Abrahams: “Greyhound Bus”

Done my auto research

I have been checking out all the 2007 small car specifications and the Japanese win hands down. Here are some of the details I have found out. They are all in about the same price range starting at $15,000 CAD. They vary slightly in fuel consumption, between 5.6L/100km and 5.9, (don’t know how [...]

The time has come for a smaller vehicle

We have decided to start looking for a small fuel efficient car. Our Ford truck is just eating up too much gas to go shopping and general running around. I don’t know how much you are paying for gas but it is $1.24 up here and not likely to go down. As we have such [...]

What I can see from my living room window

What I can see from my living room window

The frame of the solarium my husband is building
The deck he built two years ago
The planter waiting for the plants I am going to buy on Saturday
A humming bird feeder complete with humming birds
Two squirrels feeding on the deck
A jay in the cottonwood tree
A small willow tree [...]

Gone boating

It was a fabulous day today, bright and sunny. My husband and his best buddy of over 50 years had been working all morning getting our roof ready to put on a new metal one, it was very hot up there so they decided that it was too good an afternoon to waste working. They [...]

Something to grouse about

For the last ten days or so I have been hearing something like a small motor trying to start but not quite making it. I couldn’t figure out what it was. It went on for hours every twenty minutes or so. Yesterday I tried to track it down because it was starting to keep me [...]

Drive to Smithers

We had to go to the chiropractor today in Houston and then decided we might as well go on to Smithers. It is so wonderful to see the greening of the trees as we travelled west. We live at 2500 feet and our trees have not started leafing yet. The snow was all gone and [...]

Oh darn, I have been tagged

The complete rules:1. Link to the name of the person who tagged you.2. Include the state and country you’re in.3. List your top 5 favorite places to eat at your location (locally).4. Tag 5 other people (preferably from other countries/states) and let them know they’ve been tagged.
Lattégirl tagged me.I am in BC Canada.
1.My favourite places [...]

Worms in her hair

My husband’s friend was trying to describe a women in the village to me so that I could tell him her name. “You know, the one who has lost all that weight and her hair looks like there are worms in it”.
I knew who he was talking about from the weight loss clue. She has [...]

Where I live

Where I live

We live on the very edge of a small village of 350 people
To the South there is about 50 km to the highway
To the North there is nothing for hundreds of km except wilderness
To the West it is 80km on logging road through wilderness to town
To the East there is nothing but [...]