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5/14/2004 9:09:37 PM
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Alice Trueman
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Hi
I managed to track down Sandy, owner of the farm tonight. It would be available for the week ENDING Sept
21st. for $1400CDN for the week for 8 people (56 bednights). This is for 4 singles in the large loft with bathroom, large bedroom with queen-size bed and bath nearby on the mainfloor, two rooms with double beds and a third room with a queen, and a bathroom, on the garden level. An extra cot can be put into any of the rooms with a double or queen. At my house, I have a room down with a double bed and a large loft up with a double bed, plus 3 good cots with spring mattresses that can be set up in either of the above, or in a good-sized family room downstairs, all with ocean view. Bathrooms on up and down levels. All meals etc would be at Sunset Farm, but it`s only 10 minutes away. No charge for beds at my house, but all bodies should pay a share of the $1400 regardless of where they sleep. Not everyone will be able to come for the whole week, so I think Sandy will be agreeable for more than 8 for some nights provided that there are fewer for others. So, if 14 people came, an even share would be $100CDN (about $75US) for up to 7 nights. Pro-rating is possible provided that we have enough to pay Sandy her $1400. Food - I budget $1500CDN for food for the week for the retreat, which feeds 8 to 10 knitters plus crew (ends up being about 14-15 people) for 6 nights, plus crew for an extra day. This should give you an idea of basic costs. Providing that a few people bring cars, we can work out on-island transportation. Mark, I, or Patsy can meet ferries and float planes when you arrive. (Mark has become quite fearless at collecting up knitters whom he has never met!)
This should be great fun!
Comments?
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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5/15/2004 3:28:13 AM
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patw
Posts 2826
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Alice,
Tell me the dates again? Does the week start or end on the 21st of September.
patw
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5/15/2004 8:42:55 AM
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Alice Trueman
Posts 1784
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Ending date at the farm would be Monday September 21st, so arrival would be from Monday the 14th. Fall Fair is the 18th and 19th. Artcraft is open until the end of the fair. Anyone needing to stay beyond Monday the 21st can stay at my house for a day or two. (ie Kenmore Air from Seattle does not fly to Salt Spring on Mondays except in high season)
I don`t think that vacating Sunset Farm can be any later than the 21st, because Sandy`s son is about to start building a house, so he, his wife, and three young children need to move in - Sandy thinks she`ll leave home!
On BC Ferries - www.bcferries.com - September 2004 schedule will be in effect - NOT SUMMER - HIGH SEASON.
Just click on Southern Gulf Islands, schedules, upcoming schedules, and scroll down to the dates. For those who can only come for the weekend,the `midnight express` leaves Tsawwassen at 10:25pm and gets in just before midnight.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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5/16/2004 7:33:42 AM
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Les
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Oh, good work Alice!!
Poor Sandy, how long, I wonder, will it take for her son`s family to build a house? Big enough for a family of five,she might have them till after Christmas!
Thinking aloud.......I`t not likely that I could swing a week long stay but maybe arrive Thurs and leave Monday. I haven`t sprung much info to the family, co-workers etc. yet, but timing and details are everything (where I live!)!!LOL
Les
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5/16/2004 10:06:47 PM
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Hello Ladies
Just got home from Vancouver Island (went over for the DH`s family reunion dinner in Victoria) and I have to point out that there are several neat LYS that we could go and visit. I started at the Beehive in Victoria, moved down to the Loom in Duncan and I must admit I was too tired to check out Mad About Ewe when we hit Nanaimo (and the wallet was a lot lighter). Maybe if we let them know we were coming we could get a deal!
Just a thought
Cheryl
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5/17/2004 4:30:05 PM
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Alice Trueman
Posts 1784
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Hi
Mad about Ewe in Nanaimo is a great store. I can ask Toni about a discount, but remember, that to her, elann is major competition. She does have discount cards, though, which she stamps whenever you buy yarn. Toni has a cottage on Cowichan Lake, so Heather L you may actually know her!!
In answer to a query from Lesley, Sandy, at Sunset Farm, sends her fleeces to the mill in Carstairs, Alberta for processing and then sells the yarn from her studio on the farm. This yarn is excellent for felting. The year we did two-needle socks at the retreat, everyone knitted booties (for adults) as well, and brought them down to my house to felt in my washing machine.They came out really well.
Alice
Salt Spring Island
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5/17/2004 8:15:33 PM
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Hi Alice
Speaking of the competition, I received the MAE newsletter this morning and they are having a sale on Saturday! Every time I walk in the shop I always have a good laugh and leave with a smile on my face (and generally a couple bags of goodies). Wish I could come back over, even if only for the day but I spent my wool allowance at the Beehive.
Cheryl
PS - hope to see you in September and I have a couple of friends who may also be interested in coming too.
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