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On a short hike along the Atlantic View Trail, we found Lawrencetown Beach Hill:
Took a bit of a climb hauling a wagon with a kid but we were rewarded with a decent view of Lawrencetown Beach, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Nova Scotia landscape:
Next time I want to try getting to the end of this hill path and see the view from those cliffs. (Had to turn around because Ezra was getting tired and wanted to go to the beach.)
More shots of short hikes and trails from around our part of Nova Scotia.
A year later, another Easter in lockdown, but also our third Easter in Canada and our first in our new house. Ezra went on an Easter egg hunt:
Outside, it rained ice, while inside, we dyed eggs. Cat got in the spirit.
Easter dinner was ham, potatoes, beans, and KD.
Happy Easter, and please continue to take measures that limit viral spread. First Baptist Halifax Easter service online.
Been a while since I last went over Halifax Harbour; work keeps me in Dartmouth and pandemic safety generally keeps us out of the city; but a car service appointment necessitated a couple trips over MacKay Bridge. I got this view of the harbour from the passenger seat coming back over:
At right is Halifax Shipyard and at left is Tufts Cove Generating Station. Off in the distance, the MacDonald Bridge and the skyline of Downtown Halifax.
The difference a day can make over the weekend of the Spring Equinox: snow and sledding on Saturday followed by a nice warm thaw on Sunday.
Warm enough for the cat to hang out on the deck, even. (She’s spent all winter meowing at the door to go out and then running away from the cold when we open it. Not today.)
I dare say Lubalin’s 15,000 pound horse is the best dramatic setting of an Internet text since how is babby formed:
(You know, on a second watch of “15000 pound horse” my sympathies have kinda switched from Abby to the unnamed horse owner, because she did break her toes, came to Abby for commiseration, and got a cold fact-check instead. Not that she was right about the horse’s mass or for blowing up at Abby, but I can see why she got angry.)
Unreasonably proud of self for successfully changing the brake lamp bulb on my FIAT 500 (with some help from Peter and Paul):
Turns out the whole rear light assembly comes right off after loosening two screws in the trunk area, then four more screws pop out the bulb mount, and the running/brake light is a double-filament bulb, C$6.49 for a 2-pack at Canadian Tire. (Good thing it was a 2-pack because the first bulb’s running light filament burned out instantly on activation and I had to pull the whole assembly back out and install the second bulb, which worked fine.)
Some shots from around Shubie Park on a relatively nice warm day (a few degrees above freezing) in Dartmouth, NS.
It’s a fairly extensive park and the only real reminder you have that you’re in an urban area is the drone of cars on the nearby highway — and the big IKEA sign in Dartmouth Crossing occasionally visible through the trees. We really only saw parts of the trail system along the way to the campground play area; next time we might explore other parts of the park a bit more.
Some shots from the Halifax Waterfront Submarine Playground; bit snowy that weekend, but Ezra found it no less fun in the cold — though maybe a bit more icy and slippery.
Bit of a change from how it looked in warmer days, and an even bigger change from the previous playground before 2011, when it was a wood boat frame called “Halcyon.”
This is for the Mars 2020 mission, an update from previous rover Curiosity 8 years ago.
