Everyone knows how much I love the desert and Arizona, that is no secret. The strange thing is my sister and her family love their home in the mountains of Canada every bit as much. She is someone I really admire. They live frugally, economically and environmentally friendly. Cloth diapers, wood stove, chickens that lay eggs, the whole works. These pictures were taken today. Their power is unreliable so they sometimes cook their food in open fire. The grocery stores in the nearest town are running out of food because the mountain passes are too dangerous to go through. They battle possible avalanches in the winter, mud and land slides in the spring, and forest fires in the summer. I got to hand it to them, they are a good example of tough Canadians built to withstand the rigors and extreme elements of the north. And if you ask them if they like living there, they would tell you they wouldn't trade it for any other place on earth. Dan and I copped out and became early winter birds hightailing it south, we admit it- and don't regret it.!
