rags to freedom

2009-11-17T17:13:00.000-08:00

Well things didn't turn out the way we expected,Suzie was being a real bitch and I wasn't going to cook for them anymore,Bill suzie's brother in law was going to be taking over and put tabs on us.Things were getting pretty bad well they showed up and I found out my daughter Monica wanted to get married and I was going to have a wedding.This was going to happen in December and we were going to have to use Suzies truck to get there because we had already ruined ours going back and forth into town for Pulton Bay.Well suzie as usual did not want to loan us the truck and that finally pissed Mike off,they also started accusing us of stealing gas can you imagine after all the work and effort we put into that place so we finally quit...It was pretty awful we asked for money for all the inprovements we had done to the house and they only gave us half of what we had spent then we asked if they wanted to buy our boat or reinburse us for all of our trips and they said no and so now after so long we have nothing.We sold our boat and got a little money and we took the truck we felt that we deserved at least that.We packed up so fast in was incredible how fast we left there we were heading to California for my daughters wedding and then on the way to being in the Baja Mike excepted the job offer Cam gave him and we were nervous but very excited.Miss Suzie called the police on us and said Mike stole her car but she put it in his name so she had no case.She did report us to the irs and made us pay taxes as a gift but that is all right we our rid of her and her inconsiderate ways Mike said her father was a very dear friend and if he would have been alive to see how they treated us it would have been a real shame.We were out of Pulton Bay never to look back we did the wedding and took the coast to Newport Beach where Cam and the new boat were our new venture would be Captain and crew of the motor yacht Lucky Sperm the boat is over welming it is a sixty-five foot 2 million dollar boat.We had dinner with Cam and he said he bought us a condo in loreto mexico he will set us up in a restuarant this is unbeleivable Cam is great I hope everything works out in Mexico.

2009-10-27T19:15:00.000-07:00

We had some friends come up for the summer one was Mike's friend Steve Hulsizer they have been friends for years.Steve really likes to drink from the time he gets up until he goes to bed.Well needless to say he broke all the boats lost alot of fishing gear and was just an ass,Our friends Harry and Raquel came up and Harry our friend loves a great debate and decided to argue about Roux something he knew nothing about I have decided next year we will not let any friends come up only family.I really needed to get the hell out of here.I decided I would go to Michigan and meet another side of my family I have never met.My big sister becky and I hadn't seen each other for thirty years.Our parents split up when I was five but I always remembered my sisters names and one brother.We found each other again but only through telephone but I wanted to meet my four older sisters and older brotherand finally it was going to happen and I was going to be away from Pulton Bay for two weeks.This was September and October in the year 2000 I would have to say it was one of the worst years in my life.WOW the time flew by and I hadn't written in my journal for along toime.I guess alot had happened.First I did have a really great time with my sisters becky and Debbie I also met my sister Chris Cindy and my brother Rick.I met my other sister Shiela and brother John who were from another marriage after my parents split up.My brother John was getting married so it was a perfect time to be at the wedding and meet my whole family aunts and Uncles and cousins a whole new world for me.A great family I missed out on my whole life.Becky has great kids especially Tammy she is a kick I can tell were related and Doug and Myra are great also.My sister Cindy has a boy Steve who I met at the wedding and Cindy looks just like my other sister Linda how wierd!!!Debbie and Chris don't talk to Cindy and Becky so that was messed up,but I managed to talk to everyone and spend time with them.Debbie and I went to the house we used to live in when we were little,it was the same as I remembered funny because i was only five.Debbie's daughter Diana and her fiance were relly nice and Chris's kids were beautiful.I wished I could have been raised with all of them instead of Texas.they all are a happy family I missed out.Becky and I keep in touch but I need to get my shit together and keep in touch with all of them.Ricky my brother was cool he has a daughter and I guess he gets depressed a lot.It's no wonder all of us have turned out pretty good considering the background we had.November of 2000 Mikes sister Lynda and Jim Mikes brother in law come up to visit for Thanksgiving they brought Mikes mom and as usual they did not get along As for me have you ever tried to cook a turkey with all the dressings with no water..I'm telling you everything in 2000 sucked.We didn't stay froze up as much as years past and we had Alan a U.B.C.student who studied the stickleback in the lake.he spent time with us in January and february ,he watched Pulton Bay while we went to Loreto Baja in 2001 we had the best vacation this year.Our friend Cam has a house in loreto and we got to stay there right on the beach.we met Cam's friend Johnny and we had a blast.Cam took us over to Magdalena Bay to see the grey whales and as we saw the baby whale with it's mom the sun was setting it was the most beautiful scene I have had in a long time.We rode the boat through the mangroves and the water was 80 degrees.Max Cam's son and his friend Ryan were catching Halibut off the bow of the boat It was a great experience.On the ride back to loreto Cam asked mike if he wanted to come to mexico and work for him,I was exited but Mike had to be convinced.We made it back to Pulton Bay and did our usual work.finishing our projects at the main house cutting down trees ,we built a deck on our house and bought a hot tub we actually applied for credit and bought the hottub.We were so looking forward to the winter when all the family would be gone and we could use our hottub.

