Welcome to our blog about life on rural Vancouver Island. We have a small acreage,
a few animals, a whole lot of wildlife, and some real characters about, just a few
are human!
We are pretty handy and resourceful; not so many years ago we quite often had
power failures lasting for hours or even days. We are living in the 21st century yet
without electricity or telephones it isn't much different from a hundred years ago.
Old technology serves as well today as it did in years gone by. Oil lamps for light,
a wood stove for heat and cooking, pond water for flushing toilets, homemade
wine and beer to enjoy.
We aren't that far, really, from the town, but somedays, when it is pouring rain
for the 10th day in November, and you can count on one hand the number of
cars that pass the house, it can feel like you are in the back of beyond.
When it snows it is so quiet and on the road there may only be one or two vehicle
tire tracks. All the animal and bird tracks are there to see - raccoon, birds, ducks,
deer, dogs, the cat and even a rat or two. Like a weird topographical map.
