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My youngest sister visited and stayed with us from October to Mid-January. She is now on a road trip through West America. While Seb was preparing the cabin, my sister and I started clearing the forest directly south of the building. This way we would get some more light coming in. This was a lot of work. The first thing was to get rid of all the low brush and low branches so that we could even get to the…
We are back. Last year some personal stuff happened, because of which our blog receded into the background. But with spring around the corner, I thought it was high time to pick up where we left off. Even though it was very quiet online, we have not been sitting on our buttocks. To make sure that the posts won’t get too long, I will write two posts, in this one I will update our house, and in the next one,…
Last week Seb ordered a big freezer, which arrived and this weekend we went to Costco to do some “big” shopping… We figured, that with where we are living, having a large food storage is not a bad idea. This ensures that we do not have to go shopping too often and allows us to go every once in a while, to Edmonton to Costco to buy in bulk. Saves a lot of money. Also, when winter comes and we…
Since Monday (21st August) we have been living full time at our new place. Last weekend we spent the weekend in Edmonton, meeting new relatives and cleaning up the apartment. No going back now anymore! Working at the new place through Starlink goes really well. Luckily, I usually work in the morning, because in the evening internet gets slower because people come home from work, and everybody is using Starlink because it’s the only internet network available. Last night and…
Writing this on our way back to Edmonton, I can only conclude that this weekend was a huge success. Driving up here on Friday morning, I could not wait to spend two full days and two half days at our new homestead. Since yesterday evening I have been dreading this moment of having to go back to Edmonton. I have never felt so much freedom since buying our acreage. We can do what we want when we want, plan however…
The 20th of July. The day is finally here: Our new place is officially ours! This week we drove to Ikea to get a dresser and a guest bed, which will be ours until we will move our bed to the new place. We also got some storage boxes for under the bed, since we will not have a lot of storage in our place, and yet somehow already accumulated a lot of stuff. Unbelievable how fast that goes! And…
As has become clear to me, living in Edmonton, and not in the best part of town I must add, having ways to protect yourself against people is definitely not a superfluous luxury. For me, as a woman this became especially clear, the night intruders went searching through our and our neighbors’ garden. My husband had woken up, and somehow this woke me up as well. Being that we were only here on a visitor visa, we had no weapons,…
This will be our very first post on our new blog. As we still are trying to figure out the best format to share our journey with you all, we will keep this first post very short. So what would be better than showing you how the house looked like on the first day we saw it? Here! This is an impression of what kind of project we were throwing ourselves in.
And off we go on our new adventure!Arriving at Calgary International Airport on March 2, 2023 after an 8-hour flight, we set foot on Canadian soil with a great deal of trepidation and fatigue. The journey from Switzerland wasn’t a one-off, and we first had to battle with German and then Dutch customs to get all the paperwork stamped for exporting personal effects and animals outside the Euro zone. Then we had to deal with the cancellation of our March…
Work in progress. Here you will find how we got the invitation to apply as Permanent Residents through the Skilled Workers Program.