Tuesday 9 September 2014

A new season

The leaves are beginning to change and the temperature is dropping significantly, we even had a frost warning last night. During the day it can still be very warm we even had another day which felt like 40 degrees with humidity last week before a big thunder storm.

We took Isaac down to St Andrews last week to start college. He comes home each weekend to work (and see us of course!).
Here he is outside his new digs!

Josh is now in grade 12 and is once again in the soccer team which means approximately 2 months of practices and games till the end of the season. He is still working at Geek Chic part time too.

Harriet is now in high school, grade 9. She is once again on the cross country team and spends the rest of her time doing dog agility and chores on the farm. Her best friend emigrated to the US a couple of weeks ago so we see a lot more of her now.

David is renovating our house and has taken off lots of siding, repaired the woodwork under it and put house wrap round. He's replaced 6 windows so far which is great as they now open and we can have fresh air through the house. The lounge and dining room are back to bare boards and we've now got to insulate, plaster board and paint everywhere before winter. When we took all the lath and plaster off the walls we found none of them had insulation at all so once we are done we will hopefully see a marked improvement in the temperature we can get the house this winter and our heating bills!

I'm during my busiest season at work, I have to plan 4 conferences in New Brunswick and PEI but before I do that I have to go to a conference in Montreal next week. 

Along with the renovations we are expecting our pigs to give birth soon and we are trying to get lots of firewood chopped and stored and tidy up the place to we don't lose anything under the snow when it comes!