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A day to stay another week in friendship paradise

July 28, 2009

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Hello world; these are my first "techie" steps.

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Back "home"

Skipped a few days as I was in transit; now back in Vancouver in my garden feeling refreshed from a month away. Still time to catch up slowly with 'chores' like tending to weeds, watering thirsty plants, cutting a bouquet of sweet pea flowers and awaiting the impending harvest of green grapes from outside my back door. The temperature is as perfect as I could hope - lovely sunshine pouring down, without being overly hot or humid. I miss Halifax already, tho' and am already plotting my return! I'll round up a couple of students for mid-August before school starts again and may make a trip to my office to re-arrange books and furniture, etc. before September 1. Now I must plan for one daughter's birthday followed by her return to Toronto to attend law school, and then prepare for the arrival of daughter number 2 in a couple of weeks. She'll only be here for two weeks or so before returning to Queen's U. in Kingston. Daughter number three remains here at

Mahone Bay Scarecrow Festival

Yesterday we headed to Mahone Bay despite the rain, to take a look at the Annual Scarecrow Fest and Antique Fair. Here are some of the (somewhat bedraggled) entrants. A nod to "The Simpsons", and a hint of "Alice in Wonderland", as well as Dorothy and The Scarecrow from "The Wizard of Oz". Mahone Bay's brightly coloured buildings are charming even in the foggy drizzle of a September morning.

Tall Ships Halifax 2017

They are here! The downtown core of the city was literally busting at its seams this weekend with the arrival of the Tall Ships. So many sails...... This is the Spanish ship Le Galeon whose home port is in Texas. It was difficult not to have images of Johnny Depp spring to mind! Our Canadian Naval vessel, HMCS Oriole, sailed the farthest to arrive here coming all the way from Esquimalt, BC, through the Panama Canal and up to Halifax - a distance of over 7500 nautical miles! The Spirit of Bermuda..., and its attentive array of rotatable vents This is the Lawrence II from Mum's city - Kingston, Ontario Members of the 78th Highlanders were dressed in period regalia for the opening ceremony. Luckily it was scheduled fairly early in the day, as it must be quite unbearable to wear all this wool in the heat of the afternoon! I forget which ship this was, but I was surprised to see a saddle on the boom. (I'm not sure of the proper term). Perhaps t

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