After nearly two gloomy weather weeks in Nova Scotia our time is winding down. Yesterday was actually the best day that we've had with some sun on and off all day. We (Bill, Toni, Mom and I) took advantage of that by driving an hour along the Bra's Dor Lake through St. Peters up to Big Pond to go to Rita's Tea Room. The scenery was as pretty as usual and Bill is quite taken with this Nova Scotia has been Rita MacNeil. She's a local singer who has made it nationally in years gone by. We enjoyed the food offerings and the little trip. You know you can only keep Bill cooped up for so long.
In other news we had a delivery of gravel on Wednesday to help our water soaked driveway. They boys were sopped to the skin smoothing it out on the driveway. They had to do it because we couldn't get in or out of the driveway with the pile in the way and Devin and Leigh were leaving.
Later in the day they also delivered a load of loam that we will use to fill in David and Jonathan's cabin site, which is the site of our former cabin that we moved across the road in 1996. All went well until he started to pull out and got stuck in the mud. An hour and some maneuvering later he was on his way. He made both these deliveries in the worst rain we had had. A crazy time to do it but I guess he couldn't do any of his other work.
So we continue to play with Calleigh, read, eat, play games etc. I actually left Calleigh and a book long enough to enter a little Rook tournament. Corey and I were against Toni and Lori. They were very confident of their abilities to prevail. It turned out in the end that their confidence was well founded and Corey and I were the loosers. Oh, well.
Corey, Duncan and Calleigh leave tonite. They need to drive through the nite for Calleigh's sake. When awake she can't see any reason to sit still. She has enjoyed the playground in our little town and generally speaking continues to be on the go. She took a few minutes yesterday to pick blueberries with Papa. I think she ate all she picked.
We will be arriving home early Sunday morning and then our usual life starts again. Maybe I'll post a blog now and again then.
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We miss you and the fun already. Wish we were still there especially since you had a sunny day today. Naturally, as I sit here in your house in Norfolk, it's raining and thunder and lightening. There's no escaping it.
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