My Mom grew up in a log cabin on a little Island off the Coast of British Colombia, Canada. She went to a one room school house on another island about an hour away, the "school bus" was a little boat about 12 ft. long with an outboard motor. The "School Boat" driver was the oldest kid in the class 12 yrs old...he would go to all the other islands and pick up the other students and then head on to school...10 kids in a 12 ft. boat Captained by a 12 yr old in freezing cold water.
Your mom had am incredible childhood home! Have you ever been there? Good heavens, I hope someone in your family still owns it and has kept it from becoming some bajillionaires brag cabin. But as to kids, and what they're dependable to do anything over 10 is capable of acting like a leader, a no nonsense get the job done solidly reliable person. When we were kids, a 12 yr old could get the gun safety course, then get a hunting permit. 16 could get a drivers license.
No ones been back there since they left back in the mid 50's, Grampa was a Salmon Fisherman and he did a dumb thing in a Storm and left the boat's cabin and went on the deck and got thrown overboard, he was lucky one of the crew saw him run past the cabin window so he saw him get tossed overboard was able to pull him out of the freezing water within a minute...grampa had frostbite and would have died in the water in another minute, so he couldn't be a fisherman anymore bad leg problems...as the story goes there were so many islands in B.C. anybody could just build a home on any island of a certain size and claim it as theirs. They somehow came to the USA via Bellingham Wa. when Mom was a Sophomore in Highschool. Yes my whole family on both sides have MANY awesome stories...the older folks certainly were an impressive bunch. I should write a book about them. We do have Family that owns Islands there in B.C. but not the one that Mom grew up on.
you certainly should! If you don't, all that history is lost, like it never happened. Like the soliloquy from Roy, the dying android at the end of Bladerunner. "All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain". Damn, your grampa got lucky and didn't drown in icy cold ocean water! Makes me wonder if the cabin is still there
Where the hell is this? Amazing, and scary as hell.
ReplyDeletelooks like central or south America
DeleteMy Mom grew up in a log cabin on a little Island off the Coast of British Colombia, Canada. She went to a one room school house on another island about an hour away, the "school bus" was a little boat about 12 ft. long with an outboard motor. The "School Boat" driver was the oldest kid in the class 12 yrs old...he would go to all the other islands and pick up the other students and then head on to school...10 kids in a 12 ft. boat Captained by a 12 yr old in freezing cold water.
ReplyDeleteYour mom had am incredible childhood home! Have you ever been there? Good heavens, I hope someone in your family still owns it and has kept it from becoming some bajillionaires brag cabin.
DeleteBut as to kids, and what they're dependable to do anything over 10 is capable of acting like a leader, a no nonsense get the job done solidly reliable person.
When we were kids, a 12 yr old could get the gun safety course, then get a hunting permit. 16 could get a drivers license.
No ones been back there since they left back in the mid 50's, Grampa was a Salmon Fisherman and he did a dumb thing in a Storm and left the boat's cabin and went on the deck and got thrown overboard, he was lucky one of the crew saw him run past the cabin window so he saw him get tossed overboard was able to pull him out of the freezing water within a minute...grampa had frostbite and would have died in the water in another minute, so he couldn't be a fisherman anymore bad leg problems...as the story goes there were so many islands in B.C. anybody could just build a home on any island of a certain size and claim it as theirs. They somehow came to the USA via Bellingham Wa. when Mom was a Sophomore in Highschool. Yes my whole family on both sides have MANY awesome stories...the older folks certainly were an impressive bunch. I should write a book about them.
ReplyDeleteWe do have Family that owns Islands there in B.C. but not the one that Mom grew up on.
you certainly should! If you don't, all that history is lost, like it never happened. Like the soliloquy from Roy, the dying android at the end of Bladerunner. "All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain".
DeleteDamn, your grampa got lucky and didn't drown in icy cold ocean water!
Makes me wonder if the cabin is still there