Beautiful Snow Days

It has cooled off in Nova Scotia these days.  I welcome these crisp cool days.  Especially I love the crunch in the sparkling snow, the coolness on my cheeks, the walks with Lisa, Annika and Stella, the hot drinks afterward. 

Extended piano lesson

Sunday night music

The piano is one of the favourite places in our house for our grandaughter, Annika.  Here is today's performance.

The Delights of Autumn

This is the first time in my whole life that I have ever had tomatoes ripening on the vine.  Gardening has been somewhat sketchy for me in the past.  Many years when I was working full time we had neither garden space or time.  Now I have a wee garden and pots of things like tomatoes and herbs.  I have enjoyed both so much this year.  And the taste of those tomatoes is incomparable to ones that we eat in the winter time. 

Today we had the pleasure of shopping at the Halifax market.  I supplemented my supply of tomatoes enough so that I could make salsa.  And we bought fresh Nova Scotia valley strawberries--the kind that have been produced especially for this time of year.  They are delicious--and I had fun making some freezer jam.

Earl Update

Yesterday at about eleven in the morning the winds really amped up.  Gathered at our house to ride out the storm were Lisa, Mike, Annika, Stella(the beautiful family dog), Sharon and Jim Janz (Mike's parents).  The video gives you an idea of the winds and some of the rain.  In actual fact, it did not rain as much as had been predicted. 

We played Scrabble while the men went to assess the damage at Lisa and Mike's place.


The only real inconvenience that we experienced was a disruption in power for about 28 hours.  Lisa and Mike also had their power disrupted for that length of time and a number of trees fell at their home.  Thanks to friends and neighbours with appropriate equipment as in saws and generators, we weathered the storm quite comfortably!

Weather Watch

Photos taken a few hours ago:  our house at 1561 Crowell Road

The view of Porter's Lake as seen from our front porch.

Our lovely screened deck where we spend several hours every day, usually at mealtimes.  The weather has been oh so lovely this summer.

 Earl is coming and we are "battening down the hatches".  Apparently this is the calm before the storm.

Beautiful Hot Summer Days!

Lisa, Annika and I enjoying abit of a rest after riding our bikes.  (We are at the local country store, called Theresa and Heather's where they sell everything from yarns, to dog food, to guitars to ice cream cones--a fun place in which to poke around).

The weather has been unusually warm in Nova Scotia.  Everybody is saying so...even the water temperature in the ocean is warmer than usual. (22 degrees Celsius today).  The past several days surf has been fantastic due to the hurricanes south and east of us. (In this picture you can see Lisa riding the waves).  But this weekend there is a little more concern  about those storms, because Earl is threatening to affect us on the eastern coast of Nosco.  We are watching...and praying.