Moving house,moving lives

First of all I'd like so start by apologizing, our blogs recently have been quite tardy, there is no good excuse so I'd like to summarize the last couple of weeks in this one Blog.

It has been a hectic two weeks, we have moved from living on Silver Star Mountain near Vernon to living in Salmon Arm where Kyran is working in Engineering and I am being a top notch house wife!

To start with here are some of the things that I have created recently. On the bottom left is a matching mother and baby set of head warmers I initially mad the baby one then decided that I wanted one so I made one in adult size. The middle one is my first attempt at a mutant Minion - lets just say the eyes and the teeth were challenging and I'll probably still change it a bit. The head warmer on the right is a Hello Kitty one that was requested by a friend so that one will be posted out to her shortly.

The items below are all baby sized for friends and family that are expecting.
 

Ok now that is out of the way we can move on with what we have actually been up to more specifically!

 

We had to hire a car over two weekends, firstly in order to inspect a place that we were looking at staying, and then the following weekend in order to move everything from the Mountain home to the new home in the sleepy valley town known as Salmon Arm. 

This photo is a quick outside photo of the place that we are staying in. 
It is a granny flat type of studio on the bottom side of a much larger house. The landlady is really nice and she has done some great DIY renovations to her house and this little studio!






This is a photo of Kyran getting to know the neighbours.
This is one grumpy cat!
you can only pat its ears and sometimes it will just bite you for fun, but it seems to have made an ally in Kyran, so it gets to come in side and sleep on the bed some mornings.

This photo was taken from the bed area, with my man-slave in the kitchen cooking me an awesome stir fry.

 
The above photos and the photo to the right are of some of the dishes and things and I have been making during my time as a house wife. 
So to all the family out there who are reading this, I am looking after my husband and he's not going to fade away to nothing any time soon!








 

This next bit of the blogs will be brought to you by Kyran as he walks you through his new job and everything it entails. 

 I have an exciting 20 minute walk to work each day, and huge hill to walk back up after work in the evening. I work from 8am till 5:30pm, with an undefined and often violated break period somewhere in the middle!

I work with 3 others (software engineers and a mechatronics internship student) and the boss. 

I have been working for 2 weeks now, as of 13th Feb. My role is "do everything and fix everything" engineer, but I think i'm officially supposed to be a product development engineer. I work with lasers and cameras mostly at the moment, for laser-triangulation range-finding applications. We have lots of cool projects so i'm sure i'll be busy!

The weather has been getting above freezing for the last week, so my walks to walk have been getting easier with less snow and ice now, it's basically a mud track through the little forest now.

My workplace is really nice, the people are great and the boss looks after us kids. There is a coffee espresso machine for that early morning pick-me-up, and he provides fig bars and various healthy fruit/vegetable based canned drinks.

I am itching to get into more circuit design and PCB design work, some of which is currently being contracted out but may be brought back in-house (due to my skills now being available!) so that would be good! That's it for work!

Above and left: Some extra-frosty ice crystals on the crap quality roads, taken up on Silver Star mountain on our last weekend there.  

Above and right: Merc and I going for a stroll to the middle of town to do some shopping, on our weekend after moving in.

 Merc found a cool treehouse while she was walking to town the other day, and took a picture. Would be fun to be that kid!


Living in an alpine environment is not all fun and games, sometimes you have to shovel snow!

And finally, i'll leave you with a picture of a strange bird that I found, while chasing a moose.

Yep, a moose. A juvenile moose ran past our front door the other day and I scrambled to go take a picture of it, but it had gone too far up into the bushes/trees up behind/beside our studio (and it was cold, I was in my PJs). So I turned around and I see this crazy bird! It honked at me and ran away lol.

Thanks for reading! This has been another Bloggerization of reality by the Findlaters!