Waving goodbye to Jeannie at her Sunrise B&B in Port aux Choix, we headed south and east toward tonight’s stop in Lewisporte. When you come to Newfoundland, staying with Jeannie is a must. She’s so very friendly and makes you feel like you’re a member of her family. She’s one of 17 children so guess it’s no surprise she has the gift of making one feel very welcome.
One of the things you’ll see driving from place to place are enormous stacks of firewood. Lots of times it’s stacked by the seashore, other times along side the road kilometers from the nearest house, and other times next to a house. When I asked I was told folks have an allotment in the forest. The trees are very tall and skinny = no splitting, because they grow so close together. They cut the wood in winter (is this what they call winter fun?) then bring the wood down and stack it by the sea or by the roads so it will dry better. This time of year they begin to move the seasoned wood to their homes. All the homes are heated with wood but most also have heat pumps. Like us, they can’t always rely on the electricity so the wood supply is still important.
A curious thing… Nova Scotia is a time zone (1 hour) before eastern. Newfoundland is 1/2 hour before that. Half an hour??? So if it’s 5:00 at our house it’s 6:30 here. (You try explaining that to John G!)
The Johns relaxing at our AirB&B this evening. Another beautiful day!
Word of the day… gut-foundered - very hungry, famished. “You better ask for two hot turkey sandwiches if you don’t want to be gut-foundered before supper.” (We did feel a bit gut-foundered yesterday when nothing was open for lunch. Otherwise there has certainly been no opportunity to use that word!)
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