Lisa's Blog

I love....

• sunshine
• east coast air - so moist and fresh
• weekends in PEI
• weekends away from computers
• family
• that my Mom came to visit us for a few days
• that she saw a BEAR, deer, fox, groundhog, hummingbirds
• weekends in PEI with family
• PEI red sand - even when it has coloured my shoes
• that my Grandma is so healthy and of sound mind at her age
• that my dog had a fun weekend with us and is so well behaved.
• ferry rides and holding the rail tight in the wind of the Northumberland Strait while I scan the water for marine life
• that my husband gets along so well with my family (and vice versa)
• that I get to spend part of Father's Day with my DAD

The whale and puffin watching boat were on in Newfoundland last year was burned badly by vandals this morning.

The owners don't think the boat will be salvageable.

News Coverage:
http://www.thetelegram.com/index.cfm?sid=343291&sc=79 [includes photo of damage]
http://www.vocm.com/newsarticle.asp?mn=2&id=7032&latest=1

O'Briens Boat Tours:
http://www.obriensboattours.com/

I'm having a great week. Highlights:

• I went over to PEI for the weekend to hang with Grandma Stock and Uncle Joe. Had a great time. Grandma and I hit the shops in downtown Charlottetown.
• Jeff painted the kitchen ceiling a couple of times while I was gone. Yahoo! Because I have been totally stressed out about painting the kitchen - all those awful edges
• the last 2 nights we've done 2 coats of wall paint. At first we were seriously in doubt about the colour, and Jeff might still be but he's staying quiet, but I LOOOVE the colour we picked (herbes de provence)
• our edges aren't perfect, but I didn't stress
• This Benjamin Moore paint is really nice. It doesn't splatter and it doesn't stink. The ceiling paint stunk up the house for days. Well it wasn't really ceiling paint, because my father, once farmer - now painter, said to use a flat white wall paint instead. I told that to the lady at the paint store and she said, "You know what? All the painters who come in here say the same thing."
• I've been working my tail off - both at my day job, and after hours for my business. I picked up another web design contract from my favourite client

How did it get to be 10:45pm already. Gotta go fall asleep now. More updates later.

Jeff showed me this video last night and I smiled through the whole thing.

You've gotta see this video! A moose and her two babies play in a back yard sprinkler.

I really think the lighthouse at Cape George is my favourite place in Nova Scotia. I think I could sit there all afternoon and watch the lobster boats, the waves, listen to the birds and the clanging of the buoy, watching the tourists drive up, do a quick walk about and zip off, and thinking about the life lighthouse keeper and his family must have had living at that site.

In between our Saturday errands in town, we drove up to the Cape George lighthouse.

You can see Cape Breton and PEI from this spot. And sometimes whales! But not today.

Here are a few photos:

Jeff got a new Canadien's cap, but I don't think it is giving the team any luck

This is my new favourite picture of Jeff EVER!

We stopped at Cribbon's to see if they were serving up their fish and chips but they still aren't open. Seems silly. There seems to be a lot of tourists around already. While we were at the lighthouse, two motor homes pulled up with California plates! It sounded like they were speaking Dutch