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Saturday, September 25, 2010

We're back.... New Computer coming in on next supply plane

Glad to hear from you all.  The computer I am using now does very little so I have to wait for the new Dell I ordered  which should be in on the next flight. 
We'd spent 7 weeks out in Atlin and finished a small garage.  When we came back out here we found that wolves had taken our 7 chickens and four cats.  The vegetation in the yard was 4 to 5 ' tall and must have shorted out the electric fence.  It was a pretty sad time.  We brought in 26 new Red Island chicks and they are really big now.  Also Bryan brought me a little Japanese Bobtail Manx kitten when he returned from visiting his children in late August.  We came back here around the middle of September.  The garden had been on it's own all summer but still produced well over 400 lbs potatoes, 100 lbs each carrots, beets, turnip and kolibabi.  All these store well in the crawl space under the cabin floor.  At .80 Cents a pound to fly things in here..... it helps to have all this here.
This has been a high year for salmon here on our lake and we have counter 21 different Grizzlies fishing around the lake.  Bryan has had three bear encounters in the last week. I will be posting them soon but have to go finish bringing in the carrots.  Then it is just the Brussel Sprouts which can wait til it snow. 

10 comments:

Brian said...

Glad that your back at the golden cabin, Bryan&Vikki. Sorry that your cats and chicken's are gone.
I look forward to your new posts :)Brian(:

Matt, Kara, Hunter and Cavan said...

Welcome home!

What a haul from your garden. Sorry about the chickens and cats, but I am sure the wolves appreciated the tasty stacks you left for them!

hjmler said...

Glad to see you're back - sorry about your losses. With so many bears around I'd be a little anxious. Do you have or use bear spray? When I was hauling my boat out - NW Wisconsin - I had a black bear come a little closer than I thought it should and the only thing I had handy was a boat air horn, which delivers about a 120db blast. Worked very well as it instantly lit off at high speed off the trail and through the woods. Wouldn't necessarily want to depend on it for grizzly defence, but this one tome anyway was better than nothing.

Meandering Michael said...

I was thinking about you guys the other day. Welcome back!

Art said...

Glad you are safe. Your blog entries keep me grounded. Yesterday in Montana a woman fended off a large bear that attacked her dog and the here by throwing a large zuchinni. Now this was a large black bear. One would probably have to shoot it from a cannon were it a grizzly.

Sorry about your cats. When my fences short out the bears and skunks get all my honeybees (and honey).

3 little bears said...

Sorry to hear about the cats and chickens :( So glad you are back blogging I love reading your blog!!

Anonymous said...

Welcome back! Sorry to hear about your cats and chickens though...

jozien said...

wow, you are back already! It sounds like Mother Nature, claimed back somethings, but glad she left you (with your help doing the planting) all that bounty.

Wildpaddler said...

I'm very envious, your life is so much richer than city dwellers will ever have the oportunity to know.

You both are an inspiration.

devildog said...

Welcome back!
Look forward to hearing your news of the trapline this year.
Bryan, did you get your moose yet?