Hello Rocky Mountains!
Well the day began at 7:30am after a 2am bedtime.
We began the drive from Fernie, BC to Ashcroft, BC – 9 hours. The landscape was again ever changing and stunning. Pine trees that were taller than I have ever seen. Forever reaching higher to the sky.
Some trees gave way to sloping gravel or tiny rivers waterfalling through a narrow in the mountain side. There were lakes that were as still as a mirror and others the rippled with life. There were marshy bogs lined with a crimson red grass, or bush- no one knew what it was. I thought maybe cranberries – but I will have to look it up. There were areas today that looked like desert. Other areas were lush green fields. Other areas had trees that had been caught in forest fires just last year.
We ate again at Subway and I have been drinking more coffee than usual – I think it is helping to keep me away from being too constipated. Tee hee
Anywho- I am really tired – just smoked a little and it always knocks me out.
The baby started to cry 5 minutes into the show and I ended up having to get Shelley to come up and calm her- she was inconsolable- and I felt awful- but Mike said it has happened to him so I felt a bit better.
The place they played was called the Opera House and we are sleeping in the upstairs sort of attic area. The others are downstairs but I snuck away, as I am tend to do. I don’t know why but I hate interrupting people to say good- night. My friend Bob Egan played here last week –
the building is owned by a French man named Martin- he runs a vegetarian restaurant in the town and also bought this place a few years ago after his old restaurant burned down. He talked the man who was selling down from 90,000 to 39,000!! He didn’t have enough money because he wasn’t insured on the last place. So, what he did was he got people in the town to buy 1000$ shares and he got enough people involved that he was able to realize his dream and open. He is very passionate about the town and it’s possibilities. I had wondered today what people do who live out here in these remote places but he was one example.
He did say it is a more relaxed way of life. I didn’t know this before but real-estate seems to be far cheaper in the west. You can buy a house in Winnipeg for $7000.!! I couldn’t believe my ears. They say the areas are a bit rough but that they are being bought up by young families just starting out. So the areas get better.
Notes: roadkill seen thus far: deer or antelope, coyote, turtle.
Martin the man who runs this place also runs a vegetarian restaurant and he made the dinner tonight. Spinach ravioli with a gorgeous tomatoe sauce- with a salad of beautiful greens with a tahini dressing and a mound of hummus – accompanied by big plush sour-dough buns. It was so delicious.
Ok I have to go to sleep- and I will need to rewrite this – it’s a bit sporadic and all over the place.
Also saw a really nice woodpecker fly by. Yellow grasses. Lots of rain today.
2nd set Sophie in the snuggly and fell asleep after the 2nd song until the final applause – phew!
Here comes Damon. That’s how you spell it.
Oh my oh my oh – look at miss ohio.
I decided I will sit in the back more with Sophie so she gets to know me better.
Really like their music.
We began the drive from Fernie, BC to Ashcroft, BC – 9 hours. The landscape was again ever changing and stunning. Pine trees that were taller than I have ever seen. Forever reaching higher to the sky.
Some trees gave way to sloping gravel or tiny rivers waterfalling through a narrow in the mountain side. There were lakes that were as still as a mirror and others the rippled with life. There were marshy bogs lined with a crimson red grass, or bush- no one knew what it was. I thought maybe cranberries – but I will have to look it up. There were areas today that looked like desert. Other areas were lush green fields. Other areas had trees that had been caught in forest fires just last year.
We ate again at Subway and I have been drinking more coffee than usual – I think it is helping to keep me away from being too constipated. Tee hee
Anywho- I am really tired – just smoked a little and it always knocks me out.
The baby started to cry 5 minutes into the show and I ended up having to get Shelley to come up and calm her- she was inconsolable- and I felt awful- but Mike said it has happened to him so I felt a bit better.
The place they played was called the Opera House and we are sleeping in the upstairs sort of attic area. The others are downstairs but I snuck away, as I am tend to do. I don’t know why but I hate interrupting people to say good- night. My friend Bob Egan played here last week –
the building is owned by a French man named Martin- he runs a vegetarian restaurant in the town and also bought this place a few years ago after his old restaurant burned down. He talked the man who was selling down from 90,000 to 39,000!! He didn’t have enough money because he wasn’t insured on the last place. So, what he did was he got people in the town to buy 1000$ shares and he got enough people involved that he was able to realize his dream and open. He is very passionate about the town and it’s possibilities. I had wondered today what people do who live out here in these remote places but he was one example.
He did say it is a more relaxed way of life. I didn’t know this before but real-estate seems to be far cheaper in the west. You can buy a house in Winnipeg for $7000.!! I couldn’t believe my ears. They say the areas are a bit rough but that they are being bought up by young families just starting out. So the areas get better.
Notes: roadkill seen thus far: deer or antelope, coyote, turtle.
Martin the man who runs this place also runs a vegetarian restaurant and he made the dinner tonight. Spinach ravioli with a gorgeous tomatoe sauce- with a salad of beautiful greens with a tahini dressing and a mound of hummus – accompanied by big plush sour-dough buns. It was so delicious.
Ok I have to go to sleep- and I will need to rewrite this – it’s a bit sporadic and all over the place.
Also saw a really nice woodpecker fly by. Yellow grasses. Lots of rain today.
2nd set Sophie in the snuggly and fell asleep after the 2nd song until the final applause – phew!
Here comes Damon. That’s how you spell it.
Oh my oh my oh – look at miss ohio.
I decided I will sit in the back more with Sophie so she gets to know me better.
Really like their music.
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