Anchorage Provincial Park, Grand Manan Island, NB

Anchorage Provincial Park, Grand Manan Island

Welcome Back!

This time I have a few more photos from the Red Point area of the Anchorage Provincial Park.

These photos include scenic shots of the beach, sun, rock formations and of course, the critters (green crabs!)

This week went by very quickly! I wrote and passed my exam on Wednesday, so officially was completed everything Wednesday afternoon! I left with mixed emotions...I will miss all the teachers and the friends I made and the routine, but I'm very glad to be done the program and now I can move onto the next phase of my venture! Yay!

I have been working on my own business, which is a web and graphic design business. My webpage can be found here:

http://www.smaracledesigns.com

 

Please send my info to anyone who might be interested! I'd certainly appreciate it!

Keturah's Grade 12 graduation was Thursday night and was actually quite good...maybe because I knew a few of the students graduating! We went out for snacks and drinks afterwards at Shoeless Joes with my sister and her hubby!

Saturday, we went to my nephew's 40th birthday party..more food and fun! It was great to see everyone again and especially my niece and her family from Kentucky! Today is a lazy day..laundry, groceries, movies and a big pot of soup, I think! :-)

Have a great week!

Anchorage Provincial Park, Grand Manan Island, NB

Anchorage Provincial Park, Grand Manan Island

Welcome Back!

This week I have some photos from the Red Point Beach, which I call it, but really, it is the Red Point of the Anchorage Provincial Park. The tide is low in these pics and you can see for miles, it seems. It's a beautiful area and even has a few critters...we saw these green crabs as we were beach combing for rocks, glass, etc. So, being my crazy family, they were picking them up and taking selfies with them, etc... :-) More from this area next week too!

This week at school, I wrote and passed the Accounting Exam! Yay! It was a really hard one and it was also closed book. I needed 70% to pass and I got 76%! Good enough for me! :-) I'm so glad it is over! I then started Marketing and finished it..but now I have to study and then write the exam and then I will be all done at Academy of Learning! It did go quite fast, I guess because I enjoyed it so much (except for PHP and Accounting!) :-)

We had a graduation ceremony this week for myself and a few other ladies who graduated from the Medical Assistant Program. I was the only Web Design graduate! It was cool and a chance to see a few of my friends who graduated a few weeks ago and are no longer at AOL.

We are off to take Kevin out for his Father's Day dinner to The Works! Should be good! 

Happy Father's Day! Have a great week!

Hole In The Wall, Grand Manan Island, NB

Hole In The Wall, Grand Manan Island, NB

Welcome Back!

This week I'm highlighting more photos from the Hole In The Wall area of Grand Manan. These include views from the area, which include, rock formations, fishing weirs, the ferry and the Swallowtail Lighthouse on a foggy afternoon! If you look closely at these, you will see a kayaker, a seal and a cormorant.

Sorry, I didn't post last week, I was under the weather on Sunday...tired out, achy, headache and sore throat. I thought that I was getting the dreaded cold that has been going around my family. Kevin got it Friday night! I have been fighting it all week as I've had the various symptoms, but I haven't actually got the full-blown illness yet!

Well, what have I been up to? Last Saturday, the girls and I headed to Ottawa for a surprise birthday party for my friend Anne, who turned 50 this week! She was surprised! It was a great day, but very long as we didn't get home til midnight!

This week at school went fairly fast as it was a short week. There was a PA day on Friday, so I got Thursday off as well! Yay! Accounting is very uninteresting...at least to me! :-) I will hopefully write the exam tomorrow and be done with it, I hope!

On Thursday, Brooke and I headed to the TO Zoo, as I had some coupons to use by the end of June. It was kind of a disappointing visit as it was very hot, which I don't like at all and there were a lot of school kids there! Sigh! A few of the animals that I wanted to see were not on display and the ones that were, were not very photogenic...sleeping and laying at the back of their enclosures! SIGH..oh well, you can't have a good visit every time, I guess!

Friday, Keturah and I went shopping as she was looking for a dress for her graduation. She found one! Saturday, we went hiking at Lemoine's Point. Didn't see too many birds, which was good, because we didn't take any seeds! We did see a lot of squirrels and chipmunks!

Studying and house stuff today! Have a great week!

Hole In The Wall, Grand Manan Island, NB

Hole In The Wall, Grand Manan Island

Welcome Back!

