Aeon Time » Cottage Life http://stevebuchan.org/aeon Steve's Musings - Life Unexplained Thu, 02 Sep 2010 14:21:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Bear Warning http://stevebuchan.org/aeon/2008/07/25/bear-warning/ http://stevebuchan.org/aeon/2008/07/25/bear-warning/#comments Fri, 25 Jul 2008 20:09:37 +0000 sbuchan http://stevebuchan.org/aeon/?p=45 Bear Warning - thanks Joe

Special thanks for Joe F. for submitting this!

do you want to post my picture with it?? – Joe F.Joe F. at the beach on the Sunshine Coast, BC.

Sure .. Folks .. this is Joe F.  —>

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Fire Art, originally uploaded by sbuchanyvr.

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Someone just emailed me and asked for the rights to print and sell this image as art. Of course — I said yes.

Just looked at the image again on the large screen .. and it does look great. — Something pretty came come out of such stupidity.

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Water bombers on Pender Hill, originally uploaded by jduy.

My Neighbor Judy posted this short little video of the Forest Fire burning on the hill right behind us.

This puts some perspective on how close this was!.

Fire is almost out, certainly under control and the teams are in the mop up stage.

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Picture, originally uploaded by sbuchanyvr.

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Four little monsters getting a good talking to by parents, police and Deputy Fire Commander

IMG_2000.JPGIt’s 2pm in the afternoon .. and it sounds like some olde war movie.

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There are like five helos flying overhead. Step outside .. and folks are running around like mad. The hillside behind our place is on fire, water bombers have been called in. Prepare to leave.

This does not work for me — six weeks into new job and real busy.  Have 1:1 with new boss in like 45 mins.  But you know — it does not look too good at the outset.

.. 4pm .. kids admit to accidentally starting the forest fire with fireworks. Kids are charged with Criminal Arson, and Mischief.

.. as we head off to bed, the fire is still burning — we await either sunrise or a knock on the door.

Kids!

All photos in this post are Copyright (c) 2008, Steve Buchan, All Rights Reserved

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We are planning on doing all the engineering and wiring ourselves. We will pull a second electrical permit for the automation system, with the contractor pulling the permit for the core high-voltage work.

The only problem now is .. how do we get the net out to the boonies!

We should be in the cottage by August

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