The other day I was talking to a friend on the phone at about 8:00 in the morning. I had noticed something on the other side of the boathouse/shed. At first I thought it was our dog Bear but in fact it was a real bear. I had to put the phone down and I tried to use the airhorn, but of course it did not work at first. When it did work, the bear was in the rose bushes beside the floathouse at the back. Boy did it jump. The back of the bear came up to the hood of the Mellow Yellow (a very old toyota truck). This big boy is seen quite a bit now on the other side of the estuary grazing in the grass and overturning rocks.
That same night, as we were waiting for supper to finish cooking, I looked out the patio doors and another bear was seen. It was a small two year old. He came out of the bush from the cistern. He looked a little scared as he is trying to find his place in life. He was really cute. George scared it off. Did the little guy ever jump!! I don't think he will be around here much more. Too bad we did not take a picture of him.
It has been really windy as of late with wind warnings for the last two days. It has been one of the coldest springs on the BC coast, so the news mentions.
We were able to finally retrieve the Mellow Yellow and the Shirley Bear (boat) off the beach. They had been sitting on the beach for almost a year. Last summer, the clutch had gone out in the Mellow Yellow as we were bringing the Shirley Bear out of the water for maintenance. At first we tried to pull them with the bobcat. This did not work as the breaks are also stuck on the Mellow Yellow. George, being the ingenious person that he is, decided to use the bucket of the bobcat as a lever and this way the wayward truck and boat were pulled off the beach. They were on quite an incline so George pushed the bucket of the bobcat in the ground for leverage. IT WORKED. Now maintenance can be done on the Shirley Bear.
We have still not been able to move the barge onto its diaper on the flat. The high tides are not high enough now and when they were the wind was too strong. Such is life on the bay!
The garden is growing quite well and so are the flowers. The Lupines are blooming on the edge of the trees and I am anxiously waiting for the foxgloves to bloom.
Wild Columbines and Canada Poppies are also blooming under and around the deck.There are still mystery flowers in the flower beds. The beds were dug up last year after many years of neglect. Weeds and grass were the only things growing then. Last year I tried to plant flowers but of course the neighbor's cows ate them. The cows are no longer a problem, so many different flowers are growing that have been dormant for years. It will be interesting to see what they are. Some of the mystery flowers that had bloomed were: grape hyacinth, mountain bells, lily of the valley. The buttercups are blooming in the trees and all around and the yarrow is starting to bloom as well. The salmon berries are ripening, the black raspberries are blooming, the salal is blooming. It will be nice to make jam again. Wild crabapples are also blooming on the point and the apple tree out front has buds.
The Inlet Navigator II delivered propane and much needed gas and diesel this weekend. Marine Link had delivered lumber two weeks ago. Now with having a bobcat, the piles of lumber can be moved once the fork is found. One of the forks had come off the bobcat when it was stuck on the beach. We have to borrow a metal detector in order to find it. One fork will not do the trick I am afraid!
The Mellow Yellow and the Shirley Bear were named by the former owner of the property. Instead of Cracroft, the island was Bearcroft.
We are patiently awaiting the sun, which is supposed to show up sometime today.
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I am waiting for an update. I understand some help from out east has arrived.
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