Saturday night, Tim held a surprise party for his wife Diane. They live along the shore from us. It was a large and very successful party, especially interesting for me because I had not met several of the people who attended. Tim and Diane are from up-state New York and built a home here on the shore to use for the summer, but they loved the community and have managed to emigrate to Canada and now live here full time, now that they are retired. Diane looked so happy to be living here in Nova Scotia, celebrating with all her new friends. I wonder what they will say after their first winter?
The evening was lovely, so Ken and I left early, and escaped to the cottage for the night. It was a wonderful escape. We saw no one and came back home late Sunday afternoon. We spent all day sitting on the deck, me reading and swimming and Ken fishing. Perfect cottage weather.
Sunday evening we had dinner at the home of Connie and Ross. Their home is beautiful and the weather was beautiful. We ate dinner on their large deck, overlooking the shore. Another gorgeous room with a view. I was talking with Connie, around the side of the house on the other large deck and heard a sound like a woodpecker, when I turned to see a Downy Woodpecker, working away at a bird feeder filled with unshelled peanuts. The bird was three feet away from me. Great food and good company at dinner, nine folks in all with one new person, Carol who is a small animal vet in town, Loretta and Butch live here full time and Bill and Camilla spend half of the year here and the rest of the year in Vancouver. Along with Ken and I and Connie and Ross we were a merry group.
An osprey put on display for us when he fished for his dinner, an added bonus to a beautiful setting. Our mini escape set us up for the evening festivities.
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