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What does it take to produce three feature documentaries, a feature comedy, and have two more in the works? Producer Leslie Bland shares the “special sauce” that's made his production companies Orca Cove Media and Less Bland Productions so successful. There's plenty to learn as he tells host Joyce Kline why filmmaking pulled him away from a successful career in live professional theatre, how he made cross-cultural connections through his collaboration with Cowichan filmmaker Harold Joe, and how, in a competitive world, sticking with original IP can lead to success.LESLIE BLAND's film and TV work has been featured on Bell Media, Discovery Networks, Amazon, Super Channel, Knowledge Network, FNX, Télé Quebec, Hollywood Suite, APTN, and streamers and broadcasters in New Zealand, France, China, Australia and around the world. His award-winning, feature length documentary Gone South: How Canada Invented Hollywood featured interviews with celebrities Howie Mandel, Neve Campbell, David Foster, David Shore, Shannon Tweed and the late Alex Trebek. About Leslie: https://lessblandproductions.co, https://orcacovemedia.comLinked in: https://www.linkedin.com/in/leslie-bland-b401b941/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/leslie.bland.96/IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3736322/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/orcacovemedia/?hl=enSubscribe to catch the latest episodes of Push In on Apple Podcasts:https://apple.co/2S5WB7qPodcast Production Team:·      Technical Director: Paul Ruta·      Sound Editor: Michael Korican·      Host, Researcher & copywriter: Joyce Kline·      Co-Producers: Joyce Kline, Michael Korican, Paul Ruta

Spring releases from Clos Du Soleil and Cowichan Wines (Part One)    THE SHOW  Michael Clark Winemaker       Clos Du Soleil (Similkameen Valley)    Its Spring Time in BC Wine Country!!  (Just writing the line brings me joy!) After a Canadian Winter that included freezing temperatures for a second Winter in a row,  growers, viticulturists and...

Spring releases from Clos Du Soleil and Cowichan Wines (Part One)    THE SHOW  Michael Clark Winemaker       Clos Du Soleil (Similkameen Valley)    Its Spring Time in BC Wine Country!!  (Just writing the line brings me joy!) After a Canadian Winter that included freezing temperatures for a second Winter in a row,  growers, viticulturists and...

It's a Spring Thing – Okanagan Spring Fest & Enrico Cowichan Spring Wines   THE SHOW   Kimberly Hundertmark  –  GM  Okanagan Wine Festivals FINALLY.  The days are noticeably longer and warmer. Spring is right around the corner. For farmers and wineries, it's the time for serious soil and vine preparation. Unfortunately this year, Okanagan...

It's a Spring Thing – Okanagan Spring Fest & Enrico Cowichan Spring Wines   THE SHOW   Kimberly Hundertmark  –  GM  Okanagan Wine Festivals FINALLY.  The days are noticeably longer and warmer. Spring is right around the corner. For farmers and wineries, it's the time for serious soil and vine preparation. Unfortunately this year, Okanagan...

Even if you don't recognize the Cowichan sweater by its name, you will absolutely recognize it on sight: the thick yarn; the distinctive patterns; the warmth of the raw sheep's wool. But a Cowichan sweater is more than just a sweater, especially for the Coast Salish people from the Cowichan Tribes who make them. It's a provider of life, literally, as a way to put food on the table; it's a way to build community and share stories and connect to ancestors. To quote Ron Rice of the Victoria Native Friendship Centre as featured in filmmaker Mary Galloway's documentary The Cowichan Sweater: Our Knitted Legacy, “Cowichan sweaters are iconic. Cowichan sweaters are our path forward in so many different ways. Cowichan sweaters are a look back and a look forward all at the same time.” Writer, director, filmmaker, and actor Mary Galloway hails from Coast Salish Territory, and her beautiful film brings viewers into the past, present, and future of the Cowichan sweater while taking us along on a deeply personal quest: to recreate a sweater that was worn by her late grandfather, Chief Dennis Alphonse, who was chief for 40 years. The Cowichan Sweater: Our Knitted Legacy is now available on CBC Gem and will have its first national television broadcast on December 23. In this fascinating and revealing conversation with Sabrina Rani Furminger, Mary reflects on her journey into this important part of her own legacy. Episode sponsor: UBCP/ACTRA

In the spectrum of popular music in Canada, which is as wide as the country, Tom Cochrane falls somewhere between an electrified Gordon Lightfoot and a solo Gordon Downie. Between the universal prose of Leonard Cohen and the blood passion of Tom Wilson. Three times we went to the war-torn fields and roads of Africa for World Vision and became lifelong friends. That's what seeing men, women and children dead or dying will do to you. You seek humanity. Tom's got humanity in spades. He came back from the first trip under a heavy dark load and sought out the only thing that he knew would lift him up. Music. He wrote a song called Life is a Highway. It became an anthem for millions. All lifted up by his music. Tom Cochrane is heading back West now. The tour is called Duo. Friday night in Medicine Hat, Saturday night  in Edmonton (Expo Centre) Then to the coast and a complete tour of Vancouver Island. Wednesday Victoria Thursday Courtney Friday Nanaimo Sunday Campbell River Monday, Nov 20 – Duncan (in the Cowichan) www.tomcochrane.com

Canadian journalist Nora Loreto reads the latest headlines for Tuesday, July 18, 2023.TRNN has partnered with Loreto to syndicate her daily news digest and share it with our audience—tune in every morning on the TRNN podcast feed to hear about the latest important news stories from Canada and around the world.Find more headlines from Nora at Sandy & Nora Talk Politics podcast feed.Help us continue producing radically independent news and in-depth analysis by following us and becoming a monthly sustainer:Donate: https://therealnews.com/donate-podSign up for our newsletter: https://therealnews.com/newsletter-podLike us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/therealnewsFollow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/therealnews

It's Festival Season. Wine, Music, Blues and Roots, Food, Fishing, Camping. The annual Cowichan Valley Wine Festival returns to its Month of August setting. Its kicks off July 27  with Sunset Soirée from 6-9 PM at the gorgeous Campbell Commons at  Brentwood College School in Mill Bay. 13 wineries will be pouring some of their favourites plus some chosen especially for this event. Attending and tasting allow you to actually meet the maker of the wines. There's nothing better than getting the real story of the wine. Expect high-end, new releases and a few surprises being poured. This year the food program will be created by  Mensch Catering, so you know it will be very interesting. Wineries pouring on the night will be Alderlea, Blue Grouse, Cherry Point, Damalli, Devino, Deoll, Enrico, Rocky Creek, Unsworth, Venturi Schultze, Zanatta and Emandare. August in the Cowichan Valley  Aug 1 – 31.  12 wineries. Wine Passport.   Your map and tasting glass are your ticket to all 12 participating Cowichan Valley Wineries. Everyone who purchases a ticket is automatically entered into draws. Accommodations, wine, tours,  transportation and gift baskets. Details at www.cowichanwineries.com Our guests are Alderlea – Julie Powell co-owner/co-winemaker Blue Grouse – Bailey Williamson  Head Winemaker Enrico Winery – Lorin Inglis  General Manager and Pres Cowichan Wineries Society. (Jim Moody from Zanatta had tech issues and I will do a follow up) www.cowichanwineries.com www.alderlea.ca www.bluegrouse.ca www.enricowinery.com @zanattawinery Chef Kristian Eligh – Marilena Café and Raw Bar.  Victoria It felt like the longest opening of a new restaurant I've seen in many years. It feels like 3-4 years ago I knew that Kristian and his family were moving back to Victoria with a plan to create a singular restaurant. Then came years of COVID and post-Covid. Finally, the day has arrived and Marilena Café and Raw Bar was just launched. Kristian is a chefs chef. From Thomas Keller's The French Laundry to culinary director of Hawksworth Restaurant and now Top Table Group Executive Chef. The Top Table Group includes Blue Water Café, Eliza, Cin Cin, Araxi, Il Caminetto, Bar Oso.  Quite a line up and it doesn't include their two New York City restaurants. Marilena is two rooms in one. They've been described as “pockets of ambience”. The Raw Bar, led by Chef Clark Park. The Café is the turf of one of the best managers Aaron Matsuzaki. The wine directory is large. It's overseen by the brilliant Shane Taylor This is a destination, my friends... Go to www.marilenacafe.com and check out the dazzling menu and wine list. The café is a blend of Japanese-inspired small plates, Italian salads and large sharing plates of whole fish, lobster and  48 hr Beef short rib. Cocktails on tap and a list of variables called lively, adventurous and sophisticated. Pouring select Vancouver Island Wines. One from Basque country and Aquilini   Cab/Merlot Family Blend from Red Mountain. Marilena is now open. It was well worth the wait. www.marilenacafe.com

Doctor's orders, Creep Street! On this episode Maureen and Dylan discuss a UFO encounter that is definitely not covered by insurance! In the early hours of New Years Day 1970, the small town of Duncan on Vancouver Island was paid a visit by strangers of unknown origin. When Nurse Doreen Kendall suddenly found herself staring into a bright light, what emerged was something that defied reality. All over the area in the days to come, folks would report UFO encounters unlike anything heard of before. Who were these visitors from the stars and what did they want? Citizens of the Milky Way, prepare yourselves for Encounter at Cowichan District Hospital!

Agradece a este podcast tantas horas de entretenimiento y disfruta de episodios exclusivos como éste. ¡Apóyale en iVoox! Temp VI Os he reunido aquí, en el Bob's Grill, para que estuviéramos en el lugar donde se vio por última vez a Granger Taylor. Hoy os contaré qué le pudo ocurrir, qué dicen las autoridades, cuando encuentran algo en Mount Prevost Road, en las laderas del Monte Prevost. Pero dejadme que al final del programa, os comente algunos datos que hacen que tal vez no sea todo como nos lo cuentan. Buscando información para el programa, he encontrado todo tipo de historias, leyendas y curiosidades que se dicen han ocurrido aquí, en la ciudad de Duncan, o en las cercanías del valle de Cowichan. También contaré algunas historias, que se conocen por estas montañas, sobre fantasmas, OVNIS, Ufología, desapariciones y asesinatos. Incluso son varios los testigos que aseguran haber visto al Sasquatch, también llamado Big Foot, Pie Grande. Algunos ejemplos son. Articulo del Cowichan Leader, sobre la noticia que tituló: Un Mensaje de Marte. Un meteoro o meteorito con extraños jeroglíficos al parecer, cayó en una granja. Una extraña mujer, conocida como la chica o Niña de la Curva, también se aparece, pero permitidme advertiros, que mucho más aterradora. Carmen Robinson, fue una de las desaparecidas en esta zona, ha dia de hoy tampoco tiene explicación. Otra historia que os contaré, fue la desaparición, aunque no ocurre en este lugar del mapa, del piloto Frederick Valentich, en 1978. Atención a este caso, porque es sobrecogedor. Sobre los suicidios, respecto a temas ufológicos, recordaremos qué ocurrió con la secta de Marshall Applewhite, Puerta del Cielo, Heaven´s Gate. Hablaré también de los suicidas de Terrassa, Jose Félix Rodríguez Montero de 41 años, natural de Aguadulce (Sevilla) y Joan Turú Vallés de 21, es natural de Terrassa. Manuel Carballal, Josep Guijarro y Jordi Monedero fueron periodistas e investigadores que llegaron, tal vez al final de los hechos. Otros chicos que corrieron suertes similares son Juan José Gómez Vargas de 18 años y Francisco Saureu Prim, de tan solo 16. Y qué decir de los hombres de las máscaras de plomo, Campos do Goytacazes (Brasil). Manuel Pereira da Cruz y Miguel José Viana. Increíble historia, todavía de final sin esclarecer. Un camionero, Scott Murray, contó lo que le pasó a su esposa Elizabeth Murray. Sobre el tema con el que hoy hemos abierto, continuidad del podcast anterior. ¿Taylor fue secuestrado y llevado al espacio por extraterrestres, como aseguraba él mismo? ¿Fue todo un engaño orquestado por él mismo para desaparecer y comenzar así una nueva vida, en algún otro país? ¿Lo reclutó una organización secreta de espías, quien lo tiene secuestrado? ¿O simplemente… sin dar más pábulo a más misterios, se quitó la vida? Todavía hay preguntas que no han sido respuestas. PUEDES ALGUNOS VIDEOS DE LLDLL: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEOtdbbriLqUfBtjs_wtEHw Suscríbete al Canal Youtube y a Ivoox. GRATITUD ESPECIAL: Siempre a los MECENAS. Sin ustedes… nada sería posible. Desde Sevilla, a MERCEDES RODRIGUEZ por su bonita voz. Desde México, Gracias JESSICA por tus excelentes portadas. Desde Asturias, ANA DE LA VEGA. Por llevar la responsabilidad de las redes sociales. Desde Madrid, LOLA VELASCO, por estar. Sigamos sumando en LLDLL, SUSCRIBETE en IVOOX. Escucha el episodio completo en la app de iVoox, o descubre todo el catálogo de iVoox Originals

