201708 Gone To The Rock

Our last day in Furby's Cove, sigh......  We had been talking to Arnie about perhaps going out for a ride in his boat (yesterday was too windy), and the fog today was as thick as pea soup, so not a safe thing to do!! Sigh... But, we spent the day visiting and walking around the cove, just catching up with each other and that was wonderful as well. As I said to Rita, it just gives us more reason to come back next year!! Karl and I went for yet another walk out to the road.  Would you believe that, although we are still puffing and panting by the top, it's getting easier every time we do it? Who knows, if we stayed another few weeks, maybe we could jog up LOL!!  What will remain a memory of this trip is the raspberries. Interesting to note that there are bushes on both sides of the road, hundreds of wild raspberries "everywhere" so it's easy to have just a little snack anywhere along the road - a lot of the berries are ripe right now!! The sun came out just after lu...

Today was a lazy day.  It started cloudy and cool and everyone more or less slept in a bit. This was okay because Arnie and Rita were having a jet lag day and we have fallen into a relaxed vacation mode.  Then Rita spoiled us by cooking up a big bacon and egg breakfast This was followed by a lot of conversation and a walk out to the road of course. Today the wind was coming from the opposite direction, and instead of helping us up the hills and supporting us o the way down,  we had to fight it on the way up and hold back from letting it push us downwards. After lunch, I regret to say that it became a television day for Arnie and me, while Joanne and Rita did get in a game of scrabble. Towards mid-afternoon we decided to make another trip into the cemetery and managed to find and clear four more headstones from their weedy overgrowth. Later it was a tea and cookie snacks while Karl of course had a great mini-feast of scallops. Followed by some more TV (due to the cloudy da...

Yesterday, the day dawned bright and sunny with almost no wind. There was a hurricane that had passed through the Atlantic over the past few days.  We were told by the weather gurus that it would miss Newfoundland, but I really wonder whether we were hit by some of the outer bands and that's what caused that windstorm yesterday. Unfortunately, over the past week while we were on our own, we had spread out our "stuff" all through the house here.  So, knowing that Arnie and Rita are arriving today, it would be time to tidy our stuff into just one room LOL!! So as Karl headed off to the airport in Gander around 9:30 to pick them up, it was my day to putter, tidy, and do some chores. (Sigh... even on holidays!) It was exciting initially because their flight was cancelled due to mechanical problems with the plane.  Well thank God they found that out before they were in the air and not "after"!! It seems that Westjet has as backup plan for this type of thing because t...

Today the skies are cloudy and the wind just kept getting stronger!  By mid to late morning, we checked the internet forecast for Harbour Breton, and they were calling for winds up to 45 km/hr with gusts up to 86 km/hr.  Boy do I ever believe that.   There were times today that it felt like I could be blown over!! The high side of the wind was that walking out to the highway (yep we still went), the wind was at our back and pushing us "UP" the hill LOL.  And then on the way down, it kept us from falling/slipping forward on the steep hill.  So, you see, nature does have its perks. And the whitecaps in the cove were quite pretty. Despite the cold and wind, there were men using the excavator to replace a culvert down by the waterfront.  Karl was there most of that time supervising and chatting with the workers whenever they stopped long enough.  It seems (from Karl's report) that they did a great job - and one of them turned out to be Rita's cousin Dan - ...

It seems that we are falling into a pattern here in Furby's Cove.  Now typically that would not be a good thing, but the peace and quiet lifestyle just feels right.  Yes, there is television here, but as yet we haven't even turned it on.  Lots to do without it, at least as visitors! The weather today was mostly sunny and although it didn't hit 20 C., it felt warm!  Instead of our walk up the road to the highway, today we decided to drive in to Harbour Breton and see if we could find some of the trails we were told about. Our first stop was actually the dump to drop off a bag since it was along our way.  Would you believe that the view from the edge of the dump overlooks a vista of mountains and water, something people around Kitchener would pay a fortune to see from the windows of their home!!  But that's the thing about this part of Newfoundland, everything is like that.  So I wonder why there aren't more people living in Newfoundland - I think they w...

We were pleasantly surprised by the weather today.  According to the forecast for Harbour Breton, there was a 60% chance of rain in the afternoon.  As it turns out, it was mostly cloudy, but we saw sun off and on during the day, enough to keep spirits up! (We are both fans of sunny days)  Well today, after the long drive from St John's yesterday, was what Karl calls a jet lag day.  No real plans, just relax and see what happens.   We did our walks out to the highway and noticed, at least in the morning, that the climb is just a little bit easier than the first few times we did it.  Just think, if we stayed for a few weeks, maybe we could jog up the hill. (LOL, "NOT". If you have ever seen a picture of the road, you'd understand).  But we made it and even did our little dance at the highway - once we could catch our breath!! Just as we were coming back down the hill on our morning walk, we saw something jump 2 or 3 times in the Cove just offshore from t...