Podcast 64

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2nd anniversary of our first podcast (not going to play it again)

63 podcasts later but bit out of practice.

Nice to hear people have come to us after we stopped weekly podcasting and they have listened all the way through - out of real time.

Winter
- Quite a winter - 5 storms (including last night) - last winter 5 in total
- 10cm last night
- snow most of December

Horticultural happenings
- passed semester with honours
- one more to go
- lots of houseplants propagated

Knitting
quest for the gnome
tree decoration
knitted our hats

Creeping Canadianisms
highway
gas

Immigration to Nova Scotia - we have PNP

People not always doing what they set out to do coming here
True of many downshifters
Adapt plans if things don't turn out exactly how they are planned

Bad Things
AJ – TV
Matt – snow

Good things
Matt – snow
AJ – snow

Christmas Tree

We spent last weekend selecting a tree. We found quite a few nice specimen but it seemed such a shame to cut them down. Then we found this whopper - the top 8 feet were great but it was stopping light to a few more spruce and rather nice white pine. We decided it would be ideal if we took the top 7 feet as a Christmas tree and allowed the others around it to thrive - woodland management you see :)

This weekend we went to retrieve the selected tree and I filmed the retrieval using the digital camera and posted below: