Nicole's Birthday Cake

Prepared after the original recipe from Jacques Treichler, I made Nicole a Zuger Kirschtorte and some tidbits with the leftovers.

Easter-Egg hunt in the Okanagan

Hiking up Pin-Cushion in Peachland on Easter-Sunday and overlook the soon-to-be-built golf course. I wonder where all the water comes from to keep the lawn green in this desert-like setting!

This is what I do on rainy days...

Moose ahead!

They must really like it up here. Snooping around the neighbourhood, looking for dried rosehips to get through the Okanagan winter. This was the closest ever!

I'm hungry!

While a highly intelligent Packrat goes after the bags of chickenfood and leaves it's droppings all over the place, these little fellows have to wait for mum- and daddy-bird to push down some food in their throat. Last year, their eggs were stolen (eaten) by them noisy magpies. So we consider it a lucky year for the blackbirds.

Ready for Winter

As nature takes care of the wild burns, we get ready for our controlled fires during the Okanagan winter. Most of the firewood is split and ready to store away so we can haul box after box through the crisp snow again.

Smoke on the water

It is wildfire season again and we have been lucky so far. Just a few days with smoke in the air and our view was not as spectacular anymore. Most of them started during a lightning storm and only few are actually threatening housed areas. So they just watch them burning. At least they get rid of the nasty pine-beetle that way. This one is eating its way through the mountains near Keremeos.