<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Sunshine Valley Living]]></title><description><![CDATA[Mountain Living in Sunshine Valley, Hope B.C. ]]></description><link>https://www.sunshinevalleyliving.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Tue, 26 May 2026 05:58:57 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://joannemstrongman.wixsite.com/sunshinevalley/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[We LOVE our signs]]></title><description><![CDATA[It's a sign! In fact there are two great signs when you get to the entrance of Sunshine Valley. One of the signs has been there for a...]]></description><link>https://joannemstrongman.wixsite.com/sunshinevalley/post/we-love-our-signs-1</link><guid isPermaLink="false">631e12c1813ba1a8ab884b35</guid><pubDate>Wed, 29 May 2024 00:32:37 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9582f4_72eade9612614f51b8a779c31380cda8~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_960,h_814,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Sunshine Valley  Developments Ltd</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[#13 - Boys to Men]]></title><description><![CDATA["Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Begin it now." - Goethe Sunshine Valley is...]]></description><link>https://joannemstrongman.wixsite.com/sunshinevalley/post/boys-to-men</link><guid isPermaLink="false">65b179a71ab5068f2673a2f2</guid><category><![CDATA[Patrick Bonney's Mini-Essays]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2024 21:00:08 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a59c0a_7f6166e05a1e4e58b320737d418cf8e9~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_240,h_240,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Patrick Bonney</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[#12 - 50th Anniversary]]></title><description><![CDATA[My father had only barely managed to convince my mother to retire to SV in the first place. Once they did, she never looked back and they...]]></description><link>https://joannemstrongman.wixsite.com/sunshinevalley/post/50th-anniversary</link><guid isPermaLink="false">65b177dc0204e43aff219fd9</guid><category><![CDATA[Patrick Bonney's Mini-Essays]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2024 20:52:32 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a59c0a_f9322675439f42d69a9d59d13d9e0bd2~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_164,h_320,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Connor Mason</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[#11 - Remembrance Day]]></title><description><![CDATA[My father is a veteran, as were a number of others at Sunshine Valley. Each year, along with a contingent from the Sunshine Valley...]]></description><link>https://joannemstrongman.wixsite.com/sunshinevalley/post/remembrance-day</link><guid isPermaLink="false">65b1762dc609a2b1a84f939e</guid><category><![CDATA[Patrick Bonney's Mini-Essays]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2024 20:45:48 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a59c0a_f2bb0f5d352841a0a0f56b04659b93d7~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_320,h_156,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Patrick Bonney</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[#10 - Sweet Sixteen]]></title><description><![CDATA[Here is my secret. It is very simple. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the...]]></description><link>https://joannemstrongman.wixsite.com/sunshinevalley/post/sweet-sixteen</link><guid isPermaLink="false">65b175afdeec09cd911749e1</guid><category><![CDATA[Patrick Bonney's Mini-Essays]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2024 20:41:15 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a59c0a_7eafe319fece4bfd81e69437610fd593~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_320,h_240,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Patrick Bonney</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[#9 - Boys Return]]></title><description><![CDATA[“Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what...]]></description><link>https://joannemstrongman.wixsite.com/sunshinevalley/post/boys-return</link><guid isPermaLink="false">65b174a026e69cdd749e7346</guid><category><![CDATA[Patrick Bonney's Mini-Essays]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2024 20:37:19 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a59c0a_8b7aeec2bda0481085a3f47b3e061b50~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_239,h_320,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Patrick Bonney</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[#8 - Agamemnon’s Feast ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Both mother and father liked to entertain. The A-frame cabin in the woods was the scene of a monumental roast which was days in the...]]></description><link>https://joannemstrongman.wixsite.com/sunshinevalley/post/agamemnon-s-feast</link><guid isPermaLink="false">65b173c404aa4a8618c1cc05</guid><category><![CDATA[Patrick Bonney's Mini-Essays]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2024 20:34:41 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a59c0a_13034536c7c043a3aca6e4fcf5191477~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_960,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Patrick Bonney</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[#7 - The Eternal Flame]]></title><description><![CDATA[My father stood there before me, in front of the A-frame in Alpine, where he greeted me again for the first time in eight years. My first...]]></description><link>https://joannemstrongman.wixsite.com/sunshinevalley/post/the-eternal-flame</link><guid isPermaLink="false">65b172ab7a5295611decddbc</guid><category><![CDATA[Patrick Bonney's Mini-Essays]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2024 20:30:33 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a59c0a_280f2f1b85704f6bb87399107ae2f10c~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_320,h_240,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Patrick Bonney</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[#6 - Don Quixote]]></title><description><![CDATA[In the intervening years, at the ripe age of 62, father had initiated, with a small band of intrepid members, the Sunshine Valley Fire...]]></description><link>https://joannemstrongman.wixsite.com/sunshinevalley/post/don-quixote</link><guid isPermaLink="false">65b17248dee8e87ca09eadd8</guid><category><![CDATA[Patrick Bonney's Mini-Essays]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2024 20:26:32 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a59c0a_bcc63e6f374d499fafa09980fb1c3ff6~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_240,h_320,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Patrick Bonney</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[#5 - Mid life. To Tokyo]]></title><description><![CDATA[Having now left home already for some years, with two sons of my own, I returned for a visit to the A-frame cabin in Alpine, with two...]]