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St. Andrew's by the Sea

We took a totally unplanned, trip yesterday. Went down to St. Andrew's by the Sea... The weather was glorious. What a quaint, little town. Reminded me so much of Bar Harbor, ME. I love all these red brick buildings of the New England states and the Maritime provinces.


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Posted August 29, 2009
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Same beach as a few days ago. We totally fell in love with the place. It seemingly doesn't even have a name. At least, there's no sign. It was vacant. Brought sandwiches 'n stuff and had sort of a little picnic. The fresh, saline air does wonders to one's breathing -- it feels like sinuses and airways get all cleared up! Not that I have any problems otherwise, but still...

Posted this photo from my Twitter client «Destroytwitter». In spite of its silly name, it's the best [for me]. I've tried everyone I've seen being announced. I used to like Digsby but it was too heavy on my system ... even after the upgrade. Then there was this Gmail gadget that I really liked too. I would have been quite happy with that and I had just started using it when this came out. Once I had started DT it was like I couldn't go back, and Twitter became funnier all of a sudden. I've had Twitter almost from the get-go and never paid all that much attention to it.

I think maybe because it got so easy to keep track of it made it better for me. Those little, unintrusive boxes that pop up -- I can turn them off should I so wish -- and I can also set it to «away» so that the canvas freezes. That makes it much easier to catch up with what has happened while I was out. 

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Posted April 25, 2009
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The sea was angry that day, my friends

If you were an avid Seinfeld fan like me, you'd recognize that sentence ... when George pulled out a golf ball out of the whale.

Mid day, today, the fog lifted and the wind picked up immensely. It was a south westerly wind and I was hoping the surf would be up the way it was on Christmas Day. We drove out to Saints Rest Beach and it was pretty good. Not as Christmas Day, which was an unforgettable experience, but close. It was so windy so it was actually hard to stand still and hold the camera. 

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Posted April 23, 2009
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A rainy day could be a good day too

Woke up 6:30 this morning to this gorgeous sunrise. Next time I wake up that early, I'm hopefully more bright-eyed and bushy-tailed so that I can get out across the street and up the hill. You'd be able to see some spectacular sunrises from up there. The rounded building in the center of this picture ... I don't know what it's made of but it always get those reflections in the sunlight.

This weather didn't last long though. We've been and still are, under a rainfall warning. It's been drizzling all day but supposedly the big rain will fall overnight tonight. Not good for the Saint John River.

Was tired in the afternoon so I had a snooze together with cat McDuff. That was so nice and it has been so long. 

Tonight I was searching for something on the web ... right now it totally escapes me what it was ... but I came across something else -- tubes for Paint Shop Pro. Haven't used that in ages so I decided to give it a try and it was so much fun! This is the result. 

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Posted April 21, 2009
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Saint John, NB -- my new, adopted hometown

I, who used to spend most of my awaken time on the Internet, sure have undergone a great change lately. Very little has been done here in Posterous or elsewhere but so much has been going on in my life.

One month ago we moved to New Brunswick after what felt like an endless fight for selling the house in QC. Actually it wasn't all that long but there were so many problems so it felt like an eternity. Our first contact with the real estate guy was on August 12th, and we're already here...I mean -- it could have been much worse, in hindsight.

Four years ago, I visited this city for the first time, together with my husband, and I totally fell in love with the place right away. It's located right on the ocean and often referred to as Fog City...I love fog... I got the feeling that the people seemed friendly and easygoing...the red brick buildings that you so often find in New England towns and cities... It's my husband's birth city.

However...at that first time I wouldn't even have dreamt about suggesting moving here. I was under the impression that he was too attached to QC after more than forty years there...not only his house, but also the whole French concept.

Time went by...we came back several times after our trips to Maine...and perhaps I gave him a few subtle hints about how different life would be here...I don't know, but when we got back to QC in August HE suggested to ME that we'd sell the house and move. I could hardly believe it, but I also know that he isn't the type of person who'd say something like that were it not entirely thought through. I could have jumped for joy...

It was a lot of hard work to pack up a house that had been lived in for more than thirty years and a lot of stuff was given  to charity or simply threwn away. We had agreed to travel light...with 'only two saddle bags', and buy some new stuff once we were settled in, and that we did.

 

 

 

 

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Posted November 25, 2008
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