June 8: Cold and Rainy Again!

Yesterday while Brigitte was out for most of the day, I cleaned out the garage. I found lots of stuff I hadn't remembered bringing-which was good. The garage is in the basement and on the other side of the house from the driveway. That is because it is not a car garage, it is a boat garage.

On the six o'clock news it was predicted that Cape Breton would suffer the after effects of tropical storm Colin. There would be strong winds and much rain starting around midnight. By the morning it wasn't raining so we took the dogs for a walk by the canal. The wind was calm and it had just started drizzling.   After about 45 minutes it was solid rain. The high for the day was 13 c.

We decided to make onion soup for lunch to drive out the chill, so we went to Foodland for the ingredients. We started with a small glass of amareto and that helped with the chill. While we were having the soup a white tailed doe arrived on the lawn. She stayed for about a half an hour-eating all the time. As we have much overgrown brush I encouraged her to eat as much as she could. Since she didn't have a fawn with her I concluded she was a yearling.

Yesterday I noticed that there was much activity going on at Joyce's motel and cottages. There was heavy equipment-a steam shovel and a backhoe-with lots of piles of dirt and gravel. Brigitte suggested that as there was a steam shovel it wasn't landscaping being done and that they may be replacing the septic tank. It is right across the bay and I have included a photograph . The buildings are more yellow than the photo shows.

Tonight we oven baked the fresh salmon fillets that Brigitte got at the fish truck yesterday (remember Tuesday is fish truck day). I have had "fresh" salmon and frozen salmon, but the fresh scallops yesterday and the fresh salmon today were so much more flavourful than other fresh or frozen fish that we will never have them again. We will have fresh from the truck or nothing.