Some of you my be aware of new accommodation opening this summer!
The Glamp is currently being built, and will be available for stays from the beginning of August.
The Glamp is a 14' x 14' tent with 9' ceilings! It will have its own bathroom, and access to the pool.
​Here are a few photos to bring you almost up-to-date!

First thoughts - laying out the site possibilities

Tent being wrapped up at Montana Canvas ready for its trip home to Penticton!

Plan for floor design, sample stain (after 18 months weather exposure!) and raw wood floor panel

Matthew with workaway Roman, beefing up the landscape separation between Glamp and Cabana.

Layout for the Glamp floor!

Many hands make light work! The floor components, all stained and finished are brought down from the workspace at Fuego.

​Just had a last minute cancelation for next week - August 30 to September 3rd (check out on 4th).
The pool is still maintaining temperature around 80 degrees! Evenings are getting cooler which makes it extra nice to have a fire outside in the chiminea!

Mabel is our special new hen. We are not sure of her exact breeding but she definitely has Araucana in her because she has just started laying delightful delicate blue eggs - just in time for Easter!
She is even more special because she came to us with a broken leg, and she has developed a great hopping routine that will now be with her for life.
We have four new hens altogether after the old ones were ravaged by a bobcat! Yes, a bobcat! We saw him, and certainly saw his fresh tracks in the snow.
Sao we now have 4 different hens. Buddy, a Red Sussex Cross, Tails, a Rhode Island Red (and a bit of a bully!), Foghorn, a white leghorn, and Mabel. 

Despite my best intentions another year has flown by with out writing a darn thing since early Spring.

We have now come full circle from protecting the garden as the bulbs came up, to pre-protecting more that 1,100 bulbs planted over the last month. If they all come up it will be a stupendous show of crocus, daffodils, narcissi and others!

2015 was, as it seems every year here is, a year of changes!

Kharimha, my horse, moved to 100 Mile to enjoy her 'for-ever' home with Lynne. It was a tough decision, but once she had to move from the adjacent land we leased and was boarded in Naramata she missed daily human contact.
We lost Lucie, our old, old black and white cat in the Spring, and since we had already lost Levi the Fall before, we are pelts for the first time since we got married, except for the chickens!

The Studio came on-line in and proved very popular, being rented almost constantly from May on, with even a guest staying for the winter. 

Work-aways were again a big part of our year - we love the energy they bring into our lives, not to mention all the help the offer. It is always so good to have an extra pair of hands to help with the Cabana, and now the Studio. 
Lucie from Czech Republic (who came for 2 weeks and stayed for 9!) Ella and Sam, Cora and Micael (UK), Charles (France), Jonas, Simon, Philipp and Kalle (Germany) were other great helpers in 2015. We also found Francine who looked after the Cabana and our property in September so we could travel and enjoy France in the good weather. It was the first time for a vacation "in the season" in 14 years so was a real treat!

The big project at the moment is creating a full kitchen for the Cabana. It will add a full-size fridge, induction cook-top and micro/convection oven, larger sink and more counter space.



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I was being watched closely and my work of laying down chicken wire secured with bent pieces of wire coat hangers. 

I am hoping that since they can't get their feet to scratch through the wire, they won't do as much damage and eventually plants will just grow through the wire.

Of course this does not stop them from tromping over it with their big feet!

What a year of change!  
The owner of the land around us has started to build his dream house, unfortunately right next to ours! We always knew it would happen one day!
Of course Matthew has risen to the challenge and has put up creative, tall fencing around our property. In  fact we now have more privacy than before, but a little less land!
For me, one of the toughest parts was having to give up the lease on the land where the barn, chickens and horse were. The horse is now boarded out, the barn may be dismantled as we are using barn boards for some of the fencing! The chickens have been moved to the upper garden, closer to our bedroom!
There is a new vegetable garden to the left of the drive which has a good load of compost in it ready for the growing season.
There are no changes at the Cabana! However, at least for this year we will not be offering a venue for weddings.