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Lori lets me borrow her computer. So, finally, I can download podcasts from the Swedish Radio and learn what’s happening in Sweden right now. That’s something I started doing last summer, downloading podcasts and listening to them while working in the archive. Listening to radio programs while weeding works just as well. It feels soContinue reading “Chapter 158: Podcasts from the Swedish Radio”

Of course, being a chicken farm, there are loads of chickens walking around the property, digging holes in the ground, hiding eggs and shitting. They talk, and after a while I started to realise that they make different kinds of sounds. Chickens are much more interesting than I ever could have thought. There are severalContinue reading “Chapter 157: The birds at Whiskey Creek Farm”

The first time Lori asked me to take the pick-up truck on an errand, I took a wrong turn and had to drive through all of Qualicum Beach (which isn’t a big place, but still) before I found a place to turn around on. All the while, I got really worried about the gas –Continue reading “Chapter 156: A visit to the beach”

I have my own room here at the farm. It isn’t usually a bedroom, but due to the construction work going on here, Lori put a bed in the “everything-else-room”. There are three saddles hanging on the wall, and a big cupboard full of watercolours and paintbrushes. And above my bed there’s a map ofContinue reading “Chapter 155: My room”

Mr. P, thinking they are of similar size, visited the chick barn to make new friends. But they were sceptical. Most of them didn’t even say hi. I guess he’ll just have to keep looking.

There are a lot of people coming and going at Whiskey Creek Farm. My first couple of days, there was two young German guys here wwoofing (and they managed to change my mind about twenty-year-old Germans – they can actually be really nice too. I was just a little unlucky at Time Out Farms), butContinue reading “Chapter 153: Walking around Cameron Lake”

During the entire week that we spent together on Vancouver Island, Frida wouldn’t stop talking about the hummingbirds, and more specifically, that she wanted to see one. I saw hummngbirds both in Victoria and in the Pacific Rim National Park Reserve, but since the others always were so far ahead of me, I couldn’t showContinue reading “Chapter 152: Two hummingbirds for Frida”

I’ve written many nice things about Canadians, and they are all still true, but sometimes I just get so annoyed. By the way that they always drive too fast, and I always end up having a long line of cars behind me on the highway. By the showers they have, in which you can’t actuallyContinue reading “Chapter 151: Things that annoy me”

I wake up at a few minutes to seven, to let the chickens out and make sure that they all have food and water. Especially the baby meat birds have to be looked after. Then I give Tango the horse her morning hay and take a round around the property with the wheelbarrow and aContinue reading “Chapter 150: A day at Whiskey Creek Farm”

On my third day at the farm (10/5), the sun was shining, so Lori told me to borrow the car and go do some sight seeing right after breakfast. So I packed my camera and an extra jacket, and left for Cathedral Grove. Cathedral Grove is actually one of the most visited sights on theContinue reading “Chapter 149: Cathedral Grove”