Month: August 2011

  • A few clouds then hot end to week.

    It figures, the week I go back is likely going to be one of only 2 weeks in July and august with temperatures approaching 30C. Oh well. The important thing is that it is here and that we take advantage while we can! Saturday is predicted to be our warmest day with highs around 29C…

  • Fire along river bank – Please be careful!

    The Alberni Valley News reports that there was a significant 2 hectare fire started across the river from Port Alberni near the effluent ponds. It started Sunday morning and appears to be out this morning, but there may be hotspots remaining according to citizen reports here. “The fire appears to have started on the beach…

  • Day and Night Timelapse now separate.

    Happy Monday everyone! It’s a cloudy day, but it will get progressively better as the day goes on and by tomorrow it will be clear, sunny and warm again and should stay like that for a day or two or three. I will now be creating two videos a day. A day, and a night…

  • PSA: Roll up your windows

    There is moisture on the radar in a band stretching from Powell River all the way through the Comox and Alberni Valley… you may want to go roll up the windows in your car. 🙂

  • Bumper Blackberry Crop

    We’ve just picked our first haul of Blackberries. I have never seen a bush have ripe berries that are so uniform in their gigantic-ness! There are hundreds of berries just waiting to plump and ripen. A couple days of cool and showers followed by a couple weeks of hot August weather sure would help the…