Life On The Ranch: Week 5 Summary

Kelly McKenna
Dec 7, 2020
3 min read

I have been writing for a couple of weeks now about how our life is getting gradually slower.

This week, I pretty much have absolutely no idea what to write about! It was honestly a week of almost complete nothingness.

Luckily for me, if my arts degree taught me anything, it was how to waffle on when you have nothing useful to say. So here goes some quality waffling about our fifth week living at Myra Canyon Ranch.

Spikes, Walks and "Sunbathing"

As I mentioned last week, we have been making a stronger effort to leave our little hideaway and go for a daily walk, even if it is just for 15 minutes or so.

This week, we continued to get out and about around the ranch and we had the added excitement of new spiked shoe covers! Kathrin and Rolf picked them up for us for just $12 each and I actually can't shout loudly enough about how much of a difference they have made.

I'm pretty sure this is all in our heads, but we feel so much more confident walking around in the ice and the snow. We'll be taking on the Rocky Mountains before we know it!

It's been really quite cold here this week, winter is definitely setting in, but we've also been treated to a lot of clear sunny days. We took the opportunity to sit on the patio, soak up the sun and some much needed Vitamin D.

An Excessive Amount of Food, Wine and BBQing

If you were to sum up our relationship in three words they would probably be "love", "travel" and "alcohol". If you could add a fourth and fifth, they would probably be "food" and "baths".

It should probably come as no surprise, therefore, that since we effectively started hibernating in the mountains for the winter, we have been eating and drinking way more than we probably need to be.

As I mentioned last week, we have a very limited kitchen which you would think would reduce the desire to cook, but Rich has solved this problem by simply barbecuing anything he can get his hands on.

This week we had a fry up with barbecue bacon and sausage, a Greek themed dinner with the best barbecued pork loin I have ever tasted and he even managed to barbecue garlic bread!

I'm not sure we will survive past 40, but it sure is a delicious way to live!

The Deep Freeze and the Advent Calendar Escapade

In case it isn't painfully obvious by this point, we didn't leave the ranch all week.

We also got some crazy freezing rain this week, meaning by the time we came to leave the ranch to do our weekly food shop, our car was frozen solid.

It took a bit of time and a fair bit of effort - all from Rich to give him the credit he deserves - but we finally managed to defrost Nelly and head down into town. It was a very successful trip, with just one small exception.

We realised when we got back from our shop last week that we had forgotten to pick up Advent Calendars, but figured that this wouldn't be a problem because back home I've still been able to buy them in January.

It appears however, that in Kelowna, once December 1st has passed the shop elves hide the calendars away until next year... We went to no less than FIVE shops on our hunt to find just two calendars and were unsuccessful in every single one.

We have a list of stores to hit this weekend, but by then it will be almost Christmas and will it even be worth it?!

Bah humbug.