BACK AT IT!
It's been ages since I've updated here! I guess we've just been busy! I dug up the perennial garden I have beside the patio, split everything and gave half of it away to my good friend, Maria, then re-planted the rest of it. I still haven't had a chance to get my bulbs in, but hopefully it won't rain too hard this weekend and I'll get to it!
I only have one week left after this at the temporary job I took at Maquinna Elementary. I've enjoyed the change of pace, enjoyed getting home early every day and being able to spend more time in my garden, and with Don, but I'm also kind of looking forward to getting back to the highschool. Getting back into my routine of working out at Curves on my lunch break, seeing my work buddies, and enjoying the older kids. I mean - the little kids are cute and I've enjoyed them too, but they can be kind of annoying. They have stupid little imaginary problems all the time that they want you to fix for them. Like "Jimmy keeps following me" or "She won't let me play with her"........ Teenagers, if they come to you for help usually have an actual, real problem that deserves to have your time devoted to it. I guess I just belong with the older kids.
I feel kind of bad because I've missed quite a bit of time while I've been @ Maquinna. We had Don's cousin's wedding to go to at the beginning of September, I missed time twice for being sick, and now this past weekend I took Friday and Monday off to go to Alberta.
My world-travelling daughter is back home - Hurray! She's back in Canada at least. She's settled in Calgary where she has a good friend from school that she can room with. Don and I went out this past weekend and took all her stored furniture (well, only a dresser really) and her boxes of clothes, books, kitchen stuff, etc. It was wonderful to see her! Calgary seems nice and it's a good neighbourhood and a nice house she's in. She amazes me! She landed Friday afternoon and had 3 job interviews already set up for Monday! She was offered a job right off the bat - and away she goes!
After Don & I got Rachel set up we drove from Calgary north, around Edmonton to Hinton where Brandon is working. We had dinner with him and some of his crew and spent the night there before heading back. Brandon's doing so well - he's growing up so much, and has a really good group of guys to work with. He seems to really be enjoying it.
We left Hinton before sun-up and drove through Jasper at just the right time! We saw sooo much wildlife along the way! We just went through the park gate and saw a beautiful coyote running along side the road, then a little way down Don noticed a whole herd of mountain sheep up on a mountainside. We pulled over and got out the binoculars for a better look and there must have been about 100 of them up there - all spread out over the side of the mountain. A little further along we saw a big bull elk right beside the road, and as we drove through we saw several groups of them - mostly males in singles, or small groups, but we also saw one bull elk with a whole herd of cows - he was bugling and trying to shoo them up the hill, away from the road when we stopped. He was a poor skinny guy - looked way rattier than the rest of the bulls we saw. Don says that's because he's been screwing his brains out - 50 times a day, and hasn't had time to bulk up for winter - he'll probably die this winter. We also saw a lynx (bobcat) run across the road right in front of us, and we even saw a bull moose! WOW!
I was going to add some photos here, but it's late now and I can't remember how to get the uploaded images into my post - check back later......
It's been ages since I've updated here! I guess we've just been busy! I dug up the perennial garden I have beside the patio, split everything and gave half of it away to my good friend, Maria, then re-planted the rest of it. I still haven't had a chance to get my bulbs in, but hopefully it won't rain too hard this weekend and I'll get to it!
I only have one week left after this at the temporary job I took at Maquinna Elementary. I've enjoyed the change of pace, enjoyed getting home early every day and being able to spend more time in my garden, and with Don, but I'm also kind of looking forward to getting back to the highschool. Getting back into my routine of working out at Curves on my lunch break, seeing my work buddies, and enjoying the older kids. I mean - the little kids are cute and I've enjoyed them too, but they can be kind of annoying. They have stupid little imaginary problems all the time that they want you to fix for them. Like "Jimmy keeps following me" or "She won't let me play with her"........ Teenagers, if they come to you for help usually have an actual, real problem that deserves to have your time devoted to it. I guess I just belong with the older kids.
I feel kind of bad because I've missed quite a bit of time while I've been @ Maquinna. We had Don's cousin's wedding to go to at the beginning of September, I missed time twice for being sick, and now this past weekend I took Friday and Monday off to go to Alberta.
My world-travelling daughter is back home - Hurray! She's back in Canada at least. She's settled in Calgary where she has a good friend from school that she can room with. Don and I went out this past weekend and took all her stored furniture (well, only a dresser really) and her boxes of clothes, books, kitchen stuff, etc. It was wonderful to see her! Calgary seems nice and it's a good neighbourhood and a nice house she's in. She amazes me! She landed Friday afternoon and had 3 job interviews already set up for Monday! She was offered a job right off the bat - and away she goes!
After Don & I got Rachel set up we drove from Calgary north, around Edmonton to Hinton where Brandon is working. We had dinner with him and some of his crew and spent the night there before heading back. Brandon's doing so well - he's growing up so much, and has a really good group of guys to work with. He seems to really be enjoying it.
We left Hinton before sun-up and drove through Jasper at just the right time! We saw sooo much wildlife along the way! We just went through the park gate and saw a beautiful coyote running along side the road, then a little way down Don noticed a whole herd of mountain sheep up on a mountainside. We pulled over and got out the binoculars for a better look and there must have been about 100 of them up there - all spread out over the side of the mountain. A little further along we saw a big bull elk right beside the road, and as we drove through we saw several groups of them - mostly males in singles, or small groups, but we also saw one bull elk with a whole herd of cows - he was bugling and trying to shoo them up the hill, away from the road when we stopped. He was a poor skinny guy - looked way rattier than the rest of the bulls we saw. Don says that's because he's been screwing his brains out - 50 times a day, and hasn't had time to bulk up for winter - he'll probably die this winter. We also saw a lynx (bobcat) run across the road right in front of us, and we even saw a bull moose! WOW!
I was going to add some photos here, but it's late now and I can't remember how to get the uploaded images into my post - check back later......
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