Summer 2018

We're beginning to feel a rhythm. Home/South/Home/South.  Being in virtual summer, for these two Canadians, we're starting to hardly get our seasons mixed up anymore.  We're learning just because it's hot and we're sitting here with fans blowing on us, it doesn't necessarily mean it's summer.  Winters, too, are now hot.  We're adjusting.

Back when we were traveling more we had a saying:  "Once we know our way around a city it's time to move on."  We're kind of feeling that way now about our half-looped lifestyle.  Thoughts of change are beginning to percolate.  There are murmurings that maybe winter at home couldn't be all THAT bad.  Could it?  Could it be time for a change??

But I'm getting ahead of myself.  Summer of 2018 has come and gone.  Here's a recap:  We got some work done on the house.  Our Motor Home Airbnb was busy.  We got some family time in.  We bought and sold a couple of boats.  We took a trip to Newfoundland.

We got some work done on the good old house, replacing a double brick basement wall with a sturdy
2x6 insulated wall.  Much better and a good foundation to the next step, updating the kitchen,
which will be far more exciting (at least to me) 

Family visits!  So nice to spend time together.

The gargoyles and I enjoyed a camping trip in the Motor Home

My (Susan's) new boat.  She's a 22' aluminium replica "tug" that will get us out on the water
for daytrips and weekends,
and as she's trailerable, maybe a few extended trips.

We took a short trip to Newfoundland for a family reunion (Susan's).....

...and met (again) a whole bunch of cousins on my Mom's side....

 .....and learned a whole bunch of history on my Dad's side.  Here, Jeff and family members are taking
rubbings of the tombstones of my many-times-great-grandparents, who settled this little outport village
in Newfoundland a very long time ago.  Such a feeling of "groundedness". 

And...before we knew it it was autumn and the leaves were falling and it was
time to head back to the boat.