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A Maxwell House
Behind this house were many buildings ...one, a barn full of collected (hoarded) objects ...for sale. Saturday, Sunday, Monday... three days of put-zing about.
On Saturday the day began by visiting various yard sales. The best one was down a longish road, past a housing development to an old barn beside a heritage house designed by the same Maxwell of Van Horne Covenhoven fame. Saw things I already had, saw things I did not want, wanted things too big to buy and walked away with three magazines for thirty cents . LOL
Importantly, once past the lure of yard sales, doing the laundry had to be addressed. The experience cost 3+3+3 $. Once that was done a visit to the beach was next on the list.
The beach at the end of town, where the road leads to the Bay of Fundy, yielded very little treasure. I found only one tiny piece of glass that could qualify as sea glass.
“ Naturally produced sea glass ("genuine sea glass") originates as pieces of glass from broken bottles, broken tableware, or even shipwrecks, which are rolled and tumbled in the ocean for years until all of their edges are rounded off, and the slickness of the glass has been worn to a frosted
Inside the Barn Sale
The white table and the white high chair were two objects I coveted ... could ...did not buy ... too big! appearance. Sea glass takes 20 to 30 years, and sometimes as much as 50 years, to acquire its characteristic texture and shape.” from wikipedia
Sandra who owns the cottage I have been living in for seven days uses sea glass to create whimsical vignettes. She gave me a generous amount of glass that has not yet been totally frosted. I will use the pieces in my Maritime Collage that is taking shape in my brain ... have already collected pieces of rusted iron, parts old fishing net, clam and snail shells and some driftwood.
Also across the street from the beach is located an RV park that looks directly across the expanse of the Bay of Fundy shore exposed by the receding tide; http://www.kiwanisoceanfrontcamping.com ... and I wondered why I had not even looked at this ... well .... because I was not supposed to be here for seven days and once I was snowed upon I wimped out and took what looked most comfortable very quickly.
On Sunday it rained ...hard enough to cut the view of the water and loud enough to be heard thru the roof. No excursion was undertaken ... stayed
in all day....watched TV... cooked....knit ... a generally lazy day.
Monday and it is still pissing rain!! Two localities were on the list; Huntsman Aquarium, http://www.huntsmanmarine.ca and Kingsbrae Gardens. http://kingsbraegarden.com Both were closed!
At the aquarium I only found one man who had come out for a smoke. He told me what I already knew ... closed till May 21 and what the girl at the info centre thought about feeding sessions was wrong.
Next stop ... the gardens. These too are closed till Victoria Day Week-end. Here at least there was an opportunity to walk the grounds ... all 27 acres, albeit at ones own risk. Gardeners having a break (read smoke) were very friendly and a small conversation was had. Forty-four people work in the gardens and thousands of visitors come during the summer. Right now weeding and expunging of lupines is being carried out. Two women I spoke with had been working in these gardens for over fourteen years. They can certainly take credit for the fact that the Kingsbrae Garden was voted garden of the year in 2013. In the Plant Sale greenhouse the worker came from Australia and had completed
Prehistoric Fish Sculpture
This fish stands beside the Huntsman Aquarium Centre. her studies in horticultural =ism?
She lives in the area on acres of land.
How do people find their way to this corner of the world?
While in town I visited the Honeybees Coffee Place. It had been suggested to me more than once and it was worth a visit. The coffee was better than the half-chocolate covered cookie.
The crew replacing the sewer pipe down the middle of King Street were still hard at it ... they have till the 20th ... wonder why they have to be finished ... will St. Andrews be over-run by visitors? There were other visitors with cameras wandering around town today ... and shivering just like me in the biting wind.
From HomeHardware I bought a $6.29 thermometer so I can see what the temperature is before I begin to think about dressing or deciding how many layers to lay on. ;-)
Having cleaned out the cooler, I shopped for food that I could prepare while in the cottage and take with me to Hopewell where there will be no big stove in the room.
As soon as I reached the parking lot at
Bocabec Cottages the sun came out.The Bay of Fundy came into view ... not under a radiant sun but at least a brighter sky than one filled with rain clouds.
Cooking, packing, organizing, planning .... all activities in readiness for leave taking on Tuesday and heading towards the next adventure ... the Hopewell Rocks.
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Darlene Dardick
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Enjoying the blog Barbra ....what a great way to share a trip. It was 0 here when I got up this a.m. but the sun is shining and the sky is blue, so will warm up later in the day... happy trails to you..and thanks for sharing