Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Extra long weekend

I decided to go home for the long weekend. So I did on Friday, now it's Wednesday and I'm still here. One of the benefits of being unemployed, I guess. Everyone here has just been too busy to take me back to Halifax and wasn't too anxious to pay for the bus trip so here I remain. I would have packed more underwear if I'd I known I was going to be here so long. I'm now thinking I was crazy to move into Halifax and live in a little apartment and pay rent just at the time when Bayfield comes alive and is at it's most beautiful. Halifax is great and all but it can't compare to an adorable seaside community in the summer. However I have friends in Halifax and the same can't be said for here. I plan to be back in the city by tomorrow afternoon.


We opened the ice cream stand today. So far business has been good. The locals have been asking for weeks when it was going to open, since it's the only source of entertainment in Bayfield besides the beach. I've been trying to sample all the flavours before I go. Here's a few of them.


My brother Mark was also home for the weekend from Fredericton. We all got to meet his girlfriend Emilie from Montreal, who seems lovely. She liked my father's homemade apple cider and ate every edible part of the lobster, so my parents deemed her worthy.

My father didn't mention to me that he had started beekeeping again so I got a bit of a shock when I was wandering through the woods and came upon two very busy hives. He's a fairly experienced beekeeper and the hives are well maintained but occasionally I still worry about them swarming.


Graduation was last week so my sister is now officially free from high school. She seems pleased. Prom was also last week. Krista's radioactive pink dress cost her five times as much as my prom dress. I hope she enjoyed it. Here's her and boyfriend Jeff, pre-prom.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Glad to hear you're returning to Hfx soon. I wouldn't be here either if I didn't live in lovely upper tantallon with our abundance of squirrels and raccoons tearing up the garbage. Ay.

That is some kind of pink. but I like it. I'm trying to get Dave to wear a hat like that for the wedding. He's not buying it.

Anonymous said...

This was Janet by the way.

Anonymous said...

You probably realized that was me from what I said, sorry for being redundant!

Kathleen said...

Just arrived back in Halifax. It's good to be back in my own place.

I think that kind of hat would look good on Dave. Jeff wore it because it sort of went well with the cane (Krista is holding it in the pictute) which was not just a prop. He'd just had back surgery the week before.