I’ve had a very animal filled day. With horses, sheep, chickens, dogs and a cat you could say every day is animal filled around here, but this day was more about wildlife than the domestic type. It started early this morning when I glanced out the window and saw the most amazing sight. Two flickers [...]

This morning I got up, made a cup of tea, leaned against the kitchen counter and took in the view of the river fed lake below our cabin. Then I walked over to another window and had a look at the waterfall tumbling through our garden. Sounds pretty picturesque hey? You might even be experiencing [...]

Neither Darcy nor I realized just how excited we were about heading off on our first garage sale Saturday of the year until we were about a mile from home. That was when we noticed two things. One, we still had the tank in the back of our truck that we use for hauling water [...]

Up here in the Peace Country we have had three drought years in a row. The fire pit we bought in 2009 has never had a fire in it. Within days of the snow melting, fire bans would fall into place and stay there until the end of summer. The ground was so dry it [...]