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My floating, recycled cottage furnished with shabby chic and eclectic treasures. Welcome aboard!The Eclectic Arkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02226742314698298031noreply@blogger.comBlogger102125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6436410306405135009.post-84239513188399537812017-07-20T23:49:00.001-07:002017-07-20T23:49:53.383-07:00A Quest for Good Health or How I Spent Lent Wednesday February 10, 2016<br />
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Hello again, well I hope your winter was as mild as ours. We didn't get any ice on the river and no snow in town ( lots on the ski hills though, which is good for them and for refilling our water reservoirs after last years drought conditions). It only dipped below zero about 10 days total. It rained for months which is most typical for this area and as we still don't have central heating of any kind, I retreated to my bedroom to huddle away the time.<br />
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Here are some pictures from the worst of winter that we experienced. <br />
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While I was spending winter in my bedroom, I stumbled onto a TV show called "My Diet is Better Than Yours " and watched a few episodes. One of the diets was called <a href="http://fatburningman.com/what-is-the-wild-diet/" target="_blank">The Wild Diet</a> and seemed like something I could incorporate as a lifestyle rather than a diet per say, so decided to give it a try. Well it has worked wonders already! My weight is melting off and I have done little to no exercise to help that along. I do want to exercise, but I went dancing 2 weeks ago and my left knee has been killing me ever since. I have to wear a brace on it to get around now. Not sure what that's about, but as it hasn't gotten better with 2 weeks rest, I am about to start incorporating some knee exercises to see if I can stabilise it a bit.<br />
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So Lent has just started today and I usually like to quit something ( Most often chocolate) but this year I thought I would do something different, I am going to add things every day. Healthy things! I'm sure I have mentioned the Fibromyalgia that plagues me on here before. Its like having the worst flu in the world with all the aches and pains, fatigue, nausea, irritable bowel, insomnia, that comes with that and with other treats thrown in like asthma, eczema, agonising chest pains, chronic headaches, ocular migraines, just to name a few. Did I mention the bone crushing pain and fatigue along with depression and anxiety? Anyway, its constant and it wears on me and my good humour. Over the years I have tried a great many things to try and get a grip on my symptoms. Its kind of like playing a whack-a-mole game. Knock one down, two more pop up, new day, different symptom.<br />
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So far of all the things I have tried, one of the best was a good probiotic. I started taking it when we went to Cuba a few years ago and since then my nausea , eczema, and asthma have gotten quite a bit better. They are still there, not far away, but one probiotic a day means a day I can get out of bed and get something done. Lately, I have been talking to a Naturopath and a herbalist who have given me a bunch of recommendations of more things to try.<br />
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I have been doing a lot of research to try and cobble together a healthier lifestyle. I thought I was doing pretty good, I quit smoking years ago, quit drinking many years ago, never drank coffee or pop, way less stress since we moved, complete overhaul of all cosmetics, cleansers, skin care products to all natural alternatives, but there is always more work to do. I know moving my ass more and getting outside would probably be a great thing. It can be very hard to get motivated to do that when you cant get off the toilet or don't want to get out of bed due to pain.<br />
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Some of the things that I will be working on include:<br />
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-following the Wild diet( for me that's no carbs, no sugar, no dairy( I have yet to find raw dairy which is allowed. I have had a bad time with dairy lately and stopped using it altogether, would like to try the raw dairy and see if my body tolerates it better). I can have sweet potato for starch, wild meat, wild seafood, grass fed beef, free range birds, organic duck eggs, lots of organic greens and veggies, some fruit, nuts, seeds, healthy oils like avocado oil, walnut oil, flax seed oil, grass fed butter, coconut oil, extra virgin cold pressed olive oil and green tea or ginger tea<br />
(I haven't actually bought the wild meat and organic veggies due to cost but even just following the rest of the principles, I am losing all kinds of weight. I plan to fine tune this diet as I go along and my palate changes and I can afford to incorporate more of the desired ingredients one paycheck at a time).<br />
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Along with :<br />
-pushing myself to get out more and socialise, I have become a veritable hermit over the last few years, and that's not good for moral<br />
-stretching <br />
-getting outside in the fresh air <br />
-doing interval type training ( 20 seconds full out, 10 seconds rest)<br />
-getting my garden in the ground this year<br />
-focusing on some liver and lung cleanses<br />
- trying the supplements that have been recommended to me<br />
- do something creative ( I am just learning to play the ukulele)<br />
- spend time in gratitude, give thanks, give back<br />
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I found out about the wild diet a few weeks ago and slowly starting incorporating the concepts into my diet as I read through all the material. I would say I started on it in earnest on the first of February. I didn't think to take before and after pictures or measurements at the time but did so yesterday so we can see the difference down the road. I think my highest weight was 213( I am 5 foot 2, so that is wayyy too much). I got down to about 195 mostly through being very ill all the time. The weird thing is, I eat like a bird anyway, how I stay at 195 is beyond me. I still eat like a bird but now I make sure not to eat carbs/grains/dairy. <br />
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Since I started the diet ( 9 days now), I have dropped 5 pounds( now at 190lb). Because, who knows for sure what is working on what, you need to know that I also started taking a Vitamin D supplement 5,000iu a day and tinctures of Dandelion and Milk Thistle which supports the liver. Dark chocolate is allowed on this diet but I find 70 percent just too bitter for my sensitive taste buds, so I found 50% dark Chipits and when I really get a craving I eat a teaspoon full at a time and maybe 4 tsp a day max, it seems to be getting less as time goes on.<br />
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I am interested to see if anything changes for me over the next 8 weeks if I put a serious effort into taking care of myself. Right now as it stands, my energy is quite low, its pretty hard to peel myself out of bed. My left knee is quite sore and unstable. I have chronic agonising pain at my SI joint ( low back) which is really only comfortable if I am lying down. My asthma is better than it was, but I still feel a bit breathless all the time which leads to extraordinary fatigue. I battle nausea, stomach pains, IBS daily. My stomach has raw spots in the lining from years of daily Advil intake. I have stopped for about a year now but am still plagued with stomach pain. Apparently I have blood in the stool, much less this last test than the one before but my Dr. still wants me to go get it checked out, so on the wait list for that. <br />
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Last but not least, fairly major depression. Christmas was a total write off for me. I went to bed and stayed there for days on end. I am slowly pulling out of it. Getting together with some friends, playing music, getting outside all help. When I was at my very lowest, I tried some Bach Flower Remedies with great success. Was totally shocked that they actually worked. A few drops in water and I woke up the next morning with a complete attitude adjustment!<br />
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So for the next 46 days, I am going to try and incorporate a new healthy habit every day. Some hopefully will turn into daily practises, some might be more intermittent but valuable just the same in the bigger picture of things.<br />
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<u> 46 Days to Better Health</u><br />
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<u>Day 1</u>- finally stopped daydreaming about a garden and started to do something about it. Spent weeks researching Feng Shui for the garden, companion planting, succession planting, the Back to Eden method, and The Ruth Stout method. Armed with all that knowledge, I planned out my beds and pathways. Today I went with a measuring tape, some bamboo sticks and rolls of string and marked out the whole garden. It has many design elements to it as I want it to be a fun place for the senses and not just a field of rows. I also ordered a bunch of organic seeds online and started lining up orders of loads of compost, mulch and manure. Sadly the truck is in rough shape and not usable right now which hurts as I could get a lot of this stuff for free if I have unlimited use of a truck. But I don't, so this process is taking a bit more time and a lot more money than I would like.<br />
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-Didn't have much of an appetite, only ate once at 9 pm, ribs and salad (spinach, cucumber, tomato, avocado with raspberry vinaigrette with some dried pineapple for dessert. <br />
-VIT D, Dandelion and Milk Thistle, Pro biotic .<br />
-Weight- 189.5 Whoohoo! broke 190, first time in years :) <br />
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<u>Day 2</u>- Today I went out to a Ukulele jam in Port Moody. About 30 people with ukuleles, we are all given the same songbook and play along with the people onstage. Lots of fun. I am starting to figure out some cords and jump in when ever I can. I just have a cheesy tourist ukulele from Hawaii that I found in a thrift store but I can still practise my cords patterns on it. I am hoping to pick up a better one soon. I was in a ton of pain today from bending over in the garden yesterday but very glad I forced myself to go anyway. I had lots of fun, saw old friends, made some new friends, and got twice as good on the ukulele as I was a few days ago! I ordered some finger protector things because callouses are not a great thing for a massage therapist to have.<br />
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- green tea for breakfast ( I am usually very nauseous in the mornings, so rarely ever eat anything much before 1-2 pm).<br />
-Brunch was left over ribs with cucumber and tomato slices. A fresh pineapple spear.( pineapple has bromelain which is a natural anti-inflammatory so trying to eat more of it)<br />
- Dinner was calamari with Greek salad without the dressing, served with tzasiki and edamame as a side dish. Some more dried fruit ( pineapple) and nuts for dessert. ( I shouldn't have had the breading on the calamari or the feta cheese, it was only a small amount, hoping it doesn't affect the scale tomorrow) I am trying very hard not to cheat. We are allowed one cheat day a week, so that may have been mine!<br />
-VIT D, Dandelion and Milk Thistle, Probiotic, 5 grains of bee pollen<br />
-Weight- 188.5<br />
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<u>Day 3.</u> Had insomnia was up until 4:30 am, slept until 10 am, had to bolt out of bed to get ready for work. Felt nauseous most of the morning. <br />
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- green tea<br />
-Lunch was miso soup, salmon sashimi, edamame, a spicy chopped scallop cone, (made with daikon radish shavings instead of rice), prawn and avocado salad.<br />
-Dinner was left over edamame beans and some dried pineapple. I was feeling too nauseous to eat the dinner that was made for me, nibbled on the beans and pineapple throughout the evening.<br />
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-VIT D, Dandelion and Milk Thistle, Pro biotic, 6 grains of bee pollen, Calcium ,Magnesium supplement<br />
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-Weight- 190, I wonder if this much weight gain could be explained by the tiny bit of breading on the calamari and the feta cheese of which I doubt I ate more than a tablespoon or two max.<br />
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<u>Day 4</u> Stomach not so queasy this morning. Lots of stomach pain and low back pain ( not sure if its my overactive imagination but it feels like my intestines are stuck to my muscles in the back and the weight of the intestines is pulling on my back muscles and making them throb with pain. It feels more internal than just a joint pain)<br />
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-green tea<br />
-lunch was wilted spinach cooked into scrambled eggs, no oil or butter used<br />
and some salad with spinach, avocado, cucumber, tomato and raspberry vinaigrette<br />
-supper was beef stir-fry with spinach, bok choy, mushroom, onions, garlic<br />
- some dried pineapple for desert<br />
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-pro biotic ( couldn't get my queasiness in order to take the rest of the supplements today)<br />
