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Today I took a little walk around our new village. It was a beautiful sunny day with a temp of about 1 degree! I can't even begin to explain what the sun is like here, amazing! The past couple of weeks we have been enjoying temps between -4 and 7, yes 7 degrees last Saturday! Spring is on it's way!! Yahoo!!

Here are some pics of my little journey. Don't forget you can click on the pics to enlarge them. Enjoy!

Our Entrance

Back of our shack

Our Lil' Shed

I love this shed

Alley to the South

Alley to the North

Cool Lil' Greenhouse

Pine Cones

Magpie Hiding

Living Gospel Church

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Thorhild Centennial Park & Pool

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Birdhouse on a phone pole

No Playin'

Field View

Foggy Trees

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Cemetery Gates

Bales

And you think Toronto got a lot of snow!

Another Church view

Other side of Centennial Park

            

Knee deep snow

Sittin' on the bench

Footprints

North Face

Back Alley Junkyard

Crazy Tree

Our Shack, Front View

dried out

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Spring Thaw

Here are some pics from my visit to the farm last week.

Today was a crazy day! M ost of our stuff was picked up for "Santa Express" to Thorhild this afternoon. So much for the quote of 7 to 21 days. The driver told us our stuff will arrive Dec 24th! 7 days prior to when Holly and Trevor can move it into our new home. Al I can say is  better early then late!

Tonite we had a second Christmasy get together. Thi s time at our local watering hole The Auld Spot with family and friends. It's these get-togethers that make me feel sad about leaving Toronto. I feel the love of the close friends and family and feel blessed. They are all that I could ever wish for. I feel close to every single one of them. Sharing fun times and experiences and know deep down in my heart they are true. These feelings are also mixed with the pain it will feel to leave them behind. I am so glad to know that the future will bring us together for more fun times.

Thanks to you all!   Thomas my love, Abby, Tom, Ange, Beck, Marta, Nick and lets not forget our bi-annual friend Alessandra. 

Thomas

Abby

Tom and Ange

Beck

Marta

Nick

I am currently 48 days away from moving. I'm very excited and of course a little scared of the unknown. But mainly the excitement supersedes the fear. Tonight I am enjoying a quiet time alone at the computer as my love Thomas lays sleepy in the depths of sheep. Sunshine is to the right of me in the chair nodding off to sleep while Annie sits in the small space between the keyboard and me. I feel content.

I am going to a place where I intend to find the peace I feel I lost as I became as an adult moving to the city. My Nana mentioned to me today "Your not a city girl, you come from a small town". A notion I used to despise. When I was young I was always in a rush to grow up, experience and be independent. I am now here and wish for the simpler days of childhood and spending my time playing and being outside. I want so much to slow the pace and enjoy life.

I am so thankful for all my family and friends. I'm glad this weekend that I was able to spend time with Thomas, my dad, brother and his fiance and her family. Tonight I felt very welcome in our friends Tom and Ange's house for dinner. I want to thank all my family and friends for being there for me in the past year while I have been going through some hard personal times. I will miss your support when I am on the other side of the country. I will truly miss Toronto, the city that has modeled me into an adult and made me realize that I may have once longed to be a city girl but I am definitely a small town girl at heart.

Ihave spent the last year and a half focusing my energy on my dreams of moving to the country. I want more than anything and will soon work with goats and other various animals. I plan on pursuing some style of work with the local organic farmers in my new area. I will do my best to educate those who are interested in the ways of organic and humane farming and the alternatives to conventionally practices. I'm willing to learn how to do new things hands on from the bottom up. I want more than anything to be active as I possibly can. I also have an obligation to focus on relaxing and resting as it is necessary for good health.

I want to spend more time reading. This is one thing that I have never spent enough time on. There are many books that sit on my bookshelf that I would love more than anything to take the time and read. I enjoyed my time taking the organic specialization courses and learned so very much, unfortunately under tremendous time restraints and pressure. I would love more than anything to try and focus on my studies again soon but at a less intense pace with the focus on my health.

This is where I'll be if you wanna look me up Thorhild, Alberta, Canada
 

For whom ever cares: Thomas & I are moving to Thorhild Alberta, we leave on Jan 19th 2008! Yes thats right, we're moving! Thorhild is about 1 hour north of Edmonton, smack dab in the middle of Farming Country!!!! The closest Organic Farm I can find so far is 15 mins away!!!

Sunshine and Annie will also be making the journey. We already have a small house to rent two doors down from my childhood friend Holly. The little house is situated on a property with a huge front garden area. This year I will have a real garden!!

I hope to keep you all updated with pictures and chats on messenger!

Yahoo! 

Today I am participating in the Farm Sanctuary's 2007 Walk for Farm Animals. I want to thank all those who donated. Remember, even though the walk is over it is never to late to donate http://www.farmsanctuary.org/

Donate

I'm brainstorming about vacation for next year. Anybody have any suggestions?? I prefer place where the goats run wild. I like sun, chocolate, cheap booze and I also like klompen.

Klompen

Do you have a green thumb?

I would have to say the answer is yes. I love plants and flowers and enjoy keeping them alive. Unfortunately my dark apartment doesn't afford me to keep plants very well :( I am known in many circles as the plant lady.