They don’t call us “goofie-newfies” for nothing! Laughs aside, I’m a Newfoundland girl, and I resemble that remark! (giggles!)
omg...I’ve seen your name many times before and thought that perhaps you were a Newfie girl but then I thought nah, probably stand for North Florida! HAHA
My Dad was a Newfoundlander. I spent many summer vacations there, in Round Harbour. Full of fond memories.
I was blessed to first go there before the TransCanada was built, had to travel by the Newfie Bullet
then by horse-drawn wagon to the coast and by boat up the coast of Notre Dame Bay.
It gave me an opportunity to see a world that would soon disappear.
One of scrub boards, oil lamps, and chamber pots, of weekend get-togethers in someones’ kitchen with fiddles, squeezeboxes, and spoons.
Climbing rocks, taking the punt out to jig for cod, gutting them when I got back, throwing pieces in the cod oil barrel,
sitting around a drum as the mussels and lobster cook for a feast.
My body might be somewhere else but my heart will always be in Newfoundland.
Born in Ontario, spent 9 years growing up on the US and then back to Ont.
I’ve finally broke free and just moved to NB in March. Some of the same attributes here as in NF. Enjoying it immensely.
A trip to Round Harbour is on by bucket list, I hope to take my children and grandchildren to visit.
Not too may people left there now, think I’ve heard they are no longer going to maintain the road.