ferry – Skelton Sketches

Our Moving Company

Posted on April 6, 2016April 28, 2017 by lindaskelton

Backing up a bit today to replay our recent move in slower motion…

Easter weekend “Grandad”s Crocuses saw us off with just a small contingent of our possessions to head to Alberta and start work in hopes of also finding a place to call ‘home’.

We took the Kootenay Lake ferry to spare the heavy-laden old Toy a steep mountain pass…

Yay for a free ferry! (Too bad this idea couldn’t catch on back in Powell River.)

We spent Easter with the Calgary kids…

before heading into Canmore (an hour’s drive) on Monday morning to our temporary lodging for the week…

While Jim worked I scouted about…

looking and waiting for the right doors to open in a tightly closed up housing market… We considered even just renting a residential room for the month at the tune of $1000!

…But then I saw it, on Day 2–

A picture perfect suite with endless ‘yard’ space, far exceeding anything we had yet seen, and I thought of my city grandkids and how perfect this would be… and then it was only a matter of waiting to see if the property management’s vision concurred with our own!

How had this place not been snapped up sooner—we are confident God was holding it for us. The timing of its availability was impeccable. As we checked out of the hotel we were free to pick up keys for our new home on April 1!

All that remained was to fetch our trailer load of goods and get a moving crew ( :

Saturday was move-in day…

HOME!

The moving crew…

Time for treats and a rest…

And when all the boxes were in there was time to play the day away…The parents got time out in town while the kids and I went for a nature walk…

Elk droppings and spruce cones were the highlight!

I sent them home with pockets full (of cones!) in hopes of many nature walks to come, now that we live so near!

And Monday morning the sun came in to say ‘Good Morning’ and we old folks shared a cup of tea before Jim went off to work in his new career as a Bicycle Mechanic in a town that thrives on bicycle use…

God has done great things for us. Our hearts are full of wonder and joy.

–LS

“He fulfills the desire of those who fear him; he also hears their cry and saves them.” Ps.145:19

My soul makes its boast in the LORD; let the humble hear and be glad. Oh, magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together! Ps.34:2,3

Oh, fear the LORD, you his saints, for those who fear him have no lack! Ps.34:9

Free Ferry!

Posted on October 29, 2015April 28, 2017 by lindaskelton

We thought we were done with ferries. Not so.

But this ferry to nowhere was free…

And it was the gateway to a beautiful bit of trail

with a lot of quiet at the end…

and a lighthouse!

On the return tripI stood alone on the end of the deck,

imagining a far-away Strait to a familiar place we once called home…

–LS

“Sojourn in this land, and I will be with you and will bless you…”Gen.26:3

I will sojourn in thy tent for ever; I will take refuge in the covert of thy wings. Selah. Ps.61:4DBY

We found a ferry

Posted on June 11, 2015April 27, 2017 by lindaskelton

We found another ferry ride—and this one was free!

We got up early Friday morning to join the local ‘bun run’ riders. Twenty quick miles later we arrived at a wee cable ferry that carried us across the Lake for a delightful country road pedal to the home of the best cinnamon buns in the west!

(It was actually a sunny day; the fog just added a mysterious ambience to the 5 minute crossing)

The giant sweet buns were hot from the oven shortly after we arrived and well worth the wait! Sorry no photo; it never even occurred to me to pause for a picture before helping Jim gobble ours down!

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Seems we are discovering our new world via tandem these days. We made our most difficult ascent ever to the skiing town of Rossland one hot afternoon this week. It is a ride we won’t soon forget despite the want of photos. It stretched me to the boiling point. I didn’t know my face could get so red; nearly matched my new shoes.

But the ride down at 50MPH without pedaling was oh so fast and oh so thrilling. Here we are at the top before I tucked the camera safely away!

And then a little further along when the way had levelled out…

This is a country of wild icy rivers—a sweet reprieve when the thermometer climbs into the 90’s as it has this week.

Later in the summer when the current has calmed and the water has warmed, this river will be swimmable. For now we we just wade in and it’s so cold it hurts!

–LS