An update

 Its September in Nova Scotia and in typical fashion I am welcoming the Fall with open arms while simultaneously feeling sad that summer is leaving and it wont be back until we have had winter.

We are closely watching Hurricane Teddy as we wait to find out exactly how it will impact us tomorrow into Wednesday. Either way, we are prepared for whatever comes with water, storm chips, food, propane, everything moved indoors that can be. We have food prepared and can cook, we are ok.

Covid seems to be spiking everywhere this morning again, except here in the Atlantic Bubble. Sometimes I wonder with more than a touch of panic if I will ever be on a plane again or see Florida again. 

I had an office day on Friday and while it was really nice to see Truro I had the reset I needed to again be in love with my home office life.

My first ever niece was born on September 12th, baby Mia is now a large part of my life even though shes 5000+km away.

Ducky and I are coming along well, hes jumping two foot with gusto and his trot is forward and large and hes learning to do the same in canter. I am more in love with him every single day.

I had an amazing photo shoot with him where he of course looked gorgeous. His ancestor shone through in all his photos, some of the photos are below.

Milo continues to go outside in the daytime although we have been a little more wary, he included, since he was missing for almost 4 days. I dont invite a repeat of that situation and I hope he doesnt either.

The girls are doing well in back to school although I think Chloe would welcome home schooling again with open arms. With her learning to drive and part time job at the aquatic centre shes got lots on the go.

My garden did well although the peppers are struggling to finish growing in the season length we have. If I do them again I will stick to one or two plants inside only. Carrots are looking almost ready to pick and I got a haul of about 12 potatoes from the 4 I planted. Tomatoes and sugar-snap peas were winning the whole summer.

Tonight I have a recipe from my sister in law to be to make aubergine curry that I am pretty excited about as I continue on my quest for a couple of meat free days a week.

Changing phones

 Yes its a first world problem and I get that, totally.

The pain of moving to a new Apple phone is staggering. I do not know for the life of me how millenials or Gen Z's or whatever are putting themselves through this each time a new phone is out.

The issue started when our provider mentioned on a marketing text that good deals were out there for "back to school" (yes lets see exactly how back to school actually goes!)

In line with the third text proclaiming such good news my iphone 6 which is the oldest in this house and a hand-me-down from Paul  decided to no longer let me talk unless it was on speaker, ever.

I had been ignoring this for about 4 weeks until it got this bad. I dont want a new phone, I hate them. Besides who needs the worry of a new expensive piece of technology around horses. I dont.

Anyway, it was decided that Lily would get an upgrade and I would have her much newer 6. That works. The only upgrade available in nearby stores was an iphone 11. Fine, lets get it.

The swanky new phone has been in our posession for almost 5 hours now and we are still no closer to having a successful data transfer. Lily has a a new apple I.D after we had to create a new bloody email for her as hers was "taken" - yes its her email FFS. Its taken by her.

Now we have three phones and none really work.

Her sim is in the new phone, my sim is in her phone, my phone has no sim. 

Ugh. Brutal.