We've been taking morning & afternoon strolls with the boyz down the meadow - over 'pooh crossroads', into mud meadow & back passed the zillions of wild apple trees. They look a bit odd right now as they have no leaves, yet still have a few apples hanging onto the branches.
Most are now on the floor - creating a food source for our friend 'Wile E Coyote' & his hareem... but Erik The Viking is thinking 'leave nothing for the enemy' & so delights in troughing several small apples as we go. Well this evening both of us heard the strangest of squeeking/creaking noises coming from the corner of the dining room where our lovely boy was sitting so pretty... then came a strange aroma... of apple pie spice! I kid you not - it was bizarre! We laffed our socks off & Ian admitted to smelling this aroma before & wondering where it had come from. Pharp! Now we really can blame the dog!
Erik has also had a few more 'sock-barfing' episodes the little monkey. (See earlier blog for details on sock episodes.)
Had about 6 inches of snow the other day - but it disappeared within a day & we had warm wind (no not from Erik!)
We still don' t have our container - it's apparently landing in Halifax today, so hopefully it may be with us within a week or so.
We're having snow tires (yes I know it should be tyres but we're learning/speaking Canadian now OK!) fitted tomorrow so we're all ready for the snow for the next 4/5 months.
Ian's truck is due next week - but that seems to be stuck in Halifax too.
We're looking for a smallish tractor (approx 32 horse power) to help us with clearing some of the land/snow clearing/pulling out logs/building the antiques centre & workshops.
All our Xmas parcels have been sent to the UK - but I really need to be more organised next year as we found out that it was rather expensive... so it'll be ebay buys or summat from amazon.co.uk or checks (yes another Canadianism!) from now on & I couldn't find any decent packs of cards - doesn't seem to be big over here.
We've a busy few weeks ahead: a cute Xmas parade in Baddeck on Saturday & the few shops that are open are tax free - yahoo!
I've been asked to pop to an all day conference just outside Baddeck on behalf of the small, local IT Centre - for a presentation/lunch/geo-caching (tecchy treasure hunting with GPS systems)/dinner/motivational speaker - neat hey?!
I've approached them to see if I can use the centre to provide short IT courses such as 'Computing for the terrified', 'EBay selling', 'EBay buying', 'Digital Photography' etc... they seemed very interested as there is a large 'senior' population that don't know anything about computers & the Canadian Government wants to ensure that all Canadians have the opportunity to learn / have access to computers - hence them setting up C@P sites - particularly in rural areas! So fingers crossed we can mutually benefit each other. So I'm busy doing the business plan & then need to move onto writing the courses!
TTFN.
the H-J's
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Hi Lisa,
I stumbled across your blog while looking for more information about the Baddeck area, since my husband and I recently bought a property in nearby Nyanza.
I noticed in your October post that you have had a new septic system installed -- something we are needing to have done on our own property. Would you mind telling me who you contracted to do the work, and if you would recommend them?
Thanks very much!
Melanie Bock
melanienicaragua@hotmail.com
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