We had a great summer. We even took a week off to explore our island and just relaxed. Processed lots of garden produce, sold our little sailboat and emptied our storage unit. We had fun and laughter and love.
One of Jim's favourite regular activities is working with the local Lions Club. You might remember the cut out fish Jim made for the Lions Fishy Project, now officially called "Wild and Free". Well, the wild and free salmon are now home near the harbour....
Jim's cut outs were primed before going to A. J. Elliott Elementary School where the kids would paint them.
The bright, colourful painted salmon were all so different from each other. So creative. From K - Grade 7, all the kids got to paint a fish on both sides. Not wanting to leave out any homeschooled kids, Jim and I dropped of a box of paints and brushes along with a blank fish to each of the homeschool families. 
As the kids started summer break, the Lions Club volunteers of Will, below, Jim and Mike strapped the salmon to the fence.
The chain link fence is erected around the F/V Sturgeon, a restored local fish boat that has a new lease on life as an example of locally built boats.
We had wonderful sunsets, lots of drives to the ocean, walks on the beach,
rock collecting and hunting for more cedar slats for our future fence.
This heart is carved out of an old stump beside a pull out at Keleva Road beach.
We worked tirelessly in the garden, took care of our paths and watched our bamboo grow.
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What do you do when the local cats keep leaving calling cards in the nice dry, sandy gravel? Well you make a cat garden, naturally, out of stones. Lovely to look at but not much fun to dig in. Hee hee hee...
It only took us a few days to turn the dry gravel into a rock garden for cats to enjoy from afar.
Our small zen pond, which is in the lower corner of our property, continues to thrive. Mosses and wild flowers pop up amongst buttercups, ferns and huckleberries. We also had thimble berries, salmon berries, black berries, cherries and raspberries this summer.
We celebrated our 29th anniversary on August 8 with lunch at Coho Joes, our local restaurant.
Did you know that barrels are heavy! This was one of our final trips from the storage unit.
I wish I had more pictures of Jim and the planer when we were planing 21' long boards but we just couldn't manage it. The wood I'm talking about is the pile on the left side of the tent (in line with Jim's nose). The boards were so long that we had to add that little insert in the tent end to accommodate the extra foot. The planed boards are now stored in the house for final drying before becoming part of our ceiling.
We visited Sam's Place with good friends Connie and Peter. A very rare event because of COVID! They happened to arrive on Jim's birthday in early July so we had a great dinner together. The next day we showed them around Malcolm Island before they sailed home to Victoria area.
We want to leave you with this amazing example of why Mother Nature rocks.
This is a lily pad flower at not so big ... Big Lake. Looks like a hat fit for a queen.
The day was hot, the water was calm and there was a feel of summer in the air.
Until next time.
Jim and Tricia Bowen
As the kids started summer break, the Lions Club volunteers of Will, below, Jim and Mike strapped the salmon to the fence.
The chain link fence is erected around the F/V Sturgeon, a restored local fish boat that has a new lease on life as an example of locally built boats.
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Such beautiful work you two, enjoyed your blog, thanks.
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