CandleRock Farm.

What to do on a lousy Sundayafternoon! Rosemary had a meeting in Perth so she decided to drop us off at Greg and Karen's place: CandleRock Farm. They live in the middle of the woods and have their own little candle factory. All the buildings on the property are built by the Wilson family! Greg's father -Collin- lives in a big loghouse, he built it together with his brother.The walls are made of full logs and that's it...you see the logs on the outside of the house as well as on the inside. The thickness of the wood is a perfect insulation.

The Candle factory is built by Collin and Greg, this time they used another method, the stacked wall. The walls are built by stacking wood on a stone wall between big posts, the holes are filled up with a cementmixture. The end result is a pretty nice looking building. All the other materials they used (windows, doors, machines) are second hand which is a nice way to recycle old stuff into a new building.

The candles are handmade out of pure beeswax. This intensive proces -from the beeswax to the candle- is very interesting and we might do it ourselves one day. In another little storage building Greg recently built, he recycled an old piano by just putting it into the wooden wall...the result is amazing, you can still play the old piano like a guitar, beautiful, just like the Odd Eyed Dog, Bella!

After our guided tour and a tour through the woods on the Ski Doo, we just sat down, drank some beers and had a lot of fun telling all kinds of stories. We went home with some very nice candles and a big pile of garlic from Greg's famous vegtablegarden (he uses good shit!).

And everywhere we come we have to tell the sory of My Love's -WorldFamous- HotCrossBuns, deze keer was ik er op tijd bij met mijn camera en ze zijn allemaal voor jou Myriam! Speciaal gemaakt voor een gezond (hum hum) reuze Post-Birthday Ontbijt...geniet ervan and once more...A Happy Happy Birthday!!!

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