Were you on Gabriola in 1992, when there was much concern about the Weldwood property and what should become of it? I wasn’t, so all I have to go on is the accounts of others. Here’s what Paul Grignon has on his website: Not What We Thought It Was? – Weldwood, 13 Years After. As [...]
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What’s that in the window of The Island Book Shoppe? Alas, it’s a CLOSING sign, advertising 50% off. Rats, rats, rats. Every island should have a book shop!
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This is what’s popping up in the Gabriola woods these days. It’s a polypore fungus called Ganoderma oregonense. It looks like it’s made out of marshmallow and varnish! The specimen you see here is about 7 cm tall.
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From the Campbell River Mirror: Large magnitude earthquake struck off the West Coast of Vancouver Island. A magnitude 6.7 earthquake struck just off the West Coast of Vancouver Island on Fri. Sept. 9. Officials Provincial Emergency Program (PEP) confirmed that it happened at about 12:41 p.m. about 80 kilometres south of Port Alice. The earthquake [...]
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When a squirrel gets squished in the middle of North Road, who removes the remains and cleans up the mess? Raven, of course. Here’s Raven in the evening light, having just finished a snack of squirrel.
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From the Nanaimo News Bulletin: Tidal energy proponent hosts public meeting. Residents with questions about a proposed tidal energy project at Dodd Narrows will have an opportunity to ask them Friday (Sept. 9) from 2-4 p.m. at Silva Bay Pub on Gabriola Island. [continue] Did you see anything about this meeting in the Flying Shingle [...]
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When a Google Street View car drove around Gabriola last year, did you wind up getting photographed? A friend was gardening in her bathing suit that day when the camera went by; she was less than pleased when a photo of her appeared on the Google streetview as a result. Anyway. If you care what [...]
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What would your occupation have been if you’d lived on Gabriola — or in Nanaimo — 100 years ago? For help imagining occupations of the past, see Lines of work in BC, 1860 and beyond at The Hook blog.
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You can eat these curtains, Anon E Mouse blogged back in January. I was taken with the idea, and decided to grow some curtains on Gabriola this summer. The One Who Builds made frames, got netting arranged and affixed just so upon those frames, and mounted the frames outside two of our windows. (One frame [...]
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Rather striking, isn’t it? This one isn’t in the forest, but rather on a Gabriola street. I haven’t seen it myself (it’s a reader-submitted photo) but will stop by for a look next time I’m walking near Duthie Avenue.
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It’s Labour Day, Gabriola. Kids head back to school tomorrow. Given the season, I have to share this story with you: Anti-bullying: schooled by a 6-year-old.
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Here’s what’s up in the Gabriola woods today. Wasps here. I wondered about a wasp nest fragment a while ago. Now I’ve found the rest of that nest, and can see that it fell out of a tree when a branch came down. So glad I wasn’t underneath when it fell! Wasps there. Last month [...]
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If your interests include fitness, history, survival skills, and fun, you’ve gotta read this. From Men’s Health: Fitness to Survive in the Wild. For the first time, I see doubt creep into Zuqueto’s eyes and freeze his feet. Zuqueto is a two-time world champion jujitsu fighter and a professional free diver who needs only a [...]
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You’ve made trips into Nanaimo to buy stuff you can’t get on Gabriola, right? I think we all have. I try to find ways around those trips, which is why I do much of my shopping online. I buy from a bunch of online stores you’d recognize: Amazon, MEC, Spud, etc … and now I’ve [...]
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I’ve seen them in Gabriola cafes, on the Quinsam, and in the ferry line-up: people using e-book readers. Are you one of them? A New York Times article notes the effect that these devices have on the book publishing industry. Recession-minded readers who might have picked up a quick novel in the supermarket or drugstore [...]
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