On this week's episode we're going back to the north and the girls from Pang; were talking Slash/Back.  Not only are we talking about this gnarly Inuit film from director Nyla Innuksuk but we get to do it with two female directors; Canadian Screen Award winning filmmaker Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and CSA nominee Mary Galloway. This show may look long but we guarantee its worth it.  Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers is KAINAI FIRST NATION (BLOOD TRIBE, BLACKFOOT CONFEDERACY) AS WELL AS SÁMI FROM NORWAY. She has won two Canadian Screen Awards and has been nominated for six. As an actor and filmmaker she has associations with the SUNDANCE FILM INSTITUTE, ALUMNUS OF THE BERLINALE, MEMBER OF THE ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS AND SCIENCES, THE ACADEMY OF CANADIAN CINEMA AND TELEVISION, THE DIRECTOR'S GUILD OF CANADA. Basically she the GOAT www.elle-maija-tailfeathers.com Mary Galloway is an award-winning, Cowichan and mixed settler descent, filmmaker, actor, and fierce Indigi-queer content creator. . Her achievements include being a TIFF Rising Star, a WFF Talent to Watch, a recipient of WIFTV's Newcomer Award, and being named to The Hollywood Reporter's list of Breakouts Making An Impact on Hollywood, in 2021 she released her web series "Querencia" on APTN LUMI in Canada and on Revry TV globally. Galloway is a graduate of the world-class CFC's Director's Lab 2021. Querencia was nominated for 2 Canadian Screen Awards for Best Web Series and the Cogeco Audience Choice Award 2022 Also kinda GOATY :) www.instagram.com/missmgalloway   www.howdyoulikethatmovie.com      

On the morning of January 1st,1970, Edith Beiling, a school aide, took notice of something strange in the skies near Alexander Elementary school in British Columbia, Canada. Beiling rushed outside after spying the strange object through the window and having no good explanation for what she was seeing. The object seemed to hold a ring shape and have something solid in the middle. Beiling recalls being one of several witnesses who had sighted the mysterious object. The object was described as having a texture similar to rolled up plastic and being “...big enough to fit a large plane inside it 15 times.” This sighting has often been connected to another incredible close encounter that took place earlier that morning at the local hospital where a number of medical staff were witness not only to a strange craft, but its occupants, as well. This case file, join the Theorists as they put on their nursing shoes and head for the UFO ward in…The Cowichan Hospital UFO EncounterAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

This week globe-trotting Quebecer Nathalie Bonhomme, winemaker for Les Vins Bonhomme, joins us from Europe to talk about her approach to winemaking in Spain; Robert Simpson, General Manager of Liberty Wine Merchants, offers insights into wine retailing and current consumer buying habits; Geoffrey Moss MW, contributor to Gismondi on Wine, spotlights the Naramata Bench, and you'll be inspired to visit southern Vancouver Island with our guests Lori Strandlund, co-owner of Moon Water Lodge on the Malahat Hwy in the Cowichan and Lisa Nordstrom, General Manager for the Sidney Pier Hotel and Spa.

Does the NDP prioritize unions over Indigenous businesses? Jon Coleman, President and Owner of Jon Co Contracting, and member of the Cowichan tribes looks at whether or not the NDP prioritize unions over Indigenous relations? King Charles will not appear on Australia's bank notes. Should Canada do the same? Richard Zussman, Global BC Legislative Reporter discusses whether it's time for Canada to take Australia's lead and ditch the British Monarchy from our bank notes. The BC Liberals' recovery-oriented system of care to tackle addiction Kevin Falcon, Leader of the BC Liberals discusses the BC Liberals new recovery-oriented system that is intended to tackle drug addiction. Why are Coldplay tickets cheaper in Seattle than Vancouver?  Kingsley Bailey, General Manager of VancouverTicket.com discusses why Coldplay tickets are so much cheaper south of the border than for their show in Vancouver.  How Netflix is cracking down on password sharing Andy Baryer, Tech and Digital Lifestyle Expert at HandyAndyMedia.com describes how Netflix is planning to crack down on password sharing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jon Coleman, President and Owner of Jon Co Contracting, and member of the Cowichan tribes looks at whether or not the NDP prioritize unions over Indigenous relations? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

What began as a staring contest between a nurse and a pair of E.T.s just before dawn on New Year's Day, 1970, quickly blossomed into one of the most harrowing UFO flaps in North American History; one that not only involved a wide variety of alien craft, but which may hold one of the keys to the aliens' otherwise enigmatic agenda. The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/cryptonautpodcast  The Cryptonaut Podcast Merch Stores:Cryptonautmerch.com - Hellorspace.com  THIS EPISODE IS SPONSORED BY BETTER HELPGet started today and enjoy 10% off your first month. http://betterhelp.com/hellorspace Promo Code – HELLORSPACE Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast: Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram - YouTube  

In the wee hours of New Year's Day, 1970,  a group of night shift nurses would bear witness to a peculiar—and evidently incapacitated—flying saucer piloted by a pair of bizarre humanoid beings in what would become one of the strangest events in the history of Canadian UFO research… one that would forever alter the lives of those involved. The Cryptonaut Podcast Patreon:https://www.patreon.com/cryptonautpodcast  The Cryptonaut Podcast Merch Stores:Cryptonautmerch.com - Hellorspace.com  Paranormal Puzzles:https://www.paranormalpuzzles.com  Stay Connected with the Cryptonaut Podcast: Website - Twitter - Facebook - Instagram - YouTube  

Doug and Bear head back to the No Job Too Small IT consultancy office to peruse the strange book they found at July's place. Will it give them any clues as to what she's been up to out in the forests of Sternum? Or will it send them down another rabbit-hole of spectral histories and fleeting visions?Hit play above to listen, or scroll down to read. Either way, please enjoy, and do share with any friends who you think might like APOCALYPSE ROCK! “WE LEFT IT AS WE FOUND IT.”Doug and Bear were back at Doug's office. It was still a mess from the previous day's suspected break-in. Doug was sitting at his desk and talking on the phone with Officer Singh, his breath steamed in the chilly air.“We knocked on the door and shouted her name but didn't hear anything… No… No. I don't think she's trying to hide. Maybe from you or Sweetland, I would understand, but not from us.”Doug fiddled with a cigarette, the window next to his desk already open in preparation.“No, we didn't go in… Okay, alright.”Doug hung up, looked around the mess then at Bear, who was in the chair opposite, jacket on and arms crossed, shaking his downturned head. Bear stood up and carefully walked through the stuff scattered across the floor.“Man, they tore this place apart,” Bear sighed. “You got coffee?”“Yep. In the kitchen. I'll have one if you're making.”Doug looked up at the large poster map of the Salish Sea that hung on the wall. The jagged coastlines and hundreds of islands looked protected against the vast Pacific Ocean that was just hinted at by a small lip along the left side of the map.Doug opened July's laptop and punched in the password. The input field wobbled and an “Incorrect” message came up on the screen in red letters.Bear clattered around in the kitchenette, preparing coffee.“She hasn't changed her password in decades…” Doug mumbled to himself, then tried again. The same negative result wobbled up on the screen.Doug scoffed, closed the laptop and picked up the book they had taken from July's desk, running his fingers through the multicolored tabs of post-it notes sprouting from inside the pages. The laminated dust cover had started to blister with age. Beneath the ornately scripted title “Don't Climb Trees…” was an old black and white photograph of a small, forested islet floating in a mirror-like sea. Spindly evergreen trees reached up from the rocky shores and into the mist, their reflections undulating in the smooth waters below. The shoreline was cluttered with a hodgepodge of tiny wooden shacks that jutted out into the still sea, their little chimneys seeped out wispy smoke. Small boats bobbed close to the shacks, and near the camera's eye there floated logs and other refuse. Under the image were the authors' names, Sanctity DeVray & Whispering Bird. Below that read “Published by the Anderson P. Andersen Collection.”Doug opened the book. On the inside cover was stamped “Sternum Island Public Library” in black ink. Pasted opposite on the flyleaf was a pocket for an old library checkout card, the slip still inside, covered in due dates. The first was May 1989, the last was September 2005. “Withdrawn From Circulation” was stamped across the pocket in red ink.A gurgling sound came from the kitchen and the smell of brewing coffee started to fill the chilly air. Doug leafed through the book, his fingers sticking on the paper. There were maps of the Pacific Northwest, old black and white photographs of longhouses and totem poles, colonial buildings and cemeteries, moss-covered cairns and Christian graves overgrown with shrubs. There were groups of young men posing heroically with oversized saw blades in front of giant, felled trees, of indigenous men dressed in a mix of their traditional attire and European suits and bowler hats, of small figures in distant dugout canoes paddling through the misty sea. There were stern-faced members of old religious orders gathered around tables decorated with flowers in celebration, then young hippies in kayaks, or frolicking among camper vans and teepees by the sea, naked children with long hair joyously splashing in a watering hole.“I properly googled Sweetland last night,” Bear shouted from the kitchenette. Doug heard the sound of coffee pouring into cups.“I reached out to some contacts on a couple forums as well. I couldn't find anything about him being a cop anywhere else other than here. It's like he just up and left his couples counseling business back east, then appeared here one day, dressed as a Mountie. And that was that. Bob's your uncle.”Bear emerged from the kitchenette with two steaming mugs of coffee.“Ta-da, you're a Mountie!”“It's possible this was his first post?” replied Doug. “He wouldn't be the first person to move out west to reinvent themselves, right?”Doug took one of the mugs of coffee. Bear looked on as Doug continued to flip through the pages of the old book.The chapters were brief, each describing specific locations, dates of when the burial sites were actively used, various burial rites, and some local lore. Many of the pages had notes inscribed in a neat longhand script in pencil, about the different sites, personal recollections of visits to the places, cryptic annotations about geography, and so on.“Is that July's handwriting?” Bear asked.“Pretty sure,” replied Doug. He turned to the index at the back and looked up Sternum Island. There were four entries in the same chapter, Chemainus, Christian, Cowichan, Saanich. He flipped to the chapter. A map of Sternum Island was dotted with several burial sites, and overtop that July had  jotted down dozens of potential sites on the northwest side of Mount Costo. Next to the cluster of dots she had written “Hippies.” Another dot – this one by the book authors, not July – marked the center of Sternum Village, just up the lane on Orchard Grove. It was July's cabin.“There's bodies buried in July's garden?” Bear wondered.Doug raised his eyebrows at Bear then turned the page. On the left was a picture of a gathering of cairns in the woods, covered in forest debris and ferns.“Mount Costo plateau has numerous, uncounted burial sites, many of which were made inaccessible after a landslide.” Doug read out the caption below the image.“I remember my granddad telling me about a landslide up Costo,” said Bear. “But that was near the old garbage dump up there.”On the right page was a photograph of July's cabin when it was newly built. Apart from the structure settling into the uneven ground beneath it over the years, little about the cabin had changed to present day. A family of five, dressed in their Victorian Sunday best, posed outside on the porch steps. It was a sunny day, the vast garden behind the group lush and verdant looking. Over the shoulder of the straight-backed father, Doug could make out the diamond-gridded window. Doug squinted at the face of the mother, her eyes hidden in shadows, prominent cheekbones and a long, thin-lipped mouth.Despite the blurriness, there was a strong resemblance with July's long and expressive face. Cradled in the woman's arms was a baby.  There was a caption below the picture, “Original Sternum Island homesteaders family, the Shackles, outside their Orchard Grove cabin in 1898. Several early pioneers are buried in unmarked graves nearby on family land.” The neat longhand script had underlined the name Shackles, drawing a line out into the margin, noting, “Edith Shackles neé Billy married William Conrad Shackles, New Albion 1886. Edwina (baby) married into Straitemores 1928, Patricia (3 y/o) married into McDonalds 1920, Charlotte (4 y/o) married into Hardens 1923.”“This must be July's great-grandparents and grandparents,” said Doug. “They'd've just built the place and moved in.”Bear took the book and smiled, “There's so few buildings left from then. Back when Terminal was still called New Albion. Barely past being a one-horse town.”Doug laughed, “I remember July telling me that her grandmother was quite the flapper in the 20s,” he said, pointing to the blurry little baby. His finger moved back to the mother, Edith, her shadowed face's contours echoing July's.“It's uncanny,” remarked Bear. “Has July ever said anything about her grandmother?”“Not really,” replied Doug.“July never mentioned it,” said Bear. “I'd guess her great-grandmother was First Nations, with that last name.”“Billy?” Doug squinted at July's handwriting and Bear nodded.“Was that normal back then, like natives and white people getting married and everything?” asked Doug.“More than you'd guess,” replied Bear. “All those guys from back east or Europe moving out here? Chasing a dream. They sure as hell weren't going back home. Sooner or later they'd want a family. When that sets in, people tend to lose whatever prejudices they might have real quick, I guess. It's the oldest story there is.” Bear handed the book back to Doug.“You can see she was looking everywhere on Sternum for burial sites,” said Doug, flipping through the rest of the chapter, then turned back to the map of Sternum.Doug popped the cigarette in his mouth and lit it up.“Especially up Costo,” said Bear, raising his cup.They sipped on their coffees and some rain-speckled wind blew gently through the window. Tendrils of smoke curled up around Doug as he skimmed through the book.“What're you smoking?” Bear scrunched his nostrils.“American Spirit. Why?” They both looked at the cigarette in Doug's hand.“Smells weird, man. Like burning tires,” Bear stood up and sniffed.Doug stubbed out the butt and stood up, the two sniffing at the strange odor that now wafted through the chilly air, getting stronger and more pungent.Out the window, dark plumes flew over Doug's office and into the forest behind.They ran out to the front of the office. In the distance, up the gravel lane, above the tall trees, a thick stream of dark smoke rose into the grey sky.“July's cabin!” shouted Doug. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit apocalypserock.substack.com

