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Well, the title says it all. I mean, there is no avoiding it at this point, I live in the woods. The three days of moving were a bit chaotic to say the least but it was all worth it when I was handed the keys. Some of my closest girlfriends, who I work with up north were here to help me celebrate (and I obviously put them to work immediately after). The first person dropped by to introduce themselves within the first hour. This is a smaller place than I thought. In the winter time, there are only about 30 residents. That is not very many when you are that far away from a town. I timed it finally, 20 minutes almost exactly to Cochrane.
Within three hours of being here, I found myself enjoying the silence when I hear someone at the door, again. I answer expecting another villager introducing themselves but to my surprise, I find a delivery driver, who was trying to turn around in my drive way and smoked my fence. At first, a part of me thought that this was like a “welcome to the village” joke or something, and I honestly looked around to see if people were hiding the bushes. When I walked down the driveway though, he had in fact smoked my fence and totally busted up the chicken wire around the dog run. I just stood there and scratched my fence. He asked me if it was my house, and I told him that I had just literally taken the keys. He felt so bad. I told him to not worry about the fence, that I would fix it and I could only laugh to think about the fact that this is just the beginning of this crazy adventure I have set out on. Little things all add up when you live out here, Lobster and I decided to have a fire. I forgot, that meant chopping wood… there is so much to do before the winter!
Tonight, the painting started. Lots of pictures to come.
Stubs.
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- Drive to my house
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- Drive to my house
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- Western sky
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- Drive to my house
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- Bye bye kitchen. You don’t look quite the same without all my fridge magnets.
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- The shell of a home
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- My most amazing house warming gift that had to be left behind. These were at the foot of my bed.
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- Empty living room
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- Empty den
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- Laundry Room
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- Guest Room
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- Afternoon on the river
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- Swimming hole a minute from the house
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- Swimming hole
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- Paradise
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- Pet deer in the shadows
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- Old Caper survived the move, it was hard on her nervous though lol
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- Bob crashed and Bear chose to join him
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- Pre paint job
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- Laundry room
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- Pre paint job
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- Old Bear
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- Bear in the river
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- The Ghost River
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- The Ghost River
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- Lobster in a river
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- Lobster and Bob’s dog, Makita.
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- Bear and Makita
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- Makita loves the river
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- Lobster
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- Bear
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- Lobster and Bear
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- Starting to come together
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- Before the paint job
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stubsadventures 
You found the move chaotic?? Really…. I still have to send you the bill for my services. It ain’t gonna be cheap!
Comment by Dave Simms September 26, 2012 @ 11:39 amI am forever in debt to you. You were a trooper and I am very thankful. The only thing that would have made it better was if you punched that kid in the face. He had it coming.
Comment by stubsadventures September 28, 2012 @ 12:20 pmHi Mary i like your house. Nice swimming hole what’s the temperature in there? When can I visit? !!!
Comment by william .g .forbes September 26, 2012 @ 5:47 pmWilliam, it is freezing!! Worse than the ocean in Nova Scotia. It would be nice on a hot day though. You and Robbie better come visit! There are lots of adventures we could get up to in the mountains. You convince your Mom and Dad to let you come, and we’ll make it happy. It makes me very happy to know you read my blog Will, I hope you like reading about my adventures. AND I’m coming back to visit you guys in November, almost right around the corner!
Comment by stubsadventures September 28, 2012 @ 12:19 pm