Welcome to NS...

 ...here, have covid...

This week has been one of coughs: Grace recovering from what we guess was walking pneumonia, and then Aiden and Jasmin coming down hard with what we are pretty sure is covid: 

Couches full of shivering feverish headache misery huddled under quilts

Pleasant diffuser oils wafting around

Croaky calls for more drinks, but please no food

Cough syrup, ibuprofen, home remedy bottles littering resting surfaces

Unprecedented amount of naps

A scare of blue lips and white fingertips

Unwanted novelty of not tasting things

We seem to be pulling through now, though we are left with an awful exhausting chorus of coughs. Aiden and Jasmin are still very fatigued and not doing much, but Grace is back to singing :)
Praying mightily that it is not Mom and Dad's turn... and that this is not indicative of how this winter will go!

A few photos of our Nova Scotia life

Fantastic Views

Deer in the back yard

lots of deer!

Pheasants

 

Frog "fishing"

Successful!

Trying 1000 yr old egg at homeschool co-op

Discovering new flowers in our neglected garden

Nova Scotian Adventures

The end of August was delightfully eventful. We had a 40 years in Canada Fraser reunion for 4 days. 34 of us in total had a blast! Arran did an amazing job of putting together the festivities that included

A walk in the park turned beach time

perhaps in part because traffic
getting there and back was awful...

Real beach time!

A giant hole and cold water swimming

Lots of ice cream!

An almost midnight movie

Lots of cousin time

Selfie competitions

 and lots of other fun things: soccer baseball in the fog/rain, swimming, kayaking, aqua fencing, board games, bountiful meals, photo album browsing, fine dining... and even an afternoon Amazing Race!

Mom's dogs stayed with us for the reunion days... they enjoyed exploring a new place - until they met the resident porcupine. Unfortunately, they didn't learn to leave it alone, so their last evening was again spent having quills pulled out :(

the other dog was quilled worse...

Double unfortunately, Mom fell victim also ...

She raced out to try keep the dogs from biting the porcupine (and failed)... and in the meantime they chased the porcupine between her legs. As it kept turning to keep its tail and back to the dogs...mom got touched. A painful evening was had by all! Mom bravely (and slowly) pulled them all herself, not being able to bear the thought of anyone else pulling them! Extra strength Tylenol and Solarcaine spray helped. Meanwhile everyone else (Imma, 2 neighbours, Dad, Aiden, Jasmin) worked on the dogs. Oof. What a night! 

...We all agree no foster dogs until the porcupine is relocated...