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Smoky Summer Road Trip

19 Sunday Aug 2018

Posted by Jodi in Seasons, Weather, Wildlife

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Home from a smoky 2500 km road trip across BC. North to Little Fort and Deka Lake. East to Golden. South to Canal Flats. Forced up north again by fire-blocked roads, retracing our steps back almost to Kamloops. South at Sicamous, through the Okanagan to Keremeos, and west on the Hope Princeton to Vancouver, the ferry, and home.

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It was a never-to-be-forgotten experience. Surreal. Visibility varying from 100 metres up to a km or two at most. Mountain tops dissolving into thin air. Smouldering hillsides attended by thwacking helicopters toting watery loads. The forest, from hoary oldsters to little saplings, standing silently, roots clenched in the soil, sorrowing while their brothers’ ashes swirl through their branches. Farmsteads hunkered down in the valley-bottoms, sprinklers spitting defiance at the angry skies. The highway unfurling ahead into a smoky beige mist. Red sun, red moon, no stars.

 

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The world stopped a km or two away, no matter how fast or far we went. The closest mountain barely discernible, the next a hinted outline, and beyond, nothingness.

Where were the grand vistas, the serried ranks of mountains framing our route, the rich green valleys and sparkling blue waters? Only a memory, in my mind’s eye. 😢

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Chance’s New Bone

03 Friday Aug 2018

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I brought a beef shank bone home from the feed store last week for Chance. He hadn’t had a new one for a while and it was time. I had to wait to give it to him till the weekend though, when the bigger dogs would be away camping. He’d lose it in five minutes flat with them around. So I snuck it into the house and tucked it away behind a pile of mending on my sewing table.

That evening I was relaxing in my chair with my tablet when a sharp bark demanded my attention. Chance was sitting at my feet, staring intently at me. “What do you want?” I asked him. His head snapped right, nose pointing at my office, then back to me. That’s how he points, with his nose.

Geez, I thought, he has already sniffed out that bone! It’s still wrapped in plastic too! I told him no, not till the weekend, and went back to reading.

Over the next couple of days, he kept trying to get that bone. He had never laid eyes on it, but he knew, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that it was there. He tried to climb up and get it, but he was too short.

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He tried to tunnel up to it from below, but the table was too thick.

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Finally, finally, it was the weekend and he was the only dog around. “Do you want your new bone?” I asked him excitedly. His look left no room for doubt. Of course he wanted that bone, he had been waiting for DAYS!

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