She’d been high and dry for four years and needed scraping, recaulking and paint. Lots of scraping, recaulking and paint! First stop: the Winterton Boat Building Museum for information on recaulking and general boat construction. A caulking demonstration on a rodney at theWinterton Boat Building Museum. The stuff hanging off is oakum. The Winterton museum…
Category: Travel
Field trips and journeys, no matter how far
Bouncing off walls – a trip to Grates Cove, NL
I don’t know about anyone else, but I have this mental list of places within driving range that I’ve always wanted to see but haven’t yet gotten to. Gradually, I hope to work my way through them as the fates (Money, Capricious Child and Time) allow. One such was Grates Cove. Now Grates Cove is…
Flower photos
No really good reason for these, other than that I am in awe of the variety and vibrancy of the flora that manages to find a toehold in this beautiful land of ours…. Iris unfurl their cloaks to worship the sun. As you can see, I have a thing about irises….
Weekend wanderings
Last week was a brutish week. Nasty and brutish. Not short, though. Never liked Hobbes anyway. This week promises more of the same, if not worse. The weekend, however, had an unexpected sunny Sunday in it, a Sunday on which we discovered that Katherine can now handle a 4km hike without difficulty. We headed for…
Round the Bay Part I – Salmon Cove & Carbonear
When asked what I wanted to do for Mother's Day by my wonderful husband, I said that I wanted an outing, with hiking, a picnic, some photographs and happy people. He said he could do most of those, but the last one might be problematic, given that The Daughter has turned into The Fiend lately…
Raising the Bar Strength & Conditioning 