2009-10-20T18:47:00.000-07:00

It is around the end of April 2000.We are just working and trying to get things done for the summer.Suzie is being a bitch through the whole thing.She finally admitted to Mike the reason she was so hard on me was because she was jealous I was his wife,what's up with that?I knew something was up her butt.I had figured that out along time ago,but Mike was blind he never would see my point because he thinks they have given him the world.Little does he realize if he figured it all together he is barely making a decent wage for an American.We get paid immigrant wages but yeah we have this great place to live but we don't make enough to get out so basically were trapped here.Going and starting over scares us both but Mike more than me.I have decided the best thing for me to do is deal with the situation,I can't fight Suzie her problem is personal and I can't do anything about it.My nerves are a wreck I've got bowel problems and I'm not feeling so good and it is all because of stress.I refuse to let her do this to me anymore.Mike and I had a talk about this and I told him the same thing.we worked and worked and pretty soon it was June we had done a lot of work to our house ,the bunkies,redun the decks all kind of shit and they wanted more.Suzie was hasseling us about when we have to stay in town about money and about buying a canoe that she asked us to purchase Mike would not let me here there conversation so I didn't know what the hell was going on nor did I care.July was coming around the corner and they were planning some kind of reunion I thought Suzanne the mom was coming that was the only reason I agreed to cook.I was so mad at Suzie I didn't want to have anything to do with her.She decided she would do the menu something she had never done before,it was a menu from hell and she did not want Mike to help me.I changed the menu and she told everyone I did it to piss her off she made me look like a bitch.Well that did it I did not want to cook and Mike and I got in a big fight again.that was it I was serious as hell to get the f--out of here.and again because of Suzie.Well somehow we talked and I decided to stay and cook by myself for the last time.I couldn't believe she was getting her way on something she knew nothing about,but that is where Mikes head was at the time.He just didn't want to piss her off but instead he let me suffer and cry and get all stressed out for her.He wouldn't even reason with her,first she wanted him to pick up people from town on the boat hours away he would solve that problem then she wanted him to take people fishing she was trying anything so Mike would not be able to help me and it was going to be very hard cooking three meals a day remember no electricity and in the middle of nowhere.Mike did explain that if he did not help me I would divorce him Oh that was just great now I was at Mike's beakon call as she put it She had no right,we came here as a team and Suzie could not handle it,she was going to get the best of it no matter what.....Well they all got here and of coarse the same bullshit,We can't believe all the work you have done and all of that bologna,I don't give in to it anymore but it just melts Mike and he is ready to kiss there butts again.They don't fool me.But thank God this year they finally showed there true colors.Suzie decided Mike would take the boat to Brown's Bay to pick up people even though there were several guys here that could have gone,she wanted to make damn sure he could not help me and Mike was trying to get Coho salmon in the lake she was trying to make a point so bad that she wasn't looking at what was happening the coho is all planned out everything is scheduled you can't wait when the eggs are ready and they hatch it's time well the dumb bitch argued and finally pissed off Mike.He saw her like I had been seeing her ever since I got here,he knew now that she was the problem.Mike has lost his drive for Pulton Bay and we just do what ever it takes to get by.It is sad because we were really liking doing things for the foundation but he realize it was not for the love of the Grant B Culley foundation that Suzie was really interested.She put so many dampers on everything and it took it's toll on our inspiration.We still love Pulton Bay.They are all gone now and never soon enough Robyn and Suzie acted like high school girls and that really sucked Mike agreed no more cooking for me.We have become friends and we are close together again I'm glad we have been enlightened otherwise I'm sure we would have split up.My stomach was in the worst mess in my life and I am starting to get it back to normal....

