Life in a "Tiny House"

Life rolls on, getting used to living fulltime in a “tiny house”. Missing having an oven, the micro/convection just isn’t the same but otherwise it’s great, especially having 2 bathrooms! And our front & back yards are immense!

The campground has a 2 km hiking trail that we walk most days, and we are working towards completing all the hikes in Elk Island Park, (there are 11), ranging from 2 - 16.8km. (the park is only 4km away). We usually see bison along the roads in the park and luckily we have not come face to face with any on the trails!  

bison at Elk Island National park

hiking in Elk island park

our campground trail

Elk Island retreat Campground

hiking at Elk Island national park

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We took the canoe to the lake in Elk Island for a paddle and another day we took the bikes.

The smoke from the BC wildfires has made its way here, a creepy orange one morning.

our motorhome with the orange glow from BC fires

Two of our kids joined us for a wiener roast and a visit in our new home, along with a bit of a hike.

We took in a day of the Fringe Festival in Edmonton, lots of delicious street food and fun performers, but not used to having to drive at least 30 minutes to get anywhere.

Another day trip took us to Lamont for the Babas & Borscht Festival – had an amazing Ukrainian lunch, watched some dancing and checked out the market.

Ukainian Easter eggs

We did a few more markets, including a new one in Spruce Grove, where a couple of fellow vendors gave me wonderful help with our market Facebook page.  We scoped out the Ft Saskatchewan Farmers Market where we hope to set up next summer.

I have begun wirewrapping, a lot of practise needed, but enjoying it – we have a rather large collection of rocks that we have cut and will polish that will need wrapping, should keep us busy this winter. Robin has been busy with some new dream catchers as well.

We happily spent a day babysitting Rosemary while Shane & Sarah enjoyed a dinner out to celebrate their anniversary. She kept us busy, such energy – and we all slept well that night!

Shane & Sarah

Rosemary

Our Remax agent that sold our condo took us out for a wonderful dinner and a good visit, felt guilty but still had steak & lobster!

 We were unpleasantly surprised on Sept. 13 when we got a dump of snow – way too early, even for Alberta. 

Sept 13, snow!

migrating Sandhill cranes

Decided to stay in this campground until we head south in mid-October, it has what we need but we moved over to the next site. Nicer “back yard” and a tree for shade. There are nice folks that are also “fulltimers” as well as the friendly owners here; it’s quiet, no magpies, close to Elk Island, about 45 minutes to Edmonton and pretty good WiFi. It is fairly close to continue our visits with Scott and with Shane, Sarah & Rosemary. We also got together with Adam, Jen, Emma & Ty at Shane’s – celebrating Scott’s birthday, unfortunately minus Scott!

Best day for a while, 12C, so we headed to Black Nugget campground to spend the day canoeing on the lake on Sept. 19, then another dump of snow on Sept 21!

not funny! Sept 21

Because we will not be going to Mexico this winter, we decided that a beach vacation was in order. We booked a one week trip, all-inclusive resort of course, for Sept 23-30. Details to follow!

Definitely Living the Dream!