365 Days Later...

...and we're celebrating our first wedding anniversary. The official celebration will not take place until next weekend over two nights in Port Stanley. We couldn't do it this weekend because Heather spent Thursday and Friday night at meetings of the Association of Administrative Assistants where she is the National Treasuser.

We did manage to get in a short ride in the morning to Kitchener to take a picture of an old water tower that is scheduled to come down starting next week. It was an overcast morning and the roads were wet from an early morning rain but the temperature was mildly warm in the low double-digits. As we arrived at the tower we saw an older couple just finishing taking their photos of the tower. I guess a lot of people will miss it.

When we got home we shared a piece of a year-old cake and it tasted as good as it did the first time we had it.

Our wedding cake.

We're just starting on this ride and we're looking forward to many more years together.

WATER TOWERS

Our Newest Niece

Early today morning, our stable of nieces and nephews grew to four as Heather's sister Kim gave birth to Robyn Michelle. This is Kim and Mike's second child as Robyn joins Jolene who is almost two years old now. Congrats, guys!

Our New House - Week 5 Update

Don't adjust your monitor - we actually went out riding today. On motorcycles! I somehow convinced Heather to leave the worries of her job behind and enjoy the warm evening. She said yes and we were off to Woodstock no more than 10 minutes after coming home from work.

Getting the bikes out the garage was a bit of a challenge with a lot of moving boxes stacked around them. We decided that it'd be better off if we moved our motorcycles to a storage unit. But tonight was all about riding. When we left at around 6pm, it was still quite warm outside but it got steadily cooler as time went on. By the time, we were coming home it was no longer possible to ride without gloves.

We arrived in Woodstock via back roads a few minutes past 7pm. The work on our house is still nicely coming along with the roof now completely finished. The brick has also started to make its way around the house and I even spotted our address stone on the garage floor. We didn't go inside because of all the scaffolding around the house and therefore we couldn't tell if any work had been done on the interior. We'll just have to wait until next week to find out.

Front view.

Rear view.

We made it back to Waterloo under the cover of darkness at 8:40pm.

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WATER TOWERS

Our New House - Week 4 Update

This weekend was usually set aside for the annual Cyclefest held in West Montrose by the Waterloo Wings. However, the Wings decided to retire the event and this year was going to be just a friendly campout. Once again, Heather and I decided against camping, which proved to be a good idea given the sketchy weather.

We went to the campground in the morning to pick up Heather's parents and we drove to New Hamburg for breakfast at the Old Country Restaurant. After breakfast, I took everybody to Woodstock for another look at our house. Changes from last week included stairs to the 2nd floor and the basement, a bathtub, water pipes, electrical wiring, electrical panel box in the basement and freshly delivered roof tiles and brick waiting to be applied to the house. The work is progressing at a brisk pace.

Front view.

Rear view.

From Woodstock we drove through Breslau to check on more house construction, to Waterloo for a pit stop at Williams. Then it was back to Kitchener to Campers World to look at some RV that Jim and Sandy are interested in purchasing. Finally, we arrived at Marj's in Alma for supper. By the time we left Marj's the skies had opened and it was raining quite heavily. We dropped the parents off at the campground and we made it home by 6pm.

A rainbow over a field of corn north of Waterloo.