Well, the rooms are almost done! The room on the left is the family room and the room on the right is Tiana's room. We started moving furniture in this weekend and so now we can start unloading boxes. So hopefully in the next couple of weeks we can get these boxes out of the house.
We took a break on Sunday and went to the Lombardy fair and had a fun time. Much like the county fair, small but quaint. The girls and Wil went on a couple rides including Wil and Tiana on the zipper which Wil didn't know was going to go upside down so he got a bit of a thrill and had loonies and toonies flying out of his pockets. What a hoot! Then we watched some team penning...very fun to watch in English and in French. Then we went and waited for the lawn tractor races. So as I am sitting in these little bleachers watching the tractors do their practice laps, I think "wow, they are flying and this little 3 foot fence in front of me isn't going to keep me safe if there is a wreck." Briefly, I had visions of a lawn tractor flying into the bleachers, like a car race. I chuckled but 3 races later, a guy flies around the track and rolls into the inner hay. I got it on tape, then as we are watching again, same guy rolls into the 3 foot fence, off his tractor and his tractor lights the hay by the fence on fire. Who knew tractor racing was so dangerous. We laughed so hard although I think Wil and the girls would like to soup ours up to make mowing more fun. We also watched a bit of the tractor pull and watched a guy slam his brakes on about a foot from the cement blocks that are at the end of the race. Such thrills at the fair...who knew?
Yesterday, the girls and I went and volunteered at the local animal shelter. We spent 3 hours cleaning cat/kitten kennels. It was a lot of fun. It is a no kill shelter and they get no government money so they run on donations and volunteers. They have a job opening right now for a dog attendant that is 4 days a week. I am thinking about it...but I am having a hard time thinking of going back to work right away since I had my heart set on not working for a year. It would be nice to get out of the house a bit and a little extra income wouldn't hurt when butter is 4 bucks for a box equal to the 4 sticks in the states for 69 cents. I don't know...we will keep volunteering and I will see what happens. I wish it was 3 days and not 4 so I may ask if that is an option. When we got back I started mowing the lawn with the tractor and then did most of the edging with the push mower while Wil continued to clear more of our land with the super whipper snipper that we are borrowing. He would clear, and walk it and then I would go over the safe areas with the tractor. We have a large chunk of it cleared, there are parts with huge rocks that we need to move out so that we can safely run the tractor over it. Little by little it is getting there. Oh, Wil was home because it was a Civic Holiday here. Don't ask what that is but it meant everything was closed and Wil got the day off.
We had some friends that just moved here a week ago come up to see us on Sunday evening. It was really nice to see familiar faces again. We had a nice dinner and chatted before they had to head home. I do miss seeing and talking to friends. Hopefully we will have a local number set up within the next week so I can talk to people regularly again and maybe even skype soon.
The girls start high school on September 7 and they are looking forward to that. This week the girls and I head to Toronto for the Rhianna/Ke$ha/Travie McCoy concert. So hopefully it will be fun and erase my nightmare memories of being stuck in Toronto with a blown transmission.
I can't think of anything else...I love to get emails from friends and family so keep them coming. I love you all.
I love the colors that you have used. Can't wait to see what colors Tabitha has picked out.
ReplyDeleteGlad to hear that you will start unpacking soon. Soon it will feel more like home.
It has been raining heavily here in the Springs everyday in the late afternoon for almost two weeks. The lightning shows have been unreal at night along with the very loud rumbles of thunder. Certainly has cut down on the amount of watering that I need to do.