Nova Scotia


Our New Digs ~ Kitchen, Dining and Living Room

Our New Digs ~ Kitchen, Dining and Living Room

That I get to live here for the next four months - in this gorgeous house, next to a beautiful river, surrounded by nature, hanging out each day with my mom - is well... awesome.

With Love from Nova Scotia

With Love from Nova Scotia

This morning I finished processing all the photos from our recent trip to Nova Scotia. There is a ridiculous amount of photos in this post (my mom will probably be the only one who gets to the end of of it.) Oh well. One of FIMBY's purposes is for me ...

Papa Builds a House ~ Nana Makes a Home

Papa Builds a House ~ Nana Makes a Home

My dad has been a professional builder his whole adult life. He started off as a young man building houses, then for many years he owned his own company doing mostly commercial work (these were my growing up years). During that stage he was the man in the office. Bidding, ...

Autumn Spice Cake ~ A seasonal soap recipe

Autumn Spice Cake ~ A seasonal soap recipe

This moment feels like fall as I sit here crunching a Nova Scotia Macintosh apple and take in the changing foliage across the river from my parent's property. But the day also feels like summer vacation since I'm sitting in a camping trailer, door wide open, enjoying the sun following ...

Last days

Last days

Canoeing FancyLake Canoeing creek off Fancy Lake We're going home tomorrow so we got in the last trip to the ocean today to hike Green Bay to Broad Cove. Yesterday we took the kids out on the canoe and explored up a little creek that flows into the lake the ...

Happy Birthday Dad - Vacation Days 4, 5 & 6

Happy Birthday Dad - Vacation Days 4, 5 & 6

Today is my dad's birthday. What a treat to spend this gorgeous summer day with him. Church in the morning. Lunch on the deck and then an afternoon on the lake - canoeing with the kids and then swimming. Mom made Manhattan style chowder for a special supper for Dad. ...