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Bowen Island, B.C., Canada

Yet another late March day with snow coming down, lightly near the cove and heavy at higher elevations. Not unheard of to have snow this late in the season, but sure would be nice to get it over with. Not getting that cold at sea level over night, just enough to keep us in winter and glad to be indoors today.

Gathered up my income tax info for the year and got that started yesterday, will finish off with the tax software to be picked up on Monday; getting a leaky toilet operational today for a friend. One toilet down but there’s still another to go at the chicken ranch, the fellow that was supposed to show up didn’t so the owner is staying elsewhere again. Kind of a lazy day otherwise, there are things to do but nothing is too pressing and with mostly grey the colour of the day a good one for an afternoon siesta.

Didn’t get the siesta in though, was waiting on the parts for the toilet to come back and when they finally showed up it was too late in the afternoon and with work tomorrow might as well power through it and go to sleep at the normal 9 or 10 o’clock tonight. Had another secret place to stretch out at night given to me, it’s kind of cozy scrunched up in the Mazda Motel though and easy to stay warm so maybe some other time will take advantage of it.

Looks like I was a little premature hoping for winter to be over, snowed heavily just before lunch and again late this afternoon with the weather forecasters predicting cooler temps all the way into next week.

Meanwhile things are afoot with the ferry system as they roll out a new way to get by with fewer employees, (turnstiles likely the next step), and gather a little extra data on the users as well. As usual, most of the people are all for it in the name of convenience with little regard for the people that have actually had to work within the corporation for their livelihood. There’s at least one other person on the island besides me who also knows a bit about how easy it is and more importantly, how prevalent information theft and abuse really is, but one’s own convenience is the flavour of the day on the rest of the forum thread.

The schedule on the next house sitting gig has moved up a couple of days due to airline ticket availability, and the local dog trainer, Pam, will be keeping much her regular schedule so there will be a couple days a week for my most boisterous charge to be somewhere else for a break, that will be nice.