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-weight 191- grrr, this isn't going the way it is supposed to go! I am thinking its the edamame (beans and soy aren't supposed to be on the wild diet but I figured hey, its a vegetable and its hard enough for me to find veggies I enjoy eating, sadly I think this is going to be another one I like and cant eat. <br />
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<u>Day 5</u> Slight nausea, lots of low back pain and around the tops of my hips, I am in bed all day and they are screaming in pain, trying to force myself to get up and go out. Got a bunch of pallets delivered today which I am going to use to build compost bins with. Got 10 and some others covered in plywood all delivered for 30 dollars. Wish my truck was on the road, so I didn't have to pay to get everything delivered. Hopefully I can afford to get the rest of what I need and get the garden going this year. Next on the list, soil, compost and wood chips. Also looking for a nice garden bench and 4 trellises or something to build them with like concrete mesh. <br />
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- went shopping and bought a ukulele, picked up a used fluorescent light fixture for the seed tray for 10$ and went to a music jam after that, a nice night with good friends, just what the soul needs!<br />
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- green tea and grapefruit<br />
- supper- steak and mushrooms with salad<br />
-at the party snacked on smoked salmon and pineapple/grapes, drank water<br />
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-probiotic, Vit D, 7 grains of bee pollen, calcium /magnesium supplement<br />
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-weight 189 whoohoo, its going back down!<br />
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<u>Day 6 </u>- Yesterday was the first time my knee didn't hurt in weeks. It felt great all day and then I woke up this morning with it all inflamed again WTF. I didn't do anything strenuous on it, drove my car, sat on my drum, stood in a corner playing ukulele, nothing that should have aggravated a knee that felt fine. More Fibromyalgia shenanigans??? My low back was in serious agony last night, some of the worst pain I have ever felt, I was almost tempted to go to the ER, it was so bad. I managed to fall asleep though at 4:30 am and it feels quite a bit better this morning.<br />
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Today, we are building the seed heating unit so I can start some seeds for the garden. My stomach and guts feel pretty good today,80% normal, a few faint twinges but nothing like the hell of yesterday. I didn't eat anything until 4:30 pm, it seems I have almost no appetite at all these days. Its like one small meal and a few snacks of fruit are enough. <br />
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I practised the ukulele for a few hours and learnt some notes to jam to blues with. I am feeling all professional all of a sudden, lol. I wish my knee wasn't so bad, I really want to start exercising. I guess I am going to have to get over my body shame and put on a bathing suit and hit the pool one of these days, if my knee isn't going to cooperate. I hate to be a moaner, but the weather lately isn't exactly conducive to hanging around outside. Its been raining like a monsoon for weeks now!<br />
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-green tea and a red grapefruit<br />
-an omelet made with spinach, mushrooms, 3 eggs and some butter<br />
-Dinner- turkey breast with fried portabella mushroom<br />
-dried pineapple chunks for snacks<br />
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-pro biotic, dandelion tincture<br />
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Weight - 188 -being a good girl at the party paid off :) it was hard, so many temptations, breads, dips, lots of chocolate and cheesecake, I said no to it all. Bless the person that brought the smoked salmon, that saved me!<br />
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<u>Day 7</u> Had a quiet day, practiced ukulele most of the day. Went to work and did two treatments, did some grocery shopping and came home and fell back into bed, lots of pain today, nausea not bad at all. For some reason I just had no appetite today so didn't end up eating much of anything. I was quite short tempered today, probably from lack of food and excess pain.<br />
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-did dry skin brushing before my shower(good detox) and used a salt scrub in the shower to exfoliate and soften skin ( a little self care!)<br />
- green tea and grapefruit<br />
- a few pieces of dried pineapple and 5 dates<br />
- probiotic<br />
- weight 188- I had a pretty good appetite yesterday, so didn't lose any but didn't gain any either- all good!<br />
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<u>Day 8</u> I finally made it over to the local Co-Op to look for garden stuff. I bought a bunch more seeds, a large roll of galvanized steel to create hoops for the beds with, a roll of black cloth for the ground and a roll of white cloth to cover the crops. I also got a beautiful bird bath for the water feature, a cute heart shaped solar light, a soil thermometer and a bunch of bamboo poles to build a bean teepee with. The seeds I ordered showed up today, so I have my work cut out for me now! <br />
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My stomach feels ok today, I guess food aggravates it? Lots of knee and low back pain. I went to 5 different shops today, most the size of a football field and am paying the price for all that walking. I couldn't wait to get home, take a painkiller and go to bed!<br />
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-I ate at a salad bar in the CO-OP <br />
-had a bowl of Thai curry soup which may have had a small amount of rice in it ( not supposed to eat rice :( ) and a salad, lettuce, cuke, tomato, boiled egg, 2 tbsp. of crab salad- dipped the salad lightly in thousand island dressing<br />
- dinner was baked ribs and salad(spinach, beet greens, zucchini, cuke)<br />
- dried pineapple<br />
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-Vit D, Cal/Mag, 8 grains of bee pollen, dandelion tincture, Bach Flower remedies ( Gorse and White Chestnut-trying to get my crabby mood under control), homeopathic remedies-coxsackie and chicken pox ( recommended to me over a year ago, forgot to take them, thought I would try it now)<br />
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- weight 186 - not surprised after not eating yesterday, wonder if it will stay off? I took some measurements today and I have lost an inch around my stomach and hips. Altogether, I have lost about 9 pounds in 18 days which is an average of half a pound a day. If I can keep this up, I will be at my goal weight by mid-june. Its weird, I am still as fat as a horse but losing 20 pounds total is noticeable to me. I feel so much thinner, that I am shocked when I see myself in the mirror and realize I am still huge. <br />
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<u>Day 9</u> It finally stopped raining for a few hours this afternoon , so I decided to try and get some garden work done. I am killing a few birds with this stone, mainly getting outside, and getting some exercise. I spent about an hour just rearranging the bamboo poles into a teepee shape until my OCD side was happy with the perfect spacing between each one. I cut black garden fabric to fit under the teepee and for each of the four beds. I started with one bed and took a garden fork and punched it into the soil and pushed the handle to the ground to lift the soil up and loosen it. I was happy to find a fair number of worms under the sod. I covered the loosened bed with the black fabric and then spread 3 old rotting straw bales that had been sitting outside since last summer over that. I topped that with two large bags of dried leaves and put bit more of the heavy wet straw on top to hold them down. I still need to find some manure to add to it as well, but its a start. My neighbor offered me her worm composting bin today, so will look into getting that set up.<br />
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I then decided to take a break from the fork work as my back was really starting to ache. Stupidly instead of calling it a day, I decided to try and rearrange the pallets into a compost bin shape. I picked up the first one I wanted to move and was dragging it over a log when it slipped and twisted out of my hand, wrenching my back severely as it went down. I knew right away it was bad. I stopped right then and there, picked up my tools and hobbled them over to the shed and barely made it down the ramp with tears streaming down my face. I grabbed an ice pack and hot water bottle, took 2 Demerol and went right to bed, where I spent the rest of the day. I am praying this sorts itself out in the morning as I cannot afford to miss even one day of work. <br />
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I still have next to no appetite so only ate once today at 8pm . Nausea not bad at all today, all quiet on the stomach front. Now if I could just figure out the low back pain, ( not including todays adventure) then I could feel like I am getting my life back. <br />
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-Half a grapefruit<br />
-Dinner was a bunch of chicken legs with the meat cut off and added to salad greens. <br />
- dried pineapple chunks<br />
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-Vit D, Cal/Mag, Dandelion tincture, pro biotic, the coxsackie and chicken pox ( I am supposed to be taking these morning and night but you have to do it 20 mins before or after putting anything in your mouth like toothpaste, food, even smoking . So I keep forgetting that first thing in the morning and by the time I remember to take them, its too late. <br />
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- weight 185.5<br />
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Day 10 - I was up until 4:30 am alternating hot water bottles and ice packs on my back. Felt a bit better in the morning, still not able to bend much. When I got to work, my co-worker worked on it for a few minutes and was able to reset my pelvis that had gotten quite twisted. I managed to do two treatments and then went home for a break. I ended up canceling my last client as I was stiffening up again quite bad. Spent the rest of the day in bed with hot water bottles. I got up later and did some stretches and used a ball and foam roller to work out some of the deeper trigger points. The pain has gone from 10 to about 5, and is feeling more muscular now than slipped disc, which I was worried about.<br />
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Lunch- omelet with spinach and portabella mushroom<br />
Dinner- roast beef with carrots and parsnips<br />
-nuts and seeds, dried pineapple<br />
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-Vit D, pro biotic, dandelion tincture<br />
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-weight 186<br />
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<u>Day 11</u> Slept flat on my back last night, which I never, ever do, as sleeping on my side was killing my sore low back. I actually slept really well, surprisingly, may have to try that again! Woke up quite nauseous and threw up once. Not a good start to the day but managed to make it to work and treat 6 people. Had to take 4 Demerol and an Advil to do it, but made it through the shift. Came home and went back to bed with the hot water bottle, thank god tomorrow is Saturday! One of my clients asked me a question about something called<a href="http://www.aviva.ca/article.asp?articleid=9" target="_blank"> serrapeptase</a>. I didn't know anything about it so did some research and it turns out it is good for inflammation, think I will look <a href="http://www.globalhealingcenter.com/veganzyme.html" target="_blank">for some</a> next time I go supplement shopping.<br />
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-Lunch -12 pieces of raw salmon, bowl of miso soup and a spicy scallop cone ( didn't eat the rice end of it)<br />
-Dinner- a couple of handfuls of nuts and dried pineapple and a left over spicy scallop cone from lunch<br />
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- Probiotic, the coxsackie and chicken pox ( twice am and pm)<br />
-weight- 184.5<br />
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Day 12- Got up this morning and made an omelet to eat. Only got about half way through it when I realized I wasn't feeling very well. I spent the next 14 hours with explosive diarrhea and vomiting. Lost 3 pounds in fluids alone. I really thought I was going to die. I finally managed to get a few hours sleep sitting upright in bed and sucked on a few ice chips trying to rehydrate without upsetting my stomach again. <br />
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- half an omelet with spinach and portabella mushroom<br />
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- weight- 184<br />
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Day 13- Got out of bed around noon, tried to do some housework, but after half an hour was feeling queasy and weak, so back to bed.<br />
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-weight -181<br />
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UPDATE<br />
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May 11/2016<br />
