The snow close to the cabin is getting very dirty. Time to find a new water supply for bathing and laundry.
Here is my house from the pond below the deck.
A short distance upstream is a larger pond. This time last year it was open, but there is not much sign of the ice going yet this year.
The ponds are man-made – or woman-made, rather – by the previous resident of the property. Ginty Paul had them dammed for irrigation, but that was a quarter of a century ago and none of the ditches carry water now. The creek has breached the dam underneath and it has made its own path through the marsh. Already spring run-off is swelling the waters and early in the morning, when the snow is frozen hard, I take a couple of milk jugs over.
My pendulum tells me the water is not fit to drink, but using it for laundry and bathing saves quite a bit of hauling from the Nimpo Lake post office.
It is lovely to see and hear the gurgle of the creek after everything has been frozen for so long.
I enjoy your blog and reading about your wildlerness life. I also have a blog about my life here in Bella Coola, though I haven’t posted much lately.
I am contacting you on behalf of the Bella Coola Valley Arts Council. I heard from someone here that you do book tours, and I was wondering if you would be interested in doing one here? Perhaps an art show as well? Perhaps give a talk at a local writers group? Let me know if any of this interests you and we can chat.
Hope to talk with you soon.
Beth Jay
It is lovely to feel the sunshine again, breeze is still cool but not to worry,