Roy L Hales/ Cortes Currents - The drought conditions settling throughout the West Coast are another example of what Fisheries and Oceans Canada has identified as the #1 threat to BC's endangered salmon population. “While there are many stressors that affect Pacific salmon survival, climate change is rapidly superseding these threats,” DFO media spokesperson Lara Sloan emailed Cortes Currents. A recent twitter video shows thousands of dead salmon in spread out across the bottom of an almost dried up creek. Their corpses are so think that you cannot take a step without treading on them. Sloan explained, “On October 4, 2022, the Heiltsuk First Nation identified the death of approximately 63,000 adult Pink and Chum salmon in Neekas Creek which is located approximately 25 km north of Bella Bella.” On Wednesday, October 5, the City of Nanaimo released water from its reservoir to help the Chinook run stranded in the tidal portion of the Nanaimo River. The augmented flow will enable them to reach their spawning grounds. It will taper off on the weekend of October 8-9. It may be a little early for the Chum to return to Basil Creek on Cortes Island. They seem to have arrived towards the end of the month last year. In 2020 Christine Robinson wrote they ‘began to come into the creek on October 17.' There were no signs of any fish, when I walked along the bank this morning. To my untrained eye, it is difficult to image salmon passing through the immense bed of rocks at the creek's mouth. There is only a narrow trickle of water. “Vancouver Island has been experiencing an extended period of dry weather.  Coupled with warmer water temperatures, current conditions for salmon in smaller river systems are generally poor, and there is unlikely to be sufficient rain to improve conditions in the next week to 10 days,” wrote Sloan. “A small number of river systems where water flow is controlled are experiencing water levels more typical for this time of year (e.g. Cowichan, Campbell, Qualicum and Stamp Rivers…).” Rochelle Baker of the National Observer recently donned a wetsuit to swim among the abundant Pink Salmon run in the Campbell River. Sloan warned that it may become necessary to reduce the flows of these less effected rivers, if drought conditions persist. “In general, we are not seeing fish moving into systems in the area, rather they are staging in front of rivers, or in deep pools in rivers where accessible.  Some species have commenced spawning (e.g. Pink Salmon or early-timed populations of Chum and Chinook Salmon), but their eggs are likely safe, provided they remain moist through groundwater or subsurface flows,” she wrote. “The planet is warming, and the most recent five years have been the warmest on record. In Canada, the rate of warming has been twice the global average and is even greater at northern latitudes.  Stemming historic declines and rebuilding key Pacific salmon populations are the overarching goals of the historic $647 million Pacific Salmon Strategy Initiative (PSSI) launched in June 2021. PSSI represents the largest-ever Government of Canada investment to save Pacific salmon. We need to take action toward stemming the declines now, while helping to rebuild adaptable populations over the longer term.”

You don't often get to dig deep into your friends' interior experiences and philosophies, but that's what I'm doing today. My friend Sophie is possibly the most resourceful and creative person I've met. In Ep. #35 we heard about her fascinating journey with Mask Makers UK during the pandemic. In this one (Ep. #60), Sophie traces the sources of her inventive and self-sufficient nature to her experiences of feminism, community and family growing up on the West Coast of Canada. Sophie also shares how she uses art to celebrate female culture and to explore her identity via the visual and textile traditions of her mixed heritage. Support the podcast over on Patreon! The free Raglan Hoodie pattern for kids by Brindille & Twig comes in two size ranges: 0 months to 6 years and 7 - 14 years. Check out the video of myself and my boss Josie discussing ways to reduce waste, both as a business and as sewers. Also check out the video of us talking about more sustainable haberdashery, notions and tools. Listen to the first part of this conversation with Sophie in Episode #35: Mask Making with Sophie Passmore. See examples of Sophie Passmore's incredible pots and vases on her website. Sophie's ceramic she-wees have their own Instagram page @piss_muffet. Learn more about the Cowichan knitting tradition on Wikipedia. An article in Yam Magazine, centering on knitter Dora Wilson, goes further into the tradition of Cowichan knitting. See Dora wearing a Cowichan sweater below: (image source: Yam Magazine)

You don't often get to dig deep into your friends' interior experiences and philosophies, but that's what I'm doing today. My friend Sophie is possibly the most resourceful and creative person I've met. In Ep. #35 we heard about her fascinating journey with Mask Makers UK during the pandemic. In this one (Ep. #60), Sophie traces the sources of her inventive and self-sufficient nature to her experiences of feminism, community and family growing up on the West Coast of Canada. Sophie also shares how she uses art to celebrate female culture and to explore her identity via the visual and textile traditions of her mixed heritage. Support the podcast over on Patreon! The free Raglan Hoodie pattern for kids by Brindille & Twig comes in two size ranges: 0 months to 6 years and 7 - 14 years. Check out the video of myself and my boss Josie discussing ways to reduce waste, both as a business and as sewers. Also check out the video of us talking about more sustainable haberdashery, notions and tools. Listen to the first part of this conversation with Sophie in Episode #35: Mask Making with Sophie Passmore. See examples of Sophie Passmore's incredible pots and vases on her website. Sophie's ceramic she-wees have their own Instagram page @piss_muffet. Learn more about the Cowichan knitting tradition on Wikipedia. An article in Yam Magazine, centering on knitter Dora Wilson, goes further into the tradition of Cowichan knitting. See Dora wearing a Cowichan sweater below: (image source: Yam Magazine)

On this week's episode we're talking The Woman King, which follows a band of fierce female warriors (Agojie) lead by an even fiercer General Nanisca; played by Viola Davis. It's the 1820s and they are the elite guard of the West African kingdom of Dahomey, tasked with keeping their kingdom safe from rivle clans and European slave traders. To help us wade through these wild woman is our guest (and fierce female herself) filmmaker/actor Mary Galloway. Mary is an award-winning, Cowichan and mixed settler descent, filmmaker, actor, who is paving the way for Indigi-queer content creation.  Mary's web series Querencia was nominated for two Canadian Screen Awards  including the Audience Choice Award. Mary Gallaway IMDB Instagram Twitter Check out Querencia with a free trial of APTN LUMI (no credit card required) APTN LUMI   Talk to us Goose www.howdyoulikethatmovie.com    

Join guest host, Anna Kemp, as she speaks with three biologists from Vancouver Island about the impacts of low flows on salmon and how we can manage our watersheds to give wild salmon the best chance at survival in a changing climate.

The Summer of 2022 has been one big wine festival in the Cowichan Valley. June was wine passport month. Now comes the August 4th  Wine Festival Launch Party. BECAUSE  August is Wine Month in the Cowichan Valley!! The kick-off took place on the superb beachfront lawn at Brentwood College, Mill Bay. With the help and...

This time around, I speak with the Member of the Legislative Assembly for Saanich North and the Gulf Islands, Adam Olsen. Having grown up on the Saanich Peninsula as a member of Tsartlip First Nation (W̱JOȽEȽP), Adam will speak at length about many of the unique experiences he and his family had during those early years. This will include the story of how his parents developed a business involving Cowichan sweaters. Adam will also describe the lessons he learned from a previous job as a server at Butchart Gardens and his pursuit of becoming a hockey play-by-play announcer. He will give thanks to the person who first encouraged him to become involved in local politics. He will also speak about the commonality of substance abuse in our society and how important it is to acknowledge the damaging effects of stigmatization.  All this and much more, in a very wide ranging interview with a very interesting person from our community. Enjoy.

Cowichan Valley Wineries Party and Pour Aug 4 A blend of stories from Cowichan Valley  and  Naramata Bench. Starting with master storyteller Lorin Inglis, the GM of Enrico Winery in the Cowichan. Then off to Upper Bench Road in Naramata and a visit with Wilbert and Joka Borren, the owners and winemakers at Four Shadows...

Tasting Cowichan-New Fairview Cellars-Quails Gate Expands   THE SHOW  Tasting the Cowichan It's a two-part interview with several of the wineries of the Cowichan Valley. Taste Your Way Through The Cowichan Valley runs June 1-30 and: Wine Festival Month Launch Party – on the Grand Lawn  Brentwood College Aug 4th (7-10 pm) Ticket info and...

No Agenda Episode 1452 - "Toxic Stew" "Toxic Stew Executive Producers: Sir Boiled Peanut Black Knight Sir Big Loaf Lee Rhodes Gunter Weber Anonymous Matthew Schock Chris "Sully" Sullivan Sir Jake Knight of the Deep Blue Sea The Feral Housewife casey hamre Douwe Andela Joe Spry Anonymous Sir Paul of the Command Line Ecuador Eric Tim Osborn Evan Downs Ryan Kilgo kristen gottula Evan & Sarah Ellen Lacke Sir Rogue of the Taverns, Baron of the Cowichan valley Associate Executive Producers: Anonymous Rancher Joshua Gribben Sean Fincham Alan Dix Anonymous Jonathan Keegan, Baronet Sir Cycle Path David Medus & Leila Jessie Hrynkiw Andrew Baker Sir William Lee Justin Spry Become a member of the 1453 Club, support the show here Boost us with with Podcasting 2.0 Certified apps: Podfriend - Breez - Sphinx - Podstation - Curiocaster - Fountain Title Changes Baronet Sir Rogue of the Taverns -> Sir Rogue of the Taverns, Baron of the Cowichan valley Knights & Dames Michael Zavala -> Sir Lavish, Knight of Divided and Concord California and the Dirty Sac Delta and Surrounding Territories et al Victor Munoz -> Sir Vic, Knight of the Threat Hunters Art By: Capitalist Agenda End of Show Mixes: Prof JJ - Lee O LaPuke - GWFFTheKok Engineering, Stream Management & Wizardry Mark van Dijk - Systems Master Ryan Bemrose - Program Director Back Office Aric Mackey Chapters: Dreb Scott Clip Custodian: Neal Jones NEW: and soon on Netflix: Animated No Agenda No Agenda Social Registration Sign Up for the newsletter No Agenda Peerage ShowNotes Archive of links and Assets (clips etc) 1452.noagendanotes.com New: Directory Archive of Shownotes (includes all audio and video assets used) archive.noagendanotes.com RSS Podcast Feed Full Summaries in PDF No Agenda Lite in opus format NoAgendaTorrents.com has an RSS feed or show torrents Last Modified 05/19/2022 17:22:23This page created with the FreedomController Last Modified 05/19/2022 17:22:23 by Freedom Controller  

It has been found that 70% of wild fish populations are either fully used, overused, or in crisis from overfishing. And with food demand projected to increase by 50% by 2050, there is simply not enough fish in the sea for fishing to be sustainable. Fish farming, otherwise known as aquaculture, is intended to supplement this demand. In fact, salmon aquaculture is the fastest-growing food production system in the world- although not without its own share of controversy. Parker Jefferson is a fly-fisherman in Cowichan, Canada, and has been an integral part of the success story for wild salmon in that area. We talk about the environmental and social importance of protecting these animals but also address how we can make choices that lessen the negative impacts of salmon aquaculture.HighlightsHow are salmon culturally important to the First Nation Tribes of Western Canada?What are the negative impacts of salmon aquaculture in that area?How has Parker's community come together to restore and protect the populations of wild salmon in the Cowichan?How can salmon aquaculture lessen its negative impacts?What YOU Can DoChoose wild or certified fish (some certifications can be found in the Resources below).Use a guide such as the Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch Guide to help make responsible choices, either on your phone or printed. The Environmental Defense Fund also has a guide called Seafood Selector.Ask "where did this fish come from" at restaurants and grocery stores. The more people who make it known that they care, the more businesses will ask their suppliers and distributors the same.Eat more plant-based mealsResourcesAlexandra Morton CertificationsGlobal Salmon Initiative Marine Stewardship Council (wild-caught fish) Aquaculture Stewardship Council (farmed fish) Best Aquaculture Practices Certification Want a free guide to help you become a force for nature? Get it at https://forcesfornature.com/becoming-a-force-for-nature-free-guide/If you enjoyed this episode, be sure to subscribe, rate and review! This helps to boost its visibility.Hit me up on Instagram and Facebook and let me know what actions you have been taking. Adopting just one habit can be a game-changer because imagine if a billion people also adopted that!What difference for the world are you going to make today?Free Guide to Becoming a Force for Naturehttps://forcesfornature.com/becoming-a-force-for-nature-free-guide/

We're back on the road! Broadcasting from Blue Grouse Estate Winery on Vancouver Island, Anthony sits down with owner Paul Brunner and winemaker Bailey Williamson who offer insights on the past. present and future of their winery and the Cowichan Valley; Unsworth Vineyard's dedicated chef Maartyn Hoogeveen reveals his new menu, a new pizza oven and the beautiful garden that supplies both; GM Lorin Inglis's Enrico Winery attracts many people, and he lets us in on his secret; he also shares some of his favourite things to do in the Cowichan to help you plan your own weekend escape there.

In August of 1866, Dally accompanied the Governor of the Colony, Arthur Edward Kennedy, aboard the H.M.S. Scout as they circumnavigated Vancouver Island and stopped off at many First Nations villages. His photographs taken on this trip especially those from Fort Rupert (Port Hardy), Comox, Cowichan, and Nanaimo were outstanding and continue to provide valuable anthropological evidence even today. The following year, in 1867, Dally made a month-long trip up the Cariboo Wagon Road to Barkerville and the Cariboo gold fields. He took photographs all along the route as well as recording images of Barkerville itself and the mining operations in the vicinity of Williams Creek.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week Danielle speaks with David Slade, a water well driller in the Cowichan Valley. As the province's March 1st deadline for groundwater license applications fast approaches with poor buy-in, Danielle and David discuss the potential groundwater crisis looming for BC's aquifers.We are grateful to acknowledge use of the following creative commons audio samples used in this episode: https://freesound.org/people/TheFlyFishingFilmmaker/sounds/592784/https://freesound.org/people/soggyprod/sounds/580877/

Today we speak to three of the major federal election candidates from the Cowichan-Malahat-Langford riding. We asked you for input, and now we've put your questions to them.   Get more stories like this in your inbox every morning by subscribing to our daily newsletter at CapitalDaily.ca Check our membership opportunity at CapitalDaily.ca/MemberAnd subscribe to us on our socials! Twitter @CapitalDailyVic  Instagram @CapitalDaily  Facebook @CapitalDailyVic 

How much do you know about Chamber Member the Victoria Native Friendship Centre?Some surprises and better understanding are included in this Chamber Chat with Executive Director Ron Rice

This week we focus our attention on the riding of Cowichan-Malahat-Langford. NDP incumbent Alistair MacGregor is looking to win the seat for the third time in six years and is up against a couple of familiar candidates on the ballot.

