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These are flowers at our house in CHilliwack.  I seeded them back in May and planted them when they were barely 1 1/2" tall.  When we left, the marigolds were maybe 4" and the laverna were about 6".  When I was back in Chilliwack in August, I stopped by and couldn't believe how big they were.  The neighbor ladies were drooling over them and couldn't believe how well they were doing for not getting any water. I think one lady was even going to dig up a few and transplant them in her garden!

A double rainbow. 

The sunset over Dragon Lake.

This is taken from the 3rd story of the house we are living in. There is some mornings where the fog is so thick.  This is about 7:15 in the morning, when the sun was coming up.

Alot of the houses are heated with wood furnaces.  THey either have a fireplace inside, or a furnace outside that is loaded with both pellets and logs.  Seeing as the owners here are gone for 6 weeks, we feel the need to supply them with firewood.  We found this stack of wood on one of our leisurely drives.  We took along a chainsaw and some farmer sausage and made a day of it.  John cut the logs into 7'+ lengths.   I packed them into the truck.  We later had a small fire to roast the sausage.  The girls LOVED it!

I love Barkerville.  We have already been there twice and now have a seasons pass.  There is so much character in the buildings and so many stories displayed in each one.  We have yet to ride the carriage or take in a school lesson or church service... next time??

This old fellow was showing the gold that he had... yes this is real gold.  He later did a school lesson for us.

Him and Kenna are pretending to play tug-of-war with a quarter.  He was demonstrating that the quarter was not going to stretch. Now if you did that with gold... I can't remember exactly the numbers but it was something like this.  a 1" cube of gold could be stretched so far that it could wallpaper the room that we were in that was 20' x 12'.  We learned that not only is gold "stretchy" it is also VERY heavy.

Emmy was able to do some gold panning.  With some help, she found 3 flakes.  It is so funny because anytime they come across any water now, they look for gold!

Peeking at the horse!

These guys were HILARIOUS.  There is no way I could explain how and why.  Together the two of them told the story of how the waterwheel worked to bring up gold and then demonstrated it.

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