Wow, the end of the year! What's next?...2025?
We hope you are well and finished all your chores for 2024.
We are alive and happy and may never get to the end of our chores, so having low expectations sure helps.
Noreen and I did a little travelling around Southern Ontario. Once you are out of the BIG city, there are many small, picturesque and interesting places to visit. Next year, we will spend time on the Yacht Oar Knot and hope to explore more of this area.
Richard and Janelle have been living in their tiny home for just over three years. "Little Lyall Liberty" is parked on land where the owner teaches polo and hosts matches - some of these are international.
Both are busy working, Janelle is an Orthodontic Treatment Coordinator in SE Calgary & Richard is helping homeowners go Solar around sunny Southern Alberta.
Alec and Kathleen are busy planning for their wedding on February 13th, 2025. Alec just finished an intense, rewarding project. He ran an overhead crane for a gas/electric refurbishing job, working 10 hour night shifts, seven days a week for five weeks... and he liked it!?! Kathleen continues teaching special behavioral education to a class of grade seven and eight boys. This year, she is trying to cope with the most bizarre, rude, out-of-control student that she and her colleagues have ever experienced.
Vyden turned nine on November 30th. He is in grade four and continues to take swimming lessons. He still enjoys Lego and likes creating his own builds from the thousands of pieces in his collection. According to him there isn't anything he doesn't know about Minecraft. Vyden may be disappearing down a Minecraft -mineshaft, and we wouldn't even know it!
This Christmas, we will be celebrating with Kathleen's family in Midland, Ontario. Our plan is to drive the 2 & 1/2 hours northwest of Scarborough on Dec 26th. We will have Christmas Dinner and our gift exchange on Dec. 27th.
Hazzarriann-Starr, Christian & Russell in Mombasa March 2024
Our wish for each of you this holiday season is whatever makes you feel safe, healthy, and content.
HoHoHo,
Don and Noreen