The Summer Spin ends in less than a month so we discuss knitting with handspun. Plus, we have great prizes for the Spin In provided by the Three Green Sisters and we have our Patreon Pattern Giveaway. Show notes with full transcript, photos, and links can be found in the podcast section of our shop website: TwoEwesFiberAdventures.com. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Subscribe on Android or Subscribe on Google Podcasts Three Green Sisters prizes: Grand prize is an 18 by 18 pillow using fabric designed by Cheri Magnusson. They are very interested in supporting this new fabric designer who is the shepherd of an Icelandic flock in Maine.  In addition to the pillow, they are generously providing their Patty style bag as a prize. One will be used for the Summer Spin-In and one will be drawn from a thread we'll post in the Ravelry group.  They are offering Fiber Adventurers a coupon code EWES2 for 15% off until the end of the year. They also make custom loom totes, spinning wheel carriers and spindle and heddle bags, along with one of a kind styles. Take a look at what Suzanne and other 3 Green Sisters are offering in their 3 Green Sisters Etsy shop. We talk about Cheri Magnuson who has created fabric that will be in one of the prizes. She is a shepherd who had become a fabric designer. Coldstream_Ice Spoonflower fabric shop. Marsha's Projects Atlas (Ravelry link) by Jared Flood using Navia Tradition. The pattern is also available at his website. I finished the colorwork yoke and the neckband and washed and blocked the sweater before finishing the bottom and sleeve ribbing. Now I'm worried it is too small. I need to get my brother over as soon as possible to try on the sweater so I know what my next step will be. I discussed a technique for knitting with three colors in one row that my friend told me about. Unfortunately, I cannot find a YouTube video demonstration but I will describe it. You knit the row with the dominant color and one background color, slipping the stitches that are the second background color. When you finish the row, you knit the row again but this time you knit the second background color stitches you slipped, and slip all the dominant color and first background colors. Hope that makes sense. I also picked up a skein winder or spinning weasel from our listener Nanci (Nan4Nan). It was lovely to meet Nanci and so generous of her to pass along the skein winder. It does not have a brand name on it so if listeners know, please pass on that information. I've been watching YouTube videos to learn how to use it. Kelly's Projects I have been knitting dishcloths at night and weaving during the day. I had a previously wound warp for the Huck Color and Weave project from the Jane Stafford guild. I decided to put it on the loom.  Huck is a weave structure with floats. You can have horizontal floats along with plain weave on the front, you can have vertical floats along with the plain weave, or you can have both vertical and horizontal floats that make a kind of lace. Color and weave refers to alternating colors in both the warp and the weft. Depending on the sequence of light and dark threads (LDLD… or LDDL-LDDL… or DLDDL-DLDDL…) the colors will interact with each other to form interesting patterns. A gamp is a sampler that allows you to systematically pair every weft choice with every warp choice.  It was my first time warping back to front on the floor loom. I used the instructions from season one of the guild. It was easy to wind on by myself! Robert doesn't really enjoy helping me wind on. Once it was on the loom I got obsessed and wove it off in about 4 days. I did 4 different gamps and then I just played. The gamps became napkins (they were a good size for that) and the rest of the sampling became dishtowels.  The fabric really changes when it is washed and curved sections become visible.  I'm not ready to do another one of these lace projects, but I got inspired to put a stash busting baby blanket on the loom.  Spinning Topic--Handspun sweaters Kelly: Laceweight camel and silk featherweight sweater, Funky grandpa sweater, Orcas Run sweater, Dark and Stormy, Dark Green Forest sweater. Four are natural colored (one of them with overdyed stripes). The current one is overdyed. The yarns  are:  Two ply--one ply camel and one ply silk for a laceweight yarn. Spun first, then decided what to do with it. Featherweight sweater. Medium fine wool (breed unknown) (Charlotte) two ply fingering weight. Spun first, then decided what to do with it. Funky Grandpa sweater. CVM bulky two ply--spun on purpose for the sweater. Orcas Run sweater Targhee lamb three ply (worsted to aran)--spun for a sweater, chose sweater based on gauge. Dark and Stormy sweater. CVM three ply in a sport weight--started spinning first, then decided to make a sweater and selected based on gauge. Dark Green Forest Sweater. Also used Charlotte carded with a little bit of brightly dyed silk noil to make a vest for Robert. Yarn is a heavy, dense 2-ply that is probably aran weight or larger (early spinning). The vest is quite large (gauge swatch? no!) and you can see stripes of the various natural colors of Charlotte in it from uneven carding.  Marsha: I have made two sweaters with my handspun. Both were combo spin methods. Beeline by Heidi Kirrmeier. For this sweater I dyed the roving in really bright colors.  Simple Summer Tweed Top Down V-Neck by Heidi Kirrmeier. All the roving I bought at shows and did not dye any. Lots of fiber types...wools, silk, alpaca. Really fun to spin all the different fibers, With both sweaters I did not alternate skeins on the body, but I did alternate for the sleeves. Patreon Pattern Giveaway! Patrons get a pattern of their choice up to $8.00. Contact Kelly with your pattern selection!  Summer Spin In - Ends September 6th Less than a month to go! Prizes from Three Green Sisters Full Transcript of show: Marsha 0:03 Hi, this is Marsha Kelly 0:04 and this is Kelly. Marsha 0:05 We are the Two Ewes of Two Ewes Fiber Adventures. Thanks for stopping by. Kelly 0:10 You'll hear about knitting, spinning, dyeing, crocheting, and just about anything else we can think of as a way to play with string. Marsha 0:17 We blog and post show notes at Two Ewes Fiber Adventures dot com. Kelly 0:22 And we invite you to join our Two Ewes Fiber Adventures group on Ravelry. I'm 1hundredprojects, Marsha 0:29 and I am betterinmotion. Kelly 0:31 We are both on Instagram and Ravelry. And we look forward to meeting you there. Both 0:36 Enjoy the episode. Marsha 0:43 Good morning, Kelly. Kelly 0:44 Good morning, Marsha. I thought we would be ready to go early. And then I got going doing the dishes and looked at the clock and went oh my gosh. It's time to record. Marsha 0:57 I know. Well a little late start for me too. I was a little late today. So but here I am I have a cup of coffee. Kelly 1:03 All right. Marsha 1:04 I have to just before we get into-- well, we always have our first you know 20 minutes of non fiber related conversation. Here's my non fiber related conversation. I had some friends over last night for dinner. And one of the women that came does not like dogs. And she especially does not like poodles. Kelly 1:26 Like actively doesn't like dogs? Not just isn't a dog person? Marsha 1:30 She's not a dog person. And she's she's afraid of them. And kind of leery of them, I think not flat out afraid. But she just doesn't like them and would prefer not to be around them. And she especially does not like poodles. And she especially doesn't like black poodles. What do I have? Kelly 1:46 Yes. Okay. Marsha 1:47 And the. And the reason she doesn't and I can understand this, the reason why she doesn't like them is that she some family member has poodles and they jump on her. So I understand that. And so I know this about her and so whenever... So anyway, I won't make this a long story. So when they arrived, I had Enzo on leash, even though he doesn't jump on people. He does want to go over and say hi. And some people don't like that. And so, and that's fair. So I just, when they came to the door, I had him on his leash, and kept him on a short leash. And then we went out in the backyard to sit and have a drink and, and then I said-- Well, I left them out there. There's some other people there too. But I I said I had to go in because the timer went off and the food was ready. I had to go get it out and put it on the table. And I said, you guys just sit there. I'll just do this on my own. That's fine. And I told Enzo, he's down on the patio and I'm up on the deck and I use the hand signal down and stay. And they gasp because he does it and I'm like I'm 15 feet away. And and I go in the house and I get the casserole out and I toss the salad, I slice the bread and I open the wine and come back out and he's still sitting there. 15 minutes later. Kelly 2:07 What a good boy. Yes. Marsha 2:14 What a good boy. And that's why we train our dogs, right? Like, I Kelly 2:58 yeah, so they can live with us. Marsha 3:08 Yeah. And then they can be around people who are not comfortable around dogs too. You know, that's, I said to you that as why I wanted all the training that I was going to do with Enzo. The whole purpose is I wanted him to be a good representative of, you know, a good ambassador for dogs and his breed. Because it does seem like with poodles that some people really like poodles, and some people don't like poodles, they've had bad experiences with them. I don't know why. I mean, I don't you know, he's, I think he's fine. But it's all about training. Really, you know, it's just, it's not the dog. It's the dog owner. But anyway, they were very impressed. I was even I was impressed. I know, I wasn't saying I was, I kind of figured Kelly 4:00 You were proud of him. Marsha 4:02 I was proud of him. Yeah, I wasn't surprised. I was proud of him. And he and and they were like kind of surprised, too, you know, and so I yeah, so anyway, Training pays off. Yeah. Kelly 4:14 Yeah, it does. My niece has a new rescue Pitbull. And she's been working really hard with her. And she, you know, like any dog that you don't have from puppy hood. And some that you do have from puppyhood? Marsha 4:28 Yeah, really! Kelly 4:29 You know, she has some things that she needs to-- some challenges that she needs to work on. And, and so she's been, you know, texting me and stuff and, and she texted me the other day about a good event. You know, how something that worked kind of like what you were talking about, not not anything as big. Because she's still you know, in the baby step stage. I think she's had her two and a half or three months about the same amount of time we've had Beary, a little less. But she texted me to say, Oh, this worked and it was so great and it's so nice to have a dog that does things that fit into my life. And, you know, so anyway, I thought that was really cool to hear. It's nice when they are able to, they're able to be a part of your life because they know how to act. Marsha 5:14 Yeah. And the thing is, like I mean, I knew he would stay there. So I wasn't-- that wasn't what I was concerned about. But I, I, I don't normally have to do that, like on a Saturday when, you know, my brother comes over and Kim and Gary and they usually because they they're used to dogs, they're used to Enzo. They're not afraid of him or, and I can't say she's afraid of him, that's too strong. She just doesn't want to be around dogs. She just doesn't like him. And so when you have somebody like that you want-- you're extra careful about how your dog behaves. Kelly 5:48 Right. Marsha 5:48 So that's why I was I normally on a Saturday night I don't have to make him on a down stay right when I go in the house because I just go in the house because there's other people you know, watching him and usually he just goes and lays down anyway on his own. But no, I was I was really proud of him, his behavior. And then when we came in the house and had dinner, you know, he just went lay down in the entrance hall and like and how can you not like a dog that's just a flat dog? Kelly 6:16 Right. Marsha 6:17 looking beautiful. Or just spread eagle on the in the middle of the living room floor, you know, ignoring you. So a good a good ambassador. Kelly 6:27 Yeah. Marsha 6:27 So should we talk projects or? Kelly 6:32 Yeah, let's go ahead. Actually, before we talk projects, let's talk a little bit about the prizes. Marsha 6:37 Oh, yeah. Kelly 6:37 For the spin-in. So we have been talking about them, just sort of generally. But I want to talk a little bit more specifically about the three green sisters prizes that they've offered us very generously. So there's a grand prize that is an 18 by 18 inch pillow. And it's made from fabric that's designed by a woman named Cheri Magnussen, and she's a shepherd of Coldstream Icelandic sheep in Maine. And she was an engineer and she's retired and has been, you know, living her dream, she says of, of being a shepherd with these Icelandic sheep. So I'll read a little bit from her bio in a minute, but. So three green sisters has met her and is interested in supporting her work that she's now doing. Because she's had to stop. She's had to stop, you know, stop doing doing the shepherding work. She has a few older sheep that she's keeping, but but she's not able to keep breeding sheep and working with sheep. So anyway, so let me tell you a little bit about Cheri Magnussen, again Coldstream Icelandic sheep in Maine. Her farm she says Kelly 7:55 "My farm has been a journey filled with unspeakable joy and grief so raw, I felt as if my heart was being torn apart. The year my first lambs were born, my son took his own life. I'm still grieving within. There are still times when sorrow washes over me like the waves of a cold dark winter sea. As I awaited this year's lambs, my heart was full of expectation. Joy filled my heart as the lambs grew within my ewes ever expanding bellies. Now lambs are playing and bouncing about and hope has welled up in me again, and life has promised." Kelly 8:25 So she started her journey with sheep with that combination of, of sadness and hope. And now, she's actually been diagnosed with congestive heart failure, and so she's had to stop working the sheep but she's begun doing fabric design and she says, "My fabric design began just a few months ago, I watched a design show where people made their own fabric. It's like a light turned on in me, I can do that! I see designs in everything, the woodland streams, flowers, skies and of course, my sheep. So using the forest, a mossy log, some gnarly roots wrapped around rocks that I can work with, and I have some of the proceeds that I received from my designs are donated to suicide prevention and shelters, both human and animal." Kelly 9:11 So she's now doing this fabric design. And the three green sisters have met her and are are using some of her fabrics for their bags. And then they also have this pillow that they've offered with the with the sheep fabric. So that's one of the prizes. And let me just tell you, I put a link to Spoonflower in the show notes Marsha, and I... In particular, the Coldstream Icelandic shop, but what a rabbit hole! Oh my gosh. I had heard about Spoonflower before, but Marsha 9:51 as you're talking, I'm looking at it. So this is dangerous. Okay. Kelly 9:55 Yeah, we'll have to have a conversation about Spoonflower when we're done with this. So Getting back to our prizes. So we have the pillow. And then addition, in addition to the pillow, three green sisters are also generously providing their Patty style bag as prize. And we're going to have one of them for the summer spin in. And then one of them, I thought it would be nice for the people who are not participating in the summer spin to also have an opportunity to go check out their Etsy shop and have a possibility of winning. So I'll put a thread up in the Ravelry group where I'll have you go and look at her shop and answer some question, some prompt. So I'll put a thread there that I will have just a regular giveaway thread. And then we'll have one of these bags as a prize for the summer spin-in. And then in addition to that, they're also offering us a coupon code for 15% off and this goes all the way to the end of the year. The coupon code is EWES2 and it's all caps. That's the coupon code. And so you can use that for 15% off and they have free shipping in the US on most items. They also make loom totes and spinning wheel carriers. I know you talked about the bag you bought Marsha, I think maybe you you accidentally bought a spinning wheel carrier! It's so large. [laughing] Marsha 11:18 I think I did [laughing] Kelly 11:19 yeah. And then they also have spindle bags and bags for your heddles. Those of you who have rigid heddle looms. And so they have lots of variety on there. Three green sisters Etsy shop. So coupon code, EWES2 for 15% off in that shop. So thank you to the three green sisters for supporting our spin in again this summer. We only have a-- we have less than a month to go. Marsha 11:53 I know! Well, I have to talk about that. Kelly 11:55 The summer has gone by so fast. Marsha 11:58 I know. Where I am in the process. But anyway, we'll talk about that when we get to projects. Yeah. Kelly 12:04 By the way, have you ever seen Spoonflower before? Marsha 12:08 No, I have not. And I'm, as I say I'm looking at it now. And it's Kelly 12:13 so you can design a fabric and then once you design-- the premise of it, you can design a fabric and then once you design the fabric, you can also make it available for other people to purchase. But you can find fabric with anything on it. Honest to God, anything. Marsha 12:32 So I can find something with poodles. Kelly 12:34 Oh, it's quite I'm sure you could find a million things with poodles. So this morning I put in-- I was trying to find her shop, just without going to look up the link. And so I just put in Icelandic for example. And there's fabric with four breeds of Icelandic dogs on it. Like that's, that's very niche. Marsha 12:55 Yeah, Kelly 12:56 There's millions of fabrics with puffins. There's fabrics with the the country of Iceland. There's... What are they called? runes, the the characters you know, that like letters? Marsha 13:12 Oh. Right! Kelly 13:12 I think they're called--are they called runes? I don't know that sounds right, Marsha 13:17 yeah. Kelly 13:18 Anyway, they're, they're the language characters like the alphabet. They have, I mean, put in something and you can find-- I'm pretty sure you can find a fabric that has something to do with that thing. You know, my my most recent obsession of fountain pens and ink, I'm sure you could find fabrics with that. Just anything you're interested in. Somebody has a fabric, and if you can't find it, you could design your own! Marsha 13:46 Design my own. So I'm looking at-- Oh, and here's-- Okay, we are getting off topic now and are down a rabbit hole! But I just put in poodle. The style that that Cheri is using is, it's like that mirrored image kind of thing. So it looks like you know, when you look through like a kaleidoscope? Kelly 14:11 Yes, Marsha 14:11 that's kind of what it looks like? And she-- some of her fabric, she has sheep in there. And then you can sort of make them out and so but just now I was looking at poodles. And there is a poodle. Like that thing where you're looking through the kaleidoscope so you see the poodle upside down and backwards. So there's all kinds of poodle fabric, so yeah, yeah. Anyway, very, very fun. Kelly 14:38 It makes me want to sew something. Marsha 14:41 Yeah. Oh my god. So cute. Yeah. Oh, here's one with the black poodle. And lattes, a black poodle and lattes. Kelly 14:49 There you go. Marsha Marsha 14:51 What's the connection there. Kelly 14:56 That would make a cute knitting bag. You could sew yourself a knitting bag with poodles. Marsha 15:00 Yes. Here's a very stylized one. Oh, interesting. Kelly 15:07 Okay, so this is enough. This is an audio podcast. We can't be showing you pictures of all these different fabrics. But...But take a look. If you have not ever gone down the rabbit hole of Spoonflower proceed at your own risk. Marsha 15:24 Well, and I looked at Cheri's fabrics, and she has really interesting fabric. They're beautiful colors. And they're very sort of geometric that like I, like I say, it's like you're looking through a kaleidoscope. That's how, yeah, very, very interesting. Kelly 15:40 Yeah, some of them, you have to really look at them more closely to see that they're actually sheep, that the fabric is created from, from sheep. So very interesting and a cool, a cool project that she has now to do. Designing fabric. Instead of her shepherding duties. And she says "My focus now is writing books and designing fabrics. This is not difficult for me and brings me so much joy. I foresee many years of design and writing ahead of me." So yeah, take a look at her shop in particular. It's Coldstream Ice Spoonflower fabric shop. We'll have it in the show notes. But also just dig around in Spoonflower for a while. You'll be inspired, I'm sure. Even if you don't sew you'll be inspired. All right. So what are you knitting on Marsha? Marsha 16:36 Well, right now I'm sitting here knitting on-- in fact I just was rustling the paper. It's called Simple shawl. It's I've been working on it for, Kelly 16:47 I don't know, three years? Marsha 16:49 Three years! Anyway, so I'm just just knitting on that. And so there's not much more to report on that. I'm just, I've talked about that in the past. So I won't discuss that. But I'm doing that. I'm now far enough along I'm doing the border, there's some-- the whole shawl is garter stitch, and then you do a border. I've done one row of