We Could All Use a Little Change

Since we left Wisconsin on May 1st we have had a lot of changes in our life.

We stayed at Argentia Sunset Park for 5 weeks while house hunting, relieved to get a spot since the park was technically full.  With all the work going on in Argentia the park is full of workers living in their RV's.  Not the best news for travelers coming off the ferry, but great for the area economy that jobs are plentiful.

Argentia hospital, probably the 1950's according to my father

We got to know the staff really well, and Loren even dug out a photo of the old Argentia hospital for me.  That's where I was born!  Many of the pregnant women on base were sent to St. John's to have their babies, so I feel pretty lucky to have been born in the town where my mother's family lived before the Americans built the Naval base during World War II.

Our boat parked in front of Wayne's mother's house in Placentia

Before we even had an offer in on a house we picked up the boat Wayne had ordered.

Nephew Tom's puppy was sometimes hard to coax

There are options for boat storage and boat slips here, but Wayne decided to use his father's old mooring out in the Northeast Arm.  That means you have to row out to the boat on its anchor though.

Ready to row

Every time someone would ask about his boat he was proud to say it was moored where his father used to keep his own boat.  It didn't take us long to come up with a name - Nomad!

The Nomad at anchor

Once cod season began Wayne and his brothers had no trouble hauling in their daily limit of fish.

Wayne's brother Harold 

But lobsters were bought, not caught, for $6 a pound!

Lobster season is short in Newfoundland though.  That's okay, we can go out on our Quad instead...

...Or go shopping in St. John's...

M y favorite Newfie slang

...Or volunteer as a leader with local youth.  I'm going to be a Girl Guider!

Marching in the Canada Day Parade

It's been fun meeting people in the community, and after we were in our house we even ran into our realtor at the Canada Day Fireworks.

We were thrilled when we found out that two of our neighbors are sisters to Wayne's brother Tom's wife.  Not everyone has their next door neighbor be "almost related" and get invited to raid their rhubarb patch and greenhouse.  Next year when ours is up and running we plan to plant some things they don't have so we can reciprocate!

Argentia sunset over Red Island

We don't see as many sunsets since we left Argentia; that's the one thing I miss since we moved from Argentia to Southeast Placentia.  

Moon over the RV

And one of those Argentia nights at the campground I successfully photographed a moon for the first time ever.

As the Barenaked Ladies song says, We could all use a little change.  And the change to move here has been the right one for us.  I'll get around to talking about the health care system here and financial comparisons one of these days, but for now I'll just say that any changes there have been wonderful as well!