13 December 2006
Meat and religion
Sunday 10 December
We fed the animals as usual, then went to the slaughterhouse – we did three lambs and five ewes (now mutton) today.
After lunch we went to church with Jim and Lorraine. It is a small church – Anglican in theory but they have United and Presbyterian services there too. There were about 20 people there altogether. Jim told us that before there was a church on the Island he used to pick up a semi-retired bishop from Victoria in his boat every two weeks, and they would have services in the Community Hall. One year, this bishop built a church on the island. No-one knew where he had got the money from until one of Jim’s friends who lived in New York read him a newspaper article about this bishop who had been fundraising for a church on a tiny island in the Pacific with no church where a farmer took the bishop over “tide-washed and storm-tossed seas” every fortnight for the service. Money poured in for a church on this poor, remote Pacific island!
After that, Jim and Lorraine took us for a drive through Lyall Harbour to their other property in Winter Cove. The cove itself is very pretty, with views over the other islands. They have 22 acres there which they use for sheep and hay.
We had steak for dinner – from the 20 year old cow. Despite that, they were very good steaks.
We fed the animals as usual, then went to the slaughterhouse – we did three lambs and five ewes (now mutton) today.
After lunch we went to church with Jim and Lorraine. It is a small church – Anglican in theory but they have United and Presbyterian services there too. There were about 20 people there altogether. Jim told us that before there was a church on the Island he used to pick up a semi-retired bishop from Victoria in his boat every two weeks, and they would have services in the Community Hall. One year, this bishop built a church on the island. No-one knew where he had got the money from until one of Jim’s friends who lived in New York read him a newspaper article about this bishop who had been fundraising for a church on a tiny island in the Pacific with no church where a farmer took the bishop over “tide-washed and storm-tossed seas” every fortnight for the service. Money poured in for a church on this poor, remote Pacific island!After that, Jim and Lorraine took us for a drive through Lyall Harbour to their other property in Winter Cove. The cove itself is very pretty, with views over the other islands. They have 22 acres there which they use for sheep and hay.
We had steak for dinner – from the 20 year old cow. Despite that, they were very good steaks.
