When the mountain calls

Mt. Baldy is one of the smaller ski areas in the Okanagan. It is located 37km outside Oliver and has 2 chairlifts and a magic carpet. If only they had a little more snow. When I was up there, only one of the lifts was running and the downhill options were somehow limited. The terrain is excellent for beginners. I rather found it a little boring...
But see for yourself...

Disaster cleanup

It always happens, when you expect it the least. Last tuesday a waterpipe broke at the restaurant and set the whole kitchen under water. The door was frozen shot, so the force of a sledgehammer was needed, in order to get into the house. The water must have been flowing for several hours. The kitchen lights hit a fridge when they fell off the ceiling. The water even got down to the cellar. Everything had to be packed and transported out of the kitchen and the whole cellar had to be emptied by a disaster clean-up company. The restaurant will be closed for another month for reconstruction. We will use the time to figure out a game plan for our catering and our on site gardening as well as the growth of the company. At least no one got hurt, exept the insurance company.

Can't do it better, but longer...

Thanks to some very nice people, we still get the good stuff from Switzerland once in a while. And we really enjoy every bite of it!
We get really lucky these days, because the fog stays beneath us and so we actually have a view. But for the people, living in the mountains, this is no news. But someone from Zurich might get a little jealous...

winterwonderland

Take a walk through our backyard with Nicole...

Nasty black ice

Our winter took a bad start with black ice. We could not drive up the last bit and had to put on our snowshoes. It was slippery as h...! Even the deer could not make it across the road without falling. Unfortunately my car was still on top of the mountain, when it was raining ice. Sliding my car down the hill was a pretty scary situation. But thanks to SUBARU-Power we made it. Today Nicole could not resist to shovel some snow, since it is really powdery and light.

Oh deer!

Almost every day we get lunch and dinner walking by ;-)
We wonder how long we still get excited about it. For now it still is "jööööh", when they are around. As long as they don't touch our garden next year! Our little farm will be growing from next spring anyway. We will get some chickens to look after. How thrilling, fresh eggs every day!

Visitors!

The day before the first snow fell, my sleep was interrupted by familiar noises. A look through the window confirmed the muuuuh, muuuuh.... cows in our garden!