I have not written for quite awhile. I guess there did not seem to be much to say. World events have left me aghast. So hard to believe that Israel can do what they are doing to Gaza and get away with it, AND that so many people are silent about it. I guess that is the hardest part, people who speak out daily about political events, but never say a word about……. Gaza. SOOO I have turned to murder mysteries. There is ALWAYS a good cop/detective who artificially renews my faith in humanity. You know them…. that one guy/girl who goes that step beyond for someone they do not know. Risks their lives, their reputation to speak out for some underdog, even when no one else does. I have discovered audiobooks and ear buds and have even sorted out all of the secrets of blue tooth…. Even when it says “forget this device”, I had to accept that it would “remember it”, when it next got picked up on my phones bluetooth. In our age group we would rarely want to intentionally FORGET anything 🤔 but that is the key to figuring out bluetooth

We are just on our way to Calgary to get flight to Dublin, where we are going on 2 different hikes. One in Northern Ireland and one in Ireland.

We have sold our motorhome and are presently looking for a more fuel efficient camper van for shorter trips in the future. We decided last winter that we have gone down to the US for the winter for 10 years and it is time to do something else. After that, our plans were further reinforced by changes south of the border.

We started an AIRBNB suite this year by taking a part of our house and making it into a suite. It certainly made for an interesting summer. We got very good at changing beds,and washing sheets. We found that using the dryer so much was cutting into our solar abilities, so started drying sheets on clothesline, which was kind of fun too. We met lots of people (well Ken met lots of people in that he is the ambassador while I am the booking clerk )

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We had a perfect 5 star review record until our neighbours dog bit one of our guests dogs and even that guests apologized for the 4 star review but she felt she needed to warn other dog owners.

We do allow dogs, yet it seemed to be the most complex part of our airbnb . I guess mostly because our neighbours dogs frequent our house …. And sometimes Tucker goes down to their house as well, and for the most part, this arrangement works out well. All of our dogs have sorted out the dominance stepladder. However throwing in a whole bunch of other dogs complicates things. The Great Pyrenee dog …Willow is totally, wonderful, we love her. She guards the chickens they have and so likes to have a better view of them from our place. Our neighbours have a video of her barking away a bear from the chickens.

But willow is very large and a bit intimidating. We had people from Toronto message us that a very large white dog was there and did not have a leash.

We shall continue to sort out the dog problem, by fencing the area around the suite, hopefully next summer will be easier.

We have also had our weekly market stall in Scotch. Creek, and occasional weeks in Sorrento. We have sold, likely a few hundred pounds of fruit, all of which we have grown.

And of course all the garlic

One might wonder why we do all of this, being retired and all. I guess partly so we can take these wonderful European trips, and partly because we do enjoy farming/gardening. There is a sense of pride as well sending off all of those locally grown fruits and veggies into the community.

I did also want to show everyone the amazing cabinet Ken made this summer for our entry way. We decided we wanted a place to store the vacuum cable AND the jars of tomato sauce.

So. There it is, my first blog in ??10 months.

Bye for. Now,

Love Janet and Ken and Tucker who is NOT going to Ireland