by Jean Llewellyn | Jul 27, 2020 | Travel
Finally, after several weeks of chronic indigestion caused by the roller-coaster of ‘have we, or haven’t we’ sold our Nova Scotia property, the stars aligned and we received an email confirming that our buyers’ financing had finally been approved. Yikes! It’s been an...
by Jean Llewellyn | Jun 23, 2020 | Uncategorized
Blah, blah, blah… Yada, yada, yada… This is about all I can say about the past three months of the Covid-19 lock-down, and the reason my blogging has been silent. At least self-isolating on 50 acres hasn’t been much of a challenge, although we couldn’t understand why...
by Jean Llewellyn | Mar 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
Ellie update So, Ellie finally went under the knife last weekor, to be more precise, an arthroscope rather than a knife as her elbow joint was surgically navigated and repaired via a keyhole procedure. When Peter dropped her off in Halifax early Tuesday morning, the...
by Jean Llewellyn | Feb 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
Well this past Christmas saw a ‘first’ for us – trekking around our acreage to find the perfect tree of a suitable size…. So Peter could go out with his killer saw and bring it home to be festively dressed with lights, baubles, tinsel, and other gewgaws (les babioles,...
by Jean Llewellyn | Dec 16, 2019 | Uncategorized
Before I begin – sincere apologies for the delay (again) in posting our news. In fact, I completed writing the blog more than a week ago, then failed miserably to find relevant photos – so to avoid further delays, I simply went with a couple of puppy photos of Ellie,...
by Jean Llewellyn | Oct 24, 2019 | Uncategorized
…This time in the shape of a new puppy. Ellie, a four-month-old golden retriever, arrived two weeks ago from Mexico City, via New York where I met our friends and her wonderful breeders, Teté Nevarez and Gerardo Garcia. She is the two-year-younger sister to Jenny, who...
by Jean Llewellyn | Oct 1, 2019 | Uncategorized
Hurricane warning… Well, we survived the wrath of Dorian unscathed, although the day it hit Nova Scotia as a category two hurricane certainly presented interesting challenges to the regular dog walking. Without having to be too creative, it meant quick forays into the...
by Jean Llewellyn | Sep 7, 2019 | Uncategorized
It’s not something you see every day, and certainly not all in the same day. But…! A gloriously sunny morning after a subtropical cyclone passed through, pushing hot air and 100% humidity ahead of it – which made for a rather uncomfortable night – the surfers were out...
by Jean Llewellyn | Aug 29, 2019 | Uncategorized
During a regular Skype chat with some dear friends in BC yesterday, I was initially at a loss for words because our lives these past few weeks seemed to have been fairly mundane. “No, they’re not,” says Peter. Of course, suddenly one word or moment of recall triggers...
by Jean Llewellyn | Jul 30, 2019 | Uncategorized
Decisions, decisions, decisions….. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein would have been proud of my investigative instincts and herculean efforts to identify and purchase a new… KITCHEN SINK! From $80 for tinny stainless steel of no discernible provenance, to a Blidö –...