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Opps my bad, I forgot I started this project and didn't keep up on it. After the last day I wrote about, a few days later,I ended up going for a colonoscopy. Thankfully it came back totally normal, no issues there at all. The prep for it however,was brutal! You have to drink liters of this liquid that tastes like salty lemonade ( I don't like salty anything, anytime!) so could barely choke down half of what I was supposed to take over a period of many hours. It was sheer torture for me and I was praying it was enough as I had been so sick for the last few days, there wasn't much in my guts anyways. The stuff gives you violent diarrhea for a few days and you can't eat for a few days before the test so my diet experience got all messed up. Once the test was over, I ate whatever I could hold down.<br />
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I kept up with the basic concepts of the diet and my health started to improve in every area. I went for a lung function test on April 20th and for the first time in 15 years, I don't have asthma anymore! In fact the Dr. said my breathing function is now better then expected to be for my age etc. I can feel the difference as now I have energy again.<br />
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I have been spending hours in the garden digging out hard packed clay and replacing it with nice garden soil and manure. I found a nearby source of woodchips, so filled 100 garbage bags full and brought them back in 5 car loads to make garden paths. I ended up doing that job twice as I thought 6 inches deep of bark mulch would keep the weeds down but was wrong. I had to go back and rake them all to the side, dig out all the big weed clumps and lay cardboard down, then rake the chips back over the cardboard. Whew, who needs a gym. trying to wrestle mother nature into submission is a workout and a half!<br />
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My only source of water for the garden is a trash pump in the river. It has to push the water up a hill about 200 feet, so there is not a ton of pressure at the other end. I fill buckets with water from the hose at the edge of the road and carry it to each plant by hand. It is heavy laborious work and at this point I still have hardly anything in the ground. Once all the beds are planted it will take hours every day just to water it all. Still trying to think up a better solution for that. <br />
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I am feeling quite good these days. My stomach issues are all but gone. I used to suffer from very bad acid reflux. I had been taking a proton pump inhibitor which I was scared I had become addicted to in a rebound kind of way but haven't had to take one in over a month now. I have no more nausea/diarrhea or heartburn. I have tons of energy, up at 5:30 -6 am, work 5 days a week, then in the garden until 9-10pm every day. My arms ache a bit but I think they deserve to with all the shovelling and water carrying I do on top of my physical job. <br />
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My low back still gives me much grief. After the wrenching of my back with the pallet incident, I went to the chiropractor and got some x-rays taken. My low back takes a sharp right, the right hip is significantly flared out and I have no discs left in my low back at all. I am researching exercises to strengthen my core to see if I can do something about this. Since the colonoscopy in February, I stopped taking all the supplements I had been taking and forgot to get back on them. The only medication I have taken in the last month is Demerol for the back pain and a few Advil after getting a tooth pulled. <br />
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I have recently broken out in ankle rashes that my Dr. thinks might be my eczema coming back,so I am going back on the probiotics to see if that helps. I plan to keep on with the wild diet principles and working out in the garden. I have a blood test form that I will take in July a few days before my next Dr. apt to check things like cholesterol, blood sugar, inflammatory markers, kidney function etc. to see if this diet is impacting these numbers in a positive way. <br />
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So far, as of this date according to my Drs. notes, I have lost a total of 35 pounds. Some of that was from being ill before I went on the diet but I have lost 24 pounds on the diet since February 1st. I haven't been as strict as I should be, had a cheat week once instead of a cheat day and my appetite has improved so I eat more now but have been able to maintain my weight at around 175 for the last month and it has dropped again to 171 in the last few days so hopefully the train is pulling out of the station and I can continue to lose some more. My ideal weight would be 130, I would be ok with 140.<br />
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One of the biggest milestones for me in this adventure, happened this week. I used to go to Wreck Beach regularly for over 15 years. Even when I first started going in 1995 and I was 20 years younger and 40 pounds lighter I struggled to climb the 400plus stairs up the cliff. Pretty much every step felt like burning fire in my legs and lungs. Always pleasantly surprised to have not had a heart attack at the top of the trail. After the Fibromyalgia took over my life, I never made it back to the beach. I couldn't face the stairs. I couldn't even do the stairs in the house. I had slept in a room downstairs for the last 2-3 years because I couldn't get up and down the stairs safely. <br />
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Well ( drumroll please......) I went to the beach, not once but twice this week! And it didn't hurt at all! I walked up the stairs without feeling breathless, my legs didn't burn, my heart didn't pound. I wasn't even sore the next day! I am beyond flabbergasted, I never thought I would ever make it back there again. I feel like I may have cured my fibromyalgia and found a way to shift my old-age-menopausal-don't-smoke-anymore weight that has been on me like cement for the last 8 years.<br />
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The icing on the cake was having two different clients the other day, tell me they didn't recognize me as I looked so much younger! I feel younger. If you had asked me 6 months ago how old I felt, I would have said 95 going on 105. Now I feel 35 with a low back problem.<br />
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So all in all, I have to say Lent was a rousing success this year. I lost 25 pounds, stayed away from chocolate and sugars of all kinds. Got way more physically active both at work and in the garden. Got outside in nature almost every day. Spent more time with friends. Read some very informative and life changing books. Got my health, vitality, vim and vigor back. <br />
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Please if you know anyone with an inflammatory condition urge them to give this a try for a month. It may not be for everyone but I feel like a brand new person right now. <br />
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<u>My Prescription for wellness</u><br />
Follow the Wild Diet, take a non-dairy probiotic ( I take Acute Care by Metagenics which I get at Pharmasave), and get out in nature. Walk barefoot on the ground, touch the earth, get close to plants and other living things. Use the muscles in your body every day to do some hard labor. Relax afterwards with an Epsom salt bath or hot water bottles and ice packs. Drink lots of clean, chemical free water. Turn off the electronics, read a good book, get a good sleep. Feel amazing the next day! Give thanks, be joyous, smile....it's contagious!<br />
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Update on the update... well, I continued to stay on The wild diet and the weight continued to come off. I eventually got down to 155 and was feeling a lot better in general. In the fall I started taking a Pilates class and that was the key to fixing the low back pain. One class a week kept me pain free for a good five days. I'm sure if I would have practiced at home like I was supposed to , I would have been totally pain free. I also found out about a supplement called astaxanthin which helps remove lactic acid from muscles and speed recovery from exercise. That was the final piece of the puzzle to cope with the chronic muscular pain.<br />
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I couldn't believe it, I had totally turned my health around. My stomach was great now, no acid reflux, no nausea, no asthma, no eczema, no chest pain, no back pain, no achy, throbbing muscles keeping me up all night.<br />
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It got into the busy season at work and I was working full time for months even taking some extra shifts to earn more money for a well needed holiday. I had thought with my illness, that travel was a thing of the past for me, but now I was planning two months in Thailand! I left mid January and had the holiday of a lifetime, crossing a whole bunch of stuff off the bucket list. I walked for miles, swam for weeks, ate healthy fresh food, meditated with monks and lost another 10 pounds!<br />
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And then I came home...to hell. Dave decided to try and steal my home from me while I was gone, changed the locks and told me I was evicted????? Long story short, 6 weeks in court to prove I had a right to the stuff in the house. He had to leave for a month, while I packed up 10 years worth of dreams and moved it all out. He came and took what was left and towed it downriver never to be heard from again. This is the last time I saw my home, goodbye to the dream.<br />
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Sooo, the Eclectic Ark is no more :( <br />
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I struggled with many emotions over the last four months, lots of fear, anxiety, grief, anger, depression. I pushed my body beyond its limits day after day, after day, trying to deal with moving everything, digging up the garden and living in mortal fear that he would come back and try and hurt me. <br />
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I think I have burnt out my adrenal glands. I had really bad insomnia, nightmares, severe exhaustion, and serious muscle pain. My diet sucked, I had no money at all, my friends loaned me money and I tried to make it last as long as possible. Lets just say, if I never eat another peanut butter sandwich, I am ok with that! I survived off carbs and hot chai tea by the gallon. The absolute worst diet for me!<br />
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I am back up to 180 pounds and its climbing daily. My muscle pain is back with a vengeance, and the acid reflux is starting to be a regular thing again, although I have avoided taking any meds for it so far. I have ZERO energy, I wake up exhausted, drag myself around and have naps every chance I get.<br />
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This bad turn on the health front made me remember this blog post that I started and never posted. So here I am ready to try and sort myself out again. Time to walk away from the carbs, start taking supplements,and implement regular Pilates and Yoga sessions into my days. Praying it all works as good as last time.<br />
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The one positive thing that came out of all this, is, I got my creativity back! Living alone has given me the space to explore my interests again. I have painted about ten watercolour paintings and have found a fresh interest in learning to play guitar. I LOVE YouTube, I have been teaching myself painting and lead guitar by watching videos, which is great when your broke and cant get out.<br />
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Here's some of my paintings<br />
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And this one, I actually sold!! Does that mean I am an artist now?<br />
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Well, I have started a new job lately, so now that things have calmed down, I am ready to get back on track, looking after myself. I like the idea of adding a new good habit each day, so even though its not Lent, I am ready to try this challenge again. Wish me luck!<br />
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Dave mounted this bit of carving that came off my old boat over the entrance to the doorway to the living room. He plans to go back and bevel it better and stain it to match the wood its attached to but nice to see it find a place in the house!<br />
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Every winter, my plants would always die as soon as the temperature dropped below zero. I got some wooden sliding glass doors for free as well as some free sidelight windows and Dave cobbled them together to close in the the space in front of the french doors. This allowed us to put a heater in there and maintain a temperature above freezing without having to heat the whole house. In the springtime, we can put shelves in this area and start seeds for the garden.</div>
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I am loving the look of them!<br />
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I got the big brown TV cabinet for free and it served its purpose but we were finding it to be too bulky for our living room. We didn't want to just throw it out and I really liked the electric fireplace that came with it, so it got recycled throughout the house. <br />
