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Read MoreA visit from a Katydid
I don’t see these too often. This is a katydid and he was hanging out in the full, hot, bright sun last weekend, on my last lily: I think this…
Read MoreFor your live viewing pleasure… our front lawn
I have been fiddling with my webcam today and I have set it up so it will updated every 60 seconds for you hurricane watchers and enthusiasts. It is pointed…
Read MoreOh good – “Cannibalism is rarely necessary”
From a list of Do’s & Don’ts when a hurricane comes to Nova Scotia: “Don’t get a mohawk and an old lead pipe, strap yourself into some motorcycle leathers or…
Read MoreHurricane storm names for 2010
LOOK OUT!! Hurricane LISA is coming to an ocean near you! Here is the list of Storm Names for 2010 Alex, Bonnie, Colin, Danielle, Earl, Fiona, Gaston, Hermine, Igor, Julia,…
Read MoreLisa’s hurricane watch…. starts NOW!
OK… so it started a month ago. I’ve told you before, I’m a hurricane junkie. I pin myself to all my sources of information during hurricane season. I’ve got the…
Read MoreEnd of August nears, green beans flourish!
As the end of August nears, I am seeing the signs of the shortening days, and the damp nights. The sun is almost tucked behind the other side of our…
Read MoreI love the Wii!
Jeff and I tried Mom’s Nintendo Wii when we were home last week and after just one fun evening bowling, golfing, and boxing with Mom and my friend Becky, we…
Read MoreLiscombe Fish Ladder
Yesterday Jeff and I finally made it to the Liscombe Fish Ladder! We tried once before, but it is at the end of a really overgrown bush road (about 3.6…
Read MoreColour Acuity Test
Ever wonder how well you can distinguish colours? FACT (that I didn’t know): 1 out of 255 women and 1 out of 12 men have some form of colour vision…
Read MoreJoe’s Scarecrows
You know, if it was foggy, and there were fewer people around, this little tourist trap on the side of the road, north of Cheticamp on the Cabot Trail, would…
Read MoreShowing Wesley the Cabot Trail
My cousin Wesley came to visit for the long weekend. He had never been to Nova Scotia before and we had a million things to show him, but just not…
Read MoreFacebook’s facial recognition might need work
Facebook is rolling out facial recognition technology, with the premise that tagging our friends and family in photos is time consuming and they would love to help us by making…
Read MoreOnwards towards Digby, and through the Annapolis Valley!
When we left Yarmouth we were still all fogged in. All around the southern side of Nova Scotia, there is a faster bypass, and the original highway. We usually stayed…
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Yarmouth
Day #2 ended early in Yarmouth in the early afternoon. The fog hadn’t lifted, and it was raining, and we decided to just stop wasting our sightseeing time looking at…
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Shag Harbour UFO Museum
One of the biggest highlights of our vacation was our stop at the Shag Harbour UFO Museum!!! Are you familiar with the Shag Harbour UFO incident of 1967? We watched…
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Day 2 – Shelbourne
On day 2 of our vacation, we woke to a weather forecast of heavy rain (25mm) with periods of fog. That translated into a viewless drive around the coast, in…
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Home to Bridgewater, Day 1
This week we finally ventured around the southern end of our new province. And I’m sure it was really nice. If we could have seen any of it. Damn fog….
Read MoreHot Tub Time Machine
Finally, out of the 4 movies I rented on Friday, the last one was the best!! I have heard Hot Tub Time Machine compared to The Hangover, and it wasn’t…
Read MoreI FOUND JEFF’S HAT!!
Jeff’s infamous Canadiens cap was missing throughout the playoffs, missing from Jeff’s head, missing from all of our photos…. HAS NOW BEEN FOUND!! We had scoured this house for days…
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