After Work Walk.

Listening to myself I knew I was darn tired from working all day, but the weather was so enticing that I decided to leave after supper to take a beach walk in the sunset of Friars Bay. Many people would shy away from this beach as it has only rocks, tons of deposited seaweed and yes, some garbage coming in with the tide. But aside of the nice sunsets, it also offers something very special. It’s called SEA GLASS and it has been the rave for the last 5 years. I have personally met visitors, even been hired to lead the way for them, to find this treasure. What exactly is SEA GLASS?  Well, it is glass shards of all kind of shapes and colors, and a true piece of Sea glass has stayed in the sea for a very long time tumbling around along the sandy bottom of the sea until it has attained a rough surface. It is glass you can’t look through anymore. The most treasured pieces are shards in red and dark blue, purple or with/and showing old patterns, like from old medicine bottles or old car glass from rear lights. Collectors make mosaics or jewelry of it. Decorative items like the one Bea made it are also popular.                        But also other “treasures” can be found.

When The Lord Moves A Church

House moving  is a long standing practice in North America, but it is not an every day business to move a church across the water. And even more astonishing it is if the captain is the Lord himself. Mr. Stan Lord is the every-day ferry provider of Campobello Island and he is not afraid to use his special beach-going ferry for transport orders out of the ordinary. http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/n-s-church-floats-on-water-toward-winery-1.1018664

A rare sight occurred in Walton, N.S., on Wednesday as a century-old church was ferried down the Minas Basin on a vessel captained by a man named Lord. The building — formerly St. Matthew's Anglican Church — is being moved to Avondale to become part of the new Avondale Sky Winery, owned by Stewart Creaser and his wife, Lorraine Vassalo. "We needed a building to make our wine in and to sell our wine in. We've moved an old barn to our property to make the wine in and this building will be used to sell our wine," Creaser told CBC News on Wednesday. St. Matthew's Anglican Church was built in 1844 and deconsecrated in 2008. Creaser and Vassalo bought the building for $1.67 — the same price the congregation paid for the church in 1844. While transporting the former church to the new site will cost thousands of dollars, Creaser said he fell in love with the building as soon as he saw it. "When you're in there it has this amazing, peaceful ambience," he said. "We really weren't looking for a church in particular but when we were shown it, we just really believed it was the right thing to do. It was a great old building, it's got a lot of history and it deserves to be able to live on." The journey of the nearly 30-tonne building is a complicated one that has already experienced delays. The building spent the winter on the Walton waterfront after poor weather conditions delayed attempts to move it last year. On Wednesday, a truck successfully drove the church on to a converted ferry that arrived in Walton for the day's high tide at 2:25 p.m. The church will now travel more than 45 kilometres down the Bay of Fundy to Newport Landing, then up the Avon River where it will sit overnight, just off Hantsport. It will be unloaded off the ferry at Thursday afternoon's high tide. Next week, it will be driven up a hill toward Avondale Sky Winery as nearby phone, power and cable lines are carefully disconnected. Creaser said he was originally hoping to transport the church on a truck for its entire journey. "There's a problem with the power lines between here and our location that there's major power lines and Nova Scotia Power would have to put power or turn the power off for a significant part of the whole county, which they just can't do," he said. Armed with cameras and chairs, dozens of people in the village of Walton came to the waterfront to witness the church's move. "Makes it a little exciting, just look around. I've never seen this many cars in Walton in my life," said one man. "I think it's just short of a miracle," said another. The captain of the ferry — named Stan Lord — said he had never experienced anything of this magnitude and was surprised to see so many members of the village show up for the occasion. "I said, 'Holy crap,'" Lord said, laughing. The crowd broke into cheers and applause as Lord pulled the ferry away from the waterfront. "Went to church there and there it goes now, right out to sea," said one woman.

An Unusual Evening

Do you remember the game? The game everybody played when nothing better to do? A few years ago….OK, maybe more than a few years ago, you could walk into an office and you saw people playing a card game – on their SCREEN!  Well, I played it myself for HOURS, not in any office but at home. It  was as close to an addiction as a player might come in those days. Last night, I played it again, for there was nothing else to do, as the entire island had lost its Internet since noon yesterday. First I thought it was our darn router again. Then I got suspicious about my laptop, but when I went to LOOK at the router I saw a red blinking light, indicating something was amiss. I rebooted the thing, but the red light came back on. Now I got a feeling that our internet and phone provider was at fault.  Bell-Aliant is the worst phone provider we have ever experienced. They have poor service and they are the most expensive. They also have a monopoly on phone and internet. I phoned them. After the usual ID-procedure I got to explain in no uncertain terms why I was calling. It took about 10 minutes of listening to some non-descript music before the lady with the Indian accent got back to me. And the answer she came up with was as simple as it was perplexing. Bell Aliant workers had been digging in the ground and ripped open the cable. So that was it. No internet for us last night and instead of watching an old German TV-production I pulled out my old Toshiba laptop. It’s 12 years old and runs Win XP, but it has this old game stored on it. It’s too slow for surfing the internet but great for playing those old games.

The Clueless President

Obama Advisor Responds To Trump Disrespecting Anthem In Best Way Imaginable By Harper Cicely - April 17, 2017  On Easter Sunday, just before his first time hosting the annual White House Easter Egg Roll, President Donald Trump stood on the Truman balcony with First Lady Melania and their son Barron Trump. As the national anthem played, Trump failed to do just one major thing. According to the Flag code of the United States of America, every person who is present while the national anthem is playing should be standing with their right hand over their heart during the song: ‘During rendition of the national anthem when the flag is displayed, all present except those in uniform should stand at attention facing the flag with the right hand over the heart.’                           Entirely self-absorbed and clueless It wasn’t until Melania nudged her clueless husband that he quickly put his hand over his heart. It’s not like he’s not been an American citizen his whole life or anything, right?  Or maybe he thought he had immunity since he is the president of the United States. Whatever was going through his tiny little brain, all there really is to say is, seriously? https://youtu.be/2mz99agowy0 Former President Barack Obama’s senior advisor, Dan Pfeiffer, was astonished at this moment and immediately noted that if Obama ever didn’t put his hand over his heart for the Star-Spangled Banner during his presidency, it would have become the century’s biggest scandal. Pfeiffer went to Twitter, saying: ‘This goes without saying but if this had been Barack Obama, it would have been wall to wall coverage of Fox for the next three years.’ 12:20 PM - 17 Apr 2017 17,15617,156 Retweets 31,06331,063 likes The former advisor is absolutely right. During Trump’s first few months in office he has done some pretty sketchy things that would have more than likely gotten Obama  impeached.