Picnic at the beach

This morning while I was taking a shower I was thinking that since it was such a nice day out, I'd take the girls to the boardwalk and small beach that is only a minutes drive from our house and then have a picnic for lunch! These are some of the pictures I took while we were there.

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So yesterday I called the HRM Water Commission and they said they'd send someone over to check out our hole. They came today and told me that the valve came off while they were inspecting it (because it was so rusty) so the whole thing has to be replaced. Within a few weeks they said. Okay, so what do I do with the newly hazardous rusty "stick" you just produced for me until then? I couldn't just leave it like that with kids running around in the front yard, so I put a large rock in the hole and another one over top of the whole thing so no one can fall in or fall on the "stick". This thing is easily a foot deep, and it veers off to the side as it goes down (like maybe a rabbit burrowed down there or something) so who knows how far down it actually goes. I'm glad it's going to be fixed!