The author’s life in British Columbia was filled with great childhood experiences, hard work preparing for frozen winters, and the learning of knowledge needed to assure survival.

Raised with three brothers, she had to learn to hold her own, especially during the long winters when everyone got on each others last nerve.

Every year hunters and those wanting to fish the many lakes in the area arrived expecting to experience life in the wilderness as it was a hundred years past…and they were not disappointed. Nor were they disappointed with the meals cooked by twelve year old Jeni.