September 14 started off like any other normal morning of
taking Rose to shore for her morning break.
This time Mae brought Sugar along as she was meowing a lot. Rose helped to keep tabs on Sugar by holding
onto her with the leash.***** A SUGAR Coated Moment ******
On the way back, as we were motoring slowly to
reduce the wake on other boats, Sugar decided to jump into the water. Marty heard Mae shouting at the cat. “Why?”
Sugar started swimming towards another boat as Mae tried to maneuver the
dinghy to rescue her without running her over.
Then Sugar realized she needed to get back to the dinghy and started
swimming towards Mae. One fluffy kitty
became one soggy cat.Mae holding a not too happy cat.
Sugar spent the morning drying herself.
The Annual Salt Spring Fall Fair had many of the
usual features: Pumpkin growing contest,
an array of displays from farmers, businesses associated with farming, crafts,
food, farm equipment, cars etc. In a
large building, there were displays of the best zucchini, contests of all food
categories, flower arrangements, baking, sewing, crafts, quilting, painting,
photographs, 4H contests for chickens, goats, ducks, turkeys and much more.
We met Jean Wilkinson who used to work as a
teacher in Prince Rupert and she knows Susan Lambert quite well.
The Salt Spring Island Artist Association had a tent where
they had a community painting and people came to add their part to the
picture. Mae painted a sailboat and one
of the organizers was happy, as it was the first sailboat on the picture.
There was sheep herding, sheep shearing and
zucchini boat races as well.
Eco-slushy machine. By donation, people petal on a bike to run the blender and chose their favourite flavour to add to their slushy.
Excellent craft and goodies by young teens.
Excellent tour of Mill's Barn. This man showed us the process of how the sheep's wool processed.
The final product... Hey Silan... don't drool!
Bittancourt House Museum
Excerpt from ssifi.org (Salt Spring Island Farmers Institute
established in 1895): “The
museum is housed in an 1884 house which was built in Vesuvius by Estalon
Bittancourt. The house was moved to the grounds of the Farmers Institute
in 1980 to be used as a museum illustrating the lives of the early settlers on
Salt Spring Island. The displays have been expanded to include items from
the 1880s until the 1950s. All of the items in the museum have been
donated by Salt Spring families.”