A Radio Star of sorts.

So, we have a favourite night-time radio show...In fact, we really don't feel like our night is "complete" until we've listened to it. It's called "The Road Home". Let me give you the run-down; it's featured on the CKUA Radio Network, Monday through Thursday night, 9:30 to 10:30 (MST), and is hosted by Bob Chelmick, who broadcasts from an off-the-grid solar powered cabin about an hour outside of Edmonton. I'll quote from "The Road Home" page on CKUA's website:

"The Road Home offers a quiet cabin in the woods for listeners to enjoy, a place of refuge and discovery, rife with images that move the mind and the heart through readings, songs and personal ruminations on the country life. Host Bob Chelmick offers poetry, song and reflections on his world of dogs, horses, birds and other wide subjects for a gentle adventure on the road we all share.

The Road Home is inspired from moment to moment and from season to season by the world outside Bob's cabin windows. For Bob, perhaps the best thing about living in the quiet woods, and depending on the forest for heat, the sun for power, and the aquifers for water, is the close connectedness with the natural world. Balance is easier to come by in a natural setting, away from the city.

What goes on around Bob, as mundane as it might seem sometimes, provides all sorts of odd, humourous, even provocative points to talk about. Inside the cabin, books of verse are rich sources of inspiration, elevation, excitation."

A really great program. Bob Chelmick may have the most soothing voice in the world, and I can get behind anyone who has chosen to live in the woods, and off the grid.

ANYWAYS...back to the post title...Bob let his viewers know that he'd give a virtual nickel to the first person to spy the first Robin of Spring. And guess who claimed her virtual nickel AND whose letter was read on the air?

I'm the Teagan B in question!

I'm sure this is not nearly as exciting to any of you as it was to us. Shawn may even have been more excited than I was!

So, you know, turn off your TV for an hour, and tune in to "The Road Home". Listener-supported radio is awesome!

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I saw it first on Whirly Bird!

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The Homestead.

Oh, hi! Come on in!


Super 60's entry way fixture.


Congratulations basket from our real estate agent!


First dinner in the new house- Champagne and pizza.


Our pink fridge.




Minty delicious kitchen. Gas stove!








Living/ dining/ record listening room. Look how grown up it looks! Look how much sun there is!


The pink hall that is REALLY growing on me.






Our amazing coral-tiled bathroom. Wall to wall medicine cabinet and above shower storage!


More bedroom pictures soon...


Back yard! Cherry, spruce and oak tree.


Garage.


More back yard.




My studio!


Laundry room!






Shawn's studio! Look at all that storage!

Oh hi!

So, we moved and stuff...I was going to post some pictures of the new homestead, but have yet to locate the camera cable to transfer photos.

I'll get to it!

Top 10 things I LOVE about our- that's right OUR- new house:

1) Carved oak front door.
2) Bedroom large enough to house bed, night stands and dressers AND allow room for dressing- ALL IN ONE ROOM! Who knew?
3) Light! Glorious, glorious sunlight! In all rooms!
4) Double glazed windows! Drafts are a thing of the past!
5) Mint green kitchen with 1950s fridge. At first, I wasn't 100% sold on the mint. But I love it now. The fridge is completely impractical due its small stature, power suckage (and freon leakage, I'm sure) but the vintage lover in me ADORES it in all its cream and Hollywood pink-ness, and will be sad when we inevitably have to replace it.
6) Finished laundry room! Finished basement! Finished studios!
7) As of today, for the first time in my adult life, a bathroom with an outlet. No more extension cords to dry my hair! I kind of want to buy a curling iron just to celebrate!...and, of course, awesome 60s coral red tiles!
8) The new grown-up living room. Thank-you, Ikea and Ikea Stockholm via parental unit generosity and saved gift certificates!
9) A functional, tidy backyard! THE POSSIBILITY OF A GARDEN!
10) .....and finally, NO MORE LANDLORDS. If we find someone randomly creeping around the backyard, we just call the police!

Goodbye, little rental house! You were our first house, and in spite of your myriad issues (MYRIAD), we did love you a bunch, made you our home, and had some wonderful times.

Now go listen to "Sun in an Empty Room" by the Weakerthans. Close the door. And move on to the new chapter!

HOME OWNERSHIP!

Pictures soon. Ish.

How am I doing?

Appropriate sentiment thanks to Alyson Provax's Time Wasting Experiment.