2009-10-13T16:02:00.000-07:00

Hello!!It's year 2000,the ending pretty much sucked and the beginning is not much better!I was so excited Linda my sister finally got to come up here with the kids for christmas Monica was here also,everything was great at first but the kids started getting on mike's nerves I could tell because he was acting like an a-hole.he didn't want to do anything with the kids except when I insisted and he basically stayed drunk the whole time.I can't understand why he would act that way.Linda and i were so stressed out but he doesn't realize the way we are.I have always been nice to his family and stupid friends when they come up.Oh well! anyway he has to go to town to get my daughter and they get stuck in the fog and make it a day after Christmas and he comes back in a great mood.meanwhile I'm already gut sick Jesse has rolled the quad runner Linda is stressing so i come down on her about the kids.Most of the time Linda is carefree and letting the kids do whatever but it probably wasn't as bad as i thought it was I was just on edge about Mike.Now I regret what I said to her and wish I would have just let it go.I'm realizing time is going to quick and family isn't forever and I don't have much of a family anyway so I have to get back in touch with the one i have.blood is thicker than water and i learned about that on jan 28th.I kind of had a gut feeling things were really getting in a big rut Mike and i were just going through the motions.I was ready to go and he was ready to let me go.things were falling apart.Suzie was on our asses about stupid stuff we were buying she would say it was an emergency call me right away,well you had to go out in to the bay it the swells to get a signal and when we would get through she would want to know about a bag of flour that we used to make them bread WOW.Mike and I were fighting more and more about her than us as the years go by i think mike is beginning to be in love more with Pulton Bay than me.He is not looking at the big picture.Time went by and I decided to stay and we were going to work things out.We were still distant although, I was going to work save some money and find a way out of this hell hole.We worked and we had the dogs mini and malo to keep spunk in our lives.February was a big snow I was burning garbage out in the snow and i remember fighting then.We needed to get out of here I am sure of that.We did alot of firewood cutting,then March finally got here and we went on vacation.We ended up just going to California and visiting mike's Mom,because we couldn't afford to go to mexico.We actually had a good time.Mikes sister linda loaned us her truck and we went to Tijuana and back up the coast we needed money and went to our bank and found out there was a lien on our account for our truck which had been out of the country for four years they couldn't have picked a more perfect time.we were broke and had to borrow money and make the most out of a bad situation and we did.The highlight of our trip was going to see our friend Harry and Raquel in morrow bay.They showed us a real great time and i think that is when Mike and i got close together again.We got back home to Canada and the weather was still nice.We took a couple of days off to enjoy being back at Pulton Bay.The f-n loggers were in full force Brian a guy who came from browns bay was caretaking the camp and he was always hasseling us about Malo.We caught him videotaping our dog his reason was in case something happened and the loggers had to shoot malo he would prove our dog was loose.Needless to say we had to tie up Malo it was sad.We were just coming over another bigass hurdle when Mike and i were sitting on the dock,really enjoying the day.We finished taking videos of the dogs went fishing and now were relaxing Mike said DAMN life is good this is great I have my wife my dogs and this beautiful place to live in.Well that just jinxed us Mike and i tied up the dogs we went in to have sex and when we got outside malo broke loose.We looked and looked.the loggers say they saw him but it was bull.Malo had left for the last time.we were heart broken.This was a very sad day.I kept thinking he would come back any minute.by Monday nothing-Mini was awful she was basically malos dog and not ours.she missed the piss out of him.She howled for the first time It just broke my heart.We decided to take her back to the pet store and give her away so she wouldn't be in the same predictament as malo.We didn't want her alone and tied up.So we took her back.It ended up alright she has a home on Quadra island and a new husband same age as malo was.We heard she was having her first litter and i would die to see them and her but it would just kill me.Mike and i really loved malo and Minnie.malo was a hard head but a sweet dog I used to tell him a story about bringing him home from the hospital and he would lay by me and look at me with love.We boyh decided dogs are not a good idea at Pulton Bay.the wolves are always out there and it would be just a matter of time before we would lose a dog again.Miss Suzie had to put her two cents in and try to talk mike into keeping Mini.I just don't understand why she thinks that mike is so much a part of her life that she can get into our presonal business.I will never understand where she is coming from.So now it's just me and Mike and we are actually enjoying not having the responsibility of dogs. we can come and go as we please and our house is getting fixed up for us instead of dogs.

