September was a busy month. I spent the Labour Day weekend at Barkerville, BC at the invitation of the Eldorado Gift Shop manager and the Barkerville Historic Town and Park Association. Meet the Author – Barkerville Historic Town & Park 

For those who don’t know Barkerville, it is an historic town that celebrates the gold rush of the 1860s. Miss Florence Wilson the subject of my book Bloomsbury to Barkerville: The Life of Florence Wilson spent many years there as an entrepreneur who owned, at one time, two saloons and three mining claims. It is a unique place peopled with actors who stay in character all day. I was given a huge, comfortable guest house and welcomed royally. Thanks for my hosts and thanks to the many people I met there who came into the book shop to talk and buy Bloomsbury to Barkerville. The town goes into casual mode with the park open but the actors absent. In December, it will come alive for a weekend, when the park puts on a Victorian Christmas weekend. There is bound to be snow—lots of it.

Back home, the sale of my house closed on the 15^th of September, when I received the money from the sale most of which I passed on to those patient creditors who financed my move. I have enough left over to renovate, so I am happily doing that bit by bit.

I finished the murder mystery set in Merritt, now called Murder at Raven Lake, and I have sent it out to publishers who may or may not buy it. I will let you know.

Now, I can concentrate on my next non-fiction which I believe is going to concern a nurse who practiced during the First World War. It’s early stages yet, but I will start gathering information.

Music started in the fall so the Chamber String group has picked out Bach, Handel and Torelli. Fiddling has also started and I have to learn by ear there. That’s not easy for me.

The weather has been unusually warm and bright so we are both rejoicing in it and worrying about it. Why are the doe(s) having another batch of fawns? That’s not usual, surely.

Here’s hoping for a beautiful fall.