Home!

We arrived home after a nine o'clock start and constant driving in grey skies, threatening snow, freezing temperatures and wet roads.

Pennsylvania is very hilly country which is great for scenery, especially Fall colours, but not good at all for radio reception.  Our favourite network, NPR, does not have the high-powered radio stations that the religious stations do, so Joan had to keep hunting around for the station as one faded into static, and the other wasn't quite strong enough.  It would have been another great time for an audio book, but I didn't plan ahead very well...

New York state became less and less hilly, so NPR programs like Car-Talk kept us laughing and entertained.  By the time that station faded, the CBC from Kingston was quite good so we listened to Quirks and Quarks, our favourite science program with Bob MacDonald: always a source of interesting interviews.

Snow had been predicted in the Watertown area which can be quite serious due to the lake effect off of lake Ontario.  Fortunately for us, no snow fell during our transit through that snow-belt.

Canadian customs was a quick and pleasant experience and the remainder of the trip was uneventful under grey skies and over wet roads.  I'm sure the car will dry out to become a white car, due to the heavy salting of the highways.

A major concern was trying to remember to turn westward when we reached the 417: downtown is right, Stittsville is left.  Once that was over, we found the house behind huge snow-banks, and it took less than a half hour to empty the car.  Joan's just finishing the final sorting and storing of all the stuff, then we can tackle the cubic foot or two of mail.  ...or maybe that could be Sunday work...

Our home phone is hooked up and working, as is the internet; please feel free to contact us, we always enjoy your news.

Until the next trip: au revoir!