Officially!! Today is the longest day of the year with over 15 hours of daylight!
Bring it on!!!! ( The last couple days have been gorgeous)
Category: Canada
Beautiful Saturday…finally!!
What a beauty of a day along the South Shore! We had to get out and enjoy it. It helped that we had friends visiting from New Brunswick that used to live here 27 years ago!
Our friends had a great day seeing some familiar spots and we had fun being tour guides.
There’s a NEW truck in town!
Food truck that is! The Best Little Oarhouse in Nova Scotia.
This is opening week for this new place and we’ve been wanting to check it out!
On a nice evening it’s just a nice little walk to get there, but it’s been so cool and windy that James & I decided that we were just gonna drive down and bring our food home.
There was little bit of a wait, after all it’s opening week. BUT, it was so worth it. The food is delicious! James had the Dude Burger and of course I had to try the fish & chips. Â Delicious home cut fries and a light batter…so good!
James enjoying his Rugged Dude Burger lol
They have a good selection
Check it out if you get chance! We will definitely be trying out more items on the menu this summer!
PLEASE warm up!!!
BRRR!!!! I have been freezing for days! This is certainly not June weather and with the “official day” of summer around the corner temperatures have been at least 10 degrees below normal. June evenings are usually wonderful for being outside BUT all I feel like doing is curling up with a blanket.
David and I did go to the beach yesterday afternoon, BUT it is far from beach weather. Gee, I remember “skipping “school and heading to the beach to swim and tan “back in the day” …. Where is our summer weather? Please warm up soon!!!
The beach was beautiful as usual…it ALWAYS is…BUT it’s not SUMMER TIME beach weather!
Final Episode! What will my mornings be like?
Wow! This came as a shocker! Earlier this week I posted about Canada AMÂ being “Live” in Lunenburg for Jeff Hucheson’s last remote broadcast before his retirement. Well, yesterday it was announced that today, June 3, is Canada AM’s LAST broadcast!! The show has been cancelled after 43 seasons! Wow!!! What a shock!
When I think back about Canada AM, I think of Norm Perry. Do you remember this face?
Jeff Hucheson will start his retirement as planned and Marci Ien and Beverly Thomson will stay will Bell Media.
I am sure gonna miss this regular part of my morning! It has been a part of East Coast and Canadian culture.
“LIVE” in Lunenburg
Canada Am is LIVE in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia this morning!
This letter was sent out by Tourism Nova Scotia
How cool is that?
Jeff Hutcheson, sports and weather anchor for the CTV morning show for the past 18 years announced his retirement earlier this month. Known as the “king of the remote broadcast “, Hutcheson is hitting the road for his final cross-Canada tour and has chosen Lunenburg for his last stop.
So, I debated …”Do I go, or do I stay?” Go in to Lunenburg? It’s only 20 minutes from my home. It would be so much fun to see this broadcast LIVE. OR…do I stay at home and watch it with my favourite coffee in hand like I do every morning. Canada Am is actually part of my morning routine. Hmm?
I actually decided to stay home, just because I knew it would be a cool broadcast and I didn’t want to miss it. You know how watching something live works? You go just for the fun and experience of it all but you don’t actually really see the show.
So…Here are a few pics from home lol
Cool…I see Colin in the crowd!
Talking with the Captain of the Bluenose II
East coast music live in Lunenburg:
As much as I would LOVE to be in Lunenburg for this, I know I am seeing more at home in front of my TV. Excuse the fuzzy pics!!! Better if I was there in person. đ
Premier McNeil presents Jeff with a Bluenose II Crew jacket as an honorary member of the crew đ
Hey, it’s our friend Adam Bower from The Grand Banker and one of the Banker chef’s cooking up “The Lunenburger” ( I actually saw Adam’s Mom Marlene and wife Cristina in the crowd too) So cool!!
It was such a great broadcast!! A perfect job promoting touristy Lunenburg and area.
Thank you Jeff for choosing Lunenburg as your last remote broadcast before you retire!
And that’s a wrap for the Month of May! đ
I just couldn’t resist!!!
SPONTANEOUS!!!!!!
I really shouldn’t just wander around shops…I see things!
I had to pick up something yesterday at one store and decided to wander in another store. I hadn’t been there for awhile. Well, I was doing ok and ready to leave when I saw it!
Fabric panels of Canadian cities. And…
coordinating fabric.
Ahhhhh…. I had an idea! A little mid week project for yesterday and today.
A lap blanket/picnic table cloth/picnic blanket for our hikes. PERFECT for our 30th Anniversary Across Canada Trip!
It rolls up tiny for in our hiking bag and also folds nice to put in our guest room when not in use.
I even personalized it đ
Haha, lots of fun! David loves it, but of course, cautions my spontaneity!!
So many places…so little time!
I figured I really need to get planning and an itinerary made for our Across Canada Trip.
We are less than 6 weeks away from beginning this fun adventure and I need to get my research done. The problem is… ok there are a few problems…
So many places to see and so little time ( and money) We only have 3 weeks.
AND…doing all this research at night while I am relaxing , gets me excited and anxious and I can’t turn my “thinker” and ideas off. It takes me forever to fall asleep.
BUT, it’s fun! I absolutely LOVE to research places and plan trips to places we will visit. It’s so interesting, our World is amazing, and Canada…well Canada is an absolutely beautiful country!
3 weeks…first part driving, second part flying and renting a car ( twice), Â and third part flying back to get our car and driving home.
As I have been researching, I have been saving some pics of places we plan to see…here’s a peak of our proposed itinerary in pictures.
Excited to go on a road trip in our little Volvo đ
Can you see why I’m so excited? ahhhh….
There are so many beautiful places and neat things to do…many of them we have seen before, some a few times, I just have to fine tune it so we don’t miss the things that are important and so we don’t exhaust ourselves trying to do too much! The more I research the more I see…PLUS I want to leave some room for spontaneity!
Oh to be a travel planner…BUT then I guess the fun comes when you can actually carry through with your plans!
Chaga
What in the world is Chaga? lol
James brought some Chaga home for me to try. His friend (boss) has been collecting it when he’s out on his hikes and introduced James to this interesting…mushroom? I had to google it.
“Rather than soft like a mushroom, chaga is hard, almost as hard as wood. It is unique, nothing like common mushrooms.” In fact,  the Siberians call it the âGift from Godâ and the âMushroom of Immortality,â this vibrant growth has been used by humans to support health for thousands of years. The Japanese call it âThe Diamond of the Forest,â while the Chinese deem it âKing of Plants.â For the Chinese that is saying a lot, since they have an immense history with countless plants.”
Now, you can get the great powerful secret of the Orient in your very own backyard…kinda…if you know what to look for.
Inonotus obliquus, commonly known as chaga mushroom , is actually a fungus, parasitic on birch trees and other trees.  The sterile conk is irregularly formed and has the appearance of burnt charcoal. Weird… The name Chaga comes from the Russian word for mushroom.
Chaga is traditionally grated into a fine powder and used to brew a beverage resembling coffee or tea. Â But you can also leave it in chunks and brew a “chunk” in a pot of water and keep reusing it until all the goodness is out of it. James brought some ground chaga home and then yesterday his friend gave him a bag of chaga chunks. Of course, I HAD to try it!!
It has a mild flavour and really isn’t too bad. It’s mellow.
Guess I better go for a walk and find some Chaga!
Enjoy your day!
An extra day off…May long weekend…TODAY is Victoria Day!
And even though it’s a rainy one… Enjoy your day!
Just An East Coast Girl 