Labour Day Weekend

Labour Day is celebrated over the weekend 4-6 September in North America but we started the previous week by having Donna and Michael Gallant over for Sunday lunch. They had been on holidays the day that Canada Day was celebrated so this opportunity to have lunch together gave us time to catch up since we spent a lovely evening with them at their home earlier this year. Donna is a Registered Nurse who works in the Nursing Faculty at the University of New Brunswick where Nursng Degrees are undertaken in this Province. Michael is an optical professional who is involved with contact lens requirements. Michael comes from an Acadian background and he and Donna introduced us to some delicious Acadian food when we were at there home previously.

So fast forward to Sunday 5 Sep when we were invited to Jacqueline and John's home which is about a 20 minute drive from where we live. Jacqueline and John have a couple of statues of dogs in their yard and as you can see from the photo below Murphy had to check the statues out to see if they were real. So after a good sniff she moved on.

The day before we went to Jacqueline and John's Hurricane Earle had arrived from the USA. Fortunately as we are about a 3 hour drive from the coast all Fredericton received was some much needed rain and by Sunday the weather was perfect which allowed us to enjoy time sitting out on the deck.
Jacqueline and John have a loverly home and from their back deck one gets a great view of the St John River which becomes solid ice in the winter months.

Still out on the deck Chef John prepares to cook the largest steaks we had seen for sometime. So Texas is not the only place in North America where one gets the opportunity to eat a great steak.


The day was spent with lovely friends and was full of fun, laughter, good food and wine.

Labour Day itself was on the Monday and our socialising continued and this time it was with our 'dodgy neighbours' Debbie and George who joined us for a late breakfast. We had grapefruit from theUSA to start. This was followed by Eggs Benedict with home made Hollindaise sauce. It took the 3 of us to make sure the sauce turned out well.

Following the eggs we had individual fruit platters which featured rockmellon (cantalope) from Nova Scotia, kiwi fruit from New Zealand, mango from Mexico, star fruit and passionfruit from Peru and strawberries from California. It all tasted great except the star fruit which was for decoration purposes only.

Well from all of us here have a great day and stay happy safe and well.

Love Bev and Ross.