Back to Canada - Quebec

On Saturday, we continued north in Vermont and crossed back into Canada into Quebec. We wanted to "collect" more provinces on our map.

We had scheduled a stop at a farm in Quebec just before we would cross into Ontario...

It is a beef farm, and they don't have anything to sell to customers, so we just made a donation. There was a 5th wheel also staying at the farm the same night.

Some of the beef cattle in the field next to Gracie. The farmer was pretty frustrated with his cattle because he had had to spend a couple of hours getting his bull back from his neighbor's field -- his neighbor has a cow in heat and the bull had found a spot in the fence that he could get through. After quite a while, the farmer had been able to get the bull back and get the fence fixed, but it was pretty exhausting!

Gracie in the yard. They had us park in the yard near the house. We were a little concerned about whether we might sink in the grass, but there was rock right under the surface (in fact, up through the surface in some parts), and Gracie sat solidly on the ground. You can see the Starlink on the ground out in the area in front of Gracie.

I had seen these blue flowers along the roadways as we were driving -- there were some near the front yard, so I used Google Lens to figure out what they were -- Google Lens identified them as Belgian Endive, but when I just looked that up online, I don't think it is correct!

This is another picture of one of the plants, amongst an evergreen tree. By doing additional searches, I think it may be Chicory.

One additional picture from Quebec - this was in a little town on our way to the farm -- indicating that the intersection had a 3-way stop - all three directions have a stop sign.

When we were chatting with the hosts at the farm, we heard about two interesting Quebec customs:

• Moving day - as we understood it, the leases in Quebec are all timed to expire on July 1 (which is also Canada Day, a Canadian national holiday). The lady at the farm indicated that it can be a major pain as everyone is trying to move the same day, there aren't enough moving trucks, and it is chaotic. 
• From reading online, it sounded as if it is derived from a law that the landowners could not kick the farm laborers out of their homes in the winter, so moving day had been set for May 1. That then became a problem in more recent times because people were being required to move before the end of the school year, so the government set the date to July 1. Since "Canada Day" is not a holiday that the Quebec folks particularly appreciate (it celebrates English Canada), it may also have been placed as a bit of a statement against English Canada. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_Day_(Quebec))
  
• Construction holiday - we arrived at the farm on a Saturday, the beginning of a two week "construction holiday", when all construction workers have a 2 week holiday from work. 
• I asked, "Does that mean there is no road construction for the next two weeks?" 
• "No -- road construction is considered essential and it continues on."
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construction_Holiday_(Quebec)
  

Seem odd to me, but I guess it works for Quebec!