Taste of the Danforth
Saturday August 7th, 2010 we did a roadtrip to Toronto, parked, caught the bus and the subway and arrived at the Taste of the Danforth Greek food celebration around 11am.…
July 8th – Day Thirteen
Thursday July 8th, 2010 and we were pretty well done. Too bad we still had over 1000km to go. We blew through Fredericton into Edmunston and looked around for the…
July 7th – Day Twelve
Wednesday we headed out of Digby before most of the locals were even out of bed and headed for the Annapolis Royal gardens. We got there a little early so…
July 6th – Day Eleven
Tuesday we packed up and headed back to Peggy’s Cove, stopping off at the SwissAir Flight 111 memorial. We had followed the crash and had recently seen a documentary on…
July 5th – Day Ten
Monday July 5th we headed down the highway to Halifax. Just across the border into Nova Scotia we ran into this Honey Bee sign. Interesting as colony collapse is widespread…
July 4th – Day Nine
Sunday July 9th was the Annual General Meeting of the RASC and a very short 2nd National Council meeting. In the afternoon there were more talks by David Levy and…
July 3rd – Day Eight
Saturday July 3rd was the real start to the conference- paper sessions. There were two parallel streams in the morning, which means we each missed half of the talks. A…
July 2nd – Day Seven
Friday July 2nd saw us hit the tourbus for a trip to the Hopewell Rocks at low tide. It was fun walking the wet/damp ocean floor bottom wondering just how…
July 1st – Day Six
Thursday July 1st was Canada Day, although you wouldn’t really know it. It was also National Council Meeting day. It went pretty quick and before you know it, it was…
June 30th – Day Five
Wednesday June 30th we were aiming just to drive back into New Brunswick, making stops in Truro and other small spots, and get to the University by nightfall. We made…
June 29th – Day Four
Tuesday June 29th. The day of the Cabot Trail. Before this holiday I wasn’t even sure where the Cabot trail was in Nova Scotia. I do now! It was raining,…
uggg. Not again!
They’re back! The dreaded tomato hookworm showed itself to us for the first time this season July 29th. We found 10 of them from about 50 plants and another 2…
Nearing the End of July
It’s been a very busy month but here are a few quick highlights of the last few weeks. * New deer fence: We built a 7′ high deer fence around…
June 28th – Day Three
Day Three – Monday It’s not quite tourist season around here yet… it seems to start on July 1st. But we took it easy in the morning, snapped the obligatory…
June 27th – Day Two
Day two started cold… did we mention that? 3 degrees C to be exact. We fired up the camp stove and made some hot coffee, packed up, hit the road…