2009-10-13T15:26:00.000-07:00

It is still 1999and we did party in celebration that all the guest were gone.It is October 6th Mike and I had a wonderful weekend.Rose and I had a fun time ,while Mike and Greg went hunting ,it was a great break for all of us.We went to town on Monday we had to take our refrigerator in and while we were there we picked up a new malamute for Malo.She is so cute we named her minnie-mute,Malo is so big compared to her,she was afraid of him at first but now she thinks she is as big as him.The rains have started ,but it is still warm Mike is out trying to catch some chum.We see them jumping all over the bay.I thought the weather was going to change for good but it has been beautiful.I had to change my strategy and work on outdoor projects ,I think the more yardwork I get done the easier it will be in the spring.I hope I'm right.Mike finished putting the roof on the bunkies and is helping our neighbor Sandy move her shit back home 3rd time!I stayed home by myself for the first time it was kind of freaky my heart kept pounding fast,I don't know why anyway I survived it.Saturday we hung out and set the crabpots and went fishing.Sunday was football and I talked to Monica my daughter it felt great because I hadn't talked to her in awhile.I hope to see her around Thanksgiving,We'll see!I heard lot's of planes this morning I think they are getting ready to blast the road to the lake.BUMMER Monday November 8th Mike and I had a bonding weekend I went out with him Saturday and killed a deer,I held the lite and learned a lot.The best thing was I didn't barf!YEAH It was a great Sunday we watched football and kinda hung out we were having sex on the couch and Malcolm our neighbor walked up on us I thought that was the funniest thing because we are in the middle of nowhere.He just took off I know he will think twice about showing up without warning!HAHA My friend Gloria came up to visit for a couple of days and we got toasted on wine,I hope we solved all of her problems.she is so confused and top it off she has a new boyfriend.She didn't even give herself a chance,Oh well I guess she is not getting any younger and it will probably help her forget about her ex Dan.Work is going great I took on a big task and cleaned the top of the boatshopBig Job..Well tomorrow we go for our checkups Hope all is well.

