Have you ever had an event in your life where destiny played a hand? Man, I can’t shake these boat blues … what the heck is a Surfer Boat?
Category: Homesteading
Our Adventures
Plum Blossoms
Sometimes you get so busy that you miss beautiful things happening right in front of your nose … like plum blossoms outside your window.
Ostara’s Path
Today is the spring equinox, and we finally finished cutting a trail from the cabin up to the center of the property. This trail will allow us to access the old logging road that runs through the upper reaches of our land. Finally, we will be able to move around our property more easily and get to know our 50 acres better. We are calling this new trail Ostara’s Path.
A Kipperfull of Wood
We now have a Kipperfull of wood …
Singing the Boat Blues
You know the old saying – “A boat is a hole in the water into which you pour money“? Well, two boats are two holes, so I’m singing the boat blues …
What’s in a Name?
Kennard and I have often given our homes and our boats Celtic names, as a reflection of our Celtic ancestry. For example, our home in Prince Rupert was called “Creag Faoiltiarna Fitheach“, which is Gaelic for “crag of the the wolf and raven” (both of which are common in Prince Rupert and have significance to us). However, we were having a hard time naming our new home. Should the name reflect the land (50 acres of forest) or the house/home?
Imbolc
Today we celebrated Imbolc in our little cabin in the woods.
Freeze-up
We’ve been in for a bit of a surprise – on January 3rd, the end of the Port Neville Inlet froze up.
New Year’s Day
Hogmanay is the Scots word for the last day of the year, and is the Scottish celebration of the New Year. One of the most widespread customs associated with Hogmanay is the practice of first-footing, which starts immediately after midnight. This involves being the first person to cross the threshold of a friend or neighbour and often involves the giving of symbolic gifts intended to bring luck to the householder. Food and drink are then given to the guests. This may go on throughout the early hours of the morning, and well into the next day. The first-foot is supposed to set the luck for the rest of the year.
A Community Christmas
We were invited to a Port Neville community Christmas dinner at Ransom Point today.