eyelets, and I'm just knitting a row, and then I'm going to start another row of eyelets. Okay, and then you do a, I do a little bit and then you do a Picot bind off. But that's what I'm working on. Marsha 17:23 But let me just say about spinning. I have been spinning a little bit every night. But it suddenly dawned on me. Oh my goodness. It's gonna end! This contest is going to end. Oh my God! The summer spin-in is ending on September 6, I have to get my myself moving on this project. So I've got two bobbins are complete. And I've done a quarter of the third bobbin of the brown and I'm spinning them to do the three ply. So I'm going to get moving on that. Because I have to. Because I have a deadline now. Kelly 18:00 Yeah. Marsha 18:01 The other project I just want to talk about is I've been working on the color work sweater the Atlas by Jared Flood I'm making for my brother. I finished all the color work. And Kelly, remember last time we talked I was having to figure out how to trap the floats. With continental stitch, I had to look that up. Kelly 18:22 Right. Marsha 18:22 The next thing I-- issue I had is that there are several-- I think the whole pattern repeat the whole pattern of color work is 42 rows. Of that about 10 you actually have three colors in the row. Marsha 18:36 Yeah. Marsha 18:37 Oh, and so I wasn't sure. We had a whole conversation in the last episode about color dominance. And but what do you do if you have you know, you have your dominant color. And then you have two other colors that-- we were calling them the submissives. They're actually called the background colors, I should say. That's what they're really called. But if you have two background colors, how do you manage that? Because I can understand the concept of you know, you have your dominant in your left hand and your background color in your right hand. But if you have two background colors, how do you handle it? And so the first row I had, I just would, you know, of those two background colors I would just drop one and pick up the other one and drop one and pick up the other one. Well, what happens is then, it keeps twisting your balls of yarn, your the yarn coming off the ball keeps twisting and twisting. So you then have to spend all this time undoing it, untwisting it. And so we, Kim and I, had a trip planned down to the Portland area. And in the car I was talking to her about it. Telling her this because I was working on my sock because I can't work because I have to... I thought there must be a technique. I'm gonna have to go on YouTube and figure out technique and she said, there is a technique! And I don't know what it's called. And I in before the show we post, I'll see if I can find a tutorial about this. But basically, what you do is you have your dominant color in your left hand, and you pick one of the background colors. And you do the pattern with just those two colors. When you get to a stitch that is supposed to be the third color or it'd be the the background color that you're not knitting with. You just slip that stitch. And so you work all the way around just using the dominant and the first background color, slipping the stitches that are the second background color. Then when you get to the end of the row, you finish that you then go and you knit with only the second background color, the one that you did not knit with the first pass through, and you knit those slipped stitches, and you slip the other stitches that you knit. Does that make sense? Kelly 21:01 Yes. So you're, so you're knitting two of the three colors. You're knitting with... you leave those other stitches just slipped. And then you go back and you knit them separately. So, your one row... to do one round, you have to go around twice. Right? Marsha 21:17 So the row, you have to knit the row twice. Kelly 21:18 That's cool Marsha 21:20 It's very cool. And then there's not this issue with the yarn twisting and having to do all this yarn management. The other thing, and I think this is more important, is with the way I was doing it, where you were drop a, color pick up a color, is I believe it throws off your tension. And so-- because you're not getting any kind of rhythm. And I think that I... and I can tell a difference in that row that I did one row, quote unquote, wrong way, Kelly 21:49 Interesting Marsha 21:50 because there really is no wrong way, but differently, differently. And so if you do it, this technique that she suggested, your tension is better. I think there's less chance of pulling the yarn too tight. That's all. I'll see if I can find a YouTube tutorial about this. Because I think it's brilliant. Kelly 22:13 That is cool. Yeah, yeah. That's very cool. Marsha 22:19 So now that I say all of this, about tension, so as I finished the color work, I finished the neckline, and then I washed and blocked it. And I think this is where I'm going to say is because I don't do color work. I've not done very much. And this is like a given you know, it doesn't give the way... Kelly 22:42 Yeah, Marsha 22:43 if you're just using one color, right, right. And so I, my brother needs to come and try the sweater on before I go any further. Because so now basically the body and the sleeves are almost done, I just have to have him try it on and figure how long to make the sleeves. Because now I remember I did a provisional cast on the bottom of the sweater and the sleeves. So now I have to just pick up those stitches and knit down the correct length for him. And so he does to come in try it. He needs to come and try the sweater on. Kelly 23:15 And you have the sleeves. I mean, the body is almost all done. You just have to put like, if it needs any additional length plus the ribbing, right? And the sleeves, the same thing, right? They're already... Marsha 23:26 Right Kelly 23:26 approximately sleeve length. And you just need to see if you need to add in anything and put on the ribbing.? Marsha 23:32 Right. But I'm a little concerned that it's going to be small, because that that that color work has really no give. Not like the bottom, you know, like Kelly 23:42 Yeah, Marsha 23:43 Do you know what I'm saying? so it feels... and also you know, it's it's heavier too. Like that any time you do a sweater like that it's going to be Kelly 23:51 kind of like three layers of yarn. Marsha 23:53 Yeah. So I don't know, I'm a little concerned. But I also I have to remember he likes things more slim fitting. Yeah, he's also male, so he doesn't have breasts. So even though I try it on and I'm like, ugh! I tried it on, I'm like, I don't know. When he tries it on, it's gonna be completely different because he has a completely different body than I do. Marsha 24:14 Right. Marsha 24:15 So and I do have gauge so... And it's... let's see. He's 38 and this is 41 inches. So he wanted about three inches of ease, his other sweater has three inches of ease. So it should be fine. Right? Kelly 24:32 Right, It just feels different. Marsha 24:34 It feels Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Kelly 24:37 Well, I will be interested to see how, how it fits on him and how he likes it. What would be your alternative? If it's too tight? Would you go back and do a larger needle size or you really couldn't add stitches, right? Because it's... Maybe I shouldn't even bring it up. Sorry, I shouldn't even bring this up! [laughing] Marsha 25:00 Well, I, I'm laughing because I thought about this. It's like, What do I do? If it doesn't fit? What do I do? One thing is I can just finish it and give it to somebody that it fits and make him another sweater. The other option is just to rip the whole thing out and make the larger size. Kelly 25:21 But the bottom part would fit. Marsha 25:24 In theory... Kelly 25:25 okay. Marsha 25:26 Allegedly, I don't know. You know. Or I just rip out the color work and do the color work again. Kelly 25:36 Yeah, like the first time you do something? Marsha 25:38 Yeah. Like it's, it's like, you know, you burn the first pancake? Kelly 25:41 Yeah. And you're more tense. And yeah, you're gauge might be different. Yeah. Marsha 25:48 So you know, maybe it's something that I do I if it doesn't fit... I'm just thinking what my... Is it maybe I rip it out and I go up a needle size or because the body was knit on sevens and the yoke the color work was on eight. Kelly 26:08 Yeah, Marsha 26:09 I don't know. listeners can weigh in, I guess the first thing is find out if it fits? Kelly 26:14 Yeah. I mean, we're, I really shouldn't have even said anything because I'm borrowing trouble. There are enough things wrong in the world without me manufacturing something that hasn't even happened. Marsha 26:30 I have just that... This just popped into my head Kelly. This is now off topic, but about listeners weighing in. The one thing we do need to address and I forgot that we need to address this in this episode. In the last episode I started the conversation at some point I said to you, about how you had not left your property. And Pat one of our listeners and good friend of ours commented in the thread. "Didn't you go visit Marsha?" Kelly 26:58 Yeah. [laughing] Marsha 27:03 So it must not have been It must not have been a very memorable trip. [laughing] Kelly 27:06 I know. It was very fast. Fast. Yeah. totally forgotten. Yeah. Marsha 27:11 That's why we forgot. Yeah. And I'm the one that said.... I think I'm the one that said you had not left your property. Kelly 27:16 Yeah. And to be fair to myself when I was thinking about leaving the property, and when I talked about going to visit, going to you know, visit a colleague's house. I haven't driven.Llike the trip to Seattle, I didn't drive. I just sat as a passenger. I honestly have not driven probably more than five miles at a time. You know, myself behind the wheel of the car. Yeah, I've, you know, I've gone places with Robert, not very many. But I have gone places with Robert, but actually putting myself behind the wheel of the car on the freeway. You know, for a significant length of time? More than five or 10 minutes to get to the store? It was weird. It was a weird feeling to be in the car for that long driving myself. Marsha 28:03 Yeah. Yeah. Kelly 28:04 So to be fair to myself, that was what I was thinking of but yes, it is true. I do leave the property. Marsha 28:12 So, but I had to laugh when Pat said that. Because our listeners, our listeners hold us accountable. Kelly 28:21 We can't get away with anything.[laughing] Marsha 28:25 And also, they pay attention. Kelly 28:27 Yes, they do. Marsha 28:31 So funny anyway, so that's it for me for projects. I don't have much more going on in that. That's it. Kelly 28:39 Well, I didn't have much going on. But this morning, because I felt a little bit guilty and because I really didn't have anything to knit while we were recording. I did actually get the yarn wound up. And I'm started on the sleeve of my my sweater the Dark Green Forest pattern that I'm doing. Marsha 29:04 Oh right. So we have to talk about this. Well, yes, Kelly 29:07 I'm gonna I've gone about... 2-4-6-8 rows. I've got almost eight rows, and I don't I don't see a bad stripe. Unknown Speaker 29:20 Oh, this is good news. Kelly 29:21 So I think that might be good news. There's a little bit I mean, I see some but I'm alternating skeins. And so we'll see. I think it might work. Marsha 29:33 And um, the other thing we talked about too and we did not talk about this in the podcast in the last episode, but after we finished recording, I said if there is a strong variation, can you just knit the whole sweater and then over dye it? Remember we had that conversation? Kelly 29:50 Yes, yeah. Marsha 29:51 And like just doing a very low percentage solution of like the terracotta or another color or something and and that might even it out. We had that conversation. But Kelly 30:02 yeah, so I think... I mean, I will I'm not going to pass judgment yet. I don't want to jinx myself. But I do feel like it's, it's... I do feel like it seems to be working. Okay. Marsha 30:19 Okay. Kelly 30:19 Again, I haven't gotten... sometimes you can't tell til you... Actually, sometimes you can't tell until you take a picture for Instagram. [laughing] Marsha 30:27 Yes. Yes. Kelly 30:28 And so, so we'll see. But I am working on it right now. And, and so it's back in the rotation. It's got, you know, when you have to wind yarn and join on, pick up the stitches, so that it was just sitting in a bag because of that. But I have, now I've done those things. And so it's back in the rotation. It's in a place where I can grab it at night and knit on it. I had been knitting dish cloths at night when I needed something to knit. So yeah, I'm back working on this sweater. This is again, the Dark Green Forest sweater. And the pattern designer. Oh, here it is. Christina Koerber Reith, strikhauseit is her Ravelry name, I think. So that's going well. But the other thing I did that was really super fun was I did a weaving project. So right after we recorded I last week, I-- not that same day, but maybe the next day--I decided Oh, you know what I really want to do? I have this warp that I've wound already that's ready to go, I should put it on the loom. And my original thought was I should put it on the loom, you're gonna laugh, so that I can have something that I can just take a break from prepping for classes, and go weave for a little bit. Or once classes start, I can take a break from you know, the first week of classes hecticness and go weave for a little bit. I have this on the loom. So I put it on the loom. It's a huck color and weave project from the Jane Stafford guild, season five, which is this year's season. And I had hesitated about it because I really didn't like the look of her sample that she did with the two high contrast yarns, a black and a white. And then she calls it a zinger. And she had this green, this lime color. She called it Pale Limette as the zinger. And I just really, I know I get to choose my own colors, but but that just didn't speak to me in the, in the, in the videos, and so I wasn't really excited about it. And also I think of huck as a solid color, like beige table linens. Huck is a lace, a lace design, a woven lace. So I always think of it as like beige, you know, that's kind of the color I think of doing, an all solid. So anyway, finally, I decided, let's just put this on the loom and do it. Get out of your comfort zone. And I had warped it already, I had chosen not quite as high contrast as hers. But I did use white and gray. It's actually a kind of a steel blue-gray color, and white. And then I used red as the contrast color. So I put it on the loom and got it all--it took not so long to thread it. I warped back to front for the first time, which was really cool. Well, for the first time on the floor loom. I think I might have done it at some point on the table loom. But anyway, it it worked out really well. I didn't have to get Robert to help me. Which, you know, winding on-- Do you remember that part of the process where one of us is holding all the yarn threads and the other one is winding it onto the loom? He does not like helping with that process. So, so it was nice to have a technique that I could use and and successfully wind it on myself. So the way you work front to back is normally I would sit at the front of the loom and I would thread it through the reed. You know that's that the part where you that you beat with, and then I would thread it through the heddles and then once it was threaded through those two things, I would then tie it onto the back end wind and on. So while you're winding it's having to go through the reed and through the heddles. Right? And tangles can happen, which is what Robert doesn't like. It just-- I think it offends his sensibilities of order. He feels like if I was doing it right it would just wind on with no tangles, Marsha 35:04 But another way of looking at it is the reed and the... it's it's putting it in order. Kelly 35:12 Exactly. Right, exactly. Marsha 35:14 He has to look at it a different way. Yeah. Yeah. Kelly 35:19 So this way weaving or warping back to front, what you do is you skip, you skip over the--you don't put it through the reed, you don't put it through the heddles, you stick it on this thing on the top of your loom called a raddle. So you like kind of line them up in a semi organized way, more than semi organized like a three quarters organized way. And then you wind it on to the back beam, where it's just going through this thing that's not enclosed. It's just like, basically, it's a, it's a long stick with nails poking up from it. And you have like four threads, four or five threads in each little slot. And so it's just going through that, so there's a lot less potential for tangling. So anyway, you wind it on, you have this--there's more to it than that. But that's the idea, you wind it all onto the back first. And then once it's all wound onto the back, then you thread going the other direction. So you sit at the-- I sat at the back of my loom and threaded through the heddles and then through the reed. Some people sit at the front of the loom and pull it forward through the heddles and then through the reed. But I can get closer to things if I sit at the back of my loom. So that's what I did, I sat at the back of my loom and and put it forward. So anyway, I had not done that before on the big loom, the the four harness floor loom. It was very successful. And then so then I started weaving and of course, you know what happened then is I just kept weaving till I was done. I became obsessed. I really did. [laughing] Kelly 37:02 So Huck is a structure that has well like your floats in colorwork. You have you know, those yarn, yarns that are floating on the back? Well in huck you have floats, but they're on purpose. And they're part of the design. So you have these floats floating horizontally across the surface of the fabric. You have plain weave, your regular woven fabric, but you also have these floats floating across the surface of the fabric horizontally. Or you can have plain weave, and floats floating vertically across the surface of the fabric. And basically, if you look at the fabric, on`e side has one and one side has the other so it depends on what's your front, right. So if you have horizontal floats on the front of your fabric, on the back of your fabric you're gonna have vertical floats. Marsha 37:52 So I'm I'm looking on Ravelry at the fabric. And look, but the floats are relatively short. They look like they go over maybe like three or four, threads? Yes, like three or four threads? Kelly 38:05 Yeah, it depends on the way that you-- It depends on the way that you thread it, you know the pattern that you're using. But yeah, it goes i think in this one, it went over 3 or five, I think it went over three or five. Marsha 38:21 Yes, because some are shorter that I see. They're three, Yes. Kelly 38:25 Okay, so this was a sampler, so it had a little bit of each. And then there's another fabric that you can make that's called Huck lace, where you have floats, you have both floats at the same time. And so it makes a really lacy open fabric. And so the the project for this was to do something called a gamp. And a gamp is where you can-- Well, let me let me stop and go back a little bit. So the other thing, the thing I really objected to about this project, and I was leery of, was this thing called color and weave. And color and weave is where you alternate colors in some kind of color sequence. So you alternate colors in the warp. But you also alternate colors in the weft while you're weaving. So you might have a sequence of colors where you go light, dark, dark, light, and you just keep going that pattern over and over again. Or light, dark, light, dark, light, dark, light, dark, alternating, and that's the pattern. So some kind of sequence of lights and darks that you're repeating over and over and over. Again, so they're you know, there's a lot of different sequences that you can use, right? I mean, make them up! You can just combine lights and darks in any kind of way. Well, what what we were doing in this project was something called a gamp, which allows you to systematically pair sequences in the warp--all the different combinations that you have in your project--with the sequences in the weft, all the different combinations. So if your warp is going light, dark, light, dark, light, dark, light, dark, you can have your weft then also doing light, dark, light, dark, light, dark, but then you can also have your weft doing something else. And so I had, I don't know, like five different sequences. And then I paired them with the same five sequences in all different combinations. Marsha 40:21 Okay, so let me go back. And so that's why-- is that why it sort of looks like it's forming squares? Kelly 40:28 Yeah, it's like, okay, each one of those squares is a different combination of the different sequences. Marsha 40:35 Okay, yeah. Kelly 40:36 And that's called a gamp. And you can do that with the sequences, you can also do it just with colors. So like you have yellow in your warp. And then you can pair it with yellow in your weft, blue in your weft, red in your weft, green in your weft, and you can see all the different combinations, what they do with each other. And so, so there's all kinds of different gamps in weaving where you can test things. So that's what I did, I made, I made three different gamps. And then because they, you know, I was following a pattern. When I got done with the pattern, I had something that was not dish towel size, which is what I like to make. But turns out it was like napkin size. So what I did was I made I made-- I'm going to make them into napkins, these