Sunday, April 14th - time flies when you're having fun...

...or at least that's what they say.

Lounging around

Let me catch you up on the past few weeks. I'm still in Wheatley River and all my charges (8 ducks and one very large dog) are all still alive and doing well. Wish I could say the same thing for the mint plant on the kitchen window but that's another story.

James has moved into his own apartment in Halifax. He has one bedroom but also got a pull out couch so we have a place to stay when we visit Halifax. We'll try not to take too much advantage of that😃

I wasn't able to go over and help because of the livestock here but  Patti flew down, and with the aid of a rental truck they were able to move all his stuff out of residence as well as pick up furniture at Ikea. He's all set now. He's almost finished school then he heads off to basic training for 8 weeks.

Just a little bit of the hardware they earned ths year

Meg has been really busy with dance competitions, her last ones ever as she's not doing competitive dance next year. Fortunately for me the last two competitions were streamed live so I was able to watch online. They did really well and I know she will miss that next year. But she won't have time to miss much in the next few months as she's going to be a really busy young lady. She's been accepted into a leadership program at the Diabetic Camp she's attended the last few summers. So, she's off to Spain in July with her dance troupe, camp in August and if all goes well, she may be off to Italy in the fall for two months. They just have to find a family over there willing to take her with her special needs - the diabetes and celiacs. Hopefully it will all come together for her.

Tristen is very busy these days with Air Cadets, something none of us saw coming. Besides the regular meeting each week he also has band practice and drill team practice. He's also going to Cadet camp in the summer. I'm so pleased that he's enjoying this experience so much,

As for PEI not a lot is happening. We have one more week before Charles and Laura get back from Japan and then we are on our own again. Our plan is to set up our hard top tent trailer and try staying in there. There is a heater so it might be okay. Worst case scenario is we put all the craft stuff that's piled in the bunky into the storage trailer and we move the two single mattresses into the bunky. At least it's a warm place to sleep if mother nature doesn't cooperate. Our weather is all over the place right now. We woke up two mornings this past week to a couple of cms of snow but yesterday and today are quite mild. Monday and Tuesday are going to be raining and mild but snow flurries and 2' predicted for Wednesday. So who knows.

Weight restrictions are still on our roads and likely will be yet for some time so nothing will be happening with our new home at least until they are lifted.

As I write this Lloyd is in Toronto. He finally made his way back to Canada, arriving in Vancouver on Saturday night, then Toronto this morning (Sunday). He's staying up there for a couple of days to visit some of the guys from the airport. Weather here will be crap so he may as well, can't do much here. There are some bits of stuff we can do out in Fort Augustus but it can wait till weather improves.

We may make a trip over to Halifax for a couple of days after he's back and then on the 26th of April I'm off to Toronto. Patti and Greg are leaving early on the morning of the 28th for Hawaii (it's a work thing for Greg - life is rough ) and I'll be chauffering the kids around for a week. Besides being able to spend some time with the kids I have a pretty full schedule of lunches lined up for that week. I sent emails to the usual suspects and my calendar is getting quite full so it should be fun.

Hopefully by the time I get back things will be dried up and progress can start being made. It's been almost 6 months now. All I really want at this point is to sleep in my own bed, wake up and make coffee in my own kitchen. I don't think that's so much to ask. There's got to be a reason for all of this, I just haven't figured it out as yet, but eventually it will all make sense!

In the meantime, it's burger love month! Ive only sampled three so far but I'm sure there will be more over the coming 2 weeks. Brenda and I spent Friday afternoon doing some shopping then finished off splitting a burger, topped off with Dairy Queen for dessert....it was a lovely warm day. So we'll see how many more we can fit in before the end of the month when we head into .....LOBSTER SEASON!