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The same wall without the TV cabinet. Eventually we will probably put a sectional couch along that wall. I had two nice old chairs in the living room but they had spent some time in storage and had a musty smell that Dave couldn't stand. He finally convinced me to get rid of them. As soon as I said yes, he had hauled them out, dragged them up the ramp and set them on fire just to make sure I didn't change my mind. So, the living room looks a little empty right now, but its kind of nice to have some space. We put it to good use and had some friends over for a jam and potluck dinner. We had 20 people in the living room and it was still comfortable.<br />
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We finally got around to moving the pantry behind the kitchen, so what
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Dave is busy carving an eagle to be the back of a bench he built outside to store the generator and batteries for the solar panel system which we haven't installed just yet. Its on the list.......<br />
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When we closed in the area in the living room for the plants, we ended up taking out the door that had led into the pantry and blocked that wall in. The doorway got moved onto the back of the workshop room wall and the beautiful wood door got put in between the living room and workshop. This looks much better and is much safer as it has a window that is protected with a Plexiglas plate over it. This allows me to look into the workshop before entering and making sure I don't scare Dave when he is working with power tools or knives. We are still contemplating more changes. We may take down that wall in front altogether and instead put a sliding patio door at the closet end of this picture. This would divide our two workshops into half instead of 1/4- 3/4 which they are now. The glass would allow us to seal off one room for messier stuff like sanding so the dust doesn't go everywhere yet still allow for maximum light from all the windows. If Dave needs more carving space for longer poles he can open the sliding doors to make the room bigger again.<br />
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This is the bench that the eagle will be going on top of. In the summer we have it covered with nice plush pillows for a perfect suntanning spot.<br />
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The generator and batteries are stored underneath.<br />
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Dave has spent a ton of time carving every inch of the bench. Moon face on one side.<br />
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An arm rest that is a phoenix rising out of the flames(they are made of different wood which was inlaid) This is all still a work in progress.<br />
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The other armrest is a dove carrying an olive branch. <br />
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The cats were driving me crazy making me get up and let them in and out every 20 secs all night long, so I finally got fed up and made Dave put in a cat door. We were concerned about other critters finding their way in, so we put it in a window and added a ledge for the cats to jump onto. Mamas sleeping much better now!<br />
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Had a quiet Thanksgiving dinner for two.<br />
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Here is the new pantry. We took out the stairs that had been there and closed in the wall behind the bookcase. Its smaller than it was but we still managed to get everything we wanted in there. Its great having all the food and kitchen appliances right next to the kitchen, makes much more sense!<br />
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This is the other side of the pantry wall. The two portholes were from my old boat as well, the window was a freebie.<br />
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I always wanted a reading nook, so Dave built me this......<br />
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This is the view from that seat.<br />
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The docks covered in frost, we need more tiles for this side of the house to make it safer.<br />
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a cold November day but at least it stopped raining!<br />
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The electric fireplace got recycled into another old fireplace mantle we had kicking around. Dave found some huge beams floating down the river and cut them into shelves to make an entertainment center against the north wall. The TV and speakers, VCR, PS3 etc is over the fireplace, the large mirror beside that hides our octopus of an electrical system, there is a bookcase built in beside that.<br />
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We had to build a box around all the electrical stuff anyway so couldn't really use that wall for anything else. By moving the TV, books and fireplace over here, it really opened up the living room. Now that we have the patio doors that allow us such a good view from living room, I wanted the couch to face out not inwards like they were before. Since we enclosed the living room with the reading nook, the plant room and the old pantry area walled off, it feels more like a room now. The way it was before it felt like a large hallway with furniture in it. I like it way better now!<br />
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I haven't been very creative the last few years, but recently was inspired to build a few instruments. The first was this cigar box guitar. It has 3 strings and is played with a slide.<br />
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The other was this cajon. Its a wooden drum with a snare from a snare drum mounted against the front playing face. I love the sound of it and am motivated to make more of them. I need a table saw if I am going to go into production but I am sensing a change in career some day and building instruments fascinates me.<br />
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I didn't make this, but got it at the folk festival this summer for the paltry price of $35 CDN. I love didgeridoos, have three, still cant master circular breathing :(<br />
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I found this super cute old buggy in a thrift store and got it for half price when they couldn't sell it. I really couldn't justify it taking up space in my house but decided it made a useful carryall for my zillion and one musical noise makers.<br />
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The whale bone got shifted around again. I think someday it may end up being a coffee table. It will rest on a base with wheels and have a glass top. I have been dragging this thing around for over 20 years now, it weighs ten tons but I love it!<br />
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I went to the dike down the road to set up my camera and see if I could get any decent shots of the blood moon this summer. The little white point off in the distance is Mt. Baker which I hoped the moon would rise beside. It did not, it just rose in a bare spot in the sky with nothing to add to the photos.<br />
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This is the moon reflected in the pond.<br />
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Here's a couple of the better shots I got. <br />
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This was an accident when I joggled the camera but I like it!<br />
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This was another night, long exposures of the moon, venus and mars reflected in the river. <br />
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We get a lot of amazing sunsets here, these were a few of my favorites this summer. <br />
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This one was from a day trip to the island to visit my friend Cora and get my hair cut. I also saw a humpback whale on that trip which was a first after 25 years of taking the ferry.<br />
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The flower baskets looked good again this year. This one was a new one on the shady side of the house and it did well so will put up more on that side next year. <br />
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Got a couple a wicker chairs from the thrift store. very comfy! <br />
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Dave caught a few fish.<br />
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The grapevine I planted as two small sticks 3 years ago, finally bore fruit. They were A MA ZING, so much better than store bought, Very sweet and delicious, I couldn't be more pleased as I had no idea what they were supposed to taste like. <br />
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I recently took in the new Bodyworlds show in Vancouver. This one was all about animals. It was quite interesting but I wish they would have had more of the human exhibit as well as it is such a good teaching tool for me.<br />
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Check out the eye on this squid, how cool is that!<br />
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One of my cats sat still for second, so here's a picture, Minou says HI!<br />
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And last but not least, I finally quit my job in Steveston. I really didn't want to, but the 150 km round trip commute was killing me on so many levels. I called around to see if there was a demand for massage therapy where I live and there was, so I gave my notice and shifted my practice up here. I cant believe how much better my body feels. I knew the commute was stressful but had no idea that at least half my pain was just from that. Business is slow but steady. I am really enjoying finally getting to meet some locals. I am close enough to come home for lunch which saves me more money and if I have a quiet day, I can come home and get things done in between clients which feels more productive.<br />
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So its been a busy summer. We had lots of forest fires which was scary for the environment. We elected a new Prime Minister who promises to be good to the environment. For the first time in a long time I feel hope again. The world is still going through a lot of growing pains but people seem to be finally waking up. Maybe if we can switch to renewable resources and get off the oil tit, we can get out of the middle east and peace can prevail.<br />
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Imagine there's no heaven<br />
It's easy if you try<br />
No hell below us<br />
Above us only sky<br />
Imagine all the people living for today</div>
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Imagine there's no countries<br />
It isn't hard to do<br />
Nothing to kill or die for<br />
And no religion too<br />
Imagine all the people living life in peace, you</div>
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You may say I'm a dreamer<br />
But I'm not the only one<br />
I hope some day you'll join us<br />
And the world will be as one</div>
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Imagine no possessions<br />
I wonder if you can<br />
No need for greed or hunger<br />
A brotherhood of man<br />
Imagine all the people sharing all the world, you</div>
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You may say I'm a dreamer<br />
But I'm not the only one<br />
I hope some day you'll join us<br />
And the world will be as one</div>
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<strong>Songwriters</strong><br />
JOHN LENNON </div>
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Playing with camera effects. Goodnight from the eye in the sky! <br />
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I realized the other day when I wanted to show a friend some pictures of the house that she would have to sift through years of blog posts to see everything, so decided to do a post showcasing the whole house. We still have quite a few projects to finish but the house is quite livable these days. </div>
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For a reminder of how things looked when we first got the house, <a href="http://eclecticark.blogspot.ca/p/ark.html" target="_blank">click here</a>.</div>
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A view of the house from the driveway</div>
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The garden space, I cant wait to get things growing!</div>
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Our storage shed, a shipping container with cedar fence panels to cover it</div>
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Off the kitchen is a bedroom with a Murphy bed that can be put up into the wall which opens the room to be used as a massage room.</div>
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The other side of the hallway has a set of stairs. I think we are going to end up removing these stairs and build the pantry here. It will be better to have it close to the kitchen and then we can use the pantry room as a room for doing woodwork and other messy crafts.<br />
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We store our recycling under the stairs.<br />
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One of the projects still on the table is to remove those 2 by 4s and replace them with the big beam that's on the floor.<br />
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The mirrored cabinet houses all our electrical boxes<br />
