January 9 is the public Council meeting to consider our rezoning application. Fingers crossed!
Tuesday, December 27, 2022
Wednesday, December 7, 2022
The kindness of neighbours
We seem to have lucked out with the neighbours around the church. Kind people have raked our leaves, hauled our garbage to the landfill, brought us food, weeded our sidewalk, lent us a wheelbarrow, offered the use of their car, picked up fallen trash bins, taught us how to point brick, and even phoned us in the city to let us know lights got left on (and went in and turned them off for us using the lockbox). It's good to know people are looking out for us. I kind of see this whole renovation as a community project. A lot of people are invested in seeing this church be preserved, and we've been welcomed to the neighbourhood more warmly than I anticipated. I can't wait to be able to become part of this community fulltime!
I forgot how small towns work
I spent my childhood in a smallish town in a close-knit neighbourhood. Everyone knew everyone, a lot of us were related, and we were quite i...
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In her book Folly , Laurie R. King writes this wonderful tidbit: “In the incestuous manner of writers, his purpose seemed to be not so muc...
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Thank you to Scott and to Brian and James, father-son team from ABC Flooring, for a fast, mess-free job so far! We've decided the plain...