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.