Mollie has a spot in her garden that is perfect for a bench. The views of the gardens, the ocean and minimal views of neighbouring roof lines makes it ideal and she had mentioned this a few times over the past year or two. A plan was born to surprise her with a glider bench for this spot while she was away in Ontario visiting her sister and family. While convalescing from knee surgery, I found a great design on YouTube and sent an email to the individual that published a bu

The trip begins! On Quadra Island you will find Main Lake Provincial Park which has 7 boat-access-only, backcountry campsites. Each of these could accomodate between 5 and 7 tents. On our 3 night adventure, we had the entire Provincial Park to ourselves. We didn't see another canoe until the last day as we were leaving! And the weather was amazing. Not too hot but not very cold and with mostly clear blue skies. We only had one evening when a few raindrops fell that clear

Mollie, Holly and I worked for the Maple Bay Community Association again this year as food servers and general helpers. More accurately,...