The Honeymoon and Happy Canadian Thanksgiving

Happy Canadian Thanksgiving Day today!

Daughter L and her husband recently returned from their 2 1/2 week honeymoon in Canada's Atlantic provinces.  The last few days had to be re planned due to the imminent arrival of post tropical storm Fiona.  They had flown into Prince Edward Island (PEI) on September 9th and rented a car.  They enjoyed the first few weeks according to plan then wisely decided to drive back home to Toronto on the Thursday September 22nd.  Fiona arrived the evening of Friday September 23rd.  Sadly, the area has been devastated by the storm and we wish them a speedy recovery. 

I am sharing some photos from their trip: 

The Cabot Trail

L and her husband drove the Cabot Trail in Nova Scotia and stayed at a cottage there.
 

Peggy's Cove

Tom's Lobster Shack, Peggy's Cove

Delicious Lobster Rolls

L says the naked lobster roll at the back of this photo was the best ever.  It was a whole lobster with mostly just its natural flavour.  This was at Tom's Lobster shack at Peggy's Cove.

Yoyo Cookies Nova Scotia

L brought home a couple bags of these Yoyo Cookies from Nova Scotia. One bag is red velvet, the other is chocolate.  She brought a bag of salted caramel ones for her mother-in-law.

Shortbread and Buttercream

770 calories unfortunately

PEI hand pies

L brought home a couple of these delicious PEI hand pies from the Handpie Company.  These were their bacon cheeseburger flavour.

Pressed Roses

 These are some roses I pressed to commemorate Daughter L's August 2022 wedding.  It is thanks to this youtube video and to daughter L's good friend who plucked a few flowers out of an arrangement and insisted I save some of them for this purpose.  The 2nd photo is the back side of the 3rd photo.

Here they are framed on a background of textured blue cardstock:

Dream Coke

 Coke has a new Dream flavour and we decided to give the zero sugar version a try.  It tastes sweeter, maybe a vanilla flavour.  Have you tried it?

Friday Art - Great Nieces Again

 Welcome to Friday Art.  This is a 3" x 4" piece again featuring my great nieces when they were a bit younger.  The little one is about 20 months now.

Linking to Nicole's Friday Faceoff and Gillena's Art for Fun Fridays.

Rain's Thursday Art and Dinner Date - Masks and Spaghetti Sauce

 Welcome to Rain's Thursday Art and Dinner Date.  

This is some spaghetti sauce I made way back in the summer using 10 fresh tomatoes when they were plentiful.  You can alternatively use 2 cans of fresh tomatoes.  I added butter, olive oil, onions, garlic, bay leaf, basil, oregano, parsley, red pepper, salt, sugar, black pepper and simmered it for 2 hours, mashing with a potato masher.

It is up to you if you want to skin the tomatoes beforehand.

And here is the Venetian carnival mask ACEO (2 1/2" x 3 1/2") that I drew for the Art Date.

Wednesday Memes

Overnight Visit Continued

After a delicious meal the night before, we woke up the next morning and our hosts suggested we go for a walk on the beach.

The water might have been about 70F(21C), comfortable for some to swim, I was happy just dipping my feet in the water as I walked along the beach.  We decided to visit the host's brother who lived nearby.  He had a lovely home and I had fun looking at his vegetable garden.  He had a sauna in his back yard.

brussels sprouts

 

brussels sprouts close up

Basil plant

potato plant

Sauna

poison ivy

We walked back to our host's home, it turned out to be a 5 km round trip.  They warned us to avoid the poison ivy in the bushes. We stayed on the roadside.

We had planned to leave before lunchtime, but ended up having lunch then we were on our way.  We very much enjoyed this visit as life seems to be returning to a new normal.

homemade quiche