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The pass way into the living room is my library. Another project is to cut wood flooring for the whole house. We will cut extra wood and rebuild these bookcases to go floor to ceiling<br />
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Each base is different, this one has 2 beavers on it.<br />
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The other has 2 otters.<br />
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At the back of the living room is the tool/craft room. Dave is working on a new painting, not finished yet.<br />
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Some of Dave's carvings and a few drums I made.<br />
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The room next to the craft room is the pantry. This will be moved by the kitchen and the space used for wood carving<br />
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The west bedroom upstairs<br />
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The couch was from my boat that I used to live on before I moved into this house.<br />
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The walk in closet out side of the bedroom. It carries on down a long corridor that is storage space for seasonal stuff and another closet at the other end.<br />
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Dave's bedroom. We want to take down the white paneling in here and redo the walls in the cedar paneling that we used downstairs. All the artwork in this room is Dave's work. He paints and carves when he is not busy building the house.<br />
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Well that's the house as it stands now. It is still a work in progress but we have come such a long way in the last two years. Here's Dave enjoying the tub after a hard days work<br />
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This view is what its all about. I love it here!<br />
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Whew, well here it is the last day of the challenge. I decided to go a visit a park I had totally forgotten existed. This is Minoru Park in the center of Richmond. The south end consists of tracks and fields for sporting events. It is surrounded by a large rec center, a shopping mall, apartment buildings and the local hospital. It is the most manicured of the parks I visited and yet surprisingly had the most wildlife of them all. <br />
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I parked in the free parking behind the rec center and came out to a small kids park with the track in the background.<br />
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I turned right and followed this path to the north end of the park where the lakes and gardens are.<br />
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If you ever need pinecones for a craft project, there are tons of them here!<br />
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Lots of lovely old large trees, that if I was more nimble, I would have loved to climb!<br />
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Crossed this little bridge to the lakes<br />
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Lots of squirrels everywhere.<br />
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Love these giant plants<br />
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Pretty vistas to soothe the eyes<br />
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Lawn bowling green in the park<br />
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There is the cutest little chapel ever, I am sure it must get used a lot for weddings! Its in the west corner of the park, just behind the hospital.<br />
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Love these two gorgeous trees beside the chapel<br />
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and who doesn't love a cute rabbit!<br />
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Considering that this park is right in the middle of the city with main arteries bordering all sides, it was remarkably quiet. With the exception of the occasional ambulance siren there wasn't a lot of street noise to be heard. There were tons of songbirds, ducks, rabbits and squirrels all over the park, none of whom seemed to mind the human interlopers. A great oasis to get away from the bustle of the city without going anywhere and lots of places for various forms of exercise. A great use of city space and two thumbs up from me!<br />
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I am glad I did this challenge. I ended walking over 65 km this month, lost 6 pounds and posted almost 600 photos (575) . I probably spent four times as long processing photos and writing blog posts about my walks than I did actually going on the walks! That part got tedious as it was taking up a huge part of my day and my eyes are not happy with me at all. <br />
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I loved exploring all the parks and finding all the green spaces around me. I will definitely keep going for walks but without the pressure to document every step. I hope you enjoyed seeing my world through my eyes. I encourage you to get out and explore your local parks and trails. Don't forget to stop and smell the roses along the way!<br />
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I kind of like the idea of 30 day challenges so I am starting a new one for June. This months challenge is to spend 30 minutes a day for 30 days studying something I have always wanted to learn. I have decided to study Tarot Cards. There is a lot of memorizing involved, so by breaking it up into small manageable chunks, I think it will make it easier.<br />
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Don't worry , I wont be blogging about it, but I encourage you to pick something you have always wanted to learn and spend 30 minutes a day working on it. I would love to hear your stories!<br />
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Thanks, your awesome, Rhianna</div>The Eclectic Arkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02226742314698298031noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6436410306405135009.post-82984649433998902132015-06-02T17:05:00.001-07:002015-06-02T17:05:26.675-07:0030/30 Challenge - Day 29I lived a few blocks away from Richmond's Nature Park for many years and for who knows what reason, never went there once to check it out. Maybe it was the signs advertising the yearly slug festival. Not sure what that is but it didn't inspire me to go take a look. As Richmond doesn't have a ton of green spaces and I was running out of parks, I decided to go take a look. <br />
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There is a building with a few exhibits of the kind of creatures that would live there. The park is a bog land which probably most of Richmond was before all the development, so there was snakes, frogs and a variety of stuffed woodland animals like raccoon, coyote, small deer, and skunk. There were a few sculptures around the entrance like this one.<br />
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Behind the building were a variety of bird feeders.<br />
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There were also a variety of bird, bat and butterfly houses.<br />
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Bird feeders with no birds in sight.<br />
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Paths leading into the bog<br />
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There was something strangely familiar about the vegetation here, cant remember where I may have been in this kind of environment. The trees were a thin dark scrubby pine with what looked like blueberry bushes underneath. It seemed quite different from the vegetation I normally see around BC, more like Ontario maybe.<br />
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Lots of little birch trees as well.<br />
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There is a small pond, more like a large puddle with turtles( not sure if they are native to the area or left over pets)<br />
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This happy bird caught himself a mouthful of dragonfly<br />
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I love these flowers, so very Dr. Seuss looking!<br />
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The trails were quite nice. I didn't have a lot of time, so only did the shorter trails. There were other trails that went deeper into the bog but they had signs saying they would be muddy and boots were recommended. The traffic noise was quite loud in the park which always deters from the experience for me, but at least I can say I finally made it to this park.<br />
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I tried to get a place for my home here beside this shed. Its too bad that this place didn't work out but looking back on it, I probably wouldn't have been comfortable with all the people constantly walking by and looking at us. There would have been no privacy at all.<br />
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I'm so lucky to have such a nice park just blocks from work. I often come here if I have a break. It also has the best air in town, being right on the ocean and away from all the traffic.<br />
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Every Wednesday, Langley has a farmers market behind Kwantlan College. I had heard of it but never gone to it until this week. Here's a few pictures of some of the offerings to be found there. There was free range meat, wild salmon, lots of veggies, some wine and vodka, various artisans with food products, body care and handcrafted items for sale. <br />
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This was a really nice market with a good variety of food for sale. I bought some Hickory smoke flavored salt, some Chaga tea ( amazing healing properties), Turmeric tea ( good for inflammation), a bottle of smoke raspberry salad dressing( I've already gone through half the bottle, its so good!), a bunch of fresh spinach and topped it all off with some Lavender ice cream. I cant wait for next weeks market!<br />
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Thanks, your awesome, Rhianna</div>The Eclectic Arkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02226742314698298031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6436410306405135009.post-46073081319322908272015-05-31T22:49:00.000-07:002015-05-31T22:49:18.443-07:0030/30 Challenge - Day 26Todays walk was at the Terra Nova Adventure Park. <br />
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This is the view from the North Dike Road, looking over the river to the Vancouver airport.<br />
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Looking east up the river, the building on the right with the curved roof is the Olympic Oval where they did the speed skating<br />
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Looking west, the mouth of the river emptying into the Pacific Ocean<br />
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Saw this bench as I entered the park<br />
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Taking the path to the right, led across this little bridge which crossed this small cute pond.<br />
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On the other side of the pond, is the worlds best kids playground<br />
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This crazy structure is about 5 stories tall<br />
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and it comes with a huge slide<br />
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something to scramble on<br />
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How fun is this, a zipline!<br />
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Another slide<br />
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Strangely I never saw one kid, it was all adults playing on things. Hmm, maybe this is a playground for grownups, how fun!<br />
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I continued walking on the trails in the park<br />
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Found this interesting structure....<br />
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.... this was the explanation of it<br />
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Followed this path and found.....<br />
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...and found the Terra Nova Community Gardens<br />
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A last look back at the exit<br />
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This park was an old farmstead that they kept the fields and put paths throughout. A nice place to go for a walk.<br />
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Interesting sea grass<br />
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A mini beach with fire pit<br />
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Took a rest on this homemade bench<br />
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Cottonwood seeds carpeting the ground like fluffy snow.<br />
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A large ship in the river. They want to get rid of the tunnel that goes under the river and replace it with a large bridge so they can bring even larger ships into our river to transport oil. I pray it doesn't happen, we don't need that kind of risk to our water and salmon runs.<br />
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Driving back to work, I had to pull over and take some pictures of this incredible garden. I could not do it justice in pictures. Someone had planted the shore of the river with a gazillion flowers of all kinds. Definitely a labour of love and very impressive.<br />