></description><link>https://joannemstrongman.wixsite.com/sunshinevalley/post/mid-life-to-tokyo</link><guid isPermaLink="false">65b171e3d0a5a95eb36186a9</guid><category><![CDATA[Patrick Bonney's Mini-Essays]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2024 20:25:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a59c0a_cdfd244c2979411a927f0f6f784708ca~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_240,h_320,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Patrick Bonney</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[#4 - The Remains of the Day]]></title><description><![CDATA[Our lives are a collection of days. Each is a gift. Yesterday does not exist, nor does tomorrow. In each day, there are moments in time...]]></description><link>https://joannemstrongman.wixsite.com/sunshinevalley/post/the-remains-of-the-day</link><guid isPermaLink="false">65b171081ab5068f26739ddc</guid><category><![CDATA[Patrick Bonney's Mini-Essays]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2024 20:22:29 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a59c0a_be8167c4bcfc4d4da36ac063746c4b6a~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_320,h_214,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Patrick Bonney</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[#3 - On scythes and hammers]]></title><description><![CDATA[My cousin’s family also built a cabin, also in Alpine, along the river. They lived in Kerrisdale but without fail spent weekends and more...]]></description><link>https://joannemstrongman.wixsite.com/sunshinevalley/post/on-scythes-and-hammers</link><guid isPermaLink="false">65b1706fda630b116db5b981</guid><category><![CDATA[Patrick Bonney's Mini-Essays]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2024 20:19:29 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a59c0a_bcebb00d518149eea4e64e6aeaa50bd5~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_320,h_156,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Patrick Bonney</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[#2 - Youth]]></title><description><![CDATA[The vision of Mallory, questing repeatedly for the summit of Everest, which became his cenotaph, his immortality, disappearing into the...]]></description><link>https://joannemstrongman.wixsite.com/sunshinevalley/post/youth</link><guid isPermaLink="false">65b16fc266f803d18481c4e3</guid><category><![CDATA[Patrick Bonney's Mini-Essays]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2024 20:17:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a59c0a_cd0bf0e4c9d1454ba5bef68624f7bd68~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_640,h_935,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Patrick Bonney</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[#1 - Remembrance of Things Past]]></title><description><![CDATA[Tho’ much is taken, much abides;  and tho’ we are not now that strength which in old days moved earth and heaven,  that which we are we...]]></description><link>https://joannemstrongman.wixsite.com/sunshinevalley/post/remembrance-of-things-past</link><guid isPermaLink="false">65b1622dbdbb860137d9e1e7</guid><category><![CDATA[Patrick Bonney's Mini-Essays]]></category><pubDate>Wed, 24 Jan 2024 19:24:56 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a59c0a_af0fd6d3e5fe4565a6c7216a8615c12c~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_320,h_240,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Patrick Bonney</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[FIRE BAN in effect June 8, 2023]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dear Residents,  Effective immediately, a fire ban is in effect in Sunshine Valley starting from June 8, 2023. All campfires are strictly...]]></description><link>https://joannemstrongman.wixsite.com/sunshinevalley/post/fire-ban-in-effect-june-8-2023</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6482225a38d81f20fef25fc9</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 Jun 2023 18:48:04 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/a59c0a_9f1001eb559a4d4c9f59a118190fee76~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Connor Mason</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Summer 2023 Community Update]]></title><link>https://joannemstrongman.wixsite.com/sunshinevalley/post/summer-2023-community-update</link><guid isPermaLink="false">647ee1af2aa552e2d3ec7d37</guid><pubDate>Wed, 07 Jun 2023 02:10:20 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/aae599_9a9ce91eace54822b6115d22fba44ee3~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>jakewnuernberger</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spring 2023 Update.]]></title><description><![CDATA[Sunshine Valley Developments can carry a mortgage up to 50% of the lot value at a rate of 4.9% for three years. The purchaser can choose...]]></description><link>https://joannemstrongman.wixsite.com/sunshinevalley/post/spring-2023-update</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6437114a0f1e6869b1b1d8e6</guid><pubDate>Wed, 12 Apr 2023 20:18:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/9582f4_72eade9612614f51b8a779c31380cda8~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_960,h_814,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Sunshine Valley  Developments Ltd</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[SVDL Summer Updates 2022]]></title><description><![CDATA[Dear Community Members; As president of SVDL I have the honour of frequent contact with the many non-profit organizations, residents,...]]></description><link>https://joannemstrongman.wixsite.com/sunshinevalley/post/svdl-summer-updates-2022</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6338f308d54dc18797766860</guid><category><![CDATA[2022 Updates]]></category><pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2022 02:10:34 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/b27db6_ee246aaa56204b0f9c8200b6fd74da09~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_750,h_562,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>Sunshine Valley  Developments Ltd</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[A few of our favourite places in HOPE B.C.]]></title><description><![CDATA[New to the town of Hope and not sure where to start? 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