Well now, here we go again! Feels like we are back in Nanaimo these days….wet, drizzly foggy, mixed in with a few sort of sunny days. A former workmate in Nanaimo called their weather there Mayvember.
One good thing is that things are finally greening up. Daffodils are almost done blooming, as are the forsythias. These things are 2 months later than Nanaimo, as previously noted. Native plants and flowers and trees are beginning to bloom.
We ended up tapping 7 maple trees and they gave us between 3 and 4 liters of yummy syrup. We’ll be tapping quite a few more next year. I am making plans to build a sugar shack in the bush so we don’t steam up our house and so we don’t have to haul so much water up the hill. As I have learned now, this will need to be built before the snow starts flying or it’s not getting done till next year.
It is now a year since we arrived in New Brunswick, May 7, to be exact. We were parked at the end of what seemed like a long lake, but was actually a driveway with many potholes and huge puddles, allowing the water to flow across it. Good thing we aren’t there now.
We have been exploring, going to the Garden Club meetings, and meeting other gardeners. Recently, we went to Cambridge Narrows, east of Gagetown/Oromocto to meet Howard and Marilyn Erb. They run a(n) Herb Farm that they call H.Erb’s Herbs. Good name, eh? We found out about them from the Tourism New Brunswick book last year and decided we HAD to go meet them. It was about a 2-hour drive, but it was definitely worth it.
They are such nice people and they had most of the plants we were looking for.
Marie has been planting seeds in the house to plant in her straw bale garden outside. It has been king of chilly so outside planting has been iffy at best. May Long Weekend is still the best time to plant.
The frogs have been “tweeting” for a couple of weeks now and the bugs are starting to fly again. Soon the Lightning Bugs will be doing their magic show again. The kids are doing okay. Sadly, they won’t be moving into “their” house because the relationship between our daughter and her partner self-destructed. He kept the house. Hmm. Now they are talking seriously about moving back to BC. Before we even started our plans, we were aware that it was always a possiblility that they might move back, and we determined that in any case, we were doing this for “our” adventure as much as to be near the “Kidlets”