2009-10-08T18:38:00.000-07:00

I caught my first salmon on dec 27th about 15 lbs that was exciting for me because it was freezing and my line kept freezing up and a very wierd time for salmon ,but Mike is still so serious about fishing,someday it won't matter wheather I catch a fish or not but for now he gets very excited.The eagles are still here and alot of them,they keep us company for the winter.We also have little racoons we have been feeding on the beach.Mike and I kind of had our New Year on Friday the third,we had a huge bonfire just like I wanted we had cocktails and had a great night something we did around midnight when the tides are really low we get on our snow pants and slide down the gangway with a full moon it's so beautiful.We stayed in bed all day saturday we will be all rested up come Monday and just like the New Year in like a lion we will do so also.We have many months to get ready for the summer but time goes by so fast.California has had alot of rain and our stomping grounds are under water.Reno is flooded thru downtown and the casinos were shut down.I guess things aren't so bad here after -all.Wow here it is three years later ,it is almost 1999the end of September.Alot has happened in the last couple of years.We have evicted all the bats from our house and moved them into bat houses,imagine just an experiment we made different sizes and kinds and the bats went into them very cool.We have recided our house and are working on the inside more and more even though it's not our house we want it to be comfotable because we do spend alot of time in here.The dock is pretty much the same I keep her maintained pretty well and I am so thankful we got a spraywasher last year , now I don't have to scrubb on my hands and knees.We haven't done much work to the Hunter Isle except put a new roof on her.We have a new speedboat called the Squire that,was Grants nickname.It is alot faster when we go to town.Cottage is still the same mainhouse has a brand new deck Mike put on in 1999,and a new bathroom for Suzanne so she doesn't have to go downstairs in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom.The most exciting is the new G.B.C.jr foundation.it's a way to save the property .Mike and I started different environmental studies and now the up keep of the property is a tax write off.We now have a bat ,killer whales. salmon,stickleback,cutthroat and water meter in the creek.Mike and started all of these studies but the owners refuse to give us credit.I think Suzie is a little jealous because Mike a I have lasted here so long.I think she might come around someday but for now she is still an insecure little brat.Mike and I are still getting along wonderful and this year I finally spoke up and asked for a raise after all these guys aren't poor,they go sking in famous resorts and go to Europe ,they mountain climb so I think they can afford to pay us now.Well guess what they raised our pay to 1000 a month for both of us Suzie says it's suppose to be a lifesyle not a job.I would sure like to see her survive without water and haul in wood all hours of the night but oh well I guess it's better than nothing.Mike and I are still getting along wonderful.We have been through alot here and I refuse to let people take advantage of his good nature.He is really happy here a I love it I just don't want to work for nothing.OH yeah we have been through the coldest windiest rainiest dryest weather on record in the last four years.can you believe that TESTING TESTING.I think it will be smooth sailing from now on except for y2k.We really don't know what will happen but were in a great spot because we are really self sufficient here.The whales haven't pasted by all year the salmon is way down and alot of fishing closers this year.We haven't seen many dolphins and the eagles have been gone along time.Mike has gone out hunting twice and hasn't seen any deer.but the loggers have been out there and I think the deer have gone up farther.We had our share of guest this year and Suzanne the owner gave us insurance,for Mike.Miss Suzie the daughter was not very happy in fact she was so pissed off she started crying.Well tough we earned it,she gets blind by her jealousy alot lately,maybe that will change when she gets older.Who knows? they gave us a short list of projects this year since we have been slammed with a ton the last two years.Mike will be redoing the roof on the bunkies and I will decorate Suzannes bathroom.I will redo the inside of the bunkhouses and we will be adding a t.v.room for the kids downstairs.This year I mean it I will be losing lots of weight I am such a pig.poor guy has never seen me at my perfect weight.I owe him this since he is the best man in the world.I promise before february I will look the best i can.Dan and gloria split up just Sunday it looks like she took her last load.She doesn't know it yet but he is an asshole.I think when she gets a life she will figure this out.Bruce and Sandy are together and look happy of coarse they are working alot and don't see much of each other.and Malcolm is still hanging out doing his thing.We take Shane Mikes best friends son back to town and Iwill never be so excited to to have my house back.It has been a long crazy summer.We did go to Quautum with Max and had a wonderful time.Jan and Curtis were fun too.But I still have to worry about feeding people all the time and frankly I'm sick of it.Maybe next year I will have rose my friend come and cook.Who know's All's I know is this weekend will be my final blow out,Rose and I are going to party like it's 1999.

