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We had our first out-of-town guests, Baz and James, visit us on Twin Eagles Bluff last night. We’re in the middle of an actual heat wave at the moment with temperatures in the high 30’s, heading into the low 40’s tomorrow. The morning was a mad dash of preparing food, cleaning up the Love Shack,

Tonight is a full moon, so this evening’s high tide is covering rocks that would ordinarily never be below the surface. It also happens to be the first day of what is promising to be a week-long heat wave. I’ve been working like mad today building rock terraces on the bluff, carting pails of dirt

It occurred to me today, that I haven’t done any painting since mid-April (other than the “rustic style” signs that I painted above to mark locations on the property). This is the longest I’ve gone without setting paint brush to canvas since we arrived on the upper Sunshine Coast last November. It’s not that I

Building a rudimentary herb garden was one of my first priorities when we moved onto the bluff. Just because I had to cook in an outdoor kitchen, didn’t mean I had to scrimp on flavour. I started by bringing a couple of pots up to Twin Eagles Bluff from Vancouver. One pot had a very

Located almost in the centre of the Twin Eagles Bluff property is our first visitor camping spot. You can drive right up to this camp site on a road that was built when we connected the water from the well down to the Love Shack. Mitch had the foresight to make sure that we placed

There’s an interesting dichotomy on the bluff. At this time of year, the two most common birds flying around the property are the Bald Eagles and the Anna’s Hummingbirds. In appearance, behaviour and attitude, I don’t think you could find two birds who are more different. About the only thing they have in common is

For several months, Mitch has been designing a ramp that would start at the top of the Bluff and go down to the beach without any turns. Since we have about 435 feet of ocean front, a ramp like this was feasible, although the terrain was rough and it would have to be built carefully.

Sometimes, the best thing to do on a cold wet day is turn to comfort food. We had a tempest blow up the strait last night and it was round after round of rain and wind all night long and well into the morning. By the time I got dressed, it wasn’t pelting rain but

Although I’ve been doing a dip in the Pacific each month for the last year, this usually involves me wading in, quickly submerging and then immediately heading for shore. The whole thing lasts less than a minute. However, now that we’re into June, there are the occasional hot days where a swim in the ocean

It’s been a few weeks since I’ve taken the time to write a blog post. The month of May quickly slid into a pit of projects. We’ve been busy adding to the Love Shack, clearing dead wood and brush off the slope of the bluff and burning it in bon-fires, planting trees, bushes and grasses