Local Hillbilly Rodeo in Keremeos

This annual event takes place at the foot of the famous "K-Mountain" in Keremeos. It is on a much smaller scale than a Calgary Stampede but quiet charming anyways.

Bear attack #2

What a peaceful morning it was, until we heard the rumbling up at the chicken coop. A bear! Nicole shouted. The adrenalin kicked-in instantly and we both were up like firefighters after the alarm came in. There he was, cracking the lock of the foodbox, bending back the metal sheets and opening up the lid, only to grab a 20kg bag of chickenfood with his snout. Swinging the bag out of the box like it was full of air. But it was a lazy one. He only draged the bag a couple of feet away, before he started munching the crumbles. Equiped with lids and ladles, we approached the door and started the countdown. Screaming and ratteling we stormed out of the house and scared him off the property. At the same time, a moose calf was grassing beneath the house and was suddenly interrupted by our rampage, running off into the woods as well. Sorry, we did not mean to!

Bogner's on Global TV

Smok'n in Cawston

As Part of the Spring Wine Release 2010, the Similkameen Wineries Association organized a BBQ event at their community hall. Cawston is a small village 50km south of Penticton with a few wineries and a lot of farmers. The population in 2006 was app. 973. So this event was clearly operating on a smaller scale. Of the originally six BBQ contestants were in the end only three participating. So we smoked ribs from 6 in the morning in our home-built smoker which we drove to Cawston the night before and slept in our tents, freezing our asses off. At least we had some decent breakfast with pancakes, maplesyrup and real coffee. I even tried to get me some fried eggs cook'n. What do they say, "it's all about participating, not winning". Well, that's what we did! Even the bribed jury members did not all vote for us... We had a lot of fun anyways and we'll use the smoker for our bacon and sausages as well as our Friday night Roast & Toast on the Patio.

Füürio de Zeusli chunnt!

To get rid of all the weeds that grew on the farm last year, we set the whole field on fire, to make room for more veggies for the restaurant. We also did some pruning in the orchard as part of the "spring cleaning". Some of the salads are already growing at the restaurant to be transferred outdoors, as soon as the weather gets a little warmer. Last week we had our first annual rhubarb tart with Keremeos rhubarb, yummi!