Oct 09, 2021 / Last updated : Oct 24, 2021 kazue Nature

Golden Forest

Our backyard hill is turning golden when sun is setting. The leaves are falling and cover the ground preparing for the winter.

Oct 03, 2021 / Last updated : Oct 07, 2021 kazue Activity

Riverbreeze Farm & Cornmaze

Riverbreeze Farm & Cornmaze is about 80km north from our place. We enjoyed walking through the Cornmaze and the wagon ride to pumpkin patch. If you walked all the way through the 12-acre cornfield maze and tracked it on the GPS, you would get a picture of a kangaroo family. I thought we spent an […]

Sep 26, 2021 / Last updated : Oct 25, 2021 kazue Food

Pumpkin Tart

My neighbour gave me a beautiful organic Japanese kabocha (green pumpkin). So, I made two pumpkin tarts with a topping of autumn cookies and gave one of them back them. Then, they gave me another pumpkin! I gave the other tart to another neighbour for his birthday, then he gave me some homemade can of […]

Sep 25, 2021 / Last updated : Oct 25, 2021 kazue Food

Pizza night

We received a pizza kit by donating our unwanted winter clothes at a fundraising event held by the real estate agency who helped us buying our Burgundy Dream house. The pizza dough looks great! I made half of it with salami and peppers, and half with tuna mayonnaise and asparagus.

Sep 24, 2021 / Last updated : Sep 24, 2021 kazue Art

Burgundy Dream B&B sign

We made a sign for the Burgundy Dream Bed & Breakfast!! Sam did a great job on this. He used the used lumber and stained for making it darker and for coating with multiple layers to make it more resistant to rain.

Sep 21, 2021 / Last updated : Sep 23, 2021 kazue Food

Moon viewing

Jugo-ya, the fifteenth night of a lunar month is a day to enjoy the Tsukimi dango (moon-viewing rice dumplings) while appreciating the beautiful moon, and to give thanks for the good harvest. We watched the harvest full moon at our front yard, and enjoyed the pumpkin soup and sweet red bean soup with rice dumplings. […]

Sep 11, 2021 / Last updated : Sep 13, 2021 kazue Activity

Canada Army Run

I ran in the Canada Army Run Virtual Half Marathon and completed it in 2 hours 19 minutes 46 seconds. Race Jersey is still on its way, so I wore last year’s jersey. Sam drove me to the 22km point from our place at 6:30am, and then I ran home from there. I can get […]

Sep 10, 2021 / Last updated : Jan 03, 2023 kazue Music

Burgundy Dream B&B Fall Season Video

Welcome to Burgundy Dream’s first video created by Sam. Kazue plays flute in the video. The song “HOPE” is written by Yuya Makita and piano accompaniment is played by him too.

Sep 08, 2021 / Last updated : Sep 10, 2021 kazue Art

Nova Scotia Province House

I had a chance to visit the Nova Scotia Province House. Province House is located in Halifax downtown, about 20 minutes drive from Burgundy Dream B&B. It was open in 1819 and is Canada’s oldest legislative building and home to Canada’s first elected House of Assembly. It was once used as the Supreme Court during […]

Aug 28, 2021 / Last updated : Aug 31, 2021 kazue Food

B&B Breakfast – Sweet red bean toast

We served homemade sweet red bean paste with butter on toast for breakfast. It is originally from Nagoya, Japan where is our hometown. It’s very tasty

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