It’s a bit odd writing a blog a year late, but 2019 was an odd year. (2020 would prove to be a great deal odder, but that’s a different story).
2019 was to be the year of living in a dizzying number of places.
True North III was still tucked up in her shrink wrap in Loyalist Cove by the time January saw us spending 4 days on an Ontario farm owned by friends who wanted a winter getaway, babysitting 45 chickens and a dozen or so barn cats. We collected lots of eggs every day and didn’t lose one chicken to a coyote. The timing was such that we had to survive three of the coldest days of the year, complete with blizzards and freezing water pipes, but all those omelettes kept us warm.
February saw us losing our rented apartment in Toronto where we had been living since selling our house there in 2016. This rental was our “half-way” house for us to use as a base and cruise on the boat in summers – which we did, in 2016, 2017 and 2018 – while we waited for our new condominium, just down the road, to be built. Completion was scheduled for September 2017.
Wrong.
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