Bloganagan

Hammer's House of Hog

Driving north from Osoyoos, where I spent the afternoon of Aboriginal Day at Nk'Mip, I'm thinking that I might skip dinner and go directly to dessert at Tickleberry's. But on the southern outskirts of Oliver, the bold red letters of a hand-painted sign make an instant visceral connection. Suddenly my stomach controls my hands and Happy Tot (my little red Yaris) swings hard left. B-B-Q 

Baergnaescht B&B

With the postal strike on, Grandma (Wears Hiking Boots )was out delivering a book order to Baergnaescht B&B, a  great country hideaway on Anarchist Mountain east of Osoyoos. I met Silvia Albrecht, who together with her husband, Fritz Schuepbach, has built the hacienda style accommodations from scratch. The couple ran a B&B in Canmore for many years before deciding to relocate to the Okanagan. Silvia jokes about the name of their establishment - it's Swiss German for mountain nest or mountain bed - and says that people just ask for the place with the name they can't pronounce.

Davison Orchards Event

It's a couple of years since my last foray to Davison Orchards in Vernon, BC. On that trip we introduced my grandson, Alex, to jack 'o' lanterns in the raw and let him pick his own pumpkin from the field. Yesterday I was back to participate in Davison's new Taste & Explore our Local Abundance event. It was a fun day for me with the Grandma Wears Hiking Boots table set up between the Vernon Outdoors Club and my old buddy Rosanne Van Ee whose Outdoor Adventures feature large in the book.