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2022 was the year I unconsciously started using the #NovaScotia inhaled “yeah”
Apparently someone left an open can of pear halves on the MacDonald Bridge in #Halifax and it's been sitting there for two weeks now. https://old.reddit.com/r/halifax/comments/10dt1wm/week_two_for_the_macdonald_bridge_pear_halves_in/
Found a #NovaScotia pilsner called "The Inhaled Affirmative" by Big Spruce: https://www.mynslc.com/en/products/Beer/Lager/Pilsner/1034326.aspx
Video montage of snow around #Halifax last night, from Moon Mist Music:
https://youtu.be/VTcVbZ2-NuM
Just shoveled about a foot off the driveway this morning, sleigh shovel really helped.
Moon Mist - Haliwood
Snowy view from #ColeHarbour Heritage Park yesterday; much more snow falling tonight.
View from a little footbridge on the Jersey Jack Trail in #ColeHarbour Heritage Park. This brook is simply called "The Run". 11°C and clear yesterday.
From Halifax Shipping News, a drive around Sable Island: https://youtu.be/Gy1gQYMPLc8 #NovaScotia
[6] Sable Island - A driving tour
Our view of #NovaScotia Natal Day fireworks over #Halifax Harbour last night, from Woodside Ferry Terminal.
Detail from the #Halifax Explosion Memorial at Fort Needham Park. I remember this guy from the Heritage Minute! https://youtu.be/rw-FbwmzPKo
Heritage Minutes: Halifax Explosion
Funny street names in Marina Park, a land lease community* in Porters Lake, #NovaScotia.
* trailer park
Hm, first snow of the season is delivering a bit more snow than was initially forecast. Smoky is not amused. #NovaScotia #NSWX #cat
"How #Halifax built the most vibrant waterfront in Canada: Decades of small changes" -- https://happycities.com/blog/halifax-waterfront-power-of-placemaking
Late afternoon view of #Halifax Harbour opening to the Atlantic from Oceanview in Eastern Passage, #NovaScotia. These photos don’t fully capture how huge and wild the breakers were.
At Fisherman’s Cove, #EasternPassage, #NovaScotia, a lobster trap Christmas tree in memory of those lost to the sea.
Got about 20cm snow in #Halifax this morning. Smoky the #kitten even dared to venture out into the snow for a bit.
Our Christmas tree features a couple of locally-themed laser-engraved ornaments from Kismet, a shop in Eastern Passage #Halifax #NovaScotia
Speaking of Christmas trees, if you're not from #Halifax you need to know about Woody, the animatronic tree at Mic Mac Mall in Dartmouth #NovaScotia: https://youtu.be/oz11ojmLL-g (one of Woody's first utterances upon waking is of course a land acknowledgement)
Wake up woody 2022
Just got a few cm of snow overnight but Smoky’s enjoying it and leaving little paw prints on the deck.
Don Connolly's #Halifax, 1985, via Betamax King: https://youtu.be/Yw1p4h9DHFM
CBHT - Don Connolly's Halifax 1985 (Nova Scotia)
Scenes from the #Halifax waterfront earlier today. Cold, some snow flurries, most stuff closed, but kid had fun at the submarine playground by the Maritime Museum.
Sad to see Palladium, old Greek family diner on #ColeHarbour road, is now up for sale, I had my first breakfast after moving to #Halifax there: https://www.viewpoint.ca/cutsheet/202401205/2
942 Cole Harbour Road, Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia - For Sale $1,995,000 - ViewPoint.ca
View the MLS listing For Sale at 942 Cole Harbour Road, Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia on ViewPoint.ca (MLS No. 202401205). We provide full property details and photos for this and all other MLS listings in Nova Scotia. The subject property is improved with a 6526 square foot single level commercial building that is currently subdivided into two separate retail spaces. The Palladium Restaurant premises located on the right hand side of the building contains 4166 square feet. The second unit on the left hand side is...