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Finn Slough is a small community of homes on stilts and fishing boats that live in a tiny tidal slough in the Fraser River. Originally the fisherman lived further inland on Finn Road ( named for all the Finnish families that lived there) but had to move closer to the river when their access was cut off with development. As this wasn't land per say but just buildup of river silt along the banks, there was never a purchase of land with deeds etc. There has been ongoing controversy over whether they can stay here and what city services they may be entitled to. I hope they get to keep their community here, its a slice of the past that most people will never see again as everything gets mowed down for more condos. <br />
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The entrance to the slough. I noticed they had put a barrier of fishing floats across the opening, not sure if that's to keep people out or in? The building on the left is a float home that was not part of the original settlement and just slipped in there one day, I don't think the locals were to happy about it. I was looking at this area as a possible place to put my home, but when I asked around, the locals were adamant about not wanting anymore people there to aggravate their legal situation. <br />
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Some interesting structures here, I always love some creativity when it comes to housing. I especially like the use of the boat as a doorway cover<br />
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The drawbridge to the homes on the other side of the slough. This is a seriously rickety structure that is on its last legs. I get that they are trying to preserve the originality of the area but as the main access to their homes, I would want to replace some of those boards!<br />
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A pathway to the houses. You used to be able to walk to the end, but I guess the tenants got tired of lookieloos like me so they have put up a gate to keep people out. </div>
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I think if my house could speak, it would probably say " oh look, the land of my people" as it is the same era, style and use as these places. I am happy that my house is in better shape than most of these though. It would have been nice to be in a community that is as eclectic as this but their ongoing legal issues and the amount of decay would have bothered me. <br />
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I have zillions of pictures to process from my walks of the last week, so hopefully my eyes settle down and I can get on it this weekend. See you soon!<br />
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Spent today exploring Derby Reach Campground and the Trans Canada Trail ( not sure why its called that, its a trail that runs through forest and fields along the Fraser River). The campground has sites all bordering the river. No hookups or showers but waterfront views. There are trails going off in both directions to explore.<br />
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It looked like it was going to rain today, so I decided to check out our local Museum.<br />
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Pink Pills for Pale people.....hmmm<br />
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it was set up so you looked through the windows to see how people lived<br />
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I had these exact same blocks as a kid, does that mean I am old?<br />
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I pass this field every day, it often has cows in it.<br />
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Whoohoo, the Peony is finally blooming!<br />
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Thanks, your awesome, Rhianna</div>The Eclectic Arkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02226742314698298031noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6436410306405135009.post-35744669686568952582015-05-23T22:54:00.000-07:002015-05-23T22:54:08.881-07:0030/30 Challenge - Day 21Today I went and explored Tynehead Regional Park. This is a large park with many trails and streams. They have a fish hatchery and the park is set up as an informative walk to educate people on fish habitat management.<br />
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This is the hatchery. I would have been interested to see inside but it looks like this is as close as I could get.<br />
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The trails were well maintained with boardwalks over marshy areas.<br />
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Lots of squirrels in this park.<br />
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A square root.<br />
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A family trying unsuccessfully to BBQ<br />
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Coming out of the forest to a meadow.<br />
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One lone flower in the forest.<br />
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This was a very nice park, a great place to go for a run if that's your thing or to walk your dog. There was another whole section of the park that I didn't get to that had off leash areas. I walked many km and although it was a Saturday, I didn't see too many people along the way. My only complaint is that no matter how deep in the forest I seemed to be, I could always hear some traffic noises. This kind of ruined the experience for me as I like to pretend I live in the past when forest trails were the only way to get around. Still, it was a nice place to go for a walk and I learned a few things about what makes for good salmon habitat.<br />
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Saw this crow diving bombing a hawk<br />
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A view of the dike to the south. Those hazy grey mountains off in the background are Vancouver Island.<br />
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Willow trees are my favorite tree, this one is a beauty<br />
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Sorry for the crooked picture, this is the house of one of my heroes, Harold Steves. His family was the pioneering family of this area and his last name is where the name Steveston comes from. This is the original family home that is still a cattle farm. His house is on one side of the dike and he has some grazing land on the other side. His beef is all raised organic and free range.<br />
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Harold has been a city councilman for many years in Richmond and he fights hard for things like no GMO crops allowed in Richmond, keeping farmland in the ALR,and preserving the heritage of various areas around Richmond that would have been bulldozed year ago. He was my champion in trying to get my house declared a heritage building so I could keep it in Richmond. He did good too, sadly the council did want my house but not anyone living in it. <br />
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Breaks my heart to see his sweet farm surrounded by new homes in every direction. I'm sure the developers cant wait to get their hands on his property!<br />
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Busy happy beehives<br />
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The other side of the farm.<br />
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Strange tree, looks like its covered in breasts.<br />
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A gorgeous Rhodo in full bloom.<br />
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The dike is an awesome place to walk and bike ride, it runs for miles around Richmond which is actually the name of the city. Richmond is on an island called Lulu island which is mostly a giant sandbar in the river with the dike providing flood protection. I don't think I have ever heard it referred to as Lulu island though, everyone just knows it as Richmond.<br />
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Well I am sad to say, I missed a day. I had to go to the Dr. yesterday and get cortisone shots in my thumbs and a tetanus shot. I had planned to go check out a park in Vancouver as long as I was there, but I was in so much pain , I just wanted to go home. I will make it up another day.<br />
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Today I went to a new park called Williams Park not too far from where we live. What an awesome park! I will definitely be going back. The only thing I don't like about going out in the middle of the day is it makes for crummy photos, so these are a pale version of what things looked like.<br />
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First thing I saw when I got out of the car, was a bunch of Daisies. These were my Moms favorite flower and I hardly ever see them, I hope it means she is thinking of me. I defiantly had a guardian angel watching over me today. The other day , I accidently dropped the only key to the new car in the river. When I called to find out if it was possible to get another one made, I was told that my key was possibly a chip key. This means a key that runs the computer in the car and will disable the car from theft if that exact key is not used. If that was the case, the computer possibly could be reset at a cost of $1,200 or if that didn't work, a new computer would cost $ 4,000! I was freaking out to say the least. So grateful that it turned out to be just a regular key and it only cost $13, thanks MOM :)<br />
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This fountain was at the front of the park<br />
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They have a wonderful place to have a picnic that could hold a good size crowd. Good place to have a special party<br />
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I so wish I could photograph smells, someone get on that please! I used to be a chimney sweep and the smell of these outdoor fireplaces brought back a ton of memories.<br />
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There was a lovely trail that wound around the upper part of the park, a nice place for family activities. There were several staircases that led down to the salmon bearing river. <br />
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A beautiful small river winds through picturesque forest.<br />
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A gorgeous meadow beckons to be explored<br />
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...but the little bridge leading into the woods won out.<br />
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I spent about an hour exploring tantalizing little trails and I know I didn't get to them all.<br />
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Hard to get a sense of size in a picture, but this was quite a large and fairly healthy tree that had broken, I wonder what happened to it?<br />
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This is the tree itself, it was huge!<br />
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Came across this pile of vegetation that had been yanked out by the roots and left strewn across the path, wonder what that was all about?<br />
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A cute duck, taking a bath<br />
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I have never seen a Rhododendron tree before, it was huge!</div>
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Saw this tree with root ball and all going downstream when I got home. Looks like the freshet is finally here!<br />
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Another gorgeous sunset to end the day.<br />
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...and last but not least, the Maypole Dance. I have always wanted to do this, but it seems this was just for young maidens.<br />
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We finished the parade watching the dance and chowing down on BBQ salmon and bannock. <br />
Fort Langley has always reminded me of a Norman Rockwell painting but especially so today with the old vehicles and clothing. I am so grateful to live in a town that celebrates its history, I would love to have lived in those days. <br />
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The river is finally starting to rise a bit. Doesn't look like we will get much a of a freshet this year as there was next to no snowpack on the mountains. I love the vibrant green of the grass.<br />
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The sweet peas are growing really fast, cant wait for the flowers to bloom, my favorite smell.<br />
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This was another gift from mother nature, I didn't plant this purple shamrock, it just showed up in this empty pot. I love that my garden is planting itself!<br />
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Here is some more self starters growing with the goddess.<br />
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The window boxes are starting to fill out. The first petunia is peeking out between the white flowers.<br />
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I planted a lot of carnations this year, I love the smell.<br />
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I am so happy that my Wisteria came back. This is its second year here and it still hasn't bloomed, don't know if that is normal, I sure hope it blooms some day, I have wanted a house covered in Wisteria for 30 years.<br />
