After a long silence, I decided to return to my blog. Now that I have I am unsure of where to start. Start where I left off some 6-7 months ago or start from now.
First up I decided to change my original picture. I wish now that I hadn't, as I haven't had any success with the resizing of my new photo and now I have deleted it. Help? Shall need assistance from my tutors.
What's Around My Corner? The beginning of a new phase in our lives. 2013 was certainly a different and challenging year in a lot of respects. My husband Barry finished his working life in April and after taking his long service and holiday leave he officially retired in October. During this time we had another enjoyable trip to America and Canada for 6 weeks, which included a road trip from New York through West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana and finishing in Chicago.
Coming back to reality land was a little hard as I now had to share my time, space and freedom each day with an extra person. Why do men have to have morning and afternoon tea. I survived all these years without this.
Although Barry hasn't missed going to work, for a period of time he missed the social contact with his ex-staff and colleagues, but has been able to catch up with some of them for coffee or lunch. I personally think he missed the chocolate bar box and his afternoon cherry ripe treat, which isn't available from my pantry. He has now thrown himself into the Boonah Gliding Club, been elected as Vice President which keeps him more than occupied, and the 1st Friday of each month is now Flying Friday, he is able to enjoy his soaring with no students or people wanting to experience a glider flight. We both hope for fine weather and good flying conditions on these days. Hopefully, he will do his next challenge of competing in the 2014 Easter Comps at Goondiwindi. Something he hasn't competed in for a few years.
First up I decided to change my original picture. I wish now that I hadn't, as I haven't had any success with the resizing of my new photo and now I have deleted it. Help? Shall need assistance from my tutors.
What's Around My Corner? The beginning of a new phase in our lives. 2013 was certainly a different and challenging year in a lot of respects. My husband Barry finished his working life in April and after taking his long service and holiday leave he officially retired in October. During this time we had another enjoyable trip to America and Canada for 6 weeks, which included a road trip from New York through West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana and finishing in Chicago.
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| The Bean-Chicago |
From there we flew to Quebec visited Montreal and Toronto before returning to New York for an extra 4 days. Although we had visited New York for 4 days in 2010, we really only saw the main tourist attractions, so this time we did a lot more exploring through the different neighbourhoods. Even after a total of 10 days of constantly being on the sight seeing trail I could have had another week or two in N.Y. I think this could be said for any city you visit when on holidays, if only we had more time. My ideal US holiday would be to travel there for 6 months but I know I would miss my special grandsons too much, and the Gold Lotto people have obviously lost my telephone number.
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| What's Around My Corner in Quebec? |
Although Barry hasn't missed going to work, for a period of time he missed the social contact with his ex-staff and colleagues, but has been able to catch up with some of them for coffee or lunch. I personally think he missed the chocolate bar box and his afternoon cherry ripe treat, which isn't available from my pantry. He has now thrown himself into the Boonah Gliding Club, been elected as Vice President which keeps him more than occupied, and the 1st Friday of each month is now Flying Friday, he is able to enjoy his soaring with no students or people wanting to experience a glider flight. We both hope for fine weather and good flying conditions on these days. Hopefully, he will do his next challenge of competing in the 2014 Easter Comps at Goondiwindi. Something he hasn't competed in for a few years.
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| Gliding over Boonah area. |
He had lessons at Apple on how to use his new Ipad, and after some frustrating weeks for him as well as myself, he finally made a few picture slide albums of our holiday photos and was able to add music as well. Very clever indeed. I'm still trying to come to grips with my new laptop (bought on impulse) and unbeknown to me has Windows 8. Argh, but I am getting there. New toys like Ipads and Samsung smartphones seem to be very addictive.
As we are planning a trip to France and beyond this year, I purchased a "Learn French in 15 minutes a Day". So far he hasn't got very far but did skip to page 49 to start at the beverage page. He now knows the difference between wine and beer. I am going to download this to my Ipod so when I go for my morning walk I can listen and hopefully learn some common words and phrases as well..
Oh yes 2014, we have numerous challenges to tackle (as well as neglected household and yard maintenance) ahead of us so we shall be keeping busy and active before we head off on our next trip but after that then our biggest challenge starts.
Au revoir, a la prochaine.
(Goodbye, until next time)
