Saturday, August 9, 2014

Antigonish has a Farmer's Market on Saturday, so a very nice visit there is how we started our day.  Just outside the main entrance was a pizza pie man with a home-made brick oven trailer on his truck.  The oven worked at 1,000 degrees and made pies with his home-made whole wheat dough in 5min.  As we were on our bikes he made our lunch pizza in pockets (he folded over and crimped the edge before baking it).  That pie travelled to New Glasgow with us, where we augmented it with a beautiful salad & cup of mushroom soup fom "BaKED food cafe" (do not miss if you are through New Glasgow!). Some of our ride was on highway today (smooth sailing).  We re-connected with secondary road about 20K before New Glasgow.  It was so beautiful and we were drifting along thinking, "yes, this is so quiet and lovely, and this is why to miss the highway", when clik-clik-clik-clik-clik-wuf-wuf-wuf-wuf-wuf a ferocious dog came sprinting out of a property on the pavement in hot pursuit of Y's heels (should have brought that waffle iron!).  B saw it happening as the dog lept (well, he didn't see that, but Y reported that, and with a swift peddle on the right, kicked up her left heel off the peddle out of harms way) and then the call, "Princess! Priiinnncesss! Prin-cessss!", at which point Princess turned off her pursuit of Y only to startle at seeing B baring down on her, so she darted back to safety with her people.  Happily that was on the downhill before a steep uphill. (Nuf said.)  The final Ks into Pictou were interesting and amazing, with osprey, deer, a very swift retreating tide & hundreds of cormorant on the beach and perched next to their nests on a series of old bridge pylons.  In the evening we went for a nice walk all around town.


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