gamps. So yeah, and then I made a couple of dish towels. So I had fun. It's not my favorite look, it's a little busy, I think. Kelly 40:38 um, well, let me say I like it. I. But I like I guess I like busy. Well, I like color too. I understand what you're saying about you like, you don't like high contrast? Kelly 41:48 Yeah, Marsha 41:48 I'm probably-- well, I don't know enough about weaving. So I'm going to say something. Bear in mind. I don't really know what I'm talking about. But I wonder if she has used the high contrast so you can see the difference between the different sequences in the pattern, right? Is that why? Kelly 42:04 Yeah, because the whole idea of this project was not to make something. The idea of the project, well, it was to make something, it was to make gamps. And then you would keep a set of gamps in your studio so that you can then go look at them for inspiration, and say, oh, which one would I like to put into this project? Oh, I really like the way this little square looks. Okay, I'm going to use this. What was this? This was this combination paired with that combination. Okay, now I know what I'm going to put in my project. Kelly 42:34 And I didn't want to do that. I don't want to have a pile of gamps. I wanted to make napkins or something you know, that I can use. And I can still go and look at them. If I keep them, I can still go and look at them. But yeah, but that's the idea is you were making something that you could then use as a sample to see what you'd like to do in your next project. Yeah, so. So that it does make sense that that's why you would do the high contrast, because you can see, you can see better, not only can you see what, what's going to happen, but you can also see better to look at it and say what, wait, what was this combination? Again? You know, if your colors are so close, you might have a harder time figuring out what was I did in this little square? So I mean, you could label everything. She has these beautifully labeled gamps that she shows us on the on the, you know, the videos, they tell you just what it was in the warp and what it was in the weft. And, you know, that yeah, they're teaching tools, right? So she has them all really well laid out. And, and I just want to weave dishtowels! Marsha 43:53 Well, I I sort of, I understand. It's like I, I like to make something that's useful. Mm hmm. The idea of making something. I understand why you make something that's a sample, right, I understand that. But I still would like to be able to use it in some way. You know, yeah, I get that desire. Kelly 44:13 If I were maybe more of a weaver or, or if I did weaving to make things for sale, or like she you know, if I was a weaver for my job, maybe I would make a bunch of gamps and have them there for inspiration when I needed to kind of come up with an idea for a project. I don't know. I'm not there yet, where I want to make things, gamps just to have gamps. But I did-- I mean, I did make a couple. I do have a sample, a sampler from one of the other episodes, that is just hanging in the studio off the side of the shelf. So I guess I'm kind of there, not quite there But I don't think I'll ever wear it as a scarf. Yeah, it's just hanging as a decoration. So Marsha 45:05 Well these are-- it's very pretty, I think. Kelly 45:07 Thank you! Yeah, it was fun and and then when you wash it... Ao the pictures you're seeing are unwashed. I now have pictures of them washed, which changes it because instead of being vertical and horizontal threads, all sort of stiff, and burlap-y in places, they all sort of nestle into each other, and you get these nice curves. So you get some interesting curved designs in your, in your weaving that you wouldn't get you know, you don't see until you wash it. So I'll put up the before and after pictures in my project page, because I that I think is really cool, how it changes. So and then once I got done with that, the other project that I have is that I just wound a warp for baby blanket. My cotton-- the all the cotton yarn was sitting there in the studio as I was weaving, and I kept looking at it and thinking I should do something with this spirit yarn. And so last night I I just wound it. It's not on the loom or anything. It's just a warp chain that's sitting on the... sitting on the... changed in form from being yarn and balls in a bag to being yarn in a warp chain on the shelf. But now, when I'm ready to weave again, I have, you know... That part of the process is done and I can just start by putting it on the loom. Marsha 46:32 Mm hmm. Kelly 46:33 So those are my two. Those are my projects. I was pretty industrious this week. Pretty, I should say, obsessed this week. With the weaving. Marsha 46:41 Yes. Well, they're pretty. Kelly 46:43 Thank you Marsha 46:44 Someday, maybe. Well, I always say this. That when things calm down here, project wise. House project wise? This winter weave along coming up I will. Maybe I'll actually weave something. Kelly 46:58 Yeah, I it's another another rabbit hole. Marsha 47:01 Well, and I don't have as much yarn now because I got rid of so much. Did you see that? This is just a side note. Did you get the picture of my yarn stash. Kelly 47:10 Yes, I did. It looks very well organized. Marsha 47:13 I should put a picture of it in the show notes. I I have everything now in boxes organized by weight. I have like three, you know those bags that like down comforters come in. I have three of those, and two have the yarn from the two trips to Scotland. And the third one has the yarn that I purchased on the trip to Iceland. But I--when I sent you the picture, I think my comment was there's absolutely no reason for me to buy any yarn ever again. But I will! And the other thing I did do Kelly is I because I had all these little boxes. They're sort of like the size of like a shoe box. They hold about six skeins of fingering weight yarn approximately. And then I had like, again, like those plastic bags that sheets come in or whatever I have like the quantities of yarn, like if I have a quantity of for a sweater, and the sweater I know that I'm gonna make I printed out the pattern and I stuck it in that project in that bag with that yarn. So I'll know what I was planning. Kelly 48:28 yeah, Marsha 48:29 And then the other thing too is I have a lot of unfinished projects. Like I have the skull and the rabbit. And I bought yarn to do to knit a poodle. And remember, I started that color work tea cozy, it was sheep. I've not finished it and they're all stuffed in bags, you know that all stuffed in the closet. And so I took those out and I put each one in its own little box and labeled it. So now I see them. And so hopefully I'll get back to working on them. And yeah, and not let them just languish because, you know, out of sight out of mind. Kelly 49:04 Yeah, it's inspiring when you see it. I mean, the floor of my studio has just-- I brought down. I don't know why I did. But I brought down the bags. They're the same comforter, kind of bags. Of cotton yarn that I had upstairs and I brought them down, and I put them in the studio. I don't even remember why I brought them down. Maybe because I was trying to figure out what I was going to do for that color and weave. Maybe at that time I brought them. Anyway, I haven't put them away. They're still sitting there. So the whole time I was weaving they were sitting there, right. So you could just call it a mess because I haven't put stuff away. But because I hadn't put it away and I could see it, the whole time I was weaving I was kind of in the back of my mind mulling over what I could do, and kind of getting inspired. So yeah, for me that that is very definite. The fact I have to have things in sight. So and it's true even in other parts of my life, the desktop on my computer, most people look at it and go, Oh my God. In fact, I, when I first started doing zoom, and I didn't know how to make it so that the students couldn't see my whole desktop. Before I learned, you know, how you can, how you can manage that, I took all the things on my desktop, and I just dumped them all in one folder. To put them away, because I didn't want them put away put away. I just wanted them temporarily put away like you run around your house grabbing things to put in the closet. And then you just shut the closet door when guests are coming. That's what I did with my desktop on my computer, because I normally have a lot of things out. And the reason they're out is so I don't forget to use them, you know, have them out for a purpose. They're not just sitting there on my desktop for no reason. So some things are... And some things that sometimes I go through and I clean out, I get rid of stuff that I don't need anymore. I or I do put it in a particular place. But if I need to, if I want to save something, it's like, oh, I automatically save it to my desktop. And then I figure out what I want to do with it. So. So the out of sight out of mind thing for me is really bad. I like to have everything out where I can see it. I can see why you Marsha 51:23 Yeah, but that does not... I have to say I will take a picture and post it in the show notes of how I've got everything organized. I will say though, it is not the fleeces that I have. Right? That was another place. So there's another that's another whole Kelly 51:42 Well, that's a different stash. Marsha 51:45 Yeah. Yes and you know what I've always anyway always said about my stashes, you can't think of it like is... Everybody seems to be sort of embarrassed or feel guilty about their stashes and like it's it's, you know, a painter wouldn't say that about their paints. That's what we have to remember. It's like artists supplies, our supplies. Yeah, it's our supplies. Yeah. But anyway, okay. Kelly 52:09 So Marsha, we have a spinning topic for this week. And what I wanted to talk about this week was our handspun, the knits that we've done from our handspun and just kind of, is there anything in particular that people might be interested to know about them? So I'm gonna just talk about my sweaters. And then you can talk about the stuff that you've knit with your, with your handspun the very first handspun sweater that I knit, was the featherweight. And I, I had this yarn, it was laceweight, probably laceweight. I used camel, one of the plies was camel and one of the plies was silk. I actually spun that yarn without knowing what I was going to do with it. And then and then once I had it, I thought oh, I I think I can make one of those featherweight sweaters. So that's what I did with that one. And that was interesting to knit with because it was so light. And that sweater is nice, because it's really super light. Yeah, I mean that the featherweight sweater was designed to be. It's a Hanna Fettig pattern, I think. It was designed to be light. But then using laceweight yarn using such thin yarn for it. And then also the fact that it's camel, not wool-- and silk. It's just a super, super lightweight sweater, but really warm. I like that sweater a lot. And then another sweater that I knit, where I did not spin the yarn particularly for a sweater-- in fact, I've spun the yarn for a blanket and then I never made a blanket was the Funky Grandpa sweater that was a second one that I knit out of hanspun. And I used--it's mostly natural color. But some of the some of the yarn was over dyed and that was the idea was I was going to make a striped blanket with the gray yarn and the overdyed. And so that was the that Funky Grandpa sweater with the stripes. It has stripes down the sleeves and stripes on the body. Both of those were two plies. I know you spin--the sweaters you've made have been three plies, right? Marsha 54:22 Yeah, they've all been three plies. I'm not sure why but they all have. Kelly 54:27 Well, three ply yarn is nice. Nice and round. And so yeah, so I can see why why you would do that. I think because I made the yarn before I decided what to do with it. They particularly were two ply. Marsha 54:42 What I what I like about the, well, the featherweight is the camel and silk that is very lightweight because it's laceweight. Right? Because that's what you just said. But the Funky Grandpa I don't know what weight would you say that yarn is. not worsted. It's like DK or sport? Kelly 55:00 It's probably fingering weight to maybe sport in some places. It's very uneven. So there were places in the sweater where I was afraid. Like, oh my gosh, this is so thin. It's going to look holey. Yeah, moth eaten before it's even done! Because it was, you know, it was my... It was a fairly early spinning. It was not. It was not spun in recent years. I knitted it not that long ago, but it was spun....Well, it was done more than 15 years ago, because I spun most of it, I think, I spun maybe all of it at the last house. Marsha 55:42 Okay, yeah. Well, what I was gonna say about it, though, it's very lightweight. It's a very light feeling sweater, you know, and I and I don't know if that's because it's it's the wool or if that's because it's two ply, but my sweaters are more dense, kind of. I don't know if that's my spinning technique. I don't know if that.. Kelly 55:58 I think it's the type of prep. I think it's more the type of yarn and the preparation of the fiber. Because all of well, the the funky grandpa sweater, the one I'm knitting on right now...actually, I think all of my sweaters have been from fleeces. So it's all been carded preparation. None of it's been from top, you know, commercial top, which gives you a much smoother yarn. But also more dense yarn. Marsha 56:33 All I have to talk about, I have handspun I've made some socks for Ben. I've made a couple hats out of handspun. But I say I really only made two sweaters. Both of them were spun with a roving, commercially prepared roving, and one the first one was corriedale top, which is very smooth and and then the second one remember I combined different fibers. I had different wools I had silk and I had alpaca. Kelly 57:03 Oh, yeah. Marsha 57:04 Which also is going to make a denser. I think the alpaca and silk is just gonna make it denser. You know? Kelly 57:10 Yeah. So yeah, so they're different, you know, different styles of yarn will give you a different different sweater, all of my sweaters...Let's see the other sweater. I am just thinking about what else I have. Oh, the bulky, the bulky CVM that I made the Orcas Run sweater. Yeah, that's a that was a carded preparation. And so a light, kind of a light yarn, real puffy. And then I have that targhee lamb, three ply. That's the first one I did with the three ply was that one that I did last summer, for the summer spin in. That the brown, the Dark and Stormy made from the brown targhee lamb, that one I actually spun on purpose for the sweater, and then the Orcas Run. That's that big Cowichan style sweater. I also spun that one on purpose for that sweater. So there have been a couple of of sweaters where I actually spun the yarn, particularly for the sweater but most of mine have been yarn I spun and then later decided to make a sweater out of. And the same thing with this one that I'm working on. Now when I started spinning the CVM, and this one is a is a three ply-- This is the first-- Oh, this is the second three ply. This is about a sport weight, I think this Dark Green Forest that I'm doing now in the terracotta color. I started spinning that yarn without having any idea what I was going to do with it. And so I had several skeins of it and then I thought oh, I guess I can make a sweater. So that's when I started, you know. I think I I finished up the skeins knowing that I was going to make a sweater but when I started most of the spinning I had no idea what I was going to do with the yarn once I was done. Marsha 59:04 Yeah. Well I have to say my two sweaters that I made I knew I was gonna, I wanted I wanted a sweater quantity. But I didn't know what sweater it was and then... I say this is the beauty of Ravelry as you don't need to know. You don't have to spin to the pattern because I just did a swatch and figured out my gauge and then I started looking for sweaters and that gauge and then something that would--a sweater that was mostly just stockinette that did not have a lot of patterning in it. Because the combo spins are the pattern kind of. Right? all the different coloring. I didn't-- they would-- that would-- you know any kind of lace or cables we get lost in that. So yeah, so then... So anyway, but I'll say the two patterns its kind of funny because the two sweaters that I made one--The first one was called Beeline and that's interesting. It's a top down raglan sleeve pullover and I think it's called Beeline because it has-- it does have I say lace detail. It's not really lace it just yarn overs that makes these little holes that run from a sort of like the like on either side of your hip. You know, I take it back. They run from under your arms, and they go in an angle down to the front of the sweater. So has this detail. And I figured it was not--it's not like having lace or cabling, its just a little tiny detail. So it's not super noticeable. I think if it had been a solid color would be more noticeable. But Beeline and then the second one I did was the pattern is Simple Summer Tweed Top Down. And both of them... Kelly 1:00:51 That name! Marsha 1:00:53 I know, that name. Both of them I realized today when I was making the notes are by Heidi Kirmaier. I didn't realize that. But nice patterns. But that's what's so great about Ravelry is that if you have a yarn you do a swatch, do your measurement, and then you can figure out a sweater based on that gauge. Yeah, yeah. So easy to find a pattern. Kelly 1:01:18 Well, yeah, because I was... For the Dark and Stormy and for this one, I had an idea of what pattern I thought I might use. But then once I once I did my gauge swatch, there was no way I could use that pattern. So I did the same thing you did. Make a gauge swatch and then go searching. But in the back of my mind, I had a pattern. Like this is a like fingering, the one I'm knitting now is like a sport weight, you know, maybe fingering to sport weight. And I thought, oh, here's a sport weight sweater that I really like. But I didn't have the right gauge. So I had to go searching for something else. Oh, I should say. We talked a little bit about beginner yarn. And you know, people wanting to make things with their, with their first yarn. And that, you know, you had made a hat that weighed five pounds. Marsha 1:02:13 Yes. Kelly 1:02:14 So I wanted to say I was thinking about this and I thought oh, I should talk about Robert's vest. So I made a vest for Robert. Same yarn as my... same fleece as the Funky Grandpa. So it was a very early fleece and I made yarn out of it. And it was so dense, and also thick, you know. It was a probably an Aran weight yarn, maybe bigger in some places. And I found a vest pattern and of course at that time, you know, this is the probably the late 90s early 2000s I you know, just started knitting and I found a pattern that I wanted to make because I didn't know anything about gauge swatching really. so I didn't gauge swatch. I just thought, Oh yeah, I have this. It looks like the size of regular yarn. Like in my head You know, there was a size of yarn like regular yarn, probably worsted weight was my thought process. But you know, yarn had a regular size. [laughing] And so this looks like regular sized yarn. So I I can make a vest out of this. I got the pattern. I got the needles that they said and I knit him this vest. And it was a... it's a it's a gray yarn, two ply. And when I carded the wool I put little pieces of silk noil that I had dyed there's a bright pink and a bright turquoise and a dark blue in there and so that was there... little specks you know, like little little dots. Pops of color in the yarn. So I made him this vest. It's so heavy and dense. And he likes it. He wears it but it's also so big. Like its huge on him. Because I didn't know anything about gauge I just knit. You know, knit the pattern and look like it was right so anyways, I like it and he looks good when he wears it. But when I feel it you know it's like No wonder he's so hot. He's like, I can't wear this very often because it makes me so hot. And no wonder he's so hot. It's like wearing a bulletproof vest. Marsha 1:04:37 Well as you say imagine how hot it would be if it had sleeves. Kelly 1:04:39 Exactly, exactly. Yeah. So but it's but it looks nice. It looks nice on him. He wears it. He'll wear like a lot of times he'll wear it on Christmas Eve or you know if we go out in the winter time, if we go out to dinner somewhere he wheres that vest and it's gotten it's gotten quite a lot of quite a lot of wear. But yeah, it it definitely was a different yarn than what I'm what I'm spinning now. So anyway, I thought this would be kind of a fun thing to just think about all the different sweaters that that we've made and you know if there was anything about them that maybe would be helpful for people. Thinking about what they're going to going to do with their with their yarn. Marsha 1:05:27 Yeah, I did look up-- for some reason I thought with the the two sweaters that I made because they're combo spins, I thought I had alternated skeins on the body. I did not. I just knit. Which I was surprised. I mean, I was looking at them, turned the sweaters inside out this morning to look at them and and no evidence and I went I looked at my show notes and no, I don't mention it. So I don't think I did alternate skeins on the body. I did alternate skeins on the sleeves though, because there was more striping going on. Because you know you're talking about a much smaller circumference circle for