2009-10-04T13:39:00.000-07:00

That was our first year at Pulton bay.Mike used to date Susie who was the daughter of the owner ,they broke up along time ago in 1981 so I never thought about them having a relation ship only friends Mike loved her dad a stayed in touch with him and he said Mike could one day be the caretaker of Pulton Bay.That is all Mike dreamed of since the day Grant Susie's father told him those exact words.But Grant died before he could see Mike as the next caretaker of Pulton Bay.soon after he died Susie called Mike and told him that they were going to loose the property because they didn't have enough money to keep it up and mike loved that place he would have died for that place so we decided to go, for 500 dollars a month a truck and our dog.We survived even though we still had the truck payment and a dog to feed.we lived off the land and really didn't need much out in the woods and that is how we started in British Colombia

2009-10-04T12:34:00.000-07:00

Monday was here in a hurry,and we were back at our winter projects.Mike is working on the boat putting up pinewood on the helm and fixing up the boat really nice.She is going to be a beauty right before our eyes.It is very exciting because the hunter isle is the first thing that mike and I have purchased.It is a love that we both have a desire for.As for me I am redoing the kitchen in the mainhouse and with the cold it is a direction to keep the mind focused and have a meaning to an every day life.It's wednesday November 19th and our water has finally given up at twenty degrees.I saved water thru the summer and we melted snow for both water and such .It is just like the olden days,Mike and I had fun that first year taking our spit baths and learning how hard it is to live in the bush we learned through the years how to break ice in the creeks and fill buckets and one time I was carrying five gallon buckets of water to the house and just when I got to the top of the hill which is quite a ways away I dropped the bucket,I just took a deep breath got up and went to fill the bucket again,I did not know Mike was watching he told me later and said at that moment to himself he knew I was a keeper!We got lots of calls today,the phone had not rang in about a week and now everyone got thru,at the same time.Guess what my daughter will be coming for Christmas and I am so very excited.We had Thanksgiving dinner at Dan and glorias It was alot of fun,we taught them to play liars dice what a kick.Mike and I had to go to the states for our six month visit so we set up a time dec2nd we were in Seattle.it was strange as we had been away for a long time.I miss the states for the draft beer a pizza so we endulged.We partyed with the bachelors,we call them that because they are a group of guys that show up without their wives to Pulton Bay and act like bafoons.we got pretty wasted and had fun and back to the Island we go.We went back to work right away as we were trying to finish our winter projects.We got alot accomplished but I ran out of supplies and it is getting close to christmas.We had a cute tree the first year as we didn't have to go far to cut it down but my daughter could not make it because she had to go to her fathers funeral instead.It was a bummer but you learn when your out that far to shake things off.We went over to dan and glorias and she made a turkey,we didn't have as much fun as we did on thanksgiving but it was okay.Our water was froze up again and we have been without water ever since.We are use to it by now but it would be nice to have water.Mike and Dan went to town and it was now new years Eve,we just wanted to party on the beach with a huge bonfire but everyone kind of talked us out

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of it.We ended up having Sandy and Bruce over Our neighbors in Barnes Bay across the way,and Malcolm.We sat around and talked and it was just a quiet New Year.Mike and I have still been crabbing and fishing we are still having a great time considering the cold weather.It isn't as bad as I thought it would be.It is now 1997and I think we will have a great year.

