Fish On!

I can't even begin to tell you how excited Adam was when Chris mentioned that they were going fishing. If any of you have had the pleasure of Adam's company lately you'll understand when I say "he pelted Chris with a thousand questions, all in one long sentence." It was even worse when we told Adam we were going on an adventure to Denny's Dam! Alas, we found the damn thing and the day continued.

It was a really nice visit - next time someone comes up it's going to be a must to show them the "Southampton Market". A place where you could buy 1000 small glass-blown octopus, or spindles for wood working, even wood carvings of strange bears, and lets not forget the squirrels.

The sunsets have been getting quite spectacular. I have been photographing them and will post some beauties soon. Adam and I took off on some sight-seeing this past week at well and ventured to Inglis Falls. Took about 30 minutes to get there and what a sight! We took a very steep path down to the ravine, but I got scared thinking we'd see a bear, so we headed back up. It was beautiful, but very, very "bushy" with lots of rock and hollow ground from tree roots. Too creepy.

I got a part-time job at a new restaurant that opened up 3 weeks ago.
Alan's Fireside Grill. I'll be either bartending or serving. It's a really nice place with dark wood, black slate tile, unusual art, and of course, fireplaces.
Their menu has stuff like steaks, rotisserie chicken and in-house smoked ribs.
So I'll be working 3-4 shifts per week only at night. Kinda poopy to have to possibly work weekends, but it's having the day to spend with Adam that's worth so much more.

Anyway, enjoy the next set of pics!

xo
Jay, Mich, & Adam

You know you live in a small town when... #1

You see a job posting like this!

CHICKEN CATCHERS NEEDED, full time positions, experience preferred but not essential. Phone 519-881-4578

Now, could you see doing that job right after a nice rain - so the mud and layer of chicken shit have meshed together to form a slippery black sheet.

Summer Fun

It's getting warmer here, and nothing goes better with summer than "beach."
Most of my time so far has been spent there, but only because "that's all Adam wants to do." Honestly, it has nothing to do with me at all! It's all his idea.

The other thing that comes with summer is visitors...
Mom and Dad came last weekend and we had lots of fun. We toured around a bit, went to Sauble Falls - and to our disapointment, there is only one set of falls, so back into the car we went, and finished our day off at the beach. I wanted to have a nice collection of photos of all our visitors and frame them and put them on the guest bedroom wall, but my quest started off poorly. My mother-in-law is camera shy (see photo of unknown woman with sweatshirt over her head) Or maybe she was turning it around after realizing it was on backwards! We'll never know.

This past weekend was busy again with visitors. This time Bev, Marty, Colin and Brooke came to visit. Brittney and Sean both had to work so they couldn't make it. Hopefully next time. Again, we went to the beach! Then Saturday we went to Bayfield to see my Mom & Dad for a BBQ.

Father's Day was fantastic. Very relaxing. We woke up late (thank you Adam)did a few house things, then went to get stuff to BBQ. Our friends Danielle & Steve and their twin girls came over for dinner.

Right now I'm sneaking in a blog before our next set of visitors arrive. Denise & Chris are en-route. Chris is bringing his rod to do some fishing, and Denise is bringing her wallet to go browse the great shops in town! I told Chris he can't stay unless he catches dinner.

Well not much else is new - I've handed out a few resumes, but no calls as of yet.
Jay is doing great and loves his job. Adam is toilet training and he's almost perfected it! Only a few accidents.

SO until next week! Here's some new photos to enjoy!

xo
Michelle, Jay and Adam

This Week

This week flew by. I got lots accomplished, the basement is almost completely painted. And stuff is finally finding a home for itself, and lots of stuff has been tossed in the garbage. However, up here you are on a 2 bag maximum. We are only allowed 1 more week of abusing that rule. People that newly move in get a few weeks with extra trash, otherwise you have to take it to the dump yourself. Or just recycle better.

Aside from all the busy stuff, we managed to get down to the beach and do a few car rides on the rainy days and I am excite to tell Marty that I found a really nice nursery!

