Crossing Over!

October 14-16, 2007
Blogging the old fashion way…no such thing you may say - yet I sit here “writing” out my thoughts with pen and paper. The laptop CRASHED! I am not sure we are surprised- it has been a hot commodity in our “house”→serving us many hours each day; downloading…uploading…storing our nearly 1000 pictures, our 10 hours of video, home school plans, resources, budget tracking spreadsheets, 1584 songs, PowerPoint’s, letters, blogs, addresses and so much more. Our computer has been a portal to home while we are away. It has been our link our friends and family >>>e-mail, msn, hotmail, FaceBook, BlogSpot, on-line banking, the news, research, THE OUTSIDE WORLD! OK- that’s dramatic, but it worked hard and we figure it deserves some dramatic accolades. We wrote our stories as we drove across this country on the bumpiest highways (Alberta does have some great roads-so don’t complain…unless you live near Leedale) and now we are done this country and apparently so is our computer! The nice tech person at the computer shop was nice enough to recover all our files-thank goodness! PS: remember to back up regularly.
The fall here is in full bloom and beautiful. Certainly worth the wait! We are making our way south-slowly after spending 3 weeks in Nova Scotia we are in New Brunswick side tracked by the computer crash and other business needing to be taking care of before leaving Canada 5 months. We have been gone 60 days and travelled over 10 000kms and Jay can proudly say we’ve “rarely” drove the same road twice.
As we enter the United States we can gladly cheer…thank goodness fuel is only 75Cents a liter here!
Take good care, The Hohn’s
p.s. Here’s to the dollar being at par! And the Computer is fixed!