Renovations to the Well

Old pipes.....difficult to see!!!

New well cap!

Sometimes it pays to be proactive rather than reactive. Last weekend while working outdoors, Paul decided to inspect the well. Everything is original to when we built the house, 26 years ago. The pipes at the top of the well casing were quite rusted and our neighbor is in the well drilling business, so we had him come over for a consult. He felt we could wait until it died on us but with 26 years of service that could be any time and with our luck it would be in the dead of winter. So on Friday we had a submersible pump put in, had the well casing brought above ground and a new tank put in........all I saw was $$$$$$$$$ signs. We have yet to refill the hole and I have to redo the flower bed. My plants are renting garden space at Longwoods.....thank goodness for friends, especially 'Over the Hill"

A Day in the Garden

American goldfinch....wrong feeder!

Front walk

Backyard


More perennials

Load of compost

Saturday, Paul and I were up bright and early. We were at the landfill site shortly after 8:00am with a load of brush....two weeks prior we had trimmed hedges, shrubs and cleaned up around the property. After unloading this we shovelled on a truck load of compost. We then stopped at a plant sale, and of course, I had to come home with some new palnts. I spent the day moving and dividing plants and filled the bed along the front walk with perennials. Then I topped up the beds with the compost. I also potted some plants to give to friends. Paul spent the day edging the beds and helping me. Then I put out my birdbath, hummingbird feeder( no hummingbird yet), stepping stones, solar lights, etc. It was an absolutely beautiful day.

Sunday it rained a good part of the day, and hard at times, but the plants got a good soaking. Emma is down for the weekend and her and Jack joined us for a roast beef supper last night. Today is rather overcast and Paul is out visiting Rodney. It's a day for ironing, mending and housework........yuk!!!!! I'd rather be out in the yard :-)

Tomorrow it's back to work :-(

Brennas First Day at Work

Today was Brenna's first day at work. She was very pleased to see her neighbor and friend as well as a high school friend. It was a day of settling back in......after all it's like riding a bike, you never forget. She did come home with work related injuries...........numerous paper cuts :-) and to top it all off she had no house keys and after work had to go over the hill to Longwwoods until her parents arrived home. All in all it was a good day......she didn't get yelled at, she didn't get dirty and what was the third one, she had time to eat??????? Help me out Jon.

Jack Graduates from STU

STU Graduate

Emma and Jack in Margaret Norrie McCain Hall.

Yesterday was graduation Day at STU. The ceremony is usually held outdoors on campus, but the weather was not co-operating so it was moved inside. This is the first university graduation I have ever attended. Things wrapped up around 5:00pm then back to the university for pictures, returning of gowns and picking up of diploma. After we gathered at Emma and Jacks appartment with Jacks family. It was a great day.
CONGRATULATIONS JACK!!!! JOB WELL DONE!!!!!!

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY

The modern Mother's Day holiday was created by Anna Jarvis as a day for each family to honor their mother and it's now celebrated on various days in many places around the world. It complements Father's Day, the celebration honoring fathers.This holiday is relatively modern, being created at the start of the 20th century.

Spent the weekend in Grand Falls. Dutch Girl with her Mom.

We women can relate.....have the kleenex box handy!

The "To Do List"

Today was a very productive day. We spent the day completing Opa and Omas "To Do List". We managed to cross every item off the list:

Put the windmill out

Put up the gazebo

String lights in the gazebo

Put out the deck furniture

Put the BBQ on the deck

Put new cord on the flag pole and put up the flag

Weed and clean out the flower and shrub beds

Weed and mulch the bed along the front walk

Put out garden ornaments(shovel, bird bath, etc)

Put out solar lights.

It was an absolutely gorgeous day and the weather co-operated until we were finishing the last item, working with the METAL flag pole.....we could hear thunder in the distance (not the best place to be, under a flag pole :-) but by the time we packed it in and came in for supper, it had started to rain.

A day well spent.

Tonight Brenna gets in from Toronto and Paul will be picking her up in town.

Tomorrow we are attending Jacks graduation from STU.

The evening ended with a great game of cards.......Hearts!!!

Can Cleo Do This????

Fire! Fire! Fire!

For my sisters, after all you each lived in Halifax at one time or another!

The once-raging wildfire in the Halifax area has been reduced to a few hot spots, the city's fire department said Saturday.
Lloyd Currie, executive officer with the Halifax regional fire service, said the flames are out, but fire crews will be watching for any smouldering debris through the weekend.
"The fire is extinguished. That means right now there is no visible flame. The Department of Natural Resources is going back in there with 20 to 30 of their crews to take care of any possible flare-ups and hot spots," Currie said.
Fire investigators are continuing their search for a cause of the fire, which destroyed eight homes, damaged 10 others and prompted about 1,200 people to flee.
The blaze broke out Thursday in an area between Herring Cove Road and Purcells Cove Road. Crews were able to get it under control on Friday under rainy skies.
Dave Meldrum of the Halifax regional fire service said he expects officials will allow residents to return to the last two dozen evacuated homes in a couple of days.
As for the cause of the fire, investigators are focusing their attention on the area between Roaches Pond and MacIntosh Street.
Police are investigating a suspected case of arson, saying they believe a home was set on fire during the evacuation process.