Day 93, Friday, September 16

After some early morning errands Michael, Stephan (Michael’s friend who’s doing carpentry work on Michael’s house), Huck the dog, and I hopped in a skiff (a deep-v aluminum open boat with a 25 hp outboard) and headed over to Lasquetti Island. The trip across to the Island is about 10 miles and takes about 50 minutes and you simply have to pray for calm water and low winds. Michael’s place there in Lasquetti is really cool. He actually built it himself from wood which he beach combed and had milled there on the island! Very cool. It’s at the back of a super long and narrow bay which completely empties with low tide. Michael, Cindy, and their daughters lived in the house for many years before heading over to the mainland for Cloey’s and Quinn’s schooling needs. The main task we’ve got ahead of us this weekend is jacking up the house. Apparently the last person who Michael rented the house to failed to tell him that the house settled…by nearly 3 inches! (He also failed to pay rent, but that’s another story.) We arrived at the house late today and the general consensus was that we’d start working on jacking the house up tomorrow morning.