White-out!!!

[judy]

She is a real cutie pie Linds, and needs a good home. Good luck! Layla would love her!

[Lindsey]

I thought so too! I did email about her yesterday and they told me their dogs absolutely do not get trials Every shelter or rescue around here will do a trial but this one won't. So we'll need to be 100% sure that she will do well in our family before we get her. So it's something to think about!

On another note, I ABSOLUTELY love my new town!!! Yesterday it finally stopped raining and snowing and the sun started shining! So after work I put on my flip-flops and hauled the patio furniture out of the garage, and ran around the yard with Layla for a little while. Scott tried out our underground sprinklers in the back yard and got them working. Then we took Layla for a walk! We saw a few families out walking and everyone cheerfully said hi to us. We wandered downtown and read the "Heritage Building" signs on almost every building. They've all been there since the early 1900's! Even all of the churches are very old. The United Church downtown is the most beautiful! There was also a Roman Catholic church and an Anglican Church (the smallest of the three... figures because I'm Anglican lol!) And we decided that maybe when we get married we'll just do the ceremony there and have it small with close friends and family, and then do a reception in the city so more people can come and have hotels to stay in Anyways, it was just great to imagine our whole lives playing out there!

On our way home it was getting dark and we could hear the owls calling Little things like that make me feel so much more at home than I was in the city! I think I was smiling all night!

[gja1000]

I'm so happy for you Lindsay! Your new home sounds just perfect! I love hearing happy endings to stories!

How far is it to drive to work? I don't remember your mentioning how far you have to drive each day. I hope it's not far and/or doesn't take long. Is the traffic bad at all?

I'm sorry to hear about the shelter not doing a trial. THat just doesn't sound very practical.

[judy]

The town sounds so perfect! It looks like you and Scott found your forever home!

[Lindsey]

The drive is about 20 minutes to the edge of the city, and then about another 10 minutes to my work, and then Scott drives from here to his work which is about another 10 minutes away. However, to make things easier I just applied for a job at the same office he works at (I know I know, we just tried to get away from that, but we'd still be working for different companies and on different projects!) So I'm keeping my fingers crossed, but how much good luck can one person have?? Lol

A couple of people stopped by yesterday while we were raking the yard! One was an older woman named Grace who lives across the street from us in a seniors home. She was so friendly and gave us her room number and said she'd love to have us over anytime we want to stop by! And the other person was an older man who lives in the house behind us. He was really friendly too! I can't wait to meet more of the community!

[gja1000]

Things just sound perfect, Lindsay! You are going to have a wonderful life in your new community!!!

[DianaB]

Lindsey, It sounds so wonderful!!!! The neighbors are so friendly!! It sounds like such a great place to live!! I'm so happy for you!!!