As most of you know, our little family tries to make strides to live a more sustainable, less wasteful life. Our Easter tradition has always been to spend it camping in the desert as a family. The Easter bunny always seems to find us and leave a basket of goodies outside of the tent for each of the kids. We then have a huge egg hunt, in which the parents hide plastic eggs all over the area and the kids fill their baskets. Now that we are living in Nova Scotia, we are switching up our traditions slightly. As we don't have any of our belongings yet (they are still in storage in Colorado), we didn't want to buy more plastic so I found a pattern to make felt eggs to fill and hide. They were quite easy to make but were quite time consuming. Knowing that they will be used year after year does help justify the time it took to make them. If I had my sewing machine here, I probably could have made them much quicker - but hand stitching did take a good amount of time. I do love the fact that they will stack and pack away much smaller than all of the plastic ones we have in storage.
Carolyn
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As the snow has melted and driving conditions have improved, we have been itching to get out and do some more exploring. Although, spring in the Maritimes brings with it a whole new exciting set of driving conditions... potholes, washed out roads, and MUD. We have begun a few driving exploration trips and had to abort them as we were worried we would get stuck. Not today though! We have been wanting to head over to Moncton, New Brunswick for a while now and today was the day.
Ultimately, it is only another 30 minutes past the bigger town we visit for our larger shopping trips... so only about an hour and a half from home - closer then Halifax even. Being spring, things were still pretty quiet on the tourist front but we did drive down the river to visit the Hopewell Rocks and iconic Bay of Fundy destination. The drive out to the rocks took about 40 minutes from Moncton and was on a lovely, meandering road that followed the river to the open bay. Although the area is "closed" and there were quite a few signs warning that if we do go down to the beach we are doing so at our own risk, we decided it was worth it. We actually spoke to 3 locals, one of whom worked for the visitor's center and mentioned we were allowed to go down. Normally, I am a rule follower and would not have gone but the locals made us feel more confident. I do have to say that I am very glad we did as the rocks are just beautiful, and we had them all to ourselves. I can imagine how busy it gets there in the summer, so to have the beach to ourselves was quite a treat. We were cautious of getting too close to the cliff, with it being spring, the danger of rock fall would be even higher. As we wandered back towards the car we looked back at one of the rocks and discovered it looked very much like a face which always makes me smile as I feel as though it is a guardian for the area. After speaking to a lovely gentleman who lived up the road we know that we want to come visit in the summer to explore that shore and travel further south to the fishing villages, Fundy National Park, and Cape Enrage. |
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AuthorCarolyn and Will Bollwerk share their adventures with their 5 year-old daughter, Dylan. |