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Brace yourself...this one is pretty book-ish.  Books about books...  Metabooks?  Bibliomemoirs?  Reading about reading?  In Talk Bookish to Me Casey tells us about some books about some other books. Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi The Victorian and the Romantic by Nell Stevens My Life in Middlemarch by Rebecca Mead Banned Book Club by Hyun Sook Kim (graphic novel) Book Love by Debbie Tung (comic/graphic novel) A Girl Walks Into A Book by Miranda Pennington Bookworm: a memoir of childhood reading by Lucy Mangan Barking with the Big Dogs by Natalie Babbitt Learn all about the Askew Creek Book Shop with Cowichan librarian, Kendra, as she talks to co-op members Diane Gallagher and Suzanne Anderson!  Diane Gallagher can be found on her website, including info on her new book The Bastard of Saint Geneva. Suzanne Anderson is a writer, publisher, book coach and copy editor and can be found on her website called “The Self Publishing Expert”.  The co-operative book shop was started up in June of 2020 (when everyone thought COVID might be over) and has just closed as of May 30, 2021.  You can find the co-operative on Facebook under their new name of An Island of Books. 

Denise Augustine is the Director of Aboriginal Education and Learner Engagement at School District 79 Cowichan, in Duncan, British Columbia, Canada. Highlights from the interview include:How to make our schools more equitable.Reflections on the role of indigenous people in education systems.What makes good learning.Should we be concerned about "learning loss" due to the pandemic?Preparing for a diversity of learners.Hope for the future of education in both Canada and the United States.A closing flurry of questions in the Free Range Humans "Lightning Round."Additional Resources:http://www.deeperlearningdozen.org

