Sunday, February 19, 2012
Photos that wouldn't attach to the other post!
The Whole Point of a Blog...
...is that you update it and let people know what's going on in your life. Which I have not done in many moons. However, I've been doing not too badly at emailing everybody different bits and pieces of news so I don't have to feel as bad :)
I'm still working at Peoples Jewellers. I'll attach a photo at the bottom. It's a pretty snazzy jeweller as far as they go over here so I was fortunate to land a job here instead of at the darkish, grungy jewellers down the way from us in the mall. Work's going great. Sales have dropped considerably since Christmas while everyone pays off their Visa bills but we had a couple of amazing days over Valentine's Day--I did over $3,000 by myself the day before! Our manager was let go and one of the other girls is filling in and doing a great job. The rest of us newbies are being trained up to open the store, close the store, do bank deposits, you name it--all the fun responsibilites you can easily get fired for doing wrong :P
I've graduated to (nearly) the full bagpipes, just missing the drones on the top. It's probably the hardest thing I've ever tried to do and I'm ridiculously frustrated with the whole thing but Glenn still keeps telling me it's going great and it shouldn't be too long until I can be out on parade with the band. I just tell him he's dreaming :)
We're having a very non-Canadian winter. We've had virtually no snow. The most excitement we had was the day after it rained and then froze overnight--the whole backyard was a solid smooth skating rink so we went ice skating. Yesterday it snowed most of the day and so now we probably have about 4-6 inches but it's meant to warm up by tomorrow and melt it all again. Works well for ease of farming and not having your fingers and nose freeze off so much but it doesn't make the cows feel great when the weather can't make up its mind which temperature it wants to be at. We need a few days of a good cold snap to kill all the bugs. The cows also all have lice so we're treating them for that.
It's only 15 days until I fly out for Australia!! I'll be over for 6 weeks and a few days. Very excited to see everybody and spend over a week up in QLD with the family there. Been a long time :)
I came second in the FarmFlicks competition. The girl who one had about 150 more views than I did so she did a good job.
I'll attach a couple more photos and catch up with you all soon!
I'm still working at Peoples Jewellers. I'll attach a photo at the bottom. It's a pretty snazzy jeweller as far as they go over here so I was fortunate to land a job here instead of at the darkish, grungy jewellers down the way from us in the mall. Work's going great. Sales have dropped considerably since Christmas while everyone pays off their Visa bills but we had a couple of amazing days over Valentine's Day--I did over $3,000 by myself the day before! Our manager was let go and one of the other girls is filling in and doing a great job. The rest of us newbies are being trained up to open the store, close the store, do bank deposits, you name it--all the fun responsibilites you can easily get fired for doing wrong :P
I've graduated to (nearly) the full bagpipes, just missing the drones on the top. It's probably the hardest thing I've ever tried to do and I'm ridiculously frustrated with the whole thing but Glenn still keeps telling me it's going great and it shouldn't be too long until I can be out on parade with the band. I just tell him he's dreaming :)
We're having a very non-Canadian winter. We've had virtually no snow. The most excitement we had was the day after it rained and then froze overnight--the whole backyard was a solid smooth skating rink so we went ice skating. Yesterday it snowed most of the day and so now we probably have about 4-6 inches but it's meant to warm up by tomorrow and melt it all again. Works well for ease of farming and not having your fingers and nose freeze off so much but it doesn't make the cows feel great when the weather can't make up its mind which temperature it wants to be at. We need a few days of a good cold snap to kill all the bugs. The cows also all have lice so we're treating them for that.
It's only 15 days until I fly out for Australia!! I'll be over for 6 weeks and a few days. Very excited to see everybody and spend over a week up in QLD with the family there. Been a long time :)
I came second in the FarmFlicks competition. The girl who one had about 150 more views than I did so she did a good job.
I'll attach a couple more photos and catch up with you all soon!
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Monetary Advances
Today marks exactly two weeks since the commencement of my new job! Two weeks ago I started working for People's Jewellers in the local mall as a cashier/sales associate-type position. I really love it and it's lots of fun. The customers are a lot easier to deal with than in a supermarket (interesting when they're spending so much more money!!) and the whole team is very family-ish. We're a close-knit bunch and everyone likes everyone else and stands up for each other which is quite refreshing after the politics of a certain supermarket I will refrain from naming ;) So I am now officially saving up for the next visit to Australia!
My bagpipe lessons are going well. Glenn says I'm well ahead of all the other students he's ever taught in his years of being the band quartermaster. Looks like maybe it won't be the full year to two years before I get to graduate to the actual pipes instead of just the practice chanter.
We had our first 'snowfall' yesterday morning. Only enough to dust the ground and make it pretty and then it melted as soon as the sun came up. We did milk testing and had 2 visiting Malaysian government veterinarians come and check it out. They were pretty excited to hear I have a cousin from Malaysia.
