14 June 08, Saturday
Guess what! It rained most of the night again. We had some clothes from Alfred to drop off at a Thrift Store in town, Prince George; buy some fuel and then we headed west again. The sun started to come through occasionally.
I am getting more and more worried about the leak in the roof. We had bought some caulking and some rubbing alcohol to do a good cleaning job, now all I needed was a ladder to climb on the roof and try to remove all the old stuff. When we entered the small town of Vanderhoof, BC I saw a place where I spotted a ladder on the side of a truck; a construction truck. I took all my willpower and knocked on the house door and a friendly old lady came out. While I was explaining to her what I had in mind, her son, the contractor came driving on the yard on his ATV. He made even room for our Sprinter under the roof so I could work even if it started to rain again, and it did. I cleaned up the joints and caulked as well as possible; still not knowing where the actual leak is. I hope I fixed it. He also told me of a material he used to seal eaves troughs; may be that’s what I should get when I get home.
Anyways, Dan’s wife has been diagnosed with cancer half a year ago; she spends a lot of time at the hospital all the way in Vancouver. She has a very bad cancer and their Church ad a fund-raiser supper this evening. So, that’s where we went for supper and to spend some money at the silent auction. We found out that this has been a Old Mennonite settlement long time ago; many have moved to Belize and to Bolivia years ago. But there were names like Toews, Friesen, Tiessen, Giesbrecht and more. It almost felt like home here. We had a good time talking with the locals and enjoyed the evening.
Dan invited us to come back and stay here in his yard under the roof over night. We gladly accepted his invitation.
