Whirligig Weekend

Last weekend was Shelburne's 14th Annual Whirligig Festival.

The festival is held in Shelburne's historic district of overlooking the harbour.  The setting is beautiful!  It was a gorgeous day - blue skies, puffy white clouds and just the right amount of wind to set the whirligigs a-spinning.  The entries are always so creative.  

Here is a farmer fighting for a carrot.

This one makes me think of bath time at home when my boys were little!  Did you notice the husband? 

Bath Time!

Skunk!

There are always a couple of naughty ones. This is one of my favourites: the duck is using the topless girl as a decoy while he hides behind the reeds ready to shoot the hunter

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Duck Hunting with a Difference!

Hope to see you there next year.

Fall is in the Air

It is September 22nd already!  Hasn't the summer flown by quickly.

Today marks the last day of Summer and the first day of Fall.  Fall officially starts at 4:44 EDT today.  That's 3:44 in Nova Scotia.   In 23 minutes time. 

To mark the start of Fall, I spent the day working in the garden.  This year we grew a really good crop of weeds in our vegetable garden.   It was sad to see the beautiful raised beds we had so eagerly built in 2011 overgrown with grasses and clover.  So ... today I spent a few hours weeding, turning the soil and generally getting the garden ready for a fall planting of garlic bulbs. 

 

We are trying three different varieties.  One I bought from a lady in Pubnico on Saturday at the Mile Long Yard Sale; another from Uncle Sids and the third from another local gardener. 

Don't they look nice all planted in a row.

Now all we have to do is  w a i t.

Hocus Pocus

 I attended the Basement Theatre production of the British Drawing Room comedy - Hocus Pocus by Jack Popplewell.  The play is about identical twin brothers who lead diametrically opposed lives.  Simon is a vicar of a small country church, while his brother Peter is a successful company promoter.  Goodwill and creative accounting lead to financial difficulties for both brothers.  The ladies in their lives propose a creative solution and the plot thickens as the two brothers’ step into each others' lives and use their own talents solve the problems of their twin.  

They play was excellent.  I am always immensely impressed by the performances of our local actors and actresses.  This play was no different.  Robin Anderson-Forbes played the Ross brothers and learned the lines for two parts.  I enjoyed watching Jan Pulfrey in her debut performance as Bella Newell – a warm-hearted striptease artist!  I am looking forward to next year’s performance already!

A Shelburne Weekend

November 21, 2011 and I have finally stepped into the world of blogging.  I hope you will find my posts interesting.  I am sure they will develop over time.  Right now, I don't really know what to say!

We had a beautiful weekend here in Shelburne:  crystal blue skies, 14 degrees C and windy.  Saturday was a busy day.  We had a farewell breakfast at the Lower Ohio Hall for friends, Phil and Rita who are going to Australia and the UK for 3 months.   Lucky them! When we arrived the boys were thrilled to see the model train display.  It took all of their self-control and some gentle reminding for them not to grab the engines.  I had to explain that when men play with trains they are NOT toys.  My youngest, who is 5 could not understand that.

After breakfast the boys and I went on the Shop Shelburne Christmas Crawl and then out to the Christmas Bazaar and bake sale in Ingomar, where Santa arrived on a fire engine.  The kids had a visit with Santa.  S asked for Band Aids and M asked for a gun.  Not really sure why they would want those things.  The Band Aid request was pretty weird.   In the afternoon we went for a walk around Island’s Provincial Park where we collected sticks and pine cones for a Christmas craft.   

Saturday Night a group of us went bowling at Swansburg bowling lanes in Shelburne to celebrate all the November birthdays.  I am a consistently terrible bowler, so I was really happy with 130 for the first game.  It took all of my effort and concentration to make 100 on the 2^nd game.  More practice that’s what I need.