As this is our first time to stay in Lockeport more or less all year, we don't really know what to expect as the Fall and Winter progress.
So far, we are finding ourselves very busy - there have been some excellent performances at the Osprey in Shelburne and there seem to be community events, dinners and breakfasts galore at which to socialize. On Thanksgiving weekend, there were breakfasts at the Sandy Point and the Lockeport Legion on Saturday and Sunday (low cholesterol stuff like bacon, sausage, eggs, pancakes, beans, hash browns, toast and butter, coffee and cream). On the Tuesday, we attended a birthday party for a new friend and neighbour, Phoebe, who along with her husband Bill bought Ringers' house behind us. The party was at The Parrot's Pins and included sweet and sour haddock and a 4-layer lemon cake - a lovely meal as usual from Keith and Shelley.
On that Wednesday, we had a delicious seafood chowder dinner at Fred and Barbara's (and got a copy of her new cookbook - "Lockeport from Our Kitchen Window" - which is a fund-raiser for the Ragged Island Historical Society). The other guests were Rupert and Betty - a very nice evening filled with lots of interesting stories and discussion. As usual. we learned a lot of interesting history about the Lockeport area listening to long-time residents reminisce.
We had to feed ourselves for a couple of days, but then last Saturday we attended the Anglican parish bazaar at the Firehall to help Barbara and Fred with cookbook sales. After the auction started, we all took off together in Fred's car for a drive down the coast to Baccaro - enjoying the Fall colours that were left and the more open views along the coast. Afterwards, we returned to Fred's place to have terrific lobster rolls and LOTS of wine - a tough life but someone has to do it.
On Monday, was the event of the month - our wonderful plumber, Jerry Hemeon, moved back from Alberta and installed our kitchen sink, faucets and dishwasher - thank you Jerry!
We were also fed a bit on Monday - we went out to Herschel and Marian's to pick up the stands for our rug hooking display (which is currently showing at the McKay Library in Shelburne until November 1st) and to say good-bye for the winter as they returned to White Plains on Tuesday. Marian fed us a snack and gave us a couple of bags of green tomatoes from her huge garden. I made a green tomato pie on Friday which was delicious.
Now we are into community dinner mode - Thursday was a corned beef and cabbage dinner in Sable River, yesterday was ham, scalloped potatoes, beans and brown bread in Little Harbour. Also yesterday, at lunch time, I was in Sable River for the A.G.M. of the Women's Fishnet, which of course meant more food - sandwiches, squares, cookies etc. Wayne was in Shelburne playing 2 hockey games in the 55+ games followed by a "snack" of pizza, fried chicken and Pepsi. After the Little Harbour dinner, we drove out to Hemeon's Head enjoying the lovely weather and views and then returned to Lockeport in time to attend a wedding reception for our mayor, Darian Huskilson, and his bride Jenny who were married in Florida on Tuesday. More food - including lobster dip. A nice event for the entire town - probably 150 people showed up to wish the happy couple well.
Today, we have a creamed lobster supper in Sandy Point - tomorrow dinner guests here.
Remarkably, I haven't gained any weight yet. Of course I haven't lost any either.
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Did Jerry mention why he came back? Are the boom times over? I can only hope that with oil prices slightly less crazy that some of the tar sands work is drying up.
ReplyDeleteJerry said he came back because his boss and his wife were divorcing and the firm was going to pot more or less. The boss was planning to move to BC and would either sell Jerry the business for $150K or buy him a plane ticket back to NS. Since the boss hadn't been soliciting any business of late for the firm, Jerry decided it was a good time to come home (and he was lonely by himself).
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