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Go (further) West

It's been a while since our last post, and it's because we have been rather busy selling our house in Gibsons and buying a house in Sooke.

The town of Sooke is on the Southern tip of Vancouver Island and is considered the westernmost of the Greater Victoria region's "Western Communities." It is situated to the north and west of the Sooke Basin which you can see in the photo.

The blog address will remain the same, but in less than six weeks the nature watch will shift a little more to the left and we will begin our next exciting chapter exploring Canada's far West coast.

Quiche Mark II

The first quiche was quite deep and we had some separation of the ingredients, so we reasoned that the Mark II version would be done on a pie plate, and it worked a lot better with no layers.

I would have shown the whole thing, but wanted to show the profile, plus of course, we've just scoffed the other half.

Never too late for quiche.

We've never made one, but we did today.

Three Eggs, half a cup of milk, cheese, capicola, tomato, onion, basic whole wheat pastry. 10 minutes prep, 45 minutes in a 350 degree oven, we will both be waiting patiently as it cools...

Another year.

The Acura RSX is still ticking along nicely with a little less than 7,000 km on the clock since the last update and the new Michelins. So, we're now into the 14th year with the baby.

Odometer says 82,373 km today, I think the only parts required over the last twelve months have been gas struts for the tailgate although I suspect that the PCV valve needs changing. There also was a bit of a scare last week when a stone chip lodged between the disk and the dust shield, made a horrendous racket and then fell out after a bit of reversing.

I can also report that the sixteen year old Honda lawn mower started on the 7th pull this year and the Sorel boots are still working fine on almost a daily basis.

Spida Conga

Baby spiders, everywhere.