Arriving – 9:30am – It is ALREADY Packed! Slide Heel Down – Straight My instructor Shannon, after a very beginning intro on maneuvering on a flat surface on a snow board…. brought me to the bunny hill! My first lesson here was putting my weight on my heels and sliding straight down. Getting Up From…
Category: Nova Scotia
Blogging 101
In a series of un-coincidental events at my work, Georges P. Vanier Junior High School, I was asked to be a guest speaker about blogging in Dione Woodrow’s four, Grade 7 English classes. Her students are writing blogs as a way to express and share original ideas! The blogs are not live, not linked to…
Giant Pumpkin Graveyard
My friend Liz and I went for a walk around the grounds of the oldest private school in Canada, King’s-Edgehill School. Here, we stumbled upon the remains of the pumpkins left over from the Windsor-West Hants Pumpkin Festival that takes place in October. The giant pumpkins are grown at The Dill Farm, known for growing…
Let It Snow! My First Nova Scotian Snow in Four Years!
After four years of living in the desert climate of Qatar, I’m now back in Nova Scotia and just experienced my first snowfall of the season! It was “Big Snow – Little Snow” – meaning big snow flakes that don’t last long. My drive home from work as the rain starts to turn to snow…..
Blue Beach, Hantsport, Nova Scotia
Blue Beach was a first for me, but a well known walk for my friend Liz who lives in Windsor. Blue Beach has a tidal range of 16 meters and is known as a significant fossil location. Everything about this beach is Nova Scotia – gorgeous landscape, water edging the landscape, and some fossils along…
An Evening of Music in Upper Vaughn, Nova Scotia
This was the last Monday of the month, evening music jam at the South West Hants Fire Station in Upper Vaughn. Upper Vaughn is up on a low mountain, within farming country here in Nova Scotia! The crowd was totally country, in lifestyle and in music! Michael is a rocker, a BC boy with different…
Autumn Colors of Nova Scotia
Autumn is beautiful in Nova Scotia, as the leaves on deciduous trees turn bright colors with the changing season. I wanted to share some of this province’s beauty with a few pictures I’ve taken over the past few weeks! Autumn is also time of the harvest and apples trees are ready for picking! These are apple…
Ettinger Falls – Three Mile Plains, Nova Scotia
Ettinger Falls was an adventure to locate on our first attempt, because the directions on nswaterfalls.blogspot.com was not accurate/clear enough for us. Out interpretation of the directions had us walking up what appeared to be a logging service road. We turned around and went for lunch at The Spitfire Arms British Pub in nearby Windsor….
Nova Scotia, Canada – Home After 4 Years in Qatar
Coming home meant a continuum of emotions, along with lots of to-do lists, as we became Canadian residents again while starting our life here with everything we gained in Qatar. Settling into 5th Wheel Living This was a rigamarole of making our way through campsites until we finally found what we were looking for: free….
Canadian Repatriation Adventure – Quebec, Through New Brunswick to Nova Scotia – We Made It!
June 16th we flew from Qatar to Canada – landing at the Montreal Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport to begin our repatriation adventure! July 5th we crossed the provincial borders of Quebec, through New Brunswick to Nova Scotia! On The Road Again! Quebec to New Brunswick New Brunswick to Nova Scotia We were home….. S,…
