We had such great plans for adventuring this Long Weekend! Yesterday we drove down to the Chilko River to get some drinking water. There has been a lot of wind happening since last weekend so we expected new blow-downs; we were pleasantly surprised to only come across a few! Devin came up last Tuesday which totally surprised us as it was blowing a gale and we knew there were a lot of trees to cut through to get to us! He was definitely a welcome sight! While Devin cut through a lot of blow-downs on his way up to us, we cut them back a bit more and cleared them completely off the road. It was a long trip for water.
Today I woke up a lil under the weather and that put a kabosh on our plans. We were going to take the boat out on the lake today. It turns out that it was probably a lil too windy to do that anyway, so no real loss. I had a lay down while Luke fired up the old Ford! He drove it down to the boathouse and back; he had Bear and Sam with him but they didn’t like the cab so they eventually just rode in the open pick up! Egad! Glad I wasn’t there to witness that.
After a much needed rest I got up and slowly got around to doing lil things around the house. I have come to the conclusion that with dogs about? I am never going to have a clean house again! I am starting to think we are going to need to build those boys of ours a deluxe dog house and kick them out!
Regardless of how I feel, I do like to try to get my Steps in every day. My very patient husband Luke ambled along beside me on the way to the Boathouse, pulling out lil trees along the way; it’s what kept him busy while I slowly made my way along the path. Now the trail to the Boathouse is no where near 10K Steps so we walked up along the lane to the D in the road where we picked up the rough trail to Moose Hollow. Luke and I sat on a fallen tree (no shortage of those) while Bear and Sam had a frolic in the long grass and, of course Bear HAD to go for a wade in the pool! We picked our way from Moose Hollow back to the trail that goes along the front and kept going right past the house, continuing on down to the point. We would love to get beyond the point but there are just so many old blowdowns that neither Bear or I can manage all that leg lifting! We did go farther than we have been before, so that is something. The sun started to go down as we made our way back to the Earthship. Good timing!
Now we are all tucked inside and the wind is picking up dramatically for which we are thankful. We haven’t had much sun the past few days so we need this wind to boost our batts which are sitting high 70’s-low80’s thanks to SOMEONE leaving not one, but two kitchen lights on all night a few days back! We have been playing catch ever since.