Good day. Lots of wood in. We are 1/3 of the way to full. Dave is a chopping machine! I only have to cut rounds with the chainsaw and I have to go pretty steady to keep him supplied.

And Lindsay is some kind of stacking genius. Really. I swear this woman has a unique ‘spatial ordering’ skill that allows her to ‘finely’ stack wood better than 99.9% of the population. We are stacking – easily – an extra 10% per row. That means: In a ten row wood-house, we will have eleven rows (almost an extra month of burning). The wood fits like jigsaw pieces. It is marvelous. Weird. But marvelous.

After a hard five hour day, the ladies went down to the lagoon to gather up dinner. 30 oysters, a whole mess of mussels and a bucket o’ clams! The clams are for later. A clam chowder may be in the offing.

While this was happening, I trimmed the dogs and bought a new winch from Craigslist. The dogs lost a bag full of hair and still look like dogs that need a trim. Damn.

How the hell I am going to get a 100 pound winch from Powell River is beyond me. But it will happen.

I may also buy another old, rusty one in Victoria. I am on a winch kick. It happens at log gathering time.

And then the Orcas came!

We all went to the deck to watch a pod go by. Pretty neat.

A few minutes later our friends on the Columbia lll steamed by. The Columbia lll is a beautifully restored old yacht that takes groups on wilderness and kayak ventures up and around our area. Google Mothership Adventures, The Columbia lll. Definitely a voyage worth considering for anyone wanting a closer look at this part of the world. Ross and Fern do a phenomenal job. They are very popular and getting a booking is not always easy.

Think about it.

Today: more of the same. Hard to get too much of a good thing. Impossible to get too much wood chopped and stacked.