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Moving

Posted on Mon 3 November 2008 at 09:56

We have put our hobby farm up for sale!

Since our boys moved to Toronto a year ago we have struggled being so far away.

When you have animals it is very hard to get time away and with the distances involved it is both costly and time consuming to make the journey.

We managed one trip back in May and have paid for the boys to visit, but its very expensive.

So we have decided to move closer. We are looking at the 1000 Island region/

Its about 3 hours east of Toronto, so we wont be living on top of them, but we will be able to even pop over for a day or a weekend without major expense and upheaval.

We have listed it now as it could take a long time to sell as Farms do not seem to sell overnight round here.

We love this area and NB is a very nice place to live.

There is good potential for us to earn a living form our farm, but we really can't stay so far away from our boys.

And so we have started the ball rolling and we will see what happens.

 

Our rescued kitten has not only survived but is running the household now.

Somehow I can't see him living in the barn.

We have called him Boots.

While we wait to see what happens with the farm we are busy battening down the hatches for winter.

My brother in law and his family have just been over for a visit. The day they landed back in London they had to scrape snow off the car.

Weird!

So sweet

Posted on Tue 4 November 2008 at 03:50 by Cassie 10000
Look at the dog and cat together, my dog hates them so much.

Sorry to hear you are moving out

Posted on Wed 5 November 2008 at 12:15 by Dave+Jules
Good Luck on your move and I know it is hard to be away from your kids. We fully expect to face the same dilemma.

For us the decision is to be where we want to be and not to expect our daughters to live close to us.

Heck we moved away so why do we expect our children to stay close to us.

What will you do if the decide to move further West in 2 years time?

Edited by Dave+Jules on Wed 5 November 2008 at 08:18

Moving

Posted on Sat 8 November 2008 at 11:03 by pennyhp
Hey dave & Jules

I appreciate what you are saying.
We are fully aware that they may end up in Vancouver or even sydney Austrailia, but one place they wont move back to is Atlantic Canada.

Our plan is to move to the 1000 islands area.
I have a friend who lives there and we will be able to help each other out when we want to go away by looking after each others animals.

That is the mane problem in being here.
We don't have anyone who can look after the animals if we want to visit the boys. It is expensive to fly or it takes a long time to drive.

Much as we love it here we have not felt properly settled because of this and we keep coming back to the idea of moving.
We need to feel settled and put down real roots here and with moving always being on our minds we cant do that while we are here.

Having said that it could take us 2 years to sell our house so we could be here a while yet.


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