Welcome baby Athena and Happy Birthday Mike!

Welcome to the family baby Athena! Congratulations Michelle and Kurt and big brother and sister Kaeden and Ellia! Also congrats to Frank on grandchild #5!

Happy Birthday Mike! I tried to scan a baby pic but my scanner and resizer is at school (Brenton) so I had to go with Angel Mike! I think this is number 42?? Have a great one!

Aaron meets Reilly

Aaron met Reilly (we named our new goat!) for the first time. You can see a hunk of bread hanging out of Reilly's mouth. Aaron says Reilly is small (compared to Clyde!!) and he's a nice goat.

Aaron explaining to the bunnies that he has no more bread left.



Aaron swinging - oops, sorry Mama, we got a little dirty playing in the sandbox. Aaron was 'Bob the Builder' and I was his friend Wendy.



Well we woke to snow yesterday morning. I thought I took a picture of it; however, it seems my camera hates snow too and decided to delete it. It was quite windy and some folks lost their power - not us this time. Last weekend we lost our power for about 9 hours - yuck! I hope this is not how the winter is going to go. Oh, Frank, we saw your old friend Rick White last Saturday night at the Legion - we went there for a supper/dinner theatre. Rick has bought a house in Phinneys Cove - I haven't seen Rick for years and years but still recognized him - even with a busy beard!

On hurricanes and new additions and other stuff

Well it looks like we are going to get slammed with Hurricane Noel. Gary has the hatches battened down and all light things packed away. Brenton, who is in Quebec representing Nova Scotia at a student biligualism conference, will not be flying home today as scheduled. Their (he and a female student and their french teacher) flight has been cancelled and the next flight that they could get on is Tuesday (!) so they are taking the train home instead. He will be arriving home tomorrow night instead of tonight. I guess their trip will be more of an education then they planned!

Last weekend Gary and I had a short get away for 1 night and we went to Lunenburg and stayed at Lunenburg Oceanview Chalets - the owners stayed with us in the spring so we did the reciprocle (?) thing and stayed with them. Lunenburg is such a gorgeous town and, as you can see, the weather was fantastic! It was so nice being a tourist for a change and we were almost giddy when a shop owner asked where we were from - when we left the shop Gary and I both said simultaneously - "We look like tourists!" As you can tell, we are not used to being on that end of things! The next day we went to Mahone Bay, another pretty town, and then headed home. It was only a one night getaway, but what a treat!



In new news, I'm not sure if we reported this or not, but we sold our male goat, Clyde as we discovered he was not a pygmy goat at all - just undernourished when we got him and so he grew to be quite big (and stinky). So yesterday Gary and brother Eddie went to Oaklawn Zoo and purchased this little fellow. He is so sweet - almost like a dog. He puts his front paws up on your leg so that you'll pat his head. Now we have to come up with a name for him. Looking for suggestions . . . . Also, this little guy is not stinky which is such a plus. Gary picked him up yesterday to put him in the pen and we don't have to burn his clothes!