exit 19

Exit 19 to Paradise: and I live not far from Paradise. I drove home yesterday through the rain and gloom until I crossed over the mountain to the shore. Then the sunlight came streaming through and I was home for a month..

authing food

This was yesterday's post that disappeared into a cyberspace black hole. I went to the market. Only in Canada, they say.

Cornhill

Many years ago, long before the internet I saw a small advertisement in a funky magazine for a small nursery that grew stock for short seasons. They specialised in hardy roses grown on their own root stock I ordered a John Cabot rose to grow over our fence, and in the post a bare rooted specimen arrived. It thrived and proved to be spectacular. Now I live not far from that nursery. I decided to visit it because now I have another fence to cover.
The place has expanded, has lovely gardens and this tea room. This time I have an Alexander MacKenzie rose to take home with me tomorrow.
By tomorrow evening I'll be home in Nova Scotia for a month. I shall again be far from an internet, so my postings shall be sporadic.

ice cream queries

In answer to a request of what Polar Bear Paws tasted like: well here you are: http://www.farmersdairy.ca/products.php?cat_id=4&sub_id=27&products_id=153

I shouldn't have read that! Anyway it's a vanilla ice cream with almonds and chocolate candies with caramel inside, as I remember it - I must try it again as I have been too long in icecreamless Northern Ontario which has real polar bears. When I stopped at the little place in the photo I tried "Hokey Pokey" ice cream - not nearly as good.

In the Maritimes the favourite flavour seems to be Grape Nut. I know, cereal in ice cream: you have to taste it. Millions, okay hundred of thousands, cannot be wrong! (The population is not very high.)

This store with the sign in the photo is a little more high class and is in the old train station just down my road.

ice cream cone

Meanwhile back in the Maritimes: no matter how small the place you can always buy an ice cream cone and there are usually at least twenty flavours to chose from. My favourites are ginger and polar bear paws.

Distillary District

So after church we went and hung out in the Distillary District. We had a great cup of cappucino and cruised several of the trendy shops. Then we went to the airport and I flew back to the Maritimes.

off to church

Yesterday morning I meet up with my sister and we went off to her church. An hour and a half - not too bad for the Orthodox, and they make up for it by serving a full lunch following the service. The Orthodox service feeds me in ways that I cannot comprehend.