Wednesday, August 14

Ethan and Grandpa Bill, July 1st

After an intermission of several months caused by sciatica and gardening, I am resuming my blog with a summer newsletter.

My first posting is about the weather. What a bore.... To sum it up, it rains, and rains and rains. Worse than a bad summer in England.....

Some much better news:

Two more grandchildren on the way!

Martin and his partner Jamie are expecting a little girl in November, and are pleased about it. They are living in Sudbury, Ontario and Martin is on a job-training program which he is very enthusiastic about. Bill is visiting them at present.

Aidan and his partner Nikki are expecting a baby in February and are both thrilled to bits. They are living in Pine Hill Quebec and Aidan, in addition to his music has a full-time job working for a large family-run maple syrup/dairy operation, which he enjoys very much. Nikki will be working on the creative part of her Masters Degree in Fibre Arts this year. Knitting is not one of her specialties, but she is going to start...

..... and I will have to get going, firstly finishing a complicated sweater for Ethan featuring a red International tractor on his tummy.

And Bill will get going on his real tractor, landscaping our grounds and working on his firewood business.