I BUY LOCAL - canvas tote bag for shopping

"I Buy Local" Environment Tote Bag

I support local farmers by buying local produce. 
Help the environment with this organic grocery tote bag. Wide bottom makes it easy to fit groceries or large items. Durable 12-ounce cotton twill. Cotton web handles reinforced with stress-point stitching. Dimensions: 13"w x 15.5"h x 7"d.
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Ladybugs are Good Bugs - Now you can buy Live Ladybugs!

When released at sundown (because they don't fly at night), ladybugs eat aphids, mealy bugs, scale, leaf hoppers, and other destructive pests. And they keep on eating until the bad guys are gone, laying their own eggs in the process. When new pests arrive, fresh ladybugs will be waiting. You will love them because ladybugs really work, plus they will be doing something favorable for the environment. LADYBUGS (Hippodamia convergens) USE: Ladybugs prefer to eat aphids and will devour up to 50 a day, but they will also attack scale, mealy bugs, boil worm, leaf hopper, and corn ear worm. They dine only on insects and do not harm vegetation in any way.

45,000 Ladybugs have been purchased from this site in the past 6 months!  Live LadyBugs!

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Let's Go to the Lake!

Let's Go to the Lake!

Our favorite summertime words were "Let's go to the lake!" I miss those days when going to the lake was synonymous with summer. It didn't matter which lake we went too. Living in British Columbia we have many so it is just a matter of how much time we had. For a quick dip after a hot day at work or for a two week vacation or maybe a long weekend camping trip. The words were the same "Let's go to the Lake!"

From Stuart Lake to Takla Lake on the inland highway of only water.

We travelled with one large river boat to carry our camping supplies and fuel for the outboard motors for 2 boats - the riverboat and one little fast boat that my brother uses to water ski. 5 of us in the wilderness on a 4 day camping trip. We put our boats in the water at Stuart Lake and travelled to Takla Lake where we set up camp on a beach. We made our mattresses from carefully placed spruce boughs and the first night we were invaded by a black army of spiders. They loved the freshly cut spruce too. We changed our place to sleep and then the next night they were gone. No other wild critters bothered us the whole trip and we certainly caught our limit of fish from these pristine lakes. See our route on the map - Stuart Lake to Takla Lake which included traveling the treacherous rivers where we had to stop and do some repairs from hitting a rock that was just under the fast water.
When our two son's were old enough to make the trip with us - we went again. By this time someone had built some wilderness A-frame cabins - so we could 'camp' with a little more security.
The words, "let's go the Lake!" brings back a book full of memories.
A map of our inland water route

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