Not much else is new so I'll just post some photos. A few of Adam at the beach, we go to this beach at the end of the CAW road that is called Gobles Grove and it's a great beach. You can walk out close to 30 feet and it's at your knees, then starts to get gradually deeper. It's exactly 2.1 KMS from my house.

See you soon!

Love Jay, Mich & Adam

The great erosion

We finally got some rain. It started yesterday at 2pm and it's still raining. A perfect rain for our sod. It's also the type of rain that if the lot next to us is not graded and sits 3 feet below our lot; well you get the idea. So this morning after Adam and I woke up we looked out to see how green our yard was, we also noticed that there were two, four foot sections that had totally eroded and our sod was now looking like it had hills and valleys of it's own. I should have just left it like that and landscaped it. I think Bev mentioned something about 3D landscaping being the "new thing"!

Today the drywall guys are coming to fix a couple problems, and aside from that, we're not doing much. I need to paint the basement bedroom and bath, and get moving on a few projects. Perfect rainy day for it.

Cheers!

The difference of green!

Of course this is only a computer rendered image taking the green grass, landscaping and trees of some other pic and added to mine, but you get the idea!
I have been eyeing the man's yard across the street with serious envy...I laughed the other day while he spent 3 days raking the dirt to prepare for his sod. I wondered "why all the work when it only took the guys who did my yard 1 day?" As it turns out, buddy used to be a landscaper and knows very well the tricks to the trade. Prep-work! Pete is his name. He came over to offer us his left over sod to replace the couple dry looking patches we have on our lawn. How neighbourly. All I was hoping for was an apple pie.

The guest room is almost ready

The linens are fresh, the pillows are fluffed, clean towels in the bathroom, extra toothbrushes have been purchased. We need to pick up a dresser, a night stand and a reading lamp, and I'm on the search for a wicker arm chair for the bathroom. If anyone sees one at a garage sale please pick it up and let me know. Next to get done is the paint. A nice taupe for the bedroom and a shade of robin egg blue for the bathroom. All that is missing is someone to fill it. Hint! Hint!

Time to go bbq some Angus burgers, corn on the cob and onion rings!

See you soon I hope!

Just a few area pics

We're here and getting settled

It's been a very very busy week!

I'll go back to last Friday when we picked up our U-Haul truck in A'Burg.
When we picked it up we suspected right away that it was going to be too small. But after speaking with the rep she assured us that everything we had would fit... We had that thing stuffed by Friday night, with a good chunk still left inside the house. Not to mention, we were not even taking our appliances (thank God). So Saturday morning came along and just as the weather network promised SUN - it was pouring RAIN! Jay took off to go rent a trailer, and Bev, Marty, Denise & Chris showed up to see us off... little did they know, they'd be helping us try to stuff the remainder of our stuff into the trailer. It all ended up fitting, and we were on our way.

It was as if the Gods of Weather were seeing us on our journey because once we hit Kincardine, the clouds moved out of the way to reveal a beautiful blue sky. Mom and Dad were waiting at the Bayfield cut-off to follow us up after they received a call from Denise... good ol' sister, looking out for me again. They came and helped us unload everything into the garage. We dined on KFC and cheered the new house with tepid beer.
I don't think we needed much help to fall asleep that night. We were all spent. Guppy and Yen made the trip with us to help out! Even Adam did some unpacking.

So all of this week I have busted my butt unpacking and I'm all but 3 boxes away from completion. I'm going to finish today so this weekend we can enjoy ourselves and finally go explore our new area. Today we are going to Owen Sound to get some furniture, an area rug - and Jason will be wandering into the TV section to dream. "Turns out our basement is much too big for our TV."

Because I have been so anal about not switching my camera to a digital I can't post any pics yet... but that will come soon. I took some before/after shots of our house. It is beautiful I might add. We just got our sod laid 2 days ago, and I have been very good with watering it. Sure wish I had a sprinkler system.

Anyway, I'll post more as the days go on!
See you soon! By the way, we have the best directions to get here!

xo