I am coming HOME! Is there a s-w-e-e-t-e-r sentence than that, especially when you have been gone from "home" for close to forty years? There is no explaining what calls us home... la belle baie, notre langue et culture, notre jeunesse, nos parents, nos vieux amis, nos racines, notre patrimoine, notre connection? The pull is so strong... the heart just calls us home for all those reasons, and so many more that just can't be explained, I think.
My oldest brother (YOUNGER than me, the brat, but the oldest of my three brothers), has just come home for good... lock, stock and barrel, after being out west all these years. He and my sis-in-law, along with their two cats, Ziggy and Zoey, will be staying with me until they move into their new home in less than a month. Being the prepared and organized person that he is (my four siblings and I are ALL alike in that respect) the ground work was all done out west, and the house bought two days after their arrival here. AWESOME!!!
He drives a Harley, so other family and friends with motorbikes have been rolling by. My neighbours are probably thinking... OH NO, that old lady who just moved in is a drug dealer? There goes the neighbourhood!!!
So the circle closes for my oldest brother and his family. Welcome home!!! A double rainbow two nights in a row, in your honour bro!
Something else has come F-U-L-L circle. Remember when I had cat urine problems in my apartment, and spent almost all of the five months I was there, trying to get rid of the smell? Well, thanks to all the advice I received from friends and family after my posting about my unwanted tenant, the GROUNDHOG, under my shed, I figured out what to do. Thanks MG in BC, for the best link. Thanks to her, let's just say I pretended I needed to give samples at the hospital lab every morning for a few weeks, except I saved them all. Yup! Then I saturated his burrow under my shed, waited a few days, and did it again!
I haven't seen HIDE nor HAIR of the critter since, and he hasn't eaten any of the new growth on my sunflowers. So..... I am keeping my fingers crossed.
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