One of the things I love and missed most about Manitoba is the big sky. It's something that you can't properly describe or explain until someone sees it. The flat prairie acts as a foil and makes it seem like the sky just goes on and on and on. You can watch a storm coming for miles and miles -- Or, as Paul says, "You can watch your dog run away for days!"
Give me the prairies over the seaside or the mountains any day. I'm a prairie girl!
Jon just headed out the door to start his first day at his new job. He's never aspired to be a feed mill warehouse supervisor, but we are hoping he enjoys it and it works for him. He's disappointed that he won't be growing anything or working with plants, but I am jealous because he'll get to meet all the farmers in the area!
It's a little piece of continuity-- my Mom, Aunty Jayne and Uncle Calvin all worked at Feed-Rite when they were younger than I am now, Calvin moved up in the company and had a long career there, which ironically led to him hiring Dale, who hired Jon. It's all a big circle!
The farm looks great right now. As of Friday at 9 am, I believe it is officially ours. The lawyers still have to do some stuff - complicated, expensive lawyer stuff - so I'm not sure about all that, but I have gotten insurance. Can't be without insurance, that much is clear to me!
Auntie Joan had a good note on ownership. We don't feel any different now that the farm is "ours" versus when it was Sherman's. Joan says: "I think the natives are right on this issue. We don’t really own anything here. I feel like that with my Italian violin. We are only stewards for awhile and one tries to look after it as well as possible." That's definitely exactly how I feel. We will look after this piece of land for a while the best we can so it can continue into the future. We're just one piece of it's long history, and grateful that we had some overlap and could get to know the family who looked after it before us.
We bought a ride on lawnmower from Patmore's, which is more powerful than the one we were borrowing. It feels good to have our own things again. We also bought a greenhouse that we will put up... sometime. It needs to be taken down and so I'm not sure when Jon will fit that in. He's done it before, thank goodness, so knows the process. LABEL EVERYTHING!
So, we keep rollin' along. Mom and Dad are attending a wedding this weekend in Banff and so I'm on my own and looking forward to it! I wish we could do something fun for Canada Day, but I need to tend the greenhouse and weed the onions. Been working dawn until dusk and thriving on it. It feels like we're finally kicking the weeds' butts, but give it 2 days and they'll be ahead again.
Bye for now!
Teri :)
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