Beginning...

And so it begins... This is the first post of my new blog.  I've been thinking about this for a while, and I want to show the world why I love living where I do.  I live just outside of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada.  We have a small community that has not been doing well for some time.  We are actually on the top ten list of shrinking municipalities in Canada!  This is something I want to change.  So I'm going to tell you about why I love living here, and why other people should too.

It is a quiet, wet day here today at the end of May.  I'm going to do some sewing today.  I am by training and experience a costumer.  Since moving back here in 2000 I've done a fair bit of historical recreation work.  I take the occasional commission for a costume, and I farm, and do a few other things too.

It is the quiet, I think, that is one of the things I love most about living here.  I have neighbours, either across the street, or on the other side of the fields to each side of the house.  Good neighbours, there to help when needed, but not interfering with each other either.  That isn't unusual here... I don't know of any house or area within a hundred kilometres that I wouldn't be comfortable knocking at the door if I needed help to to make a phone call.  That said, it is a small community, people will mind your business more than you do!  lol  But once you make your peace with that, I find it oddly reassuring.  For people used to the anonymity of city life, it can seem really invasive.  But there are good connections to people to be made here.  There is something really comfortable about the fact that the only reason you really need to lock your doors at night is to stop the early-rising neighbour from coming in and shouting up the stairs, "Are you up yet?"

Well, I have much to do today, but I'll be back with posts about what I'm doing on the farm, and about what is going on in the area... Like our new Community Arts Centre!   Auditions for the first show are starting around the first of June!  (Hopefully we'll have a stage built by the time the show is due to open!)