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These were our seats for the day, a little sun tanning, a little fishing, a lot of relaxing.<br />
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I did this carving years ago out of Black Poplar bark( also known as Cottonwood)<br />
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This one I bought in Bali. I love being able to decorate the outside of the house.<br />
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Dave finally got out back deck rebuilt. I am shocked at how high the logs came out of the water when he pressure washed the river mud off of them. Eventually we will be moving our water tank back here.<br />
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More yummy carnations.<br />
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So excited, about to taste my first strawberry of the season. Farming on a miniature scale lol.<br />
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This was a housewarming gift from a friend a couple of years ago, not sure but I think it may have outgrown its container!<br />
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Yet another self seeding plant taking hold. Got to love those pansies!<br />
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First BBQ of the season!<br />
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and last but not least, the beautiful sunset, our closing curtain on the day.<br />
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Well I am all rested up now for tomorrows adventure. I am off to the May Day Parade in Fort Langley, can't wait to see all the antique cars!<br />
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I have never watched a grape vine grow before, so this is all new to me. This vine is now three years in the ground and this is the first time I have seen these, so I am going to say, it looks like we will be having grapes this year...so excited!<br />
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This is the Virginia Creeper I planted three years ago. It was just a few short twigs in the ground. It is looking good this year, tons of berries which turn bright red in the fall.<br />
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Todays expedition took me to Brae Island Regional Park. Brae Island and McMillan Island look like one island shaped like an eye but are actually two separate islands with a tiny channel of water between them. McMillan Island is the home of the Kwantlan Indian tribe where I attended the Salmon Ceremony the other night and Brae Island has a beautiful, well maintained campsite and public trails going through the forest to the west corner of the island.<br />
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My heart just went awww when I saw this. I love owners that go the extra mile to make a pets life better and not just give up on them. Kudos!<br />
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A map showing the two Islands and the park. <br />
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A close up map of the park trails, I walked to the end and back as well as doing the loop. I think about 5 km in total. In reality it was a bit much for me. I had two km to get back to the parking lot and was in agony but pushed through, even jogging a bit to make it go faster before my hips seized up altogether. Once I got going on the trail I only saw one other person at the end, if I had had problems I may of been stuck out there. <br />
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A view into the campsite, very clean and nice, with a swimming pool. If I was coming from out of town, I would recommend staying here.<br />
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The start of the trail going past the campground on the left and the river on the right<br />
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Looking towards Fort Langley. Rowing sports of all kinds are very popular here, those are sheds to store the boats across the river.<br />
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The mother load of salmon berries are in this forest, yum!<br />
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Wonder what that berry thing is on this tree?<br />
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I love a curve in a path, it drives me forward, no matter how tired, I MUST see what's around that bend!<br />
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This cool tree was one trunk with six trunks growing out of it, must be a very wise tree.<br />
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More intriguing paths, wonder where this goes?<br />
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A slug snacking on mushrooms<br />
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Now I know where to find stinging nettle in large quantities, and they are huge, this one towers above me!<br />
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Finally a break in the trees and a view of the other side of the river<br />
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By now I had been walking for about a hour and a half and realized it was 7 pm and I hadn't eaten anything all day. Suddenly I was starving! Bless the Creator for thing to place fresh berries along my path. I inhaled these. They were so good! A burst of life elixir, the tang of fresh vitamins, the quenching juice swirling down my throat. A feast at the Four Seasons could not have tasted better. <br />
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The goal finally in sight, the western tip of the Island.<br />
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A cute boat shed on the other side of the slough.<br />
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This goose made her nest at the top of the piling, looks cozy and a great view!<br />
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An old net shed, I like ours better, we have a cedar shake roof instead of metal cladding.<br />
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Grrrr.... I have to say after walking for hours, this was the only piece of trash I saw in here. Shame on the person that left it. If you can pack it in, pack it out. I go in nature to forget about civilization not have it thrown in my face. So yes, I packed it out for you, so this place can stay pristine! I brought a refillable glass bottle with me on my trek. Nature...take only pictures...leave only footprints, that's my motto!<br />
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A creepy crawly on his way.<br />
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OMG finally the end is in sight, not much further to the parking lot. I am staggering by this point lol.<br />
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We are so blessed out here to have so many parks and small forests to explore. They are trying to cut it all down as fast as they can and put up wall to wall beige condos, fracking everything else to provide power to them. I hope you all take a stand to protect nature, the environment, the water, the air, because without those life is meaningless. Get outside, walk barefoot, stop and smell the roses, that's what life is all about.<br />
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I don't know what this is called,but it has self seeded all over Steveston Village showing up in front of many of the shops. I want to grow some around my place, should I just grab a clump with some roots and hope it takes hold?<br />
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Afterwards I went down to the wharf to see about buying some spotted prawns. Its been all over the news about how its the season for them, and how good they are.</div>
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Saw some salmon for sale<br />
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Sadly no spotted prawns, they all ended up at False Creek, but I did find large shrimp, so bought a pound of them for 8 dollars.<br />
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....these seagulls, that are cruising beside the fish and chip stand ,hoping for handouts.<br />
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I was hoping to see the name of the boat in the back, its called Knight Dragon, I thought that was cool.<br />
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This boat has been here for years, they are constantly working on it, its coming along nicely.<br />
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The whale watching excursion coming back to shore.<br />
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A view of Vancouver Island off in the distance.<br />
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I was born in Halifax and although I don't have any memories of it, I am glad I ended up in another coastal town. I have the ocean in my blood and don't like to be very far from it. We lived in Winnipeg for a year and it was hell for me to be landlocked. Glad to have wet feet again !<br />
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She has an acre of land that is a sanctuary for the senses. They grow and produce a lot of herbal medicine on the property. It is still early in the season so not everything is up yet, but still a good showing of colours and vibrant green life. <br />
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The rhododendron in full bloom<br />
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Garden décor<br />
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The largest Solomon Seal I have ever seen, had no idea it could grow this big<br />
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Here is another bush of it with the BBQ and a table nearby, for size comparison, mine is about 8 inches tall!<br />
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Healthy garlic<br />
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She planted this row of curly willow just a few years ago to block out the view of the condos that got built overlooking her back yard. They grew from twigs to trees in just a short time.<br />
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A small pond with flowers in it.<br />
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Love these guys!<br />
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This robin sang to me the whole time I was looking around<br />
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or this... but it looks scary, huge spikes on the leaves<br />
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Bee Balm I believe<br />
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This squirrel kept a close eye on me, chattering up a storm the whole time.<br />
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The elusive barn cat staring me down<br />
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Love this rose with so many petals<br />
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The rest of these are pictures I took at her place last fall showing more of the diversity in her garden. <br />
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I have been living on the river for over 8 years now. About 4 years ago, things got really bad and it seemed as if the whole universe was trying to get me off the river. Living on the water was something I really wanted in my life and have since I was a child. I couldn't understand why all these obstacles were being put in my way. I asked spirit to show me what I needed to do to make this work.<br />
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I had a vision were I was underwater with a salmon, a trout, a beaver and a river otter. I was having serious problems breathing the water as it was full of fuel and toxic chemicals. It burned my throat and was suffocating me. The salmon told me to follow him and he would take me out to the ocean. I thought things would be better there but every mouthful I took of ocean water was full of slivers of plastic that were cutting my mouth and choking me. I was horrified that these poor animals had to live like that. No wonder there are mass die offs and so many issues with marine life. <br />
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The animals and fish said to me, we are ok with you being our neighbor, we don't mind if you live with us. There is one condition though, you can't add to the problem and we ask you to help us clean up the water. I thought that was more than fair of a request and I have been diligent since then to not pollute the river in any way and to try and pass the message on in my blog. In turn I have been rewarded with a spectacular berth for my home and all my problems around the house melting away.<br />
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I always wished I could do more, however, then just set a good example. Recently I discovered a page on facebook called Salmon are Sacred. Through that page I found out about a caravan of people travelling from the interior to the coast, stopping at native villages along the way to drum up support from the different tribes and clans to fight all the disastrous projects that the government are trying to ok along the river.<br />
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Today at the ripe old age of 56 I finally attended my very first demonstration. I cant think of a better thing to fight for than the health of our fish and the environment. We must be good stewards of the earth, we should leave it in better condition than how we found it, not destroy everything in sight.<br />
