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A busy weekend on Grand Manan Island left me ready for another nap. It’s hard work, hiking a trail that snaked its way along 400-foot cliffs, then plowing through a snack on the ferry back to the mainland.Beautiful Soon-to-Be Wife considered taking bets from bemused passengers on how long it would take a seagull to do what seagulls do everywhere, all the time. Only in this case, I was the likely target.Handsome Son spent one summer playing for the provincial under-17 men’s basketball team.
Which is how I ended up standing in my driveway last week, in my slippers and a long winter coat — hiding a pair of sweat pants way past their best-before date, talking to a pair of policemen.The sun sets over Miner’s Marsh in downtown Kentville on March 31. The temperature got up to 6 C on Easter Sunday as March came to an end. - Jason Malloy/SaltWire
The back of the SUV is a perfect fit. I can pop the hatchback thing open, curl up in the sun, and turn on the book. When I regained consciousness, some undetermined time later, I’d missed a few chapters of the book and the sun was starting to find clouds to hide behind.“Good nap,” Beautiful Wife smirked as I stumbled inside, half awake. We’ve been married 40 years this year, she knows the drill.“There’s a police car going by. That’s unusual in this neighbourhood,” I said.They stopped in the street, the officers apparently talking to each other. Maybe they’re making a coffee date, I thought.
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