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When this web page began more than twenty-five years ago, it described most of the activities of our whole family. Now that most of our children have flown the coop, it is mostly about what Ann and I (Dave) have been up to. I update it most weekends. We save all the messages over the past year in an Archive along with links to what we were doing ten and twenty years ago.
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Monday September 21
Vogler's Cove
We had some really bad news yesterday. Our good friend Chris, Morgan's godmother and wife of Chapman with whom I've played music for 50 years, passed away overnight. She had been suffering from chronic pain for almost two years but, despite many tests, various procedures and hospital visits, the health care system was unable to determine the cause. A couple of days ago, the pain got worse so Dave contacted her pain specialist and her GP to try and get her admitted to the hospital but both said that the only way she could be admitted was by visiting Emergency. That would have required an ambulance, a long wait and a lot of discomfort for Chris and, since the pain specialist had adjusted the dose of the drug she was taking for the pain, they decided to wait until the following morning. Unfortunately, Chris didn't survive the night.
Ann's cousin Jane has been staying with us for a week. She was supposed to arrive on Wednesday afternoon but, a couple of hours before she was due to arrive, she phoned Ann to say that they had not let her board the flight because her driver's license had expired and it was the only piece of photo ID that she had. She had to rebook the flight for the next day, go home and get her license renewed. She arrived on Thursday evening.
It has been a very wet September so far, unusual because this is the time of year that one can usually count on to have nice weather. We still managed to go for a ride with the Railers on Monday but, since the rain only stopped a couple of hours before the ride, the starting location was moved to the head of the Salt Marsh Trail avoiding the Shearwater Flyer since it usual takes a day or two to dry out properly. To compensate, we extended the ride to go all the way to Fisherman's Reserve.
I was out again with the Roadents on Wednesday but Ann stayed at home to finish staining the back deck, a project that she fitted in to the short dry spell from Monday until Thursday.
On Friday, it was wet again. I took the opportunity of a relaxing day at home while Ann and Jane went to Evan's Seafood on the Dartmouth waterfront for lobster rolls, then drove around the Aspotogan Peninsula for a bit of sightseeing, ending up at Peggy's Cove for the sunset.
On Saturday, we were up early to drive to Risser's Beach so I could ride with the Ramblers to Mill Village. This is a very nice ride with the section between Broad Cove and Vogler's Cove being particularly pretty. While I was riding, Ann and Jane went for a coffee at Ploughman's Lunch in West Dublin, then drove to Mill Village to join us for lunch. I loaded the bike onto the car there while the rest of the Ramblers rode back to Risser's Beach. Ann, Jane and I then drove along the shore to the LaHave Bakery for another coffee, took the ferry across the river, then continued up the shore to Lunenburg. We had a look at Picton Castle and went onto Bluenose II, both of which were tied up at the wharves there, then went to the Fisheries Museum of the Atlantic for an hour before driving home.
Today has been another rainy day spent at home. I have tried to put a dent in the riches offered up by the garden by making two batches of eggplant stew, now frozen, which used up six cups of tomatoes (the windowsill in the kitchen is still almost full with them) and 1.5 kilos of eggplant. A carrot went into the fish chowder we had for dinner and Ann made a salad to use up some beets and kale.