Yesterday we took Arthur to the movies for the first time (well, for the first time that he was conscious for the entire show). We saw Wall-E, which was very cute. I think Arthur was a bit overwhelmed by it, and he got restless and a little cranky about 2/3 of the way through, but we bribed him with Fruitopia and M&Ms, and he made it through to ( Read more... )

Hopefully today we'll finally manage to find and purchase a compost bin. I've had a terrible time trying to get one - we had no luck at Canadian Tire, Home Depot, Zellers, or any of the three garden centres I've visited. The woman at the last garden centre called someone else to ask if he had one - he didn't, but suggested that maybe the Home ( Read more... )

We're safely in Windsor, and getting settled in. There is a longer story to be told of the move, involving unexpected woes (both emotional and financial) and incompetence on the part of several major corporations, but it will have to be another day, as I'm exhausted and would really like to sleep in my new bed at long last. We only have internet ( Read more... )

The computer's getting packed now, so I'm offline until at least tomorrow. Hopefully Bell won't screw things up and we'll have our network connection by then :)

We are officially house-owners, as of today :) Now we just have to get the remainder of our stuff packed up and actually move Monday. Whew.

We went to a lawyer's office today and signed about a million pieces of mortgage-related paper, all notary-witnessed and so forth. The weirdest part was that she didn't even charge us for her time - amazing! We more than made up for that small savings, however, because we also bought a fridge and stove and a new queen-sized bed this morning. I ( Read more... )

As we're gearing up to move, we have a bunch of things we're planning to dispose of before we leave. Eventually I'll be posting them to the montreal community and to Craigslist, and anything we can't find a home for after that will go to Value Village, but I figured I'd give you guys first crack at the loot. If you're interested in anything, just drop me ( Read more... )

marnanel did the 'what do you have open?' meme, so I figured I would as well. Guess what I'm working on :p

Tabs in Firefox:
1. Google books: Brittany and the Angevins: Province and Empire, 1158-1203, p. 141
2. Constance, Duchess of Brittany at wiki, puzzling over her birthdate which I think must be wrong according to other things I've read, and wishing I ( Read more... )

Mother's Day was very nice - Steve brought me roses and some things I like for supper (cider, brie, apple-maple pie and vanilla ice cream...) Arthur brought me a dandelion, which is in a shot-glass vase and makes me very happy :)

Following the excellent advice of eldritchhobbit, I checked out the music of one Paul Roland, and found that it was Good, so I ( Read more... )

I put up photos from our trip, plus a few new ones of Arthur, at our flickr site.

( Highlights under here )