Lizzy McFly

It has been a crazy and wonderful couple of weeks. Mike and I are now in our new house in Port Weller.

Everything went very smoothly. The movers, Two Men and a Truck were amazing. We highly recommend them. As of today, pretty much everything is unpacked, sorted and put away. It feels great. We still have pictures to hang and a few small things to find homes for, but that’s about it. Once things are somewhat back to normal, we will replace the carpeting upstairs, the upstairs bathroom floor, plus put a floating floor in the basement. We will also do some repainting. We were lucky that the appliances were included. We have already replaced the kitchen faucet and upstairs bathroom toilet. I’m looking forward to the winter weather ending (hopefully by August) so I can go clean up and organize the shed.

My mother let us have her insanely heavy cement bird bath. She has had the base for almost 40 years. We had to replace the top around 25 years ago after an unfortunate accident. It’s very comforting to look out and see something that I’ve seen in the backyard of my childhood home since I was just a nugget.

We still feel like we’re vacationing in a nice cottage here. It’s such a difference from my apartment and his apartment-style condo. I’m still taken aback a little when I come down the stairs and see the screen door out to the porch. The outside is right there. That seems weird but to get outside from my apartment, I would have to open the door to the hall, wait for the elevator, step out of the elevator then through the lobby, through a small vestibule then out the front door. It’s nice seeing my car Lola Corolla sitting right there rather than being down in a parking garage.

We haven’t made the effort to sit outside or go for a walk since we’ve been so busy. That and we’ve already put our winter clothing away.  However, we did head out to the airport Sunday morning for a flight.  Apparently, I was the only one out flying that morning, according to Brian in the air traffic tower.  It’s still weird to see everything looking like a ghost town, such as Niagara College:

We flew down to Lake Erie.  It wasn’t surprising to see empty beaches (both due to COVID and the close to freezing temps).  Even this lighthouse looked cold:

We only checked out Niagara Falls from a distance:

It was a really nice flight and it was just so nice to get out and up!

Since it was Mother’s Day, my little mother came over for a visit.  We needed groceries and so did she, so after having some Timmies, her and Mike went to Zehrs to pick some things up for the next couple of weeks.  We’ve been trying to limit our grocery outings to only about once every two weeks.  Not too long after they got back, we had dinner.  Mya and Abby decided to try and get in on the action:

I told the dorks that they had to wait with the rest of their sisters for noms later on:

I guess being cute all day and spending some time in the sun really drums up an appetite:

So life is quite good right now for all of us!

Today’s symptoms: I think I slept quite well last night but am feeling kinda blah today.  I’m really fatigued and I’m having tons of nerve pains in my hands and forearms.  Hopefully that and this bad headache bugger off tomorrow!