tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5707892243880503712024-03-14T04:33:41.028-07:00Gypsy Canadians on the Move<p> <strong> Ongoing tale of our family relocation </strong></p>
<p> <strong> from Ottawa to Powell River, BC. </strong> </p>
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Follow along as we make our trip.wandering gardenerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06874343992164166901noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-570789224388050371.post-84781046862419750112012-02-28T15:21:00.002-08:002012-02-28T15:21:31.042-08:00<div style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
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End of June of 2010 – spring is in
full force of course and we had been running the seed company as
usual. We had put an offer in on the property in Powell River, but
it was conditional on inspections – by us, by a building inspector
and by a septic inspector. The other two inspections happened first
and turned out fine.</div>
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Then it was time for our inspection and
we decided that I would be the one to go. In retrospect I am not
sure why really. It was a jam packed couple of days – very surreal
in some respects. Many what-the-hell-are-we-doing moments.</div>
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I flew out one day – to Comox, took
the OMG too early ferry to Powell River in the morning, took the
ferry back that evening and flew back to Ottawa the next day.
Whirlwind. While in Powell River, our extremely helpful real estate
agent Richard Clark picked me up, drove me to see the property,
dropped me at the bank and then took me back to the ferry to go back
to Comox.</div>
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The property was lovely, the house
needed just as much work as we feared it did. But, of course as it
was a rental at the time, it was not going to look great. Here are
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Water System - yep</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The kitchen - more than rustic</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Master bedroom with what passed for a closet on the left.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Third bedroom - interesting colours, no. </td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wait until you see how our daughter fixed this one.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Living Room.</td></tr>
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<br /></div>wandering gardenerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06874343992164166901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-570789224388050371.post-79704649058306857162012-02-11T11:38:00.000-08:002012-02-11T11:38:50.928-08:00February 11, 2012<br />
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So that was May of 2010 - a great trip to BC and then we came back to sort stuff.<br />
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The garden centre we had looked at in May sold - but not to us. We just loved Powell River though and we were told that the buyer of the garden centre would not be running it as a garden centre. So we looked around for another property and found a great site. One with two houses, one a good size and the other tiny. Perfect for a store. WIth 2 and a half acres there was lots of room. The pictures were charming (of the outside, the inside was a little wierd) so we went ahead put in an offer and I inspected at the end of June.<br />
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Here it the ourside of the house<br />
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And part of the inside<br />
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But the little house we now use for the store is adorable<br />
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In all of this of course there was still the ongoing things of life. Our two girls were finishing their school year - grades 8 and 9 and they did just fine. More power to them; they really are great people.<br />
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At the time I was working full time for a government department. High stress and getting pretty hard to take. You can only be a beurocrat for so long before it either wears you down emotionally or you develop "I don't care" sheilds. I find it really hard to take the "I don't care" approach and I had been at it for years. My husband was managing our seed business and the farm on his own. <br />
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So we worked up to what we agree was the worst day of our lives. Moving day.wandering gardenerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06874343992164166901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-570789224388050371.post-87698093905139173342012-01-31T16:34:00.000-08:002012-02-11T11:20:08.626-08:00January 31, 2012<br />
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By this time our house in Quebec, being sold, was in turmoil as we purged and packed.<br />
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It was May and we had to be out by the end of July. Imagine the shear amount of stuff we had accumulated in 14 years of living in the same house. It was overwhelming. So we went room by room and got rid of stuff. Doantions to Salvation Army, garbsge, and then we got ready for a yard sale.<br />
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This is an art - the yard sale. When to hold it, hours to be open and how much to charge. All a huge mystery really, I know some people make their livings having pretty much a permanent yard sale. Things I thought would sell, didn't and stuff we thought was junk sold. If you are going to do this it is likely a good idea to do some on-line research first so you have a better idea of what to do than we did.<br />
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In the end we just moved lots of it to the local donation box. It is a wonderful place, really. You drop off your stuff beside the box and most of it disappears that same day. I know that it is really not the intent of the box - the items are supposed to go somewhere and be sold. But I figure that the people that got the things really needed them.<br />
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So we got ready to leave Chelsea Quebec. Not sad to see the end of the snow. At times it was taller than me and although I am not really tall at 5 foot 5, thats still a lot of snow.<br />
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Here we are in the new year. I can only wonder what it will bring.<br />
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The last thing I wrote about was our arrival in Powell River on our exploratory trip. I was just a great trip. We looked into the garden centre that was for sale as well as becoming aquainted with the town of Powell River.<br />
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The garden centre was not in great shape - very old style greenhouses which is OK if the systems are kept up. The house was pretty scary. Very eclectic colour wise - blood red kitchen, lavendar halleway and bedrooms of different colours.<br />
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The high school in Powell River - Brooks secondary - is just aweome. Wonderful programs, great facility, and they partner with VIU (Vancouver Island University) to offer entry level University courses. Such a great opportunity for our girls.<br />
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It takes two ferries to go up the coast from Vancouver to Powell River. IN between those two ferries is Gibsons, Sechelt and the twistiest, hilliest road I have ever experienced. Period. There are signs that say slow down to 30 km per hour – better do it, you will need to. Some just say SLOW.</div>
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We arrived in the region of Powell River in the early evening. Beautiful May day. Looked for our hotel which was a little up the coast. We stayed at the <a href="http://www.oceansidepark.com/" target="_blank">Oceanside resort</a>, which was wonderful. They have individual little cabins, complete with fridge, stove and TV. Its just great. When we checked in the water was a few feet from the deck in front of the hotel. When we woke up it was a couple of hundred feet away.</div>
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We flew into Vancouver and picked up
our rental car. It was mid-May and everything was green and warm.
