I’ll take it!
February 5, 2016
February 5, 2015…not so nice
Have a good weekend! It’s the start of Spring Festival/Lunar New Year in China, Carnaval in Brazil and it’s Super Bowl Sunday! LOTS of fun!!!
Category: Nova Scotia
A drive on the beach…
There’s no question I LOVE the beach!
“This really is my favourite beach! We are so blessed to live this close to such a beautiful beach.” I said to my husband as we were driving, yes driving, on the beach yesterday.
There aren’t too many places that you can drive on a beach but Crescent Beach is one of them and it’s not far from our home. We usually don’t drive on it. We usually like to walk this beach, like on January 1st of each new year. It’s tradition. But this is our “go to beach” and we like to visit often.
The first couple days of February have been so unbelievably mild and sunny that yesterday we went for a drive to the beach and because the sun was soon setting, rather than walk we just slowly drove the length of the beach and watched the waves roll and the beautiful glow on the water. There is something so relaxing, so soothing and peaceful about this to me. Ahhh…
I often say we should buy a place or land and build here, so we can have this EVERY day but, I also like the convenience of living right in town too. Hmm…
If the remaining weeks of Winter could be like this…I wouldn’t mind it a bit. However, in a day or so I’m sure there will be another snow storm. We’ve just got to be thankful and enjoy the nice ones.
No Shadow!!!
No Shadow!!! And what that means is…
It’s Groundhog Day and Shubencadie Sam, the local rodent Spring predictor, didn’t see his shadow this morning and go scurrying back in to his borrow. So…
It’s an EARLY SPRING folks!!!! Yay!!
WELCOME to your new home!!
Today is an exciting day!!!! Good Morning and Welcome to your new home! Welcome to Bridgewater!!
The first Syrian refugee family has arrived on the South Shore of Nova Scotia. Fadia Mekdad and her husband, Mohamed Al Kafri, and their daughters, Fatima and Farah.
( GAYLE WILSON PHOTO)
The family is sponsored by St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Bridgewater, which had raised $23,000 to bring the family in. In addition to the cash, there were numerous contributions in kind. Tim O’Regan of O’Regan’s Toyota, for example, provided a minivan to pick the family up from the airport, and Bridgewater’s Bulk Barn has invited them to come to the store to stock their kitchen with spices and other foods.For the first week or so, they will be staying at the home of parishioners in town. At the end of the month, after they choose from among furniture that was donated, they’ll be moving into an apartment in town. ( Lighthouse Now)
We hope you finally feel very safe and as you begin your new life, settle in, and learn some English, we hope and pray that you’ll feel welcome and it will be a smooth adjustment. We are so thankful to the BIG hearts of the families that have sponsored you!
Merry Christmas From Nova Scotia ~ East Coast Style!
Nothing says East Coast and Christmas more than a great feed of lobster. After all, it’s Lobster season here along the East Coast and it’s time to enjoy our annual Christmas time tradition of Lobster ( a little extra seafood too)
It’s Winter time again…
the most FAVOURITE season of all Canadians…NOT! Well ok…for some it’s the favourite!
It is known as the longest night and shortest day. It is the Winter Solstice!
The winter solstice happens every year when the Sun reaches its most southerly declination of -23.5 degrees. In other words, when the North Pole is tilted furthest – 23.5 degrees – away from the Sun, delivering the fewest hours of sunlight of the year.
The Sun is directly overhead of the Tropic of Capricorn in the Southern Hemisphere during the December solstice and is closer to the horizon than at any other time in the year, meaning shorter days and longer nights.
The day after the winter solstice marks the beginning of lengthening days, leading up to the summer solstice in June.
Happy 1st Day of Winter!
Ps. ( No snow in the forecast until maybe next week)
Beautiful Windows
I love a nice evening walk. And this time of year it’s so much fun especially to walk along city streets…oh how I miss that!! So, in my case it’s small town.
My small town stores have beautiful window displays for Christmas!
So pretty!! I may have to try to get to the city to window shop.
Just a drive, a walk and a little shopping
After all the rain yesterday, today was gorgeous!! Blue skies and not too chilly. My youngest son was around this morning so we grabbed a Tim’s, headed to Mahone Bay, parked the car, and walked to some of our favourite shops. We spent an hour or so browsing and picking up a few things.
It was just what I needed today!
I Can’t Believe we haven’t had any snow yet!!!
Hmmmm…..I wonder if we’ll have a white Christmas this year?
Not that I am wishing for a lot of snow. We had so much last year and it lasted a long time, so I am not wishing for a lot of snow and I am kinda happy that we haven’t had any yet.
BUT… I do like snow for Christmas and today is December 15 and with 10 days until Christmas Day it really doesn’t look like snow in the forecast. At least any amount that will stay.
Today in the Maritimes…in New Brunswick 10-20cm snow, most of Nova Scotia 30-40mm rain, there’s ice pellets and high winds and a real mix bag of weather. I guess it’s good that here in Bridgewater it’s wind and rain.
Looking back a couple years to 2013…we had a nasty mess on Dec 15 when we just arrived home from China for Christmas vacay and needed to get things decorated.
And then even last year …well, I guess we got our first real snowfall on the 23rd…
so there’s still hope…
I’m dreaming of a white Christmas
The Official Food Of Halifax
That’s right it has been made official!
The donair is the food of Halifax!
For years people have been coming to Nova Scotia, Halifax in particular to try the sweet and savoury meat-lovers treat that is closely related to the Greek gyro.
Well, in a close tie, the donair has been elevated to official food status in Halifax. Mayor Mike Savage broke a 7-7 tie yesterday, December 8 at Tuesday’s Halifax regional council meeting that declares the donair “Halifax’s Official Food”
It is suggested that the donair is to Halifax what the Smoked Meat sandwich is to Montreal, or the Beaver Tail is to Ottawa, as well as British Columbia’s Nanaimo bars and Quebec’s poutine and Saskatchewan’s Saskatoon Berry pie. If you are Canadian you recognize all these.
Yum! I love it! Soon time for a donair…
Just An East Coast Girl 