Neighbours

As some of you know, it was my plan when we arrived at our new home to have Zoe bake some cookies that we could deliver to our neighbours and introduce ourselves.  Five weeks later we still had not done that. We had met no one besides employees at stores! And as nice as they all were, we wanted to know our neighbours.

So, Saturday morning we got up and started to bake, and bake, and bake. In fact we baked so much we ran out of time to deliver them! But Sunday, early afternoon off we went. The first house we chose to stop at has a horse that we had seen on many occasions out in their pasture. Zoe was very excited to meet these people and maybe even their horse! Here we met Ed originally hailing from Florida. His wife was not able to meet us at this time but Ed was friendly, gave us some great pointers on things to do in Nova Scotia and sent us onwards to another neighbour that he said was lovely and that we should meet. So off to the purple house and Kim. Yes, Kim was very nice, said she enjoyed aromatherapy and working with raw wools. Note to self: get sheep for the farm! Unfortunately, out of seven houses, those were the only two with people home today! Thats okay, we'll go out again another time.

Monday was very exciting for me! Ed's wife, Linda, came knocking on our door in the morning to introduce herself. Said she was sorry she had missed us the previous day. She brought some honey from their hives for us to enjoy and sat and chit chatted for a while. We started to talk about her horse and the horse community and she recommended contacting Jennifer and seeing if Zoe could visit her horses.

Early that same afternoon, Jennifer, in a fit of embarrassment, invited herself over to our house to chat about horses and 4-H. I absolutely loved that she came over and knew where we lived without being given the address!!! I was so happy to have two visitors in one day! She was so sweet and welcomed us over to meet her horses anytime. Not ones to refuse that offer, Zoe and I got up bright and early Tuesday morning and met Jennifer and her mother, Betty, at their barn where Zoe got to groom their three horses and lead them to and from the pasture. Zoe somehow managed to get out of mucking the stalls, but there is always next time! Jennifer and her mother were so kind, answered all our horse questions, gave us coffee and homemade salsa! I am very much loving this small town and am so happy that we finally broke away from our work and out of our shells and have started to meet our neighbours. I feel a tea/wine date coming up ladies!

These meetings made me start thinking about our marketplace. In the future we want to set up one of our outbuildings as a store. It looks like our neighbours all have wonderful farm made items (honey, salsa, woven goods) I think it may work for everyone if they also put items in our marketplace?