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The photos were taken at the Kwantlen Reserve just outside of Fort Langley. Their island is my sunset view from my house and I have wanted to visit there since we moved here.<br />
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Rowers practicing in the slough beside the reserve<br />
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Drumming and singing healing songs.<br />
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Royalty from other tribes, here to show their support<br />
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It was a wonderful afternoon and evening filled with songs, stories and speeches topped off with a wonderful meal in the longhouse and a fabulously talented duo that had us singing and dancing the night away. I am so happy to have finally met my neighbors. I would love to work with their community offering them healing sessions and co creating some festivals. In the meantime I plan to get more involved with fighting for the river and its inhabitants. I love being surrounded by wildlife and I will do anything in my power to make sure their life is healthy and happy. </div>
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I find this picture to be of interest to me as I live in a converted net shed. I always wondered what a working one looked like. This is a picture of nets being stored in shed. Interesting to me as I always assumed the nets were folded and stacked.<br />
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I am not entirely sure what this building was used for but it is representative of how all the buildings were built on pilings over the water.<br />
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Looking through the door of the boat building shed<br />
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This building was the housing for native workers. Cant have been very nice in there, there isn't even one window!<br />
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I find the construction interesting as the boards on our house run horizontally not vertically like this workshed.<br />
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<span class="title">Murakami House</span><span class="subtitle"></span><br /> The house was built in 1885 on piles over the marsh. The Murakami family - ten children, mom and dad, lived in the residence from early 1929 to 1942. It was literally only a step from home to boat works. The family built 1-2 gillnet fishing boats per winter and fished in the summer. At launching time, temporary tracks were placed over the boardwalk to roll the boat out. A hand-operated capstan moved the cradle on these tracks that are called "the ways".<br />
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This is the garden beside the house. I love that even though its not a huge plot , it incorporates three different fruit trees.<br />
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The bathtub in the house is what is called an Ofuro. You would wash your self down with soap and water while sitting outside the tub, then when you are clean ,you get in and soak. The wooden box in the right corner contains part of the heating element. The precursor to modern day hot tubs, the tub is deep enough to submerge the whole body, not like our shallow tubs of today.<br />
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I love this handmade broom.<br />
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The laundry organizing area. Must have been a full time job with twelve people in the house.<br />
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A view of the village back in the day, wooden boardwalks were built over the marshy area for people to get around.<br />
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Stilt houses built over the water.<br />
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Looking inside the house. I love these kinds of exhibits to get an idea of the tools and appliances that were used when there was no electricity. This is living off the grid for real! This would have been housing for some senior management type of family.<br />
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Love that washing machine!<br />
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The fridge!<br />
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This was the single guys house, 4 guys sharing one bedroom and a kitchen.<br />
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I love the Asian antiques in the Chinese bunkhouse<br />
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The sleeping accommodations were atrocious. I wish someone else had been here so I could lie in a bed and show you how small these really are. A small child would find one of these bunks crowded. Not long enough to stretch out, not wide enough to turn over in your sleep, and surrounded in every direction by other sleepers with no privacy or any real storage for personal items. The mattress such as they were, was a burlap bag stuffed with who knows what and some scratchy wool blankets to cover with. My bones ache just looking at these beds. I wouldn't have lasted a week here!<br />
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Saw this heron and some ducks on my way back to the office.<br />
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A memorial to the Japanese workers at the fishing Canneries that lined the river front.<br />
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They have completely rebuilt the whole waterfront to the east of Steveston Village over the last few years. A fancy path follows the river with all new buildings facing it. They are meant to be a village unto themselves with shopping, services and housing. I didn't see one business on the ground floors, not sure if they aren't ready or not selling?<br />
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This is their view, a sandbar/island in the river.<br />
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Looking out to the river mouth<br />
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Old left over pilings from the old canneries that used to line these shores.<br />
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Childhood memories of pulling off the purple petals and sucking the sweet juice out of them.<br />
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and putting buttercups under our chin to see if it reflected yellow (if it did it meant we liked butter)<br />
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Beautiful wild roses<br />
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I wish I could photograph the smell of this flower, it was divine!<br />
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Don't know what this is called but the flowers are very tiny.<br />
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Wild flowers, I think they are called lupins<br />
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Do you ever see little balls of spit on plants? Ever wonder how they got there?<br />
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Each little ball of spit is actually a home for a little tiny bug that lives in the middle of the spit.<br />
Spit bugs!<br />
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This bush is behind my office, I don't know why I have never noticed it before, it is smothered in blossoms. I am not sure, but I think this is a form of Hydrangea.<br />
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I never thought of it when I first started this challenge, but it has turned into more than 30 days of getting outside. It is also 30 days of blogging and 30 days of photography, all challenges for me!<br />
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Well the car broke down again on Saturday. Dave managed to baby it home, so thankfully no tow truck this time. He spent all day working on it and we went for a test drive at the end of the day. We went down to the end of the road about 10 km from the house. At the dead end, we were turning around when we noticed this black boat across the way, turns out it is the boat of an old neighbor of ours from when we lived on Mitchell Island, small world!<br />
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A little further up the road, David pointed out the wooden building across the river. He told me that, that location was another option for us that he had looked into but that access would have been an issue. I am so beyond grateful for the perfect location we ended up finding. I love where we live!<br />
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There are a lot of antique cars in this part of the world. We see many "fields of dreams" in our travels. This farm had a number of old cars littering the fields.<br />
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This farm has some interesting looking cows. We don't normally see cows with horns like this around this part of the world.<br />
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I have always been fascinated by dandelions. What happens to all the yellow petals when they change to fluff?<br />
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I am amazed by Mother Natures ability to recuperate. The landlord burned a large pile of scrap wood here recently and burned a large section of grass in the process. The ground was charred black. Now only a few weeks later its hard to see where the burn was as it quickly fills in with new grass.<br />
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I love that our backyard is a goose nursery with several goose families raising their young here. The sad part is watching their families dwindle in size. I don't know what happens to all the babies as the parents are hyper vigilant and super protective but as the days go by, we see fewer babies. My heart breaks for these Mothers who must grieve the loss of these carefully tended offspring. <br />
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Well there is still 20 days to go in the challenge. I have shown you pretty much every blade of grass for 20 miles around my house. I hope I can still find things to take pictures of and not bore you to death. I am grateful for this experience though as it is forcing me out and about as I had become almost bedridden the last few years. I know how lucky I am to have so much nature and beauty at my doorstep. I can see most of this from my bedroom window, but getting out and slowing down to appreciate and think about what I am looking reminds me of my childhood when I spent all day outdoors. Good times!<br />
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My neighbor gave me this Solomon Seal plant from her garden a few years ago. I thought it had died but it suddenly showed up last week and is definitely bigger than last year, whoohoo!<br />
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The Hosta in the bed next to it is making a good comeback as well but it looks like the slugs may be nibbling at it, time to spread the eggshells I have been saving all year, they seemed to do the trick last year.<br />
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I don't know why, but the peony flower buds have little ants constantly running all over them. They don't seem to be doing any damage, but I have knocked them off a bunch of times and every time I look they are still there.<br />
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I seem to be getting stronger at bike riding every time I go out. Todays milestone was riding my bike all the way into town to pick up a few groceries. Surprisingly, it only took me 16 minutes each way, not bad! For those that don't know, this is somewhat of a miracle as I have fibromyalgia and some days getting out of bed can be an ordeal, this much exercise would have been unheard of last year, I was lucky if I could make it up a flight of stairs. After going to the grocery store, I stopped for a minute at a small park down by the river. Just love this gorgeous Rhododendron. <br />
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A view of a tiny church on the small island that is in all my sunset pictures. <br />
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A cosy path along the river<br />
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I think this is a birch tree that looks like someone torn a strip off of. I thought that if you took a ring off like that, that it would kill the tree?<br />
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The tall brown fence in the top right is part of the outside wall of the fort in Fort Langley.<br />
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Taking pictures while riding my bike, there is probably a law against that lol.<br />
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The first hay cut of the season, all those white dots are huge rolls of silage.<br />
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GRRRRRRR....... nothing makes me more angry than seeing fuel in the river. This just horrifies me. I just think of those poor little goslings paddling through this and having to try and clean themselves after. :( Someone upstream must have pumped their bilge or something, wish there was another way!<br />
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This was as close as we got to a sunset tonight. <br />
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The one thing I cant take pictures of is smells. I hate the smell of fresh mown grass, but the smell of it growing is sweet perfume. The gently scented air as I ride my bike down country roads is as delicious as fresh laundry on the line. Except for that one part that smelled like something died in a ditch, that wasn't so fresh!<br />
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