Category: Daily Blog

Here are the class photos from this past Saturday’s Spring Hare digital photography class, where I learned to take world class photos! It was a great class – we learned lots about support equipment (lenses, filters, flashes, etc) but also and more importantly, about controlling light through aperture, shutter speed, and ISO ratings.

It was a great class, with active participation and familiar faces, led by the amazing Dennis Flynn, who did a great job with such a diverse class. If you ever get the opportunity to take a class with him, do it!

My daughter tells me my pictures are already looking better and that she’s amazed I could sit through a class and learn something. Not sure if I should thank her or smack her!

Below is a picture of the art class than ran concurrently with our digital photograph one. Don’t be fooled into thinking there’s no culture around the bay! I’ve been immersed in more since moving to our little ocean front cabins than I have in my whole life!

We are thrilled to introduce you to the newest addition to our Ocean Delight family – meet Murphy! Murphy is a golden retriever from Petty Harbour whose family just couldn’t keep him anymore. And while he will be missed, and he will surely miss them, he’s such a ‘retriever’s retriever,’ loving chasing sticks into the water for hours, that we hope he’ll love living at his new cabins by the sea as much as we’re already in love with him.

This weekend he spent hours bounding into the ocean – I couldn’t believe the energy! The Berry is solely responsible for this – if it had been up to me, I wouldn’t have been looking for dogs on Kijiji! – but I have to say that this gentle giant already has me hooked! He exudes love and is so gentle, very smart and eager to please. So if you come visit us at the cabins, don’t be surprised if you see him playing in the ocean!

It’s Father’s Day, and if you’ll indulge me, I’m skipping my church blogs for a week to share a picture of my three beautiful daughters. Since the day I held my first in the palm of my hands, my daughters have taught me unconditional love and the true gift of giving, and given me the feeling of a warm wind always at my back.

As my girls have grown up and I’ve moved away from the caregiver role to that of loving spectator, I have been blessed to see them mature into strong women. They don’t live near me now, and while I miss them I am not sad, because I have always wanted them to have wings and passions and to be citizens of the world.

So on this Father’s Day, I’m wishing you a day of sweet reflection on the wonderful gifts that having a family means, and (as I do on a regular basis), I am thanking my daughters for all the fun, thoughts, love and enjoyment they have given me. And Happy Father’s Day to all you dads out there!

Here’s Alf and me working on the boat. Yesterday we got the navigation lights, GPS, fish finder and stereo working. But more importantly, I had the trim motor come in last night and we installed it – and it worked like a charm. I gassed her up, and she purred like a kitten.

Then we discovered we had damaged the gear cable running from the console to the engine. See me below with the sledge hammer to see how I felt about this misstep!So we now have another big job on our hands. We had gotten so much done yesterday that I had regained hope for getting out on Father’s Day – my goal. But after this incident, most of that hope is gone. Today is busy getting a new surprise (you’ll see, or find in on our Twitter!), and tomorrow I have the photography course. So I’m running out of time to get it out for Sunday.

Too Bad It’s Friday. Perhaps the only time those words were spoken!