#NovaScotia groundhog Shubenacadie Sam did not see her shadow, predicting an early Spring -- the same day the forecast calls for four days of continuous snow. https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/shubenacadie-sam-predicts-an-early-spring-on-groundhog-day-1.6752750 (also scroll down for Barrington NS's Lucy the Lobster)
Some wintry shots from a walk around McCormacks Beach, Eastern Passage, #NovaScotia yesterday while it was sunny. Never seen the tide so low at the Passage.
Today is #NovaScotia Heritage Day, and the 2024 Heritage Day is dedicated to Wililam Hall: https://heritageday.novascotia.ca/content/2024-honouree-william-hall
2024 Honouree: William Hall | Nova Scotia Heritage Day
William Hall was the son of formerly enslaved parents, Jacob and Lucy who fled Maryland during the War of 1812 as refugees and settled in Nova Scotia. Jacob found work in a shipyard in Summerville, where Hall was born in 1827. The family later bought a farm in Horton Bluff, where he also attended school. As a young man, Hall worked in shipyards in Hantsport for several years,
8mm film of Truro #NovaScotia in the early 1970s: https://youtu.be/GmCozcCdO_k
-- via https://redd.it/1avpg2j
-- via https://redd.it/1avpg2j
Truro, Nova Scotia Early 1970s 8mm Film
Unhoused person describes conditions at the #Halifax Forum shelter, reasons why living rough in a tent might be preferable to some: https://old.reddit.com/r/halifax/comments/1b6byee/is_the_forum_really_that_bad_my_experience/
In Aug 2021 a robbery suspect fleeing police in #DartmouthNS jumped into Little Albro Lake. Police commandeered a paddle board, pedal boat, and a canoe to apprehend him as he struggled. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/robbery-suspect-police-officers-dartmouth-lake-1.6156112
Was reminded of this because last night another suspect attempted to flee police by jumping in another Dartmouth lake: https://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/en/news/2024/rcmp-charge-man-numerous-offences
I guess it's Dartmouth, the City of Lakes, you run in any direction far enough you're gonna end up in one
Aerial timelapses of Armdale Rotary in #Halifax:
• https://youtu.be/4iUpJWq1ilM
• https://youtu.be/rh7mHENhAkw
• https://youtu.be/4iUpJWq1ilM
• https://youtu.be/rh7mHENhAkw
Armdale rotary hyperlaspe
Lovely DJI Mini 2 aerial views around the Old Lawrencetown Road Trail in #ColeHarbour #NovaScotia: https://youtu.be/ChlTg_bHrb0
Beautiful Small Waterway on the Old Lawrencetown Road Walking and Cycling Trail - DJI Mini 2, 4K UHD
Spent Easter Sunday afternoon walking along Rainbow Haven Beach and skipping stones into the Atlantic. #NovaScotia
#NovaScotia Tourism video on Pictou County pizza, the pizza with the brown sauce: https://youtu.be/AUInauT80mc
Pictou County Style Pizza
Went to the #NovaScotia Museum of Natural History in #Halifax today and saw Gus the Tortoise out for a walk in the garden since it was a warm sunny afternoon. (Under a museum naturalist's watchful eye of course) -- Gus is now over 100 years old: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/gus-natural-history-museum-100-nova-scotia-1.6550209
The Bedford Petroglyphs, two symbols carved into rocks near Bedford Basin, spiritually important to the Mi'kmaq: https://www.pc.gc.ca/apps/dfhd/page_nhs_eng.aspx?id=827&i=87344
Per historian Steve Angelides, that hill is called Wejkwapeniaq in Mi'kmaq, "the coming of the dawn": https://www.sackvillerivers.ns.ca/post/the-legend-of-the-petroglyph-at-bedford-basin
Misty/foggy/windy out on the #Halifax Common as the remnants of Storm Debby pass north of us.
Stormy low pressure area passing just south of #NovaScotia so today has been a bunch of wind and rain. #NSwx
Some shots from "Inflate-a-Palooza," the inflatables festival out on Garrison Grounds by the Citadel in #Halifax a couple weekends back: https://www.flickr.com/photos/brownpau/albums/72177720320167620 -- kid got to enjoy a buncha bouncy castles and slides #inflation
Inflate-a-Palooza
Visiting he Inflatables festival at Halifax Garrison Grounds.
