McNab's corn maze

Geoff and I went to the corn maze on Friday, yes in the rain. It was completely muddy, but still fun and we had the entire corn maze to ourselves. We went two years ago and it was extremely cold then, so it was a little warmer yesterday. I encourage everyone to do a corn maze sometime in their life, although I do warn to do it with someone, not on your own. It can be a bit fun to get lost, but could be a little scary if you got lost by yourself. Interestingly yesterday, Geoff wanted to check out one part of the maze to see if it led anywhere. After a couple of minutes I called out his name and I got no response. Hmm, I thought, I might have to find my way back myself. So I called again a couple more times and then we found each other. We were told when we started the maze that there are 4 Emu's in the maze and not to be scared as they won't hurt us. Well, when we first started out, two scooted past us. We later met up with all four at the petting zoo area.



All in all we had a good time, we also stopped at the cranberry farm just down the street and picked up some cranberry salsa - so good!



Until the next post....

It's about time....

Well, here I go again, time to catch up. I am trying to remember all the things that have happened in the recent weeks. So here goes...

Geoff and i went to Kelowna for a Baptist Housing Awards Banquet on October 3rd until the 4th. Baptist Housing paid for everything, including accommodations. We, as a group, bused it to Kelowna and we had fun. I had heard that we would be playing games on the bus and I was looking forward to just some time to relax, nap and read. I thought oh, oh, I really don't want to play games on the bus and neither did Geoff, but you know, it was kind of fun! I am trying to be more open minded, plus we did have time for a nap and a read! We stayed at the Coast Capri in Kelowna and toured one of the new facilities that Baptist Housing has recently acquired. It was nice weekend and we also got to meet up with Cory and Sara, Geoff's brother and sister in law for breakfast. It was nice to see them as we hadn't seen them since our wedding. We are hoping that they can make it for Christmas on the island, but will need to wait until closer to the time.

I am on vacation this week and attempting to get some things done around the house. Cleaning, purging of stuff and basically trying to make things a little more organized and not so cluttered. Well, I am into day 6 and haven't accomplished too much at this point. I was up at 0630 this morning, couldn't sleep and thought I would get started on the day and hopefully tackle the garage before lunch. I puttered a bit this morning until about 0800 and then Dad called to see if Geoff and I wanted to go for breakfast. Well, I never turn down a change to eat out for breakfast, so we went to the Doghouse and then came home and I have been slowly working in the office since. I am hoping after I finish here I will get to the garage. Geoff has a night class this evening, so will have the house to myself, so will see how much I get done. I am also thinking that I might like to change the living room furniture around again, so will see.

I am still enjoying my job, but have enjoyed this week of not having to get up at 0500. Geoff and I have decided to put off buying a house/condo/townhouse at this point, because too many obstacles have come in our way. I thought I could use part of my pension from the college as a down payment, but found out that yes I can transfer the funds into an RRSP and will probably make more money on it than if I just left it, but also found out that it has to go into a fixed RRSP, which means that I can not touch it. Unfortunately, BC is the only province (as far as I am told) to still have fixed RRSP's. The topic is supposed to be on the legislature topics but because Mr. Campbell has cancelled the last two legislature meetings, I don't anticipate anything changing there soon. Just another reason I don't care for Mr. Campbell (sorry, but I really don't like him, particularly since what he has done with health care).

So we wait. Geoff will be done school very soon and hopefully we can start to save more and get the down payment without using an RRSP, but it will take time. For now, I continue to commute. Hope the weather is kind to me!

Well, I should get cracking back at the organizing and maybe I will post more later today, but then maybe not :)

Way too long

It has been an extremely long time since my last post and have a few things to catch up on. I also had some trouble trying to start a new post for the last few days. As it is early in the am and I should be getting ready for work, I will update, hopefully, this evening when I get home from work. I will blog on....:)