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My lovely niece Staci's 19th birthday today. She's been counting down the sleeps with great excitement. More than usual. See, the legal drinking age in Nova Scotia is 19 and she can now go to a pub or bar downtown without worries of being carded and turned away. Her boyfriend is older so when a group of them go out downtown, she has not been able to go with them. Her paternal grandparents are celebrating their 60th anniversary today too so she and her brothers will go there in the late afternoon/early evening. She got a big surprise yesterday, her father called and he had arranged to come here on business to time it for his parents' anniversary (and her birthday). She didn't know he was coming and was thrilled. He moved away to B.C. in March i think it was, for a new job, and she's really missed him. I'm really pleased he was able to be here for the anniversary too, because it would mean so much to his mom and dad.

There were some really nasty thunderstorms in parts of Nova Scotia yesterday but they bypassed us in the city completely though i think some of the outlying suburbs got some rain from what i heard. It's overcast again today. No change there then. I've done some more on a painting that i am doing for

sammantha's Rick which is a commission, done for his parents' anniversary this summer. I have to let it dry now again, to put the finishing trim on it. Then it has to dry out really well before it can be framed. I may hurry it along with a cool hair dryer setting.