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"There are so many ways that we're connected [to the river], which I don't think we really label and value."Join Danielle as she sits down with Dr. Shannon Waters, medical health officer for the Cowichan Valley region, a member of Stz'uminus First Nation and Cowichan Watershed Board member.Tell us what you think of the Freshwater Stream podcast! We would love to get some feedback from our listeners. If you have listened to even half of one episode, please fill out our brief survey: https://form.jotform.com/212410616423241

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Shelter in place order extended by Cowichan TribesThe Cowichan Tribes has extended its shelter in place order until March the 5th in the wake of two deaths from COVID-19 last weekend. Chief William Seymour delivered the news on social media that the two people who died were young adults. They were in their 30s with pre-existing health conditions. Seymour says their deaths underline the danger the virus presents."It's not only a high risk disease for our elders. We all need to be careful and to take it seriously. I am asking you, please, get tested at the first sign of symptoms. If you catch this virus early you will have a much better chance of recovering from it."—Cowichan Tribes Chief William Seymour.There are currently 14 active cases of COVID-19 among the Tribes. CTV News is reporting there will be a delivery of 600 doses of Pfizer vaccine to Cowichan Tribes next week, which will allow elders to receive their second doses. Meanwhile, the Snuneymuxw nation, near Nanaimo has wrapped up two days of second dose vaccinations for 300 of its members. Chief Mike Wyse says there is one active case of the virus on reserve and two others off-reserve. Thursday COVID-19 updateMeanwhile, BC has hit its highest daily new case count since early January, with 617 new cases and four deaths. There are 19 new cases of COVID-19 in the Island Health region, bringing the total active cases to 169 on Vancouver Island.City of Nanaimo to vote on the creation of SPO on MondayNanaimo city council will be asked on Monday, to give its blessing for the next steps toward the goal of providing a range of housing and other supports for vulnerable people. The city's Health and Housing Task Force has completed its work with a Health and Housing Action Plan. Step one is to create an entity to implement it. That entity, a Systems Planning Organization, or SPO, would be responsible for a number of duties. Task Force co-chair and city councillor Don Bonner says the SPO's main job would be to coordinate the needs of existing social service organizations with the funding agencies."If we all sit down and coordinate the work that they're doing, and we create a coordinated ask to the province and the feds, we will be successful in getting the money that we need in making a serious dent in this issue...and we'll have a lot less homeless people on the street and when people are approaching homelessness, there will be a lot more services to help them out.”—City of Nanaimo Counsillor Don Bonner.The SPO is also expected to attract members to what's being called a "funders' table," made up of groups like BC Housing, Island Health, local government and the Snuneymuxw First Nation. And the SPO must come up with self-sustaining funding. In its first year, it will be mostly funded through a $300,000 dollar contribution from the city. The recommendations to accept the Task Force Report and to create a working group to design the SPO goes to council on Monday.

Tuesday COVID-19 updateThere has been another death, related to COVID-19 in the Island Health region. It's the second death reported in our region this week. The Cowichan Tribes is reporting one of those deaths is related to its outbreak. Province-wide, there have been 14 more deaths related to COVID-19 over the past 24 hours. The BC Center for Disease Control is reporting 22 new cases in our region, and 407 new cases across the province.ICBC rates tool releasedA new online tool will allow ICBC customers to calculate how much they will save the next time they renew their auto insurance. Customers can also view and adjust coverage options. The Minister responsible, Mike Farnworth used the announcement to repeat the government's message that the average auto insurance premium will decrease by $400 dollars."The biggest decrease in basic insurance rates in 40 years and a large decrease in optional liability rates aren't the only great things ahead, which you can now see for yourself with this estimator tool. We're making affordability and caring for people a priority and more than ever, ICBC's going to reflect that, going forward."—Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General Mike Farnworth.Farnworth is also promising a COVID-19 rebate will be announced very soon. ICBC plans to base the rebate on how much it saved in costs due to the fact there were fewer drivers on the road and fewer accidents during the pandemic. Meanwhile, the new online tool can be found at icbc.com/enhancedcare.Seawall fight wraps up with a win for Islands TrustA fight over a seawall on Mudge Island has ended eight years later, with a ruling by the BC Court of Appeal. The court has ruled the Islands Trust has the right to create land-use zoning bylaws that may affect the rights of landowners to use or protect their property. The case went to court after the Gabriola Island Local Trust Committee ordered a landowner to remove a deck, fencing and seawall because they were non-conforming structures. The BC Supreme Court said the local trust committee bylaws applied to all but the seawall. Last week, the Court of Appeal overturned that decision, ruling the bylaws apply to seawalls as well. The Chair of the Islands Trust Council, Peter Luckham, says the ruling is important both locally and province-wide."It's significant because of our mandate, which is to preserve and protect the Islands Trust area, which includes over 1200 kilometres of shoreline and so this decision has asserted that we do have that jurisdiction and it affects every coastline in British Columbia."—Peter Luckham, Chair of the Islands Trust Council. Luckham says there are many soft shore protection designs that reduce erosion and preserve the natural shoreline. Owners can get more information through the Island Trust's document entitled "Landowner's Guide to Protecting Shoreline Ecosystems."

Local government issues join statement calling out racist behaviourCowichan Valley residents honked horns and drove around the region in a convoy of 50 vehicles yesterday, in a show of solidarity with Cowichan Tribes members. An ongoing COVID-19 outbreak among Tribes has led to an alarming number of anti-Indigenous comments and treatment by some residents and local businesses. Cowichan Tribes member Joe Elliot says the rally was a positive show of force. “It was awesome! It was awesome to witness. Most of the people we passed, there was a lot of support people coming out, waving their hands and honking their horns in appreciation. so I thank the organizers for that support.”—Cowichan Tribes member Joe Elliot. The mayors of Duncan and North Cowichan along with Cowichan Chief Willie Seymour reacted to the recent events with a joint statement on Friday. In it, the leaders called out racist behaviour by some businesses, advising them to stop asking customers if they live on reserve, and then refusing service to those who do. The tribes say the stress of the outbreak and the racist reactions has made many fearful to venture out for groceries. Cowichan Tribes Councillor Stephanie Atleo took part in an anti-racism forum after the car rally. She called upon her non-indigenous neighbours for support."What would you do if you were standing in line and the cash register asked the brown person in front of you if they're allowed off the reserve to be shopping? What would you do if you were the person who was next in line? So those are the questions that I am challenging those watching right now."—Cowichan Tribes Councillor Stephanie Atleo.Outbreak at Nanaimo Regional General HospitalMeanwhile, a COVID-19 outbreak has been declared at Nanaimo Regional General Hospital. It's the second in as many months. The latest outbreak involves 2 staff and one patient. The health authority says the hospital's fourth-floor east wing is locked down. Staff, there will not be working in other areas of the hospital and patients on the fourth and fifth floors, along with those in rehab will not be transferred to care homes while the outbreak is underway. The hospital suffered another outbreak in November when five staff in the transitional care unit tested positive for COVID-19.And there is another case of COVID-19 at a long term care home in Nanaimo. Island Health says a second staff member at Chartwell Malaspina Care Residence has tested positive. It says the staff member had been working on one of the ongoing outbreak units. Seven residents and two staff have now tested positive for the virus since the outbreak began on December the 27th.Local photographer wins competitionFinally, a shout out to Cumberland photographer and teacher Sara Kemper for placing first in a Canadian Geographic Photography Competition. Kemper took first place in the magazine's "What is Home? Location Photo Competition." Her winning shot is the beach at Seal Bay, where she grew up. Kemper calls it "an homage to my childhood."

New in this update:Malcolmson to focus on building up systems of careThe Minister of Mental Health and Addictions says she has no intention of reintroducing a controversial bill that would allow young people to be involuntarily admitted to hospital for treatment after a drug overdose. Bill 22 drew criticism from civil liberties groups, BC's Representative for Children and Youth and the provincial coroner. They feared young people would not seek medical help if they thought they would be forced into rehab. The province withdrew the bill, and the Premier said one reason he called the election was because the Green Party would not support it. However, Sheila Malcolmson says she will not re-introduce Bill 22 in the upcoming session of the legislature, which begins on March the 1st."I've got a lot of work to do with indigenous leadership, with all kinds of partners and stakeholders across the province on what we learned from the Bill 22 discussions that happened last summer, but honestly, my priority is on building up the system of care and particularly getting at the interventions we can do outside of hospital, to prevent things from building to a crisis."However, Malcolmson is not ruling out reintroducing a revised Bill 22 during her government's 4-year term.Filmmaker hopes film will give youths tools to recognize exploitation A Cowichan Valley production company is hoping to shine a light on Victoria's dirty little secret. Empress Avenue Media is in the midst of filming “Tug of War” which explores in disturbing detail the impact sexual exploitation of youth has on victims and their families in the region and beyond. The documentary's director, Mia Golden is also a counsellor with the Mobile Youth Services Team in Victoria. "People don't really know how extensive the youth exploitation situation is within our communities. They didn't realize to what extent and that it is happening in all our backyards and that there are children that they know that are being exploited without their knowledge."—Mia Golden, Counsellor with Mobile Youth Services.Golden says the internet has made that exploitation so much easier for pedophiles, who she says spend their days online, grooming and exploiting hundreds of kids at once. She says others are exploited through escort agencies and sex trafficking rings. And she says the dysfunctional nature of internet porn teaches kids that violent sex is normal. Golden says no family and no community is immune. Her documentary is set to debut at middle schools in Victoria this spring. She's hoping it will give young people the tools to recognize what's not normal and to recognize when they're being exploited. She also hopes it will help parents to prevent their children from becoming victims and to know how to seek help if they do.Bilingual signs in DuncanThe city of Duncan is going bilingual. Its council has approved a plan by the local Business Improvement Association to erect street signs in English and Hul'q'umi'num the traditional language of the Cowichan Tribes. Some of the names are translations while others hold significance in Cowichan Tribes' culture. For example, Third Street is named Smuyuqw'a which means ladybug and was chosen for its significance in Cowichan storytelling. Seven streets will include names in the Hul'q'umi'num language.

I spoke to Alexa Linton on Dec 11, 2020. She has so much to share from her own journey of learning to listen to how she helps owners of animals deal with the final transition of their pets. She spoke about coming from a family of black and white with no gray and how she was lead by a love of horses to a post secondary education in equine sports therapy and then one from there to open up her own understanding and listening to animals to support them and their owners through many transitions of their own. Bio Alexa is known for lighting up her world with her infectious personality, bold facilitation style, her often irreverent, tongue-in-cheek writing, and her menagerie of a therapeutic practice, combining her degree in Kinesiology, over a decade of training in BodyTalk and animal communication, and her current passion as a 4th year student of osteopathy. With over fourteen years of experience working with horses as an Equine Sport Therapist, as well as thousands of animals and people, Alexa has developed a therapeutic style that is both intuitive and highly collaborative. She is the co-founder of the Cowgirl Re-union, the creator of the Whole Horse Apprenticeship and Podcast, author of Death Sucks: A Straight-Up Guide to Navigating Your Pet’s Final Transition, and co-steward of Firefly Farm in the Cowichan Valley, unceded territory of the Cowichan and Coast Salish Peoples, where she lives with the horse herd Diva, April and Duke, dogs Reilly and Solo and cat Parker.An advocate by nature, it is a part of her mission to dismantle systems of oppression both in the horse industry, in her community and in the world at large, and move towards a world where equality and care for all is not just a pipe dream, but a reality. www.alexalinton.com

My guest today is Jared Qwustenuxun (QUEST-AY-NA-HUN) Williams, a Salish Food Sovereignty Chef and Manager at the Elders Kitchen for his community of the Cowichan Tribes. He is also a father and owner of Medieval Chaos, the largest live action role playing game in Western Canada. I'm grateful for our conversation, where he illuminates his love for traditional teachings, language, and story, deeply informed by his rootedness to his place, the land of the Cowichan peoples, where I currently also call home. We explore how language is lens into a indigenous view of the world, how it has come to be that modern people know more about Greek gods and Marvel superheroes instead of the stories of place beneath their feet, and why really, it all comes back to the food. Support this podcast http://patreon.com/ianmack Join the Conversation http://themythicmasculine.com/network