I wasn't sure what I was going to use this blog for when I first started it, and I'm still not totally sure but for now it can just be the place for thoughts to go. I'm not sure who (if anyone) even reads my blog but I've decided that it doesn't matter if anyone reads it, it's a place for me to get my thoughts out of my head.
A lot of things have changed for us in the last 5 years, more than changed in the previous 20 years we have been together.
I got laid off from my 20 year job in 2002 and I started Beaker's Stained Glassworks then. I opened the studio on Lakeshore Blvd West in Toronto July 1st, 2002.
During this time, unknown to me, my hubby was scoping out this property that he had been watching for 3 or so years. We went and looked, fell in love, listed our big house in the city and moved our three sons (12, 14 and 16 at the time) 100 km north to near Dundalk, Ontario. The moved occurred at the end of November 2002 but only I moved up here at first (with Buddy). We let the kids finish out 2002 and have Christmas at school with their friends and all that in the city and then moved them up here. We still had the house in Mississauga until April 30, 2003 so the move was painless. We just moved a bit at a time.
So now we live on a 200-acre grain farm in Melancthon Twp just southwest of Dundalk. We have a tenant farmer who has crops here every year. He's a great guy and I love to see the stuff growing.
I was a life-long smoker. I tried to quit on a number of occasions but failed each time. In January 2004 I made the decision that I would quit for good during that year. I went to see the doctor in Mississauga and he gave me a prescription for Zyban. Well, it worked for me! I've now been more than 4 years cigarette smoke free!! That really feels good to say that now...I'm SMOKE FREE!! I get sick less now and hardly ever get colds anymore! Yeah, I gained a little weight with quitting but I was already grossly overweight.
That brings me to the big changes that started in November of 2007. I decided it was finally time to do something about the 100 excess pounds my poor old body has been carrying around for just WAAAAAAAY too long (more than 20 years!) and I joined Herbal Magic in Orangeville.
Well, I must say that it is going VERY GOOD! As of last Saturday (April 19th) I am down 60 pounds. Yup I said sixty....the big six-zero!! Sixty pounds gone forever!! I can feel the energy coming back, my knees don't hurt anymore, my ankles aren't crying out in pain and my feet finally don't feel like someone's driving metal stakes into them!! My clothes are literally falling off me! TeeHee, giggle, giggle. I feel soooooo great!!
The years and years of chronic depression are fading. I've been battling it for a long time. I'm not a pill taker (well, other than the Zyban that helped me to quit smoking) so pharmaceuticals are out of the question so it just kinda got worse and worse until I felt myself doing a slow crash in late October of last year. I am so thankful that I have the most supportive and giving husband anyone could ever ask for. I love him so much.
This was just a quick blubbering from me. Like I have said repeatedly, I'm not sure what this blog should be used for. I'm not sure if I want to just have a separate blog for knitting stuff or what. I guess the last thing I need is another page to maintain online :-S
Well, I really should get back to the laundry. It's a very windy day here so stuff is drying VERY quickly today. Really, what smells better than fresh laundry on the line??
Monday, April 21, 2008
Saturday, April 12, 2008
No, Spring hasn't really sprung here, the new pictures are old ones
It's been very rainy and generally icky around here lately so I thought I'd post some pictures from spring of 2006.
I love the 'Sea of Yellow' as I call the lawn before the first cut of the dandilions. People spend too much time and money on chemicals to stop the dandilions. I love them. To me they are Spring.
I hope that I'll be posting pictures of the growth this spring here soon!
Cheers,
B
I love the 'Sea of Yellow' as I call the lawn before the first cut of the dandilions. People spend too much time and money on chemicals to stop the dandilions. I love them. To me they are Spring.
I hope that I'll be posting pictures of the growth this spring here soon!
Cheers,
B
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
April Fool
Wow, the melting!! It rained most of the day, sometimes quite hard yesterday and into the night. There was a great thunderstorm just after dark that was a joy to watch, I really LOVE thunderstorms.
This morning it was incredibly mild but really windy. It was still raining a bit when I headed into town. When I came back from town I noticed that the river was exceptionally high so I thought I'd snap some photos of it. Here you can see that the river is at least 50 feet the wrong side of the fence! I hope we don't lose any posts to it.
The picnic table and two benches are down by the campsite. I hope they survive the current!!
Like I said, it's extremely windy today. For anyone that's been here, they know that it's ALWAYS windy here (thus the reason for the massive wind turbines) and when I went to the house about an hour ago, the temperature had dropped significantly. I hope that the weather keeps going like this...melt one day, freeze for a day. That will stop the roads and everything from getting too soft too fast.
It's difficult with 4 dogs trying to keep all their paws clean! I spent a good while the first time the dogs went out today. Well, except for Buddy. He hates to be dirty or wet and somehow avoids walking in the mud. I only had to clean the very bottom of his paws. Princess is another story. She loves to get wet. She's the first one into the river in the summer so I'm extra careful with her right now. There are massive chunks of ice floating down the river and now in our fields.
Well, I must get ready for knitting class tonight. It's the Fingers & Toes class tonight. We get to start our Mystery Project. I'm so excited....wheeee.
lol.
L8Rs
B
This morning it was incredibly mild but really windy. It was still raining a bit when I headed into town. When I came back from town I noticed that the river was exceptionally high so I thought I'd snap some photos of it. Here you can see that the river is at least 50 feet the wrong side of the fence! I hope we don't lose any posts to it.
The picnic table and two benches are down by the campsite. I hope they survive the current!!
Like I said, it's extremely windy today. For anyone that's been here, they know that it's ALWAYS windy here (thus the reason for the massive wind turbines) and when I went to the house about an hour ago, the temperature had dropped significantly. I hope that the weather keeps going like this...melt one day, freeze for a day. That will stop the roads and everything from getting too soft too fast.
It's difficult with 4 dogs trying to keep all their paws clean! I spent a good while the first time the dogs went out today. Well, except for Buddy. He hates to be dirty or wet and somehow avoids walking in the mud. I only had to clean the very bottom of his paws. Princess is another story. She loves to get wet. She's the first one into the river in the summer so I'm extra careful with her right now. There are massive chunks of ice floating down the river and now in our fields.
Well, I must get ready for knitting class tonight. It's the Fingers & Toes class tonight. We get to start our Mystery Project. I'm so excited....wheeee.
lol.
L8Rs
B
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