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| Our new house |
This past week has been full of changes. We moved from an apartment in Fort St John to a house in Charlie Lake, about a 10-minute drive from FSJ. Our new place is definitely rural. We have seen beavers, woodpeckers, blue-jays, horses, and bats so far.
One strange thing is our new mailing address. Our house is located on a frontage road, off the Alaska Highway. We contacted Canada post, and they said that we'll have to pick our mail up at one of the rural drop boxes a few streets down from where we are. Our new address includes things like "Site 7 SS #97, Compartment", etc. Hopefully our mail reaches us!
We are not hooked up to city pipes, either. So we have to order our water every month or so, when a huge water truck comes to fill us up. We are supposed to be monitoring the depth of our well, but it's not like there's a gauge or anything. The property management company suggested we use a stick.
Our new house also has a name: Mukluk House. This was another thing the property management company told us.
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| Creek that runs along the side and back of our house |
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| Woodpile for fire pit and wood burning stove indoors. |
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| There are beavers in those waters! |
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| Backyard with fire pit and creek. |
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| The infamous beaver dam. There is a beaver family that lives there, we see them almost every day. |
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| The 2nd living room. We wallpapered the side to look like brick. |
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| Reading area. |
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| Wood stove. |
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| Our new kitty, Cielo! We're training him to be a mouse-killer. |
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| Too close. |
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| Hermoso checking out Cielo. They are good at entertaining each other. |
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| Hermoso peering through the cat door. |
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| This bird flew into our window yesterday. I don't know what kind it is. |
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| Hermoso wanted to play with it, before it flew away. |
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| There's a farm with horses right across the creek from us. |
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| Sunset on Charlie Lake, BC |
