October was another ZOOM ZOOM ZOOM month.
Here are my October highlights:
🎃 I had a great weekend in Toronto for the Ontario University Fair, which also featured a birthday BBQ for friends in a very cozy backyard.
🎃 There was Fall Convocation. I am sucker for convocation. Just love seeing all the students and their families.
🎃 Another weekend was the Billy Bragg concert + Three Thanksgivings! Three! Family Thanksgiving at the farm, Friendsgiving in Toronto, and then Guelph Thanksgiving with the kids and my friend Mariam who is visiting as a Fulbright Fellow.
🎃 Another weekend was canoe camping in Algonquin Park. So good to see that it was worth going up for a night. It was beautiful, sunny, and warm. And we got to visit my son at Bartlett Lodge where he’s been working for the summer on his last weekend before they close up for the season.
🎃My mum and I flew to Nova Scotia last weekend to visit a friend of hers who is ill, and to take my father’s ashes home to Nova Scotia. A sad but meaningful weekend and it felt good to have accomplished our mission.
🎃Oh, also new glasses! Everything is sharp and clear again.
It’s a busy month!
What about the things I’m counting? I ended October with 338 workouts. Aiming for 400 in 2024. Might be doable.
And books read. I’m at 23/25. Will easily make my goal this year.
And then there’s weather which was both stunning and terrifying.
Happy Halloween!