This week I'm highlighting some photos from a campground and nature trail, called the Hole In The Wall...We didn't know what to expect when we first went there, but found it to be a cool nature trail, that wasn't too, too long (especially for little legs, like our girlies had way back in the day!)

There is a 2.00/person admission fee. For kids, they offer a scavenger hunt and if you complete all the questions, you get an ice cream at the end of it. Unfortunately our kids are too old for such fun now! We're lucky they like hiking and nature, so we don't have to bribe them!

Anyway, here are a couple of photos from the trail along the way and then shots of the actual hole in the wall. In the 3rd last photo, if you look closely, you'll see Kevin standing on top of it!

More from this area next week too!

This week went by fairly quick. I was so glad to finally finish the PHP course. I had a few issues, so finally submitted the last assignment and wrote the exam on Thursday. I'm officially a Web Designer now..Whoo hoo! I then started my Accounting course...lots of fun...not.... it's pretty basic and somewhat of a refresher for me, so hopefully I'll get thru it quickly!

Have a great week!

Swallowtail Lighthouse, Grand Manan Island, NB

Swallowtail Lighthouse, Grand Manan Island

Welcome back! This time I'm highlighting the LAST of the Swallowtail lighthouse photos...I'll bet you will be happy to move on...I think I have photos from our whale watching cruise up next...I still have to go through them all----about 500! Yikes, I better start that now!

This week, I worked on the PHP course again...yuck..I don't like it at all...another programming language that is so complicated! Luckily, Kevin's been helping me out or I'd still be stuck on lesson 4! I'm on the last lesson, so I'm hoping to be done it by Tuesday at the latest! :-D

Kevin and I went out for dinner on Friday night and on the way home we stopped at a park we frequent quite often, Fairfield Historical Park....we saw some geese and duck babies.. Unfortunately, I didn't have my Nikon with me, so we went to Kingston today so Kevin could get a haircut and we stopped on the way back. We only saw the geese and they didn't come too close so hopefully, I got a few good shots...The mayflies were the worse today...I'm still picking them out of my teeth! :-)

Have a great week!

Swallowtail Lighthouse, Grand Manan Island, NB

Swallowtail Lighthouse, Grand Manan Island

Welcome Back!

This time I'm highlighting some more photos of the area surrounding the Swallowtail Lighthouse, these include various views of the cliffs, rocks, water and cove. It's such a cool area and I wish I was there right now!!!

Sorry, I didn't post last week! We were busy painting and when I wasn't painting, my laptop was buried under trim, etc...

Keturah had a great trip and got home on Tuesday night, very late! Brooke has resumed working at the ONRoute again, but is looking elsewhere too!

School is going well..not enjoying the PHP course that much, it is very challenging and there is so much to learn! I just have to get through a couple more lessons, then I'll be finished the Web Design program. Whoo Hoo! I will then have a couple of elective business courses and I hope to be done by the end of June as I think we are hoping to go to Grand Manan Island in early July.

We headed to Algonquin Park yesterday, just Kev, Zeek and me! We walked a few trails and tired out our pooch. We saw a couple of moose on the way out of the park, so I'll highlight photos of them in the near future too!

 

Have a great week!

Swallowtail Lighthouse, Grand Manan Island, NB

Swallowtail Lighthouse, Grand Manan Island

Welcome Back!

This week I'm highlighting more photos from the Swallowtail Lighthouse...these include the ferry and some views of the rocky cliffs too! There are lots of rocks to climb on, so you can get a workout in as well. :-) Our little dog, Zeek, loves climbing and the rocks as well as our kiddies!

This week went by fast! I just finished the Portfolio course on Thursday...waiting for a couple of friends to review it and then I'll submit it for marking. No exam with this one! Yay! I got my PHP course on Thursday..it's my last Web Design course..it looks hard though..another programming language! Luckily, I have a built-in tutor with Kevin working with PHP all this year!

We got Brooke home safe and sound on Sunday and she's looking for summer employment. Keturah left yesterday on her school trip to Europe...They are going to Amsterdam, Berlin, Dresden and Krakow, Poland. They get to visit Auschwitz, Schindler's Factory, a bunch of museums and march in a Victory in Europe celebratory parade, representing Canada..pretty cool! She made it there safe and sound and texted me very, very early this morning!

Have a great week!