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Issue #1219
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Nova Scotia Sus
Gale
Gary
Doug

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From Nova Scotia Sus

I just loved seeing your music event and wished I could have been there to enjoy. It was so successful and so many were there. You must be overjoyed and thrilled. You will need to keep that up. Thanks so much for the picture of Sue and her sister.....they sure were happy.

We have been as busy as ever keeping our greenhouse and gardens watered down what with no rain for many days. We have a spring that has kept us going. They keep promising rain but then it goes somewhere else.

The fall colours are showing itself even though the trees are dry. We have a great life here.

Sus

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From Gale

Visit to Edinburg

The train took us through steep rolling hills into a cool and windy Edinburg. There were hordes and hordes of people, many in winter coats. Edinburg has maintained its' old word charm (no high rises etc. in the core) and, as a result, draws tourists all year round. We skipped the castle and Holyrood since we had done those before. Instead, we did a hop on - hop off tour. Our first stop was to wander through the delightful Royal Botanic Gardens with its' "cool" trees and rock garden. Then on to St. Giles Cathedral on the Royal Mile. We also hopped off at "old town" where we strolled along the colourful streets inspired by the Harry Potter books and lunched in its' oldest pub that had also hosted many famous people over the centuries. We watched some pipe bands (me from a distance !) at the Mound on Princes St. The young players were from one of the few schools that still teach piping and drumming. Our trip down pipe band memory lane included having lunch with a lovely lady, Morag, who gave Dave a plaque with the Shotts crest made by her brother Jim Hutton (a long long ago Shott's drummer). That plaque probably doubled our weight load! We also went to a band practice in the town of Shotts where Dave played when he lived in Scotland. Enough of that - off to Glasgow (next week)

Gale

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From Gary

Hello fellow Squamidians. Hard to believe October is here already. September weather was amazing but too dry. We had to turn the heat on in August for a few days. We even had a slight frost. Haven’t had the heat on or a frost since then. The garden is slowing down but still producing. We went to Kitchener last Saturday to pick up a snowblower Tim and Heidi gave us. Anton brought it up from Ridgetown. That saved us a lot of driving. It only took about 3 1/2 hours to get to Kitchener. We had a nice visit with Carol and Al. Gale and Dave dropped by for a nice visit too. Unfortunately the only route is the 401. It was bumper to bumper crawling traffic from just east of hyway 8 so we splurged and went on the 407. Traffic was moving well the rest of the way home but it took an extra hour.

Gary

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From Doug

We’ve returned to the normal cool wet west coast conditions that are expected this time of year. The weather change a week ago was led by a low cloud bank that moved in off the Strait of Georgia and flooded into our valley. It was then followed by a higher up full overcast but it was quite picturesque in the beginning. We enjoyed a front row viewing seat from the comfort of our morning coffee corner as we watched the front move in.

This pic is looking south down the Sound, with a bit of Vancouver Island visible if you know where to look in the pic.

This pic is looking west across the top end of the Sound. Its much like a bath tub ready to overflow with whipping cream (not that I’ve ever actually seen a bathtub full of whipping cream).

This is looking just west of north with Alfa Mnt in the distance. It was dark and gloomy below, bright and interesting above.

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I had done a bare bones video of the song ‘The Way I Am’ and had it ready for uploading but had not linked it yet. I had however linked the audio version for the Squid a couple of weeks ago. Now I’ve got that video version uploaded and linked for this week. All you need to do is click this link and watch the video, should you be so inspired.

The video version.
The Way I Am

Doug

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Have a Good One
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