Wednesday 27 June 2007

Cold Plate Luncheon....at work!

St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church
Lunenburg, Nova Scotia
Cold Plate Luncheon

Well, this was a delicious treat!



We get these from various local church groups now and then. This one tasted as good as it looks! Potato and chicken salad adorned with a sprig of parsley and some red cabbage, a pickle, couple carrot sticks and celery, roll with butter, yummy macaroni salad and some delicious gingerbread? cake with a lemony sauce garnished with two raspberries!

And check out the cute little pink ribbon tied around the napkin and utensils...awwww!

I love these, I would order this once a week if possible ^_^


Tuesday 26 June 2007

Damn you duke boys!



Taken just down the road from the Conq. Mills hall, this spot is a perennial location for brake burns. This year's offering is more muted than last year's, perhaps they're pacing themselves? ^_^

Conquerall Mills Variety Supper & Horse/Ox Pull

June 23, 2007
Conquerall Mills, Nova Scotia

The rain stayed away this year (poured at this one last year), and the crowds were out in full force to watch the pulls:















It's always cool to see 'young fullers' helping out at these events:

















We must be seasoned veterans of these suppers, judging by how early we lined up for the meal...mind you, if we hadn't been there so early, we might've missed this character:



Once inside, this dinner fails to dissapoint year after year...sorry for the blurry pics, my kingdom for more light (and a tripod)!:


Mmm, I'm getting hungry again looking at all that food: potato and macaroni salad, some delicious smoky baked ham and pork roast, swedish meatballs, baked beans, BBQ chicken, big 'ole plate of bologna, scalloped potatoes, lasagna, spaghetti and meat balls, lunenburg pudding, and little sandwiches with the crusts cut off....ahh, bliss! To top it off, Kool Aid to drink (as well as the usual 'stiff' cups of tea and coffee). Not sure why the Kool Aid was so good, but it was amazing!


Bit of everything on the plate, with some yummy cherry cheescake for dessert. We sat by this awesome sprinkled choco cake...gaagghhhhhh...so good...


Don't you wish you were there? I had the rhubarb upside down cake and it was perfection redefined. Lisa enjoyed her cherry cream cheese cake, apparently 'not as good as mom's', but still yummy.

Rarely dissapoints, this supper and pull is a 'must attend' event, mark your calendars for next year!















Friday 22 June 2007

Ons Burn

Most folks around here know where "Ons Erf" is (our farm in dutch, i believe) located...for those that don't, it's a family farm in Wileville (close to Newcombville)...

Not much room to pull over on the road, so I didn't capture all of this nice uphill offering:




Who's gay 'up home'? Check the highway, apparently...

I saw this writing on the highway on my way to work last week.
I finally stopped and took some shots, hilarious! Even funnier is that
the person who did this is probably my age, but with only the mental
maturity of a teenager >_<

Somewhere in East Clifford on Hwy. 325:














...aaaand, further down the road:














Thursday 21 June 2007

Burning Rubber show

Great minds think alike!




Burning Rubber
Exhibition: 2 June – 29 July 2007
Saint Mary’s University Art Gallery

Launch: sound performance, video and catalogue launch:
Friday, 20 July, 8:00 pm

Check out more deets on this art show here:

http://www.smu.ca/administration/externalaffairs/

artgallery/documents/BR_Media_release.pdf

(sorry for the cut up link, i couldn't get it the whole think to display)

Burning Rubber show

Great minds think alike!



Check out deets on this art show here:

http://www.smu.ca/administration/externalaffairs/artgallery/documents/BR_Media_release.pdf

Monday 18 June 2007

Lahave Islands Museum Luncheon

June 16th, 2007
Lahave Islands Museum Hall

Another foggy day (hard to tell them apart these last few weeks), and we had a hankerin' for lil' sammiches! Boy, did we get our fill.....

This was the first time either of us had been to this hall. An interesting note is that there is not any running water in this hall. The 'kitchen' is upstairs, so all of the water is lugged up a flight of rickety stairs and heated on the stove for all those hot water needs.. Pretty amazing, considering this all happens behind the scene...

At any rate, we bought our tickets and headed up a decidedly crooked set of stairs to the second floor. The ceiling is kind of low, and the floors all have that familiar uneven feel of an old building. There wasn't much of a crowd so we took a row of seats along the back wall. Kind of a treat since we didn't have to contend with people bumping into our backs as they tried to get out of their seats.

We dove in to the pretty styrofoam plates of sandwiches, as you can see the cherry and cream cheese sandwiches went fast!










































The soup menu included : hamburg soup (see above), corn chowder, beef and barley and chicken vegetable. By all accounts, they were all delish!

Dessert was rhubarb or apple crisp, the rhubarb was tart and perfect and the apple crisp had the better 'crisp' so I'm told....

If you find yourself at Crescent Beach, make sure you venture out to the Lahave Islands Museum to check out the neat items they have on display!

One Colourful Truck Tractor



I saw my neighbour out in the yard getting this beast ready to run, so I started chatting him up about it.....neat rig, I might pick one up....

Here are some stills I took of it too: