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Midsummer Progress Report

Greetings from gorgeous Galiano! In my last blog, I mentioned the concept of an “alternate lifestyle” that I am trying to implement this summer, including growing and making more of our food and spending more time in and on the water. Well, I’ve run into a few challenges. First, the garden. Overall, our garden grows! However, it turns out that other living things also love our garden. John had to pull out an entire kale plant that was covered in aphids. Then many of our… Read More »Midsummer Progress Report

Life On the Scrotum

I figured I’d better start with a graphic in order to explain my title. I have never heard anyone here on the island refer to Galiano’s shape as a long, crooked male member. However, I don’t really see how one can miss the obvious. Maybe this says something about me and John that we immediately viewed it this way. In fact, I was talking about our being on the testicles and it took John’s veterinarian friend, Rick, to correct me and point out that we… Read More »Life On the Scrotum

First Impressions

We are settling in to island life and getting accustomed to new patterns. In this blog, I share three lessons of living on Galiano Island that we have come upon in our first two weeks of residence. Lesson #1: It’s all about the view! John thought our love affair with the view might be temporary but it seems that he may be wrong. We are so smitten with the outlook, the changing weather, the wildlife that we can see from our decks and our living… Read More »First Impressions