2009-10-04T11:30:00.000-07:00

Everyone is gone now,Mike and I are going to work ,you get a wierd feeling in your stomach when your way out there and all by ourselves.We painted and built a bar in our boat first things first.I cleaned alot on the beach and soon it was getting to be late in october.Our friends from Susanville Sandy and Jo lynn were coming to visit.Sandy was going to help Mike fall trees and get started on our firewood for the winter,the salmon were still jumping Mike finished building a new wharf we had a few visits from Jim he is the fisheries.We were just as happy as could be,I never knew we could be so happy just being alone.Well time flys when your having fun soon enough our visitors have arrived.Progress stops when your having fun even if its someone you don't like ,Like Jo Lynn.She is such a strange person,she has her husband but she is in love with Mike so it is wierd for me but i'm cordial to her for sandy he is a great guy and one day he will know the truth.It was a miserable weekJo wasn't happy about anything,we did go to our neighbors,
Dan and Gloria?s for a halloween party.These guys have been living out in the bush for a long time so when you have six people at your house it's pretty exciting.Mike and I slept on our boat for the first time ,Dan came down to the dock to have a few more rums and when he turned around to leave he fell into the water!right between the dock and the boat mind you it's october and water is freezing finally he came up and so did his rum and his mix he swam to get them both got out of the water a proceeded to bed like nothing we just started laughing.I was never so happy for two people to leave as I was when sandy and Jo left.Mike and I spent a few days recouping and Jim came and stayed a couple of days tied to the dock.Mike and him would go to the creeks and count salmon,Mike says it's neet but I think it's kind of sad the life cycle of a salmon.In and out Mike and I cut and stacked about four cords of wood.Remember limbing cutting chopping stacking and making big piles of bush to burn,We were super strong.By now we were tired and needed a day off,we went cod fishing and set the crab pots you catch a rock cod and use it for bait then you put down the crab pots over night and next day dungeness crab a feast for kings.it was a sunny day and we hadn't seen the sunshine in a long time.we fed the eagles and watched the sunset,what a relaxing day.The next day we had to go to town remember we are on an island a you need a list, forty five minutes by speed boat and an hour and forty five minutes in the Hunter isle.You race into town pay your bills go to the bank buy groceries and hope your truck doesn't break down or no delays because if the winds come up your screwed!We got back to Pulton Bay almost at dark and as soon as we humped every thing up the dock and into our house it started snowing.It snowed through to the next dayand was beautiful.I spent the day cleaning house and Mike shoveled snow.Dan and Malcolm came over in the afternoon and we had a great visit.Malcolm is a character who lives on a float in the middle of a bay across from Pulton,he is one of the mentors in our lives he taught us how to live on next to nothing and survive on a booger and a wheatthin as Mike puts it.Mike and I took a walk to the Lake the next day as there is a lake trail that takes you thru the forest about fifteen minutes and there it is a large big beautiful lake with lots of trout.It was a picture postcard with the snow,so quiet and clean and very brite.Everything looks so brite.Sunday we played in the snow and built frosty the snowman I made a pot of venison stew and homemade bread,It is always a joy walking in from the cold to a stoked fire hot stew and the smell of baked bread!We went fishing that afternoon it was such a nice day and we set the crab traps again.Life is the best right now it can only get better.I guess when the arctic owl showed up on the beach ,it not only let us know it was going to be a hard winter but it gave us great luck and a sense of security because as long as we have each other nothing can go wrong.

2009-10-03T19:55:00.000-07:00

Our friends from chico Harold and Jane came up in september.It rained just about the whole time they were here but they loved the place.they were the first to ride on our new boat The hunter Isle.what a great boat Mike and I purchased.We sold our harley Davidson and replaced it with this 37ft West coast trawler.It is a smart trade and we are grateful because we can now go to town whenever necessary.anyway back to jane and harold,one morning I was on the porch with them at the mainhouse and all of the sudden we heard mike shoot his gun,I couldn't figure out what he had shot at but he ran over to tell us there was a wolf right on the beach,Holyshit!Ithought there were no wolves.Oh well it was unusual and Mike says he was not right.He should not have been out at that time of day and he looked very strange.Hopefully we won't run into any more encounters of the kind.Harold and jane went home and Steve and Jan showed up.Boy what a buy summer, Janand Steve were lucky they got great weather everyday,they fished alot at the lake had great meals and Mike took Jan on the adventure of his life.Jan wanted to do some steelhead flyfishing and Jim the fisheries guy told mike about a place called the quatum River up in the Ramsey Arm.Mike and jan took about a five mile hike up the river they say it was Gods place,a place where no man goes. well I guess something happened to Jans fly rod and he couldn't fish.although they could see lots of fish in the holes.They both banged the rod with a rock and a knife that's all theyI guess while they were pounding Mike looked up and saw as he says "the biggest bear "he had ever seen in his life.He got nervous and shot a round at the bear over it's head.They say it didn't even bother the grizzly one bit,he just sniffed and walked away.Mike said he told Jan they better get the Hell out of there.Of course jan doodled and started packing all his stuff real slow when all the sudden here he came the bear again.It crossed over to the other side and came right toward them,about thirty feet Mike said come on jan we need to go NOW!they did and they climbed up a bank behind them and never looked back.Whew!they sure were happy to see ther boat and be home.It didn't scare them so much though because they planned a trip for all of us to go back the next day.Well that night we were all exhausted everyone was in bed and jan and Steve both said they heard wild screeches on the beach.Someone was getting supper! There have been alot of deer in the yard and maybe the wolves got a deer or something.Just like the morning Mike went to go pick up jan and Steve a buck got stuck in a net on a fruit tree and Mike had to shoot him because there was no way he could get him out.I thought I would be a little more brave but i was a sissy when I saw the poor thing lying on the ground .Mike dressed him and got him ready for the butcher block in a couple of days we had great jerky and tons of meat.Now i can't wait for another one.Back to jan and Steve.We all got up the next morning and went to Quatum River.We had a picnic and Mike and I guarded the beach while Jan and Steve went fishing.We had sex on the beach and collected a lot of oysters.Jan came running out of the woods again and he saw a mountain lion I think the animals are letting us know its their home and keep away.Gorgeous spot but we better leave well enough alone.We've got to say jan and Steve got a wild vacation and there was a lunar eclipse,we saw it right here at Pulton Bay.What an exciting week.

