New Furniture

Here are some pictures of our new furniture. It's in the "reading room" at the front of the house. I still need a table or corner unit of some kind in there, but I'm still looking around.
It's a fairly small room, and we have the china cabinet in there too, so we decided we needed only a couple of pieces of furniture in it.

Coulee Walk 1

While I was away John & Molly went exploring, and found a new walk near us. It takes us down into the coulee. We can't get right to the river bottom, but we can get close. There are some other trails around though, so we'll try some of those to see if we can reach the river another way. Molly really enjoyed this walk, as there is so much to smell. We even stumbled on 2 deer (and lots of deer poo!). She also has to be careful of the cacti, as they are common on the trail. The only problem is, she gets really tired, particularly going uphill. She's currently fast asleep on her cushion. I think she may spend the day there.

Coulee Walk 2

The Old House

Well, that's it for the house on Elm Road, as seen in the picture on the left. This is all that was left on Oct 30. Apparently the new house is already going up. It's always so sad to see the old houses come down, and it's worse when it's your own house.

Trip to Toronto

I was in Toronto for the weekend of Oct 28. Kathleen & Mark had asked us to be Zachary's godparents, so I went home for the ceremony. It was great to see everyone again. Unfortunately it wasn't enough time to see everyone, but we'll have more time for visiting next trip home.

Here are some pictures of the baptism, plus one of Zachary when Kathleen & I were out shopping. Kathleen & Mark also put on a great lunch after the service, so there are some pictures of that too.


Our broker, nice man that he is, gave me some little Adidas running shoes for Zachary. They were so cute I had to take some pictures of them.

Scenery 2

Here are more pictures from our drive this morning.

Popson Park, Scenery 1

A few minutes away from us is Popson Park, an off-leash area for dogs. It's not your typical park though, and you have to watch for rattlesnakes at some times of the year. There is a den there, and at some times the rattlers will be quite active. Actually, just after we arrived here, someone was bitten in her backyard, doing some gardening. She lived in the neighbourhood we had orginially considered moving into. We're glad we ended up in RiverStone! Some of these pictures are from Popson, some are from our neighbourhood.

In a couple of the pictures if you look closely you can see the mountains in the background. You might have to enlarge the picture to see them though.

Molly Sheriff, Proud Poodle

Here are some shots of Molly on our various walks around the neighbourhood. She likes to track stuff, although I have no idea if she knows what she's doing. She barked at the deer in the pictures above. They were really close.

We also found a dogwalker for Molly. She'll never replace Rich, but at least we know we have someone in town to take her for walks when we're working. When her hips are better she'll start going out on group walks, so she can play with dogs again.