Welcome to Our Web Page
When this web page began more than twenty years ago, it described most of the activities of our whole family. Now that most of our children have flown the coop, it is mostly about what Ann and I (Dave) have been up to. I update it most weekends. We save all the messages over the past year in an Archive along with links to what we were doing ten and twenty years ago.
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Sunday September 28
A greater yellowlegs on the salt marsh on Monday
The last couple of weeks have been full of shows. A week ago Tuesday, Ann and Nancy went to see DJ Ahmet, a coming-of-age movie set in Macedonia, at the Atlantic International Film Festival. The following Friday, we met Kim, Glen and our biking friend Dick for dinner at Evan's Seafood followed by the play Coal Bowl Queen upstairs at Eastern Front Theatre. And on Thursday, Ann and I went out for dinner at The Canteen then went to see Mischief, the first play of the Neptune season. It was better than I expected (most Indigenous-based plays we have seen recently have not been very good) and had a great set: a store set inside a whale skeleton on which scenes of stars or whales or city streets were projected (it was much more effective than it sounds).
In between the Coal Bowl Queen and Mischief, we went to a dinner at The Farm at South Cove (just outside Lunenburg) in support of the Kidney Foundation of Canada. We shared a table with our friend Erika, who recently had a kidney transplant, Ingrid, Alex, Jayne, Jackie and Robert.
The Saturday before last, I rode with the Ramblers in the annual winery tour in the Annapolis and Gaspereau valleys. These days there does not seem to be much interest in going into the wineries or sampling their wares, so I think I may leave this ride out of the schedule next year. Meanwhile, Ann and Nancy went shopping in Wolfville and had lunch at Luckett's Vineyard before meeting me after the ride at Just Us Café and Roastery. On the way home we stopped in at friends of Nancy's in Mount Denson whose daughter/granddaughter, aged two, was having a birthday party in their back yard.
Last Monday was a landmark in my biking career. While Ann and Nancy relaxed at home, I rode from home to join the Railers for a ride from Shearwater along the trails all the way to Porter's Lake, which would have been about 95 kms in total. When I got home a did a few tours around the neighbourhood to make it 100 kms, the most I have ever ridden in a single day. It was a lovely day and the trails make easy riding, so I was not nearly as tired as I thought I would be. I took a few photos along the way including this one of a greater yellowlegs looking for food at low tide.
While I was out, Lauren returned from Cape Breton and that evening Ann, Nancy and Lauren went out for dinner a Trattoria Vesso with Ingrid, Jocelyn and Lokman, and, on Tuesday, in the midst of a quiet day at home, they went for a walk on Lawrencetown Beach. Nancy and Lauren left for home on Tuesday morning.
Ann and I were also out again yesterday. The Rambler ride leader changed the route from the one I had scheduled to one that we rode back in the spring. Rather than repeat the ride, we decided to go on our own on the original ride from Bridgewater through Conquerall Mills to Petite Rivière (the village), then along the shore to LaHave, across the river on the ferry, and back up the eastern bank of the LaHave River to Bridgewater. It was a lovely day and is a very nice ride with very pretty sections along Petite Rivière (the river), the coastline at Dublin Shore, and the LaHave River. There was also a pleasant stop for lunch at the LaHave Bakery.