1980's Amazingly, I remember little of the 80s. ......................................

They opened with us newly moved into the Shubenacadie house and it closed with us still there. Me at Air Canada ... enduring.
Although built with electric heat we heated the house with wood (until the chimney fire) so there was much sawing and splitting and stacking and burning of wood. Septic systems came and went - there's a good story in itself! Much snow was shovelled. Much blood lost to blackflies, mosquitoes and deerflies. More 'grass' to mow than made sense. A garage was built.
We became avid bird watchers and very good at it. Over a hundred species recorded on the property. Hordes of evening grosbeaks, nesting pileated woodpeckers, herons hunting our frogs on the banks of Lake Nigel.
Mitchell was essentially gone to Truro by the time we moved in. Martin, when did he leave, pre or post 89?
I started an ambitious model railway in the basement and Glennys made seemingly tons of stained glass.

Anyway, it seemed, appropriate to mention the 80's at this point. Detailed tales will have to be clawed from dark recesses as we proceed.