Only 1 more day till the
cast comes off.....Hurray!....or so I thought.
When an email pops up with
a heading of “appointment change” you know you really don't want
to read it - due to the doctor being away please note and confirm new
date of
Oct.16th 8am. This seems
an eternity from the original date of Oct 8th. I want my
arm back. I want to cut my own food, have a shower without being
“bagged ”, roll up my own sleeve, type for more than 5 minutes
before it pains me and open the cooler door without having to put
whatever I have in my good hand down on the floor first. It's just
the little things that drive you crazy.
So what's going on at the
OP besides me whining, a couple of things actually.
Birds for one. What's
with all the seagulls? These scavengers are always here in abundance
when we first arrive. I chalk it up to the fact that there is always
lots of fish scraps around for them to make it worth their while to
hang out here. Once this stops they leave but not so this year. Quite
a social bird if the volume of their constant squawking is any
indication and the continuous reforming of groups fight to take over
the prime spots on the rocks or docks by the 'dive bombing' method.
I've never been a fan of the gull but I'll admit they had been rather
entertaining last week.
Don't know if it was a
change in the weather or the alpha gull got bored with the location
but one day they just flew off and we haven't seen then since.
Rain...to be more precise
the rains we have had in September. The skies opened up on September
17th, just happened to be Mike's birthday, and for a week
we were inundated with torrential rains which were more reminiscent
of January and February.
Along with the
overabundant amount of rain, we also had our first storm which would
have past with no more than a notation on my calendar except for the
fact that it happened at the exact time that the barge was scheduled
to make the trip down the coast to the Outpost.
Our anticipation for
the appearance of the barge was fueled not only by the diesel it
would pump into the tanks but also by what was stored in the
container onboard.
Several days of
shopping in Vancouver we managed to amass the bulk of all the canned
goods and non-perishables that we use throughout the season. Several
boxes of wine and a case of spirits plus maybe a bottle or 2 of a favorite liqueur were also carefully stowed. There is one box in
particular I was looking forward to getting my hands on. Just by
chance I had walked into a 'Dollar Store' looking for cheesecloth
when my eyes lit up, my heart rate quickened and all thoughts of what
I had entered the store for were replaced by an array of skulls,
bats and warty nose witches with flowing black capes suspended from
the ceiling. Shelves and baskets piled high with cobwebs, dismembered
body parts, mice, spiders and cockroaches, I was in heaven!
Back to the contents of
the container......the Halloween mother-lode has me excited but the
icing on this year's cake is the new 50'' TV!!! What a treat that
will be.
Remember I just
mentioned that we had our first storm, at the same time the barge was
scheduled......well fate did not shine on us that day. No barge. OK
well these things happen but to twist the knife just a little bit
more the next attempt will be around the first week of November. So
much for my treasure trove of ghoulish delights.
We do have some canned
goods and as always freezers full of meats, veggies and fruit so we
certainly will not go without and we do have a TV ( but it's not
50'', whine whine)
and we do have several
bottles of wine and enough rum for the occasional parched throat.
What we don't have in very much quantity is fuel. Diesel runs our
generators.... which run our lights, fridges, freezers, water, heat,
internet and TV.
From the moment we
realized that the trip was a bust we went into ration mode. Here I
can truly say “been there done that” ...... deja vu season #2.
There's not much to the
ration plan....use less fuel. This means we turn off our genny for a
few hours through the day, it always goes down for the night, that is
a must. The furnace only gets fired up twice a week not for the
heating of the lodge, for we are doing OK right now with a couple of
electric heaters but for the purpose of bathing. Being the only 2
here we figure we can get by with only two showers a week, really
saves on fuel.
Hot water for dishes gets
heated on the propane stove.
Now we wait and hope that
the weather will co-operate and grace us with clear skies and calm
seas the first week of November. (good luck with that)
It hasn't been all doom
and gloom here. We have had some spectacular days, the week right
after the barge couldn't make it.
Till next time,
Heather & Mike
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