Life in Dryden

I have arrived safely in Dryden! After sleeping and lazing around for a few delicious days today I feel well rested and ready to tackle my busy schedule of.... well.... nothing. Having been here for a lengthy two and a half days I have a few pictures for your cats and kittens of the local digs around here.

Here is a collection of items which I excitedly arrived to. You'll notice the 5 litres of wine, 3 litres of rum, a metric tub of coffee, Dr Pepper, ketchup and Cheez Whiz all of which are consumables I adore.

There were also ice cream sandwhiches, one of which I am eating while writing this post.


Dad holding the enormous bottle of rum.

Linda taking a crack at it


Here's the back porch where we spend most of our days eating, sitting, chatting and drinking.


Uncle Wayne hanging out on said porch

Dad hanging out on said porch

View from said porch of Thunder Lake (yeah, that's a straight walk down from the back yard!)


Linda has a kayak which I have not yet used due to the water being literally 3 degrees. My first attempt at 'swimming' consisted of me wading out up to my knees and hurrying back to shore.


My Dad's property currently has the saddest dock ever. This thing is about as long as my air mattress.


Speaking of mattresses, I actually get a bed for 3 weeks! Sure beats a tent, b'y!


I also get to practice my shooting with my dad's new air rifle. The thing has some surprising range for the size of it.

The target for most of my air rifle shooting is the abandoned hut and flagpole at the end of my dad's property. The flagpole in particular makes a satisfying 'ping' when you get a direct hit on it.

Linda also stole Kathryn's (my step-sister's) guitar when she moved to Dryden as Kathryn never used it. It's not the biggest or the loudest thing, but it's quite nice sounding and it gives me something to play while I'm here for a month!


When I'm not cooking, drinking, sleeping, singing or attempting to swim I spend some time patronizing the attention hungry puppies that are new to the family. Pictured here are the puppies themselves, Chelsea and Brandy. Both are lovely golden retrievers which means that they have way too much energy and only the slow wheel of time will fix that in a decade or so. Joy! I love them anyway.

That's all I have to report from Dryden thus far. I will go out fishing for the first time this week now that I am licenced and if anything else of interest pops up I'll be sure to let you all know! Thanks for staying tuned.