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Getting crafty

A side-effect of not knowing whether the impending moosling will be a girl or a boy, is that I’ve ended up with a whole bunch of white clothes. And now I’ve finished work, I’ve had a lot of time on my hands (especially as my pelvic ligaments are too sore to let me walk very far). So I’ve been busy turning these:

 

 

Into these:

 

 

Dyeing fabric is every so much fun, now I just want to dye everything in the house – and the dyes I got created really good bright colours that shouldn’t wash out… well I’ve already washed them with white things, and the whites are still white… until I dye them too.

And then using stencils:

 

I make the stencils from freezer paper – draw your design on, cut out with a stanley knife, iron onto fabric and paint away.

 

To make these:

 

 

 

 

Why yes, I am having fun getting all crafty. It’s been a while.

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canada general hiking

Sunshine Meadows

 

Along the path out to Rock Isle Lake – a lot less flowers, but just as many ground squirrels as there were a few weeks ago.

 

 

Napping on the benches by Rock Isle Lake, Sunshine Village (Divide and Goats Eye mountains) in the background.

 

 

Glowing ex-flower fuzz balls

 

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Moose hunting in K-Country

Well on the plus side, we ended up seeing five mooses (FIVE!), but I didn’t get any photos of them, as we were driving around right on dusk. I’m lacking a zoom lens, so they would have been exciting photos of dark brown blobs.

For the record, there were three hanging out by Engadine Lodge (one solitary one off to the far side of the meadow, and another couple that galloped across to the swampy lake barely a minute after we arrived), then another couple just by one of the Spray Lakes bridges.

But look, I did get a photo of the last of the light disappearing over the lakes as we were driving home. Which is nearly as exciting as a moose.

 

Spray Lakes, driving back towards Canmore through Kananaskis

 

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Ha Ling Peak: Nine

This is what you get when you hike up Ha Ling Peak on the weekend….

 

The Tally

 

 

Although most of the people were on their way back down again – so they weren’t hit by the squall that we found just as we were about to reach the summit (and were so sure we’d be able to race, and be on our way back down again before the rain fell). Instead we got lovely and saturated and hailed on. At least it was over as quickly as it begun though, and was nice and warm again afterwards.

(The squirrels were a mix of tree squirrels and golden-mantled ground squirrels)

(And I didn’t eat the apple)

 

Alex and the approaching weather, already starting to rain on us

 

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Balcony garden

For that small stretch of ‘Summer’ where the balcony won’t be getting snowed on. Now I just need some more warm days to help ripen the rest of the strawberries, chillies and tomatoes.

 

Strawberry, thyme, chives & cilantro, chilli, and the tomato plant