We stayed overnight in North Vancouver in a nice little hotel. We
used Google maps to get directions from the airport to the hotel.
Love those Google directions. They usually work just great. This
gives you a feeling of confidence you should not have on those
occasions where they do NOT. Once in a while Google sends you to
someone's house that you don't know or just drops you in the middle
of an intersection somewhere near where you are going. This time we
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or so to Horseshoe Bay. The location of the Ferry terminal did
escape us the first time up, but we quickly recovered, panicked once
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different experience. Very relaxed once you get there. I guess it
is because everyone knows that they are either on this ferry or
waiting for the next one. You aren't going anywhere. You are parked.
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You might just as well open the
tailgate, set up your lawnchair and relax. So they do. Folks visit.
They walk about. Its great. There is a small town at Horseshoe Bay
with a couple of restaurants, artist's studios, and shops. Beautiful
scenery. Lovely little park by the marina. Grab an ice cream. You
can sit upstairs at the Bay Moorings restaurant and have a snack and
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Once on the ferry, which is a little
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Going up the coast was wonderful.
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It is cold and damp here, no doubt.
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So back to the background. How did
buying a farm to grow seed wind us up here. Well, we didn't really
buy that farm on a whim, you know. We had a plan. A five year plan.
So that was 2001 and this is 2011 and we are nearly at our 5 year
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The plan was to build up the seed
business, sell our house and move to the farm a live there. Idyllic
life style. Growing things. At the end of the five year plan the
farm would include a great growing space for seed, a house and the
beginnings of a garden centre and trial gardens/destination spot.
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So starting the seed business went
well. Building it went poorly and took quite some time. The lesson
we would submit from this is – everything takes longer and building
a business while working – well forget it. We both still had full
time jobs in computing and you simply cannot devote the time you need
to start a business part time. Not and expect any kind of 'five year
plan' to get you there. But get there we finally did. Or at least
we got the business to a point where we realized part time wouldn't
do it. It was time to sell the house and really change our lives.</div>
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So we sold the house. Time and effort
of course. Your house never looks as good or gets all the updates
you can do until you decide to sell. Its a fact. It gets closest to
the house you planned on when you decide to leave it.
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When it sold we looked at the farm.
What id we need to do to get the farm to a livable state. First we
needed to build a house. Yep, it had one. But at 700 square feet of
sloping floor, mixed siding and wiring done by Gumby, it wasnt our
dream home. It was sort of like camping. It had running water (read
as garden hose from the pump in the closet) and electricity (and yes,
you COULD have the toaster and one light on in the kitchen at the
same time!!). It also had something furry living in the very short
dirt basement. YUCK!</div>
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So, looking at a couple of years to
build a house and start a garden centre, we decided to web surf the
MLS and found a garden centre for sale in Powell River. We had
enough points to all fly out to see it and did.</div>
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British Columbia's coast is beautiful,
awesome, incredible. Powell River is the hidden secret up that
coast. Zone 8 weather, no heavy population due to the need to take
two ferries to get there. Great school. We just loved it</div>
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The garden centre we went to look at
was run down, large, and on a beautiful spot on a little lake. More
on the trip next time.</div>wandering gardenerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06874343992164166901noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-570789224388050371.post-46832383067840094652011-11-25T11:59:00.001-08:002011-11-25T13:23:04.195-08:00In the beginning ....<br />
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Well, before we so completely lost our minds, my husband and I had very comfortable careers in the computing field. High stress, unhealthy eating habits, you know the whole get ahead life style. <br />
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When we had kids (two, girls) we took a look at our lifestyle and the time we would have to be with them, quality time that is, not hey we're going to kick-off soon time. Maybe thats what you do when you have your children later in life - for me anyhow. My husband alredy had three boys from his first marriage - but earlier days, different perspective.<br />
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Looking at our lives, and all the rest we decided to start a seed company. So, yes that is way out there - very different from our careers at the time. It involved farming of course and what did we know about farming. NOTHING !!<br />
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Sure, I could grow plants, veggies in the back yard, that kind of thing. But that's not Farming. Gary also had some experience growing plants, but again, backyard stuff - a few grapes, plum trees, herbs.<br />
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Yes, this seed thing fascinated us. The older heirloom varieties of seed. The, new to us, organic focus. So we started our seed business - Eternal Seed. Good name I think - Gary's idea and relates well to the whole older variety, heirloom seed thing. So where do you grow seeds - well on a farm of course, so we bought one. I was told by family that it was at htis point that my brother pretty much decided we had gone crazy. Perhaps he was right, but then again perhaps crazy is not all that bad.<br />
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You are probably wondering how all of that gets us into a trip from north of Ottawa to Powell River, BC. Well, just wait - background don't cha know !!!<br />
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