Wordless Wednesday – What Was

What was… once
“Remnants” of first Nations lands

What was… once
Now “remnants” of settlers lives

Something from Nothing 2020

Loads of outdoor space and a frugal outlook has encouraged my creative decorating seasonal skills. Which meant that today’s advent activity was totally up my alley. Added bonus was that the weather was so cooperative.

Will it stand the test of time?

This post has taken me the entire fall to pull together. Once I got the images organized turns out I couldn’t get the words to flow. Which is weird as it’s a subject I’m passionate about but perhaps it’s because I’m trying to take a dispassionate look at it.

Sows Ear Silk Purse

A spur of the moment purchase without a game plan, a titch unusual for me. But something about the $20 cupboard said “take me home” so I did. Where it sat collecting dust and taking up space in the garage for just a little while.

Me – Early?

The odds that I am ever early is fairly slim! There’s a reason why that is but I won’t digress into that long story now. I’ll just tell you that today I was 5 days early. That’s like

Tin Tree

It certainly wasn’t on my to do list and not even an inkling in my head 3 days ago until I saw the inspiration starting point. Perhaps it was a “squirrel” moment but I actually think

Breaking out the Prophecy

We don’t usually consume Scotch on a Monday night in October but tonight we will. One might think we were trying to deaden the rule of

Killin It

It seems only right that I share what my other half has been up to all summer.

It’s such an amazing feeling to have all the rock work done on this big project. We’re both happy to move onward to the wood portion as it’s easier, less weather dependent and faster.

Check out the story below to see his masonry skills.

https://wp.me/p7q0zu-wu

Ancient Steps

Today, besides like 5000 miles (an exaggeration of course but it felt like it) in a car, we also took a few steps alongside the ancient

Hadrian’s wall.

The sheer size (117 km) and location (middle of nowhere really) of it make it quite a logistical accomplishment. It makes our rock walls look little but they had a legion of 80 men per section. This thing, in places, has stood the test of time since being completed in 128! That’s a legacy all right.

We had been to the wall in 1998 on our first trip with our children. I can remember them climbing up it and walking along it for quite a ways. We had also stopped at a old Roman fort site.

It was on our list to make a stop and so I picked a random spot off the map to have lunch and hike along it for a ways.

Our lunch spot was actually the old quarry site so it was a good hike to the top of the escarpment.

The vista at the top was worth it. Along the way we saw a couple of cool things.

I now want one of those stile gates as they are so easy but I digress. Off to the top for the vista.

It wasn’t a long stop and not a wordy blog post but it was the highlight of our long travel day.

Bernie

We walked in their steps

Today we were fortunate enough to spend the afternoon learning and paying homage to the countless