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Candice
@candice.eastcoastcandice.com
She/her. GenX human fumbling through life. Gardener, baker, yogi, hiker, fiction reader, videogamer, cat lady. Longer bio in my pinned post.
📍unceded Mi'kma'ki (Halifax/Dartmouth, NS)

@eastcoastcandice on IG
Bonne Maman Jamvent Day 6! Apricot Lavender - I love this one!
December 6, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Bonne Maman Jamvent day 5! Apple Cinnamon Caramel - but not true caramel (it's just sugar and water). I'm happy, I can eat this one!
December 5, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Jamvent Day 4! Cherry with Violet Leaves. Very fun flavour. Don't know if I'd want a whole jar of it, but this amount is great.
December 4, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Spotify wrapped 2025. No surprises other than Stevie not getting one of my top album spots. I guess I did a lot of breadth of her collection instead of depth on one album.

Well, it did say my listening age is 19, which is hilarious given I'm 47 next week. I do listen to a lot of new music though.
December 3, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Bonne Maman Jamvent day 3! A bit dramatically lit today but it's very stormy outside, currently snowing but it was hailing an hour ago. Anyhoo: today's is Plum Pear and Star Anise!
December 3, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Bonne Maman Day 2! We have Fig and Cardamom today. It was delicious. Also including a photo of the box for day 1 since I didn't capture that yesterday. I love the whimsical designs.
December 2, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Although! We also use 'Bleuets Sauvage' (literally Wild Blueberries) on labels! So language is fun that way.
December 1, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Today's yummy selection: Wild Blueberry Jam with Maple. Also, today we learned that Blueberry has two words in French! Both @rich.lafferty.ca and I learned it as Bleuets, but in France they only use myrtille, in Quebec wild ones are usually myrtille, cultivated ones (the big high bush) are bleuets.
December 1, 2025 at 1:54 PM
It's time for our advent calendar! This year we got the Bonne Maman one and it is very cute!
December 1, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Ready for the mini ghosties, goblins and whatever else kids want to dress up as! Or adults, all costumes welcome! #HappyHalloween
October 31, 2025 at 8:16 PM
I bought the exact same earrings after my double shot last weekend! Great choice 😊
October 22, 2025 at 10:24 PM
The Coast Best of Halifax 2026 voting is open and this was one of the items to vote on.... *cough*
October 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM
pfft, nice try crappy tire. No one can beat the Sears Wish Book.
October 9, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Ours are doing their typical morning routine, although both got up from their loafing position to say hello to me when I came up to them, haha. Stacey (the darker one) was in a sunbeam on the rug in @rich.lafferty.ca's home office, and Stella was on the grey door mat at our back door, her fave spot.
September 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
UPDATE! They're opening at 5pm (so in a few minutes).

#halisky
September 23, 2025 at 7:57 PM
FYI #HaliSky - Dairy Bar was broken into again last night so they may not be open today. If you were planning on swinging by, check their Instagram for updates.
September 23, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Things I have made with this year's tomato harvest:

Canning: Tomato sauce, salsa

Meals: Several salads, tomato galette, tomato soup, pizza x2 (tomatoes on pesto, then homemade sauce), chili

I've also frozen two large freezer bags worth to use over the winter. Good year even with the drought!
September 20, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Could this really happen? Are we finally going to be heading out of the drought and into more normal rain patterns? Crossing fingers we actually get this rain!

#NovaScotia #HaliSky
September 17, 2025 at 10:49 PM
Processing many of my tomatoes today into sauce! There are even more than you can see in these photos, plus a bunch more still ripening outside (will decide what to do with those later, other than just eat them). I also had a few that look like the rather misshapen one in the second photo.
September 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM
FYI folks in Dartmouth! Alert from the city:

#HaliSky
August 26, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Finally have some tomatoes picked! That's a Scotia on my cutting board and then some of all three in the green pint container: Scotia, Chocolate Drop (they should darken a bit more to be brownish) and then front and centre is a beautiful Sgt Pepper, my favourite.
August 24, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Also #HaliSky gardeners, the fall is usually a good time to plant things, and with it cooling off we won't need to water quite so much! Went to Halifax Seed today and got some end of season goodies, they also have a sale on some things (not on what we got though).
August 22, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Loving making herb bouquets when I'm collecting ingredients for supper! 😂
August 22, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I still laugh every time I load the government's hurricane tracker website, and am reminded that the 'example hurricane' illustrating how to interpret the tracker is named Karen. weather.gc.ca/hurricane/tr...

(apologies to the Karens of the world, the internet has ruined your name)
August 18, 2025 at 12:26 AM
Took the 1 to yoga today and spotted a @halifaxexaminer.ca ad! Didn't see one on my return trip, though.
August 6, 2025 at 2:59 PM