So here we are, October 31, Hallowe’en and we woke up to a sugar dusting of snow out there. Not the first time I’ve seen snow this early. In Nanaimo, in 1986 I think it was, Hallowe’en was a brilliant, sunny day not a cloud in the sky. and the next morning we had over 30 cm of snow. I was driving a Stretch Ford 3/4 ton Van at the time, and had ben hauling firewood in it. I thought the suspension had broken, the way it wallowed around on the road. I realized later that it had the snow on the entire length, 17 feet times 6 feet times 1 foot on the roof, so it was quite top-heavy! Lucky I didn’t flip it over.
Anyway, that’s my one “Ancient History” story for this posting.
At Kingsbrae Garden, we’ve been busy putting things “to bed” and putting up storm windows and storm doors on the house/Cafe. A lot of this is different work to what I’m used to doing in Nanaimo, I gardened, and the Utility Crew did all that kind of work.
Weather permitting, I will be showing a Grade 3 class from the elementary school in St. Andrews about compost. They learn about this in school, then they get to do a “field trip” to see how real compost is made. Cool!
Up here on the Ridge, we don’t have a lot of things to put to bed yet this year. The garden crops are done now.
We discovered a company that uses plexiglass to make various plastic products including windows and skylights. They bring the sheets of Lexanin on huge pallets, 6 feet by 10 feet. These make a great base and walls for sheds. We are buying a handful of them to start building outbuildings here on our land. We need housing for the chickens we want to keep, and tool sheds and and and….
We are going to go visit a family today that moved from Nanaimo in the early part of the year, just as we did, and settled in Fosterville, about 100 or so KM northwest of us here. I knew the woman in Nanaimo, through my volunteer activity with the Central Vancouver Island botanical Garden Society, and hers with the Vancouver Island Exhibition. They also had quite an adventurous trip across the country, complete with vehicle breakdowns. Funny how that works.
Oh and yesterday we drove to Fredd’icton (Fredericton in NB talk) and found the Boyce Farmer’s Market downtown. This market is open Saturdays from 6 AM to 1 PM We arrived just after noon, in the lunch rush. It was quite crowded, but it looks like a really nice place. Some prices are a bit high, but the produce is fresh off the farm.
