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| Willing the pumpkins to offer a flower |
I am offering a short little post today, written from the sunroom at my parents' house in Fredericton. This is the beginning of some rather ridiculous simultaneous adventures for all four of us:
1) Clark leaves this morning for a couple of weeks of fieldwork in the Arctic (The Northwest Passage, to be exact). This is one of the big projects he took over when he got hired at BIO, and he will be acting as lead scientist, collecting data from a Coast Guard ship called the Larson. He is, as you can imagine, both excited and nervous.
2) As it so happens, this week is also when my sister Andrea, who lives in Vancouver, will be undergoing radiation treatment for a cancerous thyroid tumour she had removed some months ago. Therefore I leave tomorrow for Vancouver, to hang out with my new little nephew Jacob while Andrea is in quarantine (she'll literally be radioactive for a week or two, and therefore can't be anywhere near Jacob). We'll be joined a bit later by our younger sister Faye, who no one gets to see all that often, as she lives in Sierra Leone. So it will no doubt be quite the party!
3) This leaves the kids to get bounced around between their three sets of grandparents. Right now they are at the farm, and apparently don't miss us at all. Bill (ie, Grandpa) has informed me that Juniper has already had birthday party #3 (she just believes this is her due, having a summer birthday, and all), both kids have caught some fish, and have had good sleeps. They are undoubtedly happy as clams. He sent me this photo:
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| Look how happy she is! |
They will head to Fredericton next week - first with Deborah and Yvon, and then with my parents. They will also be going to a week of "adventure camp" at the small craft aquatic centre, which Linden has been talking about non-stop. I hope it lives up to expectations!
Anyway, I'll leave you with the little assortment of photos from this past week: the first two are from a short but sweet little visit we had on Wednesday afternoon with our friend Matt. He lives in Glasgow, and is visiting the Maritimes for a bit of holiday - I picked him up from the airport, and we got a few hours with him before he headed off to New Brunswick. Linden, in particular, took a real shining to him, quizzing him on his "favourite things" so as to make him a book:
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| Snuggled right up, and explaining the book |
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| Group shot! |
And finally, some pictures of the garden, in its current glory. In particular, notice the leaf stones, with clover now growing up in between them. I love the result!
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| Juniper's cucumbers |
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| Linden's carrots |
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| Clark's feet for reference (that was one of the bigger stones - very heavy!) |
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| Magical little path between the beds. So much more lovely than mud! |
I may or may not be back next week, but certainly there will be some photos and stories to share when we all get back to Halifax!
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