Eliguk Outpost

Imperfectly Illuminated... I know this Autumn has been unreal with it's mild days, with little to no precipitation in the form of white flakes; but we have had two similar years according to my Social Media memories within the last seven years. It seems that this year is not so unusual after all. The best thing is having that extended Fall like weather that we can keep working outside with ease. Well, much easier than dealing with a few feet of the white stuff. The snow will hit, but hopefully before the dog mushing teams arrive that I've booked in just after the New Year! It's crazy to think that…

As usual, my outings seem to be the hardest to put into words on a computer. There's so much blurring between the lines when I'm away from home. When you step into civilization, everything revolves around the clock and other people. It's not easy to get used to every time you step into it. People living on the grid, are very much used to dealing with each other and the routine of it all. It takes me a few days to get into that groove again. Following MM down the Kluskus. Mountain Man got me out of the bush as promised and even guided me in as far as Vanderhoof,…

It was All Hallows Eve, and the sunset was on fire, at least it sure looked like it! We were bewildered by the black looking misty clouds surrounding the landscape to the West. We dismissed it as part of the sunrise, and I took a photo because it was unusually whispy black. All Hallows Eve A display of my squash to remind me of a holiday of the past. We had been working non-stop on the Wood Shed roof. The heavy gage metal roofing was not the lighter stuff we bought for our cabin roof tops. This was industrial grade metal that took 2 people to muscle over to the…

It took days of milling all the lumber required; but each piece went up and was screwed into place, immediately after it came off the sawmill. Snow accompanied with a deep freeze was in the forecast, and there was no time to waste! It seemed surreal, as the beautiful October we've had so far didn't even require a jacket while working during the day. A flannel shirt was the daily work attire. The most noticeable change was watching the sun sink into the tree line by 5pm, making what you could normally get done in a Summer day, amount to much less! Tarps would have to be used for roofing…

Firewood has been on our minds over the last few weeks. So has the new wood shed that's remained unfinished for quite some time. But that's just the key word, isn't it? Time. Cutting older dried logs Cutting rounds of wood to get a stockpile going. While the cutting was going on, we stacked it to get it off the ground. We figured that we could cut rounds and stack it on one side, then chop and pile it on the other as we go. I was able to get some new chicken bedding and a cleaned out chicken coop with all the new shavings. We got the call after…

A dusting of the white stuff makes this view all the more stunning! I hope there's at least a month left of these evenings left! Over 80 days...   Well, there you have it, finally rescinded! Another entire Summer down the drain. What else can you do in 80 days? Oh, that's right - go around the world! Well, maybe if I was Jules Verne or Phileas Fogg and it was 1872. But all kidding aside; it's a very long time, almost 3 months to be on Evacuation Order & Alert. People don't tend to travel or book vacations to places that are on such an order due to forest…

First frosts of September are usually the killer frosts. A cool morning in the mist, hovering near freezing temperatures. The brassica's of the garden will be safe (for now), but it's time to get all those lettuce's back into the greenhouse. I keep them outside for the cool nights (that don't go below zero), because they turn a deep dark red with the cold. All the better for eating and much more micronutrients are created in the process. It's tough looking at the forecast and trying to predict how far off it may be for our area (since we have no reliable weather forecasting in our area). When to cover…

Can it really be September already? Where did August go? I'm not sad about Summer being over (I think we all know that). It's just that punctual thing called 'time', has the audacity of getting away on you! Wherever it went, just know that I've been trying to make the most of it. The trip with Tuva & VeBjorn in the new truck was refreshing. I say 'refreshing', because I've never been the one to take people to the airport. Especially the one being responsible for a 2 day trip, just to get to the airport! We all barged across the lake with the quad and a trailer load of…

We went out for dinners, lunches and filled our 'new to us' 2015 Dodge Diesel 3500 Laramie with all we could. The week out together went by way too fast. Then we filled the 26ft trailer we had stored in Prince George with renovation materials we had stored there. We would take the loaded trailer for a big trip around the middle of BC to the Anahim Lake entry point, along the Dean River Rd to Eliguk. It would be a 12 hour trip to get home this way. The reason for going this way, was that we had very large windows to bring in that we purchased some time…

Only a Mountain Man would randomly decide last minute, the evening before, that we would leave first thing in the morning. But here I am trying to catch you up while he's running around me packing! Tuva & VeBjorn, arrived from Norway! Our work-away helpers till mid-August. We feed them and they get a cabin, and in exchange they put in hours a day helping with what needs to be done. And finally, we're getting stuff done! It's more or less a catch-up battle at this point to try and gain some of the month we lost to the fires. (Which are still burning around us!) Well, not our fire.…