plans? what plans?

Getting used to the new normal

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This afternoon, my husband had an appointment with a new doctor.  For a GP, we don’t need to find someone in The City, so he booked one in the nearest town with a medical centre.  It took about 15 minutes for him to input the list of medications, which my husband handily keeps up to date on his phone.  The process has been started to get his files transferred over from his old doctor.  We will have to apply for new medical numbers, which we have 3 months to do (by mid-February), though the earlier, the better.

I had forgotten something about this town.  The distinctive smell from the distillery, when the wind is right.  The smell of fermenting grains.  Like a giant bakery.  It smells delicious. Continue reading →

No Internet… yet

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So the guy came out and did a site survey.

He couldn’t get a signal.

That spruce grove that protects our home from severe winds and snow build up, also prevents us from getting any signal at all. We would need to get at least a 60 ft tower.

Since all our money is going to pay for the movers, we don’t have the $1000 or so that it would cost.

My husband is on the phone now with a satellite based company. It will be more limited, but my daughter will be able to work again. That’s the most important thing right now.

Oh, and that breaker is still giving us issues.  So we have sporadic hot water.

Of all the problems we expected to have, trees blocking internet options and lack of hot water were not among them.

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The Best Laid Plans…

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Our decision to move to the farm was not an easy one.

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My husband popped back into the house for a moment, came out to find his walker occupied. One of the farm’s semi-feral cats, now named Beep Beep, likes walkers.

Before we could even say yes to moving at all, we had to make sure changing provinces would not affect my husband’s disability payments.  He is, after all, still considered employed.  It took some time for the answer to come through – apparently, no one had asked the person he spoke to this question before.  Then, just to confuse things, his employer changed their insurance provider.  Because he was already on long-term disability, anything to do with his injury, such as physio, is still with the first company.  But everything else, such as his prescriptions, dental coverage and my own coverage, is now with another company.

In the end, we did find out that we would still be covered the same if we moved to another province.

So after several months, this past spring, we could finally tell my mother that yes, we could move into the old farm-house. Continue reading →