Time and space, Loons and tall ships
I find it fascinating that CBC online has the Sunday morning choral concert playing here in the Atlantic while our Pacific coast is still listening to late nightstream music channel. It is a warm but wet 8 a.m. here while B.C. is fast asleep at 4 a.m.
The neighbours have been gone a week today and C seems non the worse for wear. In fact he has taken to playing soccer with the other boys after school. It helps that his new good buddy is an exuberant guy who gets into all sorts of trouble but has no problem giving his fellow guy friends big hugs when he sees them - exactly what C needed to feel welcome.
M was excited for the last couple of weeks because her teacher cleverly bought in eggs to hatch. Every day for the entire gestation time M would jump out of bed and scramble to get ready just in case today was the day they hatched. The chicks never did actually hatch - the poor teacher had to dash out last weekend and get a couple of already hatched chicks and surreptitiously replace the eggs. So Monday morning the kids were greeted to two cute fluffy chicks. The chicks have gone back to the farm, literally not figuratively, and I can't wait until they bring in the caterpillars next.
When we dropped off the neighbours last weekend at the airport, the kids were playing with these stuffed birds at the nature store. Each type of bird would play its song when you squeezed it and I found that I missed the call of the loon. Funny what makes you miss home. Well lo and behold we get home later that day and from out of nowhere C and I can hear a loon flying overhead singing its head off. Loons in Halifax?? who knew. I must have known I missed it.
I forgot to mention that at the spring fair last week we had bought raffle tickets for their fundraiser. Everyone wanted the IPod but the other prizes were pretty good too - a $300 mountain bike, a ride on a tall ship, and some memberships to local museums.
We got home after volunteering at the fair and it turns out that the neighbour's grandmother had won the bike! She said it was the only thing she has ever won and of course it was something she could not take to Australia with her. And then we found out that we won the tallship ride! So sometime this summer we are going on the Silva which will also be at the Tallship event in Halifax too http://www.tallshipsnovascotia.com/.
The neighbours have been gone a week today and C seems non the worse for wear. In fact he has taken to playing soccer with the other boys after school. It helps that his new good buddy is an exuberant guy who gets into all sorts of trouble but has no problem giving his fellow guy friends big hugs when he sees them - exactly what C needed to feel welcome.
M was excited for the last couple of weeks because her teacher cleverly bought in eggs to hatch. Every day for the entire gestation time M would jump out of bed and scramble to get ready just in case today was the day they hatched. The chicks never did actually hatch - the poor teacher had to dash out last weekend and get a couple of already hatched chicks and surreptitiously replace the eggs. So Monday morning the kids were greeted to two cute fluffy chicks. The chicks have gone back to the farm, literally not figuratively, and I can't wait until they bring in the caterpillars next.
When we dropped off the neighbours last weekend at the airport, the kids were playing with these stuffed birds at the nature store. Each type of bird would play its song when you squeezed it and I found that I missed the call of the loon. Funny what makes you miss home. Well lo and behold we get home later that day and from out of nowhere C and I can hear a loon flying overhead singing its head off. Loons in Halifax?? who knew. I must have known I missed it.
I forgot to mention that at the spring fair last week we had bought raffle tickets for their fundraiser. Everyone wanted the IPod but the other prizes were pretty good too - a $300 mountain bike, a ride on a tall ship, and some memberships to local museums.
We got home after volunteering at the fair and it turns out that the neighbour's grandmother had won the bike! She said it was the only thing she has ever won and of course it was something she could not take to Australia with her. And then we found out that we won the tallship ride! So sometime this summer we are going on the Silva which will also be at the Tallship event in Halifax too http://www.tallshipsnovascotia.com/.
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