Winter again again..

 

A still shot outside the back door - video below

Christmas Disaster

 A result of the dog and cat having a game

Forgot to tie the tree top to the wall - lost a lot of precious ornaments

WINTER POST AGAIN

 This is us on December 23rd - Merry christmas

 Our not so properly plowed road

The driveway in which I got stuck today in the Volvo... 

The mother of all icicles

It is just outside the bedroom window

From inside the bedroom

Winter storm results - December 2013

Looking out the front window

Ditto

Snow covering the tarps over the deck furniture

In all we have had over three feet of snow. 

The New Fridge

 Just arrived

 View of the interior

 Ditto

Initial loading

Deer on the terrace

 Mother and young mule deer

Young mule deer, still showing dappled spots

AFTER THE FLOOD

 Bridge abutment fully exposed - fortunately on bedrock

 New sandbars downstream

 Looking upstream - whole new river morphology

 Towards the old Trading Post - now mostly gone

Another movie!

More flood pictures - taken with Hazel's phone

At the bottom of YohoTinda road - the path to the river!

 Same as above, different view

 ditto

 Further downstream - the flood waters must be a mile wide

As above

Bragg Creek floods June 2103

Makes the floods of 1995 look like nothing

 The village centre is flooded

 Our favourite restaurant - Infusions - flooded

 Water within a few feet of the bridge deck

 From the end of the bridge

 Looking upstream

 Looking downstream

Rushing waters (hope the video works)!

April 14th 2013

20cm fell overnight

May need to use the snow blower...

We have a chair lift!

The chair folded

The chair open for use

The chair in use!!

A Memorable Christmas part the second

Hazel outside "our" cabin.

And..festivities inside same cabin..

From the deck of same cabin.

All in all a great place to celebrate Christmas in a Christmas-card setting!

A Memorable Christmas..

At Storm Mountain, taken by Hazel with her new camera.

Dave Brubeck

Having been trained as a classical musician, and growing up in a household where jazz and pop music were considered below contempt - what an eye opener and education it was to hear Brubeck's early albums. It was when I was at University, living away from home, that the epiphany hit me. How much he did for the music world - my experience listening to him was equal to my first exposure to Glenn Gould's Bach.

For me, the two artists changed my vision of what music really means.

Thank you Dave. Thank you Glenn.

My sins..

So tonight I am going to bbq some sausages - then realised I have not cleaned the bbq for some time - so (at minus 15C) got the gloves, the scrubbers, etc. Now our "new" (last spring) bbq is very easy to clean - the grills and heat deflectors lift out easily, into the kitchen sink, an SOS pad (Brillo for you brits) and all is well.

But then I took out the drip pan - talk about YECHHHHHHH...congealed and frozen fat and unidentified drippings... had to soak it in hot water, and (looking away) disposed of the remains in the garbage container...

And now all is clean until the next bout - tonight - with the sausages.

Will be bbqing on the back deck at -15C.

What fun.

The back deck - winterised

Leaves swept away, summer furniture under a tarp

(Jackson the cat thinks it makes a great hideaway)

True love

"for thy sweet love remembered, such wealth brings" - Shakespeare, Sonnet 29.

New Dining Room Table

Newly acquired at a second hand store! Has one more leaf to put in.

Hazel's Lilies

More quantity than quality, but a great show nevertheless