2009-10-03T19:16:00.000-07:00

We walk around and see things are kind of run down but nothing that mike and I can't handle,I see we have a lot of work to do but it will be done in happiness.We will be recieving our first guest so I will be getting started on the mainhouse.I am so very excited about having things just right.Well sooner said than done we had more guest than we would ever dream of.I guess this was the big year.We had Lenny and rich and Jenna than the bachelorswith seven susies family the Bounouses and than the big family with Suzanne,Robyn Marily and Susie all the kids and husbands;Whew!But we survived the crew,we worked really hard and everyone was impressed they liked my cooking and we had a great time.Now Mike used to date Miss susie along time ago and he had been working for Susie's dad but it did not bother me and that was along time ago.We had a few weeks break so we invited some of our friends from Chico Brooke and Jackie.Boy did we have fun with them.we enjoyed alot of what Mike told me about fishing,feeding the eagles lots of hiking and we got to swim and hang out at the lake.what a wonderful week we hadwe just relaxed and enjoyed.Soon enough Nancy tTuck showed up.She is a very nice lady.She just hung out by herself.Her husband arrived at the end of the week and a couple of there friends.They all left us great presents and were happy we all got along and we can look forward to next year.Lenny and Rich came back labor Day and soon all the owners and families will be gone.

2009-10-03T18:48:00.000-07:00

we were only on the road for about two days and here we are in campbell River.Don Kocker the caretaker who is quitting is here to pick us up on his green boat.We get most of our stuff loaded up on his boat and we are on our way to Pulton Bay.We cruise down Discovery passage to the Okisollo Channel,we make a right and just about an hour away on your right there it is Pulton Bay.What a beautiful place.Everything is so green.The houses are red with white trim,what a gorgeous spot,malo will love it here and so will I.Mike and Don left to go back and pick up the rest of our stuff and while they were gone I decided I would start taking everthing up to the house.The dock was really steep but I got the dolly and started hauling everything up by the time I was finished my calves were burning but I did it and soon enough I saw the boat coming around the corner and what do you think those guys asked me ?Why didn't I wait for high tide ??? Well this greenhorn learned quick about the tides and all the fun stuff about Island living.As of July!st 1996 Mike and I are the new caretakers of Pulton bay.

from the beginning

2009-10-03T17:19:00.000-07:00

mike what did she say?What did Susie say about Pulton Bay?And he hung up and I knew right then it was the news he was waiting for.We were moving to Canada,to Pulton Bay.It was so unexpected that I was panicked not overwhelmed like I should have been.Mike had been telling me about this spot since the first day I met him.For the last three years I heard about the great waters the killer whales all about eagles,being around like vultures,but you only think about it until it really happens.Well sure as shit I had to come to my senses and start planning things out.a life time of planning turned out to be one month to get things ready for the biggest adventure of my lifetime.Time was so hectic between work moving saying goodbyes and my daughter Monica that was the hardest thing I have ever done in my life.Here we were though packed Mike I and the dog "Malo"were on the way to British colombia,Canada."WOW"