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As you probably surmised by now, not much woodworking is taking place around here, but that does not mean I stopped lurking for tools in our travels :-) The grand peanuts are also taking up a lot of our time, so even less shop time. Rudy sure is having a great time with the girls :-) Friday before the girls arrived for the week end, we took a drive to Annapolis for yet another chocolate run (Tm), and of course stopped at a greenhouse she hasn't been in yet :-) This is what we brought back Friday. Chocolates? I'm afraid none survived the trip back home. Finally got my first English infill plane. unknown maker, but the blade is from Spear & Jackson. Extra refined cast steel. the blade is in good shape, the mouth close pretty tight, can't wait to try it, but, that would have to wait, we are taking the kids to the grand street parade for the 58th Kingston Steer BBQ . Watching the parade that start the day's events And yes, they are wearing the official RCAF tartan for t...

Well .... Temporarily at best, but heh :-) Back in 2011 when we got posted here, in Greenwood NS, the house we bought had a rusty flag pole in the front yard. Barely visible, but the pole is there, middle RH corner. The two large trees too close to the house, would be cut down later on Yes, way too close... So of course, one of my task was to clean up, paint the pole and hang a flag. Which I carried out diligently, but it kinda look lost into a large flat, feature less front yard.... So.... In the year leading to my retirement (2013), we started to landscaped the front yard, wanting to make the flag area more of an anchoring feature. Our first plant garden in front of the flag pole, circa May 2013  Throughout the following years, more plants and flowers were added, some relocated some did not survived some of our harsh winters.,. We lost the flag pole to a severe windstorm and rust ... Since then, all the major renovations have been carried out inside, bringing this 1976 house (the...

Not sure what you have to celebrate this year, but Heh, make the best of it :-) Polite Canadian political rant :-) Yesterday we went to the city (Halifax), to spend the day by the waterfront. There is always something interesting going on, this week we have a visit from a US Navy aircraft carrier, the CVN 69  USS Dwight D Eisenhower  . She is on her way back to home port after a deployment. She was here for both Canada Day and the US 4th of July... Back in my days it would had been... :-) Pretty impressive. At dockside there were two big cruise ships also, the Cunard's Queen Mary 2 and the Holland America's Maasdam CVN 69  Framed by the 2 cruise ships bow For security reasons, she is berthed by McNab island Cunard's Queen Mary 2 Samuel Cunard was born in Halifax and became a shipping magnate,  pioneering steam ships between England and Canada  Holland America Maasdam After all the rainy weather we had recently, it was a great sunny day to explore the waterfront...

Today is Canada, as we know it today, 150 years birthday.... I was planning to finish the plant's bedding and fix my flag pole...but... that did not happened, nor did much work got done on fix a chair in the month of June... Oh well, life gets in the way. And life is too precious and short lived, to worry about small things like that. I feel fortunate to live here, in Canada, I cherish my liberty and freedom. I gave most of my adult life protecting this hard earned way of life. We are not a perfect society by any stretch of the imagination but, we like to think of ourselves as polite and well mannered. ..(except on ice during a game of Hockey )  :-)  So I had to compromise and put up another flag mount, this time on the side of the house, with a few days to spare before today... :-) View from our little cozy bistro corner Meanwhile, I started digging the flower beds up front. Widened the existing one and made a new half moon, behind. I was pleasantly surprised at the depth and...