Mowing the back field

We are now down on the coast. Jennifer and I are visiting my parents out on La Baie Sainte Marie. Things are a lot more peaceful out here. We are three hours from the big ciy, and all the pressures that come with that have been released.

Today, I puttered for a while on dial-up connection speed work. I also took the Kabota tractor a few miles up the highway to Uncle Bill's fallow lot. There I used the hydrolic tiller to turn the field down. My father supervised as it has been a long time since I have even used a tiller. (I passed).

Jennifer used the ride on mower to cut the grass on the front lawn, then she moved well down the backyard, to the lower fields. She proceded to cut a fair bit of the fields down there as well. It was a good day...

Tomorrow, we will head off to La Universite Sainte Anne to go for a swim in the pool. Other than that, more work at home.

The air is fresh, the company is great, the food is fantastic... And the pace is right.

Quickie update....

The house in Toronto is now empty and cleaned. We left the place to the next owners.

We spent yesterday here in Ottawa, visiting Alice, Monique and the families. This afternoon we are off to Montreal for some good laughs and drink at the wedding.

It may be a bit of time till I can blog again, we only move in to our new place June 2nd and I am sure it is going to be crazy for the first week or so.

So, next update in a few weeks.

Bye big city!!! Hello coast!

I did not realise

You can only really fathom the amount of crap you have accumulated in your life when you prepare to move accross country.

You also question sentimental value to a great extent when your movers are charging $0.50 per pound to move it.

And he is out for the count....

In a few weeks, my wife and I are going to a wedding. It is in Montreal and we will be dropping by and stopping there for a few days as we move down to Nova Scotia. It is for a great friend of mine. I have known him since we were young teenagers, still dreaming of the birthday that will allow us to get our beginners permit for the car.

There were three of us back then. We skied together, got drunk for the first time on southern comfort together, talked about our first girlfriends together, I even showed the both of them how to drive because I was the first one with a license and access to a car.

The thing that mattered most for my friends wedding was that we were both there for the event. We represent a major part of his life, and he felt it was important that we participated in the next step. Yesterday, the third friend dropped out. He already said he would not make the bachelor party, two days before the wedding. But now he is not even coming to the wedding.

"I am too busy" he said. "You know, business is rough, I have staffing problems and I cannot cover all the holes." "Richard understands, I spoke with him about it."

Sure Richard put on a brave face and said it was alright. but for a while now, Richard has been saying how glad he was that we would both make the wedding. I guess he kind of expected it to not happen. I was optimistic.

BTW: The third friend, the one we hoped would join us was the one I wrote about in December. I think he is lost to me.. That makes me sad.

Where does the time go?

It seems that life is so busy these days, there is barely time to breathe. We have such a shopping list of things to do, I am concerned that we might not get it all done before we welcome our new family member.

Last weekend, we spent the whole weekend in a prenatal class. I have to say, I was really amazed by the amount of information we got. It did take up the whole weekend though, and on the evening we were so tired from information overload that we just crashed instead of enjoying the time.

We are only here for a few more weeks, then off to Montreal for a wedding and then Nova Scotia to the new house. In the next few weeks we have to say goodbye to all our friends, pack up our house, do the final paperwork on the house transfers, get to a wedding and drive 18 hours to our new town. Oh, and work normally as well as live normally.

I wish there was more time in the day to do the things I want to do. Like get inspired to write or finish reading a few books or even just appreciate the fine spring weather we are having hand in hand in hand with my amazing wife. The books and the writing will have to wait...... But not the wife.