First off, why do we call it the Boathouse?? It’s not like it houses a boat. Really it is a Lakehouse. But is really a “house”? It’s pretty tiny! But it is completely glassed in so no bugs when you are down there. It has a lil patio. It has a tiny lil woodstove in the event you want to do some ice fishing, I guess? It has two built in bunks…not sure what shape the mattresses are in? It has its own single solar panel so you can run a light in there. No cooking facilities or anything though. And no washroom. Anyway, we think it’s cute.

After the windstorm we had we thought we better go and check on it, make sure it was a) still standing and more importantly, b) that it was still there!  We imagined there would be a few trees down along the way but we were not prepared for just how many trees were down! Oh my word! It normally takes us about 15 minutes to get down there; yesterday it took 40 minutes and my step counter dinged 10,000 Steps about 100 metres up the trail on the return trip on account of all the extra work involved in getting around, under, and over the blow downs. And of course we tried to clear as much as we could by hand but the truth of the matter is, it is going to take an hour or two of chain saw work to clear that path!

Bear is so …such a helpful fella. So back in the Valley, Luke would go bushwhacking up in the Chilliwack Lake Valley, using a machete and an axe to make lil trails. Bear liked to get right in there and help move the cut branches. Well, yesterday all Bear’s learnin’ came back to him and he tried so hard to move trees off the trail! So, so, cute. I mean, really? Just one of the reasons we love our Bear.

Okay, so I put together a lil slideshow for you but of course there is an upload limit on my wordpress account so I built the slideshow on youtube. Now if you know me at all, you  know I take a gazillion photos of food and yes, some food pics made it into this slideshow; hey, you have to have a good breakfast before embarking on a full on walk to the boathouse! Well, Luke had a good breakfast; I had a fruit pie but it wasn’t really a pie: it was a fruit sauce that I dumped into a pastry lined tart tin because I had left over pastry the other day when I was making Curried Vegetable Pot Pies. Anyway, what I am trying to say is that it looks like pie but it really wasn’t, okay? Okay.