I'm currently working hard on a video for a competition called Farm Flicks, about Canadian agriculture. Organic Meadow, the Christian organic co-operative we supply, is partnering with me to give me the soundtrack from their new music video promo, free O.M. tshirts, you name it...if my video is approved, Farm Flicks will post it on YouTube and the winner will be based on which video in the comp. receives the most views between Dec. 10 and Dec. 30. So I'll post on here if and when it's on YouTube and try to get some more hits!
If you have a spare 2 minutes and 32 seconds, go to YouTube and look up Clean Living and Organic Farming ~ Country Music Video. That's our latest excitement here in Ontario's organic sector. All the people appearing in the clip are Organic Meadow board members and Organic Meadow farmers and members. The guy playing the guitar and singing the song is our CEO and his son, Ted Zettel Jr., wrote and composed the song itself. We got an up-and-coming company from just outside of Toronto to film it for virtually nothing, they just wanted the experience and to get a name up for themselves and they seem to have done a great job.
Combining the corn is very nearly finished--now we just have to race to get everything disced, cultivated, ploughed, and possibly roto-tilled before the snow and the frozen ground really hits us...
My bagpipe lessons are going well. Glenn says I'm well ahead of all the other students he's ever taught in his years of being the band quartermaster. Looks like maybe it won't be the full year to two years before I get to graduate to the actual pipes instead of just the practice chanter.
We had our first 'snowfall' yesterday morning. Only enough to dust the ground and make it pretty and then it melted as soon as the sun came up. We did milk testing and had 2 visiting Malaysian government veterinarians come and check it out. They were pretty excited to hear I have a cousin from Malaysia.
I'm currently working hard on a video for a competition called Farm Flicks, about Canadian agriculture. Organic Meadow, the Christian organic co-operative we supply, is partnering with me to give me the soundtrack from their new music video promo, free O.M. tshirts, you name it...if my video is approved, Farm Flicks will post it on YouTube and the winner will be based on which video in the comp. receives the most views between Dec. 10 and Dec. 30. So I'll post on here if and when it's on YouTube and try to get some more hits!
If you have a spare 2 minutes and 32 seconds, go to YouTube and look up Clean Living and Organic Farming ~ Country Music Video. That's our latest excitement here in Ontario's organic sector. All the people appearing in the clip are Organic Meadow board members and Organic Meadow farmers and members. The guy playing the guitar and singing the song is our CEO and his son, Ted Zettel Jr., wrote and composed the song itself. We got an up-and-coming company from just outside of Toronto to film it for virtually nothing, they just wanted the experience and to get a name up for themselves and they seem to have done a great job.
Combining the corn is very nearly finished--now we just have to race to get everything disced, cultivated, ploughed, and possibly roto-tilled before the snow and the frozen ground really hits us...
Monday, September 26, 2011
Photos
Time Lapse
A big apology to everyone who's been checking out my blog and not seeing anything new on it. The reason you didn't see anything new is that I didn't add anything new. The reason I didn't add anything new is that the internet didn't work for ages and ages and then we were right into calf showing and stuff like that and I simply didn't have the time or inclination to sit down and type stuff on here! Plus I'd been sending some of you letters and things anyway so you knew what I was up to.
Since I last updated my blog, a few things have happened which I will outline in point form to save my time and yours!
I'll upload some photos when I have some interesting ones loaded onto my laptop.
Since I last updated my blog, a few things have happened which I will outline in point form to save my time and yours!
- We had a very hot summer
- Clare came to visit for 11 days and we went to Niagara Falls and Ottawa (I'm hoping to give Clare my account name and password so she can hack in and post some photos--I didn't take any)
- I showed Kruze at the 4H show. She won her conformation class and we went on to the 4H championship at the Lindsay Exhibition where we didn't do all that great but it was still lots of fun and good practice
- The church we're at bought an AMAZING Yamaha keyboard which was really exciting, especially visiting the guy selling it who is a professional pianist who plays at weddings and things. He was 84 so Mrs. Hall would've loved to have met him :)
I'll upload some photos when I have some interesting ones loaded onto my laptop.
Thursday, June 9, 2011
One more of photos...
My new cowboy boots Mum & Dad bought for me :)
I turned a pair of old jeans into jean shorts and decided to embroider names all over them of all the people that love me :D Pretty random I know :P These are the ones I've done so far!!
Also my awesome hair straightener
Catching up on pictures :)
2nd cousin Mitchell :)
Tangalooma Resort, Moreton Island, QLD
Roma Street Parklands, QLD
Me with Aunty Teua
Me and Fair Cousin Bennnnnn
Me with Mark Yull's pet lizard Gandolf
Sarah, Andrew, and Mark Yull, our friends in Winchester
The Yull's West Highland Terrier Sadie
Huge John Deere sprayer we saw when we went on the Pioneer Seeds bus tour around Cambellford area...this was at Amaizeing Acres, a huge grain elevator operation.
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