Happy 55th Anniversary!

 On December 11, after a very difficult year, we celebrated our 55th wedding anniversary. Don't ask me why and how Vickie has put up with me for that long. Heck I don't even know how I got her to marry me in the first place!

It was a wonderful  evening with bubbly sipped from the modified flutes sent to us 5 years ago by our good friend Ted (who lives in Australia).

We found the flute revisions didn't affect the taste one bit! Of course, when you live in Nova Scotia, you have to have lobster.

And we had plenty!

What made it even better was that we got to share it with our daughter Sandra and son-in-law Sean who live in Dartmouth.

And also, via Zoom, with our other daughter Lisa and son-in-law Jarrod who live in Freeport, Grand Bahama and our dear friend Charlene who lives in southern Ontario.

All in all, it made the year, on balance, a great year!

Best wishes to you all.

Winter is Coming

 Slowly but steadily The Neck slips into winter. A few days ago we had our first "sundog". This is how it looked from our morning coffee spot.

But the views from the deck were a lot better.

And today we are in the middle of our first big winter storm. So now the scene of activity shifts to production. Recently I finished a project to produce some new guitar picks.

They turned out great with only a few "disasters" which are bound to happen when you take crazy lace and moss agate down to 2 mm.!

We've made a few statement pieces like this gorgeous rhodochrosite stone set in sterling silver and hung on a hand made sterling Viking Knit chain.

And we have at least one more show stopper in the works.

Some of you may know that I had a major operation in October and we had to close the shop early but things are looking pretty good and our plan is to be open as usual in the spring with exciting new items.

We still have a good selection of hand dyed yarn at a fabulous price so make plans to visit beautiful Digby Neck and stop by my rock shop- The Lap of Lapidary -and see our studio and gift shop. Everybody gets a free piece of Digby Neck!

Have a happy and healthy winter!

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