Cruising Adventures of the Red Witch

September 29th - October 18th What a busy few weeks!!  The search for a truck for us to buy continued since I last mentioned it, and in fact it started to somewhat consume our time.  As the sale of the vehicle we were currently using approached, it became more and more important that we find a truck to purchase, but many times it seemed that there were very few reasonably priced trucks in good condition for sale, and what few there were, got bought up too quickly for us to pursue.  Now that we are living in a house for the winter it is quite important that we have a truck so that we can go and gather firewood.  As Kiki was our “truck” last year, now we need a real truck for this year.   We were lucky that my parents in Victoria were willing to help us with looking for a vehicle, as it was quite a challenging task to do from Ocean Falls.  There was one truck that looked good, the ad was posted at 10pm on a Friday night, my mom called about it on Saturday mor...

September 25th -28th (Friday to Monday)   During our time off, since the weather was so wet, we worked on stuff inside the house.  First we finished cleaning the areas that we wanted to focus on, which were the hallway, living room, dining room, and kitchen.  We repaired some cracks and holes that were in the walls, and we secured some of the ceiling panels that were starting to droop down.  Then we started with painting the ceiling.  When we had cleaned the ceiling we had gotten a lot of dirt off, but it was amazing how much nicer everything looked right away with a fresh coat of white paint.   We put on two coats on the ceilings, and then they were done.     The walls in the hallway were a dark red colour, and it was too dark for such a small area with little light; it was way too much.     In order to cover over the dark colour we had to do two coats of primer.     Even though it was just the primer,...

September 24th (Thursday) Our back yard smells amazing because of the constant fragrance from our yellow cedar wafting out of our woodshed, and we have five Stellar Jays that come and ask for food.     Sometimes one of them will come and sit on our windowsill looking at us and tapping on the glass asking for food.     Other times they will sit on our deck and squawk to get our attention.     One of them is super friendly and will even hop right up and take food from our hands, the other four are more timid, but they all stop by to say, “Hi”. We were also paid a visit by a large black bear that decided to come up onto our back deck to get out of the rain.     We had no idea that it was there until Jason saw it out of the back door window.     When Jason yelled at it, it looked up, looked at us, and then slowly lumbered its way out onto the outer part of our deck, out into the rain.     I worried that it may feel trapped, since t...

September 23, 2020 (Wednesday) The next few posts are from our six days off of work between shifts, and it rained every day.  We had a storm move through on the Central Coast that brought strong winds and very, very heavy rains.  It was a perfect week to be living in a house instead of the boat.  It was between 8 and 13 degrees outside pretty much the whole time, and it poured rain.  In the boat we would have been struggling with moisture, but instead, we were enjoying the spaciousness of a house.   When we went to check on the boat, instead of the hatches dripping, windows wet, and the underside of the bed damp with condensation, we found that everything was dry.  It was amazing how much of a difference it made that we were not there cooking with our propane stove, which creates moisture just from being on.  It sure will be better for the boat with us living in a house this winter, and it will also be better for us....