Hey from Mackormacks Beach, Eastern Passage, #NovaScotia. You can just barely see #Halifax and the bridges in the distance, and a big boxy freighter unloading cars at the Autoport.
Did Julian forget his drink? No, impossible. (Seen at corner of Hollis and Sackville, Downtown #Halifax)
Comparing an old aerial photo of the Mic Mac Rotary in #DartmouthNS with a current Google Maps capture; it looks like the original arc of the rotary is kinda preserved in the off-ramp to Waverley/Prince Albert Rd. I can only imagine how awful the Circ would be if the rotary were still there today. #Halifax #NovaScotia
Took a little hike down Tanner's Eastern Passage Trail, #NovaScotia. Part of the trail is on a rocky beach over a stinky layer of dried seaweed and kelp, but just past that there's a lovely sedimentary formation. (Not sure if it counts as "flysch.")
A bit farther along, at the trail's end, yet more rocky beach, and then the vast Atlantic. From here the view is due south; if one were to swim from here they would eventually reach the Caribbean and Venezuela.
Bedrock Geology Map of the #Halifax Area: https://novascotia.ca/natr/meb/data/mg/ofm/pdf/ofm_2014-010_d440_dp.pdf -- and more bedrock geology maps of #NovaScotia: https://novascotia.ca/natr/meb/geoscience-online/interactive-bedrock-geo-map.asp
If you're in Canada doing the poppy thing for Remembrance Day and the stabby attachment pin annoys you, they sell a black butterfly centre pin for an extra dollar or two: https://www.poppystore.ca/black-poppy-centre-pin-poppy-not-included-300570 -- ask your elderly Legion dude at the store about it.
The Legion's online Poppy store also sells this incredibly classy neon-style poppy LED light so you can Remember™ at hundreds of lumens: https://www.poppystore.ca/poppy-2/led-poppy-light-with-base-300778
Some shots from around #Halifax Point Pleasant Park over the weekend: https://www.flickr.com/photos/brownpau/albums/72177720322281037
Point Pleasant Park, Halifax
Explore this photo album by Paulo O on Flickr!
Was back in #Halifax Point Pleasant Park Saturday and the winter sky over the Atlantic was right out of a JMW Turner painting: https://www.flickr.com/photos/brownpau/54191585409/in/album-72177720322281037
Point Pleasant Park, Halifax
Beaverton on Woody, the animatronic Christmas tree at Mic Mac Mall in Dartmouth #NovaScotia: https://www.thebeaverton.com/2021/12/nova-scotian-mall-insists-giant-tree-will-only-eat-3-to-4-kids-max-this-christmas/
Nova Scotian mall insists giant tree will only eat "3 to 4 kids, max" this Christmas
DARTMOUTH, NS - With international media picking up the story of “the creepiest Christmas tree of 2021”, administrators at Mic Mac Mall have assured shoppers that Woody will consume no more than 4 children this holiday shopping season.
Theodore Too, iconic Halifax tugboat that was sold to a new owner in Ontario, partially sank in shallow water off its dock and had to be refloated. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/theodore-tugboat-safely-righted-1.7415557
Theodore Too lives: N.S.-built tugboat named after TV series 'righted' after partial sinking in Ontario | CBC News
Theodore Too, the 65-foot replica tugboat that was built in Nova Scotia and named after a years-long TV series, has been refloated in St. Catharines, Ont., after partially sinking this week, according to the boat's owner.
Donate your discarded Christmas trees to Hope for Wildlife in Seaforth #NovaScotia before Jan 1st, to provide wild rescue animals with some natural winter shelter, climbing opportunities, and porcupine nibblies: https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/more/hope-for-wildlife-gives-second-life-to-christmas-trees-1.7159022
Did a short hike on Friday and got this nice view of Bissett Lake, all wintry and iced over. #ColeHarbour #NovaScotia
Richard Eriksson@brownpau I understood that reference, and I haven’t watched the show.
LAUREN@brownpau I want to be gus
Shawn King@brownpau Aw! Thanks for the update on Gus. I last saw him over 30 years ago - so glad he’s still around! ❤️ Hi Gus - remember me? 🤣