The river’s waiting — Originally uploaded by LexnGer Roofing is complete! Today’s 4 hour stint wrapped up the roofing including capping 2 peaks, weaving one valley, shingling 3 planes (not roofing lingo but you mathies out there will know what I mean) and hammering 1 index finger. After that, it was time for a serious swim. In serious waves! (I even took the camera out to show you wave jumping… but sharing those will have to wait) Hate that vacation is almost over.
26 December, 2004 – Cold & Windy –14º [This post is part of the 5 Years Ago Today Series] Mainland: still wide open in HUGE patches and the gap is gaping. Beautiful ice structures where the ice formed against the rocks and then lifted off them with the tides. Glen-side: Looks like 8-10” thick when I walked out parallel to Long Beach. Big snow and wind tonight and tomorrow up to 20cm snow expected with winds gusting up to 70km. With the impending BIG wind I won’t be crossing – I might just blow away. Not that I’ve dropped that…
24 December, 2004 – Warm! Wet! Windy! +7º [This post is part of the 5 Years Ago Today Series] YUCK! Today’s ablutions involved bundling up for the long walk through the wind and rain to the outhouse. It’s GROSS out there! All the snow is gone, gone, gone! Mainland-side is open with ice flow chunks along the shore. The gap is open. The glen-side is still closed but has a worrisome layer of water on the surface of the ice. The shoreline all is broken up. I was able to climb out onto an ice chunk that was completely surrounded…
In the continuation of the 5 Years Ago Today series: 9 December, 2004 – Thursday – Sunny & 0º [This post is part of the 5 Years Ago Today Series] Walked down to the gap to see the division of water & ice – very cool since the glen-side is iced & the Gondola Point side is open. I figure I’ll be obsessing over the state of the ice for a while. Lots of calls today. I’ve started answering the phone “Moose Island Call Centre”. Violet who was worried about me since it was my first time alone on the island…
5 years ago today I woke up on an island, unsure of when I’d be able to leave. It was a good day, my father was being let out of the hospital after open-heart surgery. He was going to stay with friends who I knew loved him dearly and would take amazing care of him. I knew that the entire community was rallying around and signing up for daddy-sitting slots because after major surgery like this people need round the clock care. I knew all I had to do was keep the fires burning, feed the dogs, chickens and rabbits…
Back on the river today to fix my mistakes. Yesterday I hung art on the 50paces tree -> the 500paces tree. Then I walked to the 1000paces tree and hung photos to the 550paces tree. Well almost. There are actually 21 trees meaning the last tree is the 1050 tree. So as of this morning the 1050paces tree is all decked out in 1000paces photos. Crap! So today I plucked photos from it’s branch before hanging the correct photos. Then I proceeded to harvest and re-hang nine more trees. Meanwhile skidoos and ATVs zoomed up and down the river at…
We spent a big portion of yesterday pacing out the path to shore. Of course this could just as easily be called “crossing the river” After some minor adjustments to how i count paces, we’ve figured we need 25 to 30 trees to build the path. (For those of you counting that’s 1500 paces, not the previously guestimated 2000) After our first count, we wandered up to Quispamsis for lunch with Sue. Enroute we ran in an x-newspaper man who is excited about spreading the word about the 50paces project. We asked him to hold on until we have…
With Kaya dogging my steps and trying to jump up and steal my mitt from right off my hand.
Show us your favorite mode of transport. Submitted by NomDeCocon. The Basket Mobile for dry.Kayaks for wet, (I don't have a picture of the Littlest Aardvark to show you, so these are a couple from the Mather's Island fleet.)
As I was leaving the island, I saw cyclists on the ice by Long Beach. What a change a couple of weeks make. Mather’s Island, Kennebecasis River, NB Now there are ATV’s, skiers, skidoos, and even cyclists on the ice when just days ago people were shocked that I would even consider walking on it. After protecting the island for months, and spending so much time alone there, it felt weird walking away and seeing these bikes so close.
Kennebecasis River,NB My last morning I have to make sure my path tree is still solid and safe. Odd the things you bond with.
Weird weather, impending rain and wind… the dogs’ barking brings me down to the cliffs to checkout what’s happening… What are these people doing on the river? It turns out they were coming to visit me.
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