thought i would retire here in the beautiful city of Calgary but i have to move. Calgary is in the Province of Alberta and I am destined for a move to the Province of Ontario approximately 1,500 miles away.
i lost my job in the 2008 recession and have never been able to secure full time employment so i became a stay-at-home-dad raising my 2 girls. with the collapse of the oil and gas industry, my wife was terminated from her job with an international oil and gas player, she was packaged-off at the end of january finally securing employment but in another province.
my wife leaves Calgary with another lady on Wednesday and has a good 4-5 day drive to get to her new home where she will live her lady friend on a 6 month rental lease and will look for a new home for me and our 2 girls(17 & 15). i'll remain in Calgary and close down our home of 26 years.
it saddens me as i have my house and yard just the way i like it, fruit trees, berry bushes, raised garden beds and a home made greenhouse and knowing i had to learn to grow product in a zone 3a. my girls will have to give up their friends and my oldest her new part-time job.
i will lose my yard and my mountains(i am situated at the base of the Rocky Mountains). we don't get a lot of snow compared to other parts of Canada but we do get really, really cold weather in the winter which tends to start in november and ends in may.
on the bright side, i am moving to a zone 6a, so growing peppers should be a breeze and i will be eating tomatoes in july and not have to wait until september. lake huron is minutes away and the area is classified as cottage country and beaches every few miles, so a sailboat will be a must have. i am leaving a city of 1.3 million people to a city with a population of 12,000. I am familiar with the area as my parents had a farm in the area that my sister and her husband worked. when i was 14 & 15 i worked on a pig farm and fished the area. family will be 3-4 hours away by car instead of several by air when you add in airport wait times. costco is over an hour away so that should curb the wife's shopping habit!
my stay-at-home status is going to be upgraded to employed as the company my wife will be working for has some 700 unfilled jobs with a target need of almost 20,000 people over the span of 20 - 30 years worth of projects. her new boss said when she gets there they will work on how i may fit into their corporation and tailor a job position - my computer science background should come in handy, plus 30 years ago i developed 3 different systems for this company. not sure i can get back into the 8-5 routine....that is their company policy, no one can work after hours without written consent.
once our current house has been renovated and sold the girls and I, with doggy and kitty will be on a plane and say good-bye to a quarter of a century of love and will forward to our next quarter century and into retirement.
that's my story.
i lost my job in the 2008 recession and have never been able to secure full time employment so i became a stay-at-home-dad raising my 2 girls. with the collapse of the oil and gas industry, my wife was terminated from her job with an international oil and gas player, she was packaged-off at the end of january finally securing employment but in another province.
my wife leaves Calgary with another lady on Wednesday and has a good 4-5 day drive to get to her new home where she will live her lady friend on a 6 month rental lease and will look for a new home for me and our 2 girls(17 & 15). i'll remain in Calgary and close down our home of 26 years.
it saddens me as i have my house and yard just the way i like it, fruit trees, berry bushes, raised garden beds and a home made greenhouse and knowing i had to learn to grow product in a zone 3a. my girls will have to give up their friends and my oldest her new part-time job.
i will lose my yard and my mountains(i am situated at the base of the Rocky Mountains). we don't get a lot of snow compared to other parts of Canada but we do get really, really cold weather in the winter which tends to start in november and ends in may.
on the bright side, i am moving to a zone 6a, so growing peppers should be a breeze and i will be eating tomatoes in july and not have to wait until september. lake huron is minutes away and the area is classified as cottage country and beaches every few miles, so a sailboat will be a must have. i am leaving a city of 1.3 million people to a city with a population of 12,000. I am familiar with the area as my parents had a farm in the area that my sister and her husband worked. when i was 14 & 15 i worked on a pig farm and fished the area. family will be 3-4 hours away by car instead of several by air when you add in airport wait times. costco is over an hour away so that should curb the wife's shopping habit!
my stay-at-home status is going to be upgraded to employed as the company my wife will be working for has some 700 unfilled jobs with a target need of almost 20,000 people over the span of 20 - 30 years worth of projects. her new boss said when she gets there they will work on how i may fit into their corporation and tailor a job position - my computer science background should come in handy, plus 30 years ago i developed 3 different systems for this company. not sure i can get back into the 8-5 routine....that is their company policy, no one can work after hours without written consent.
once our current house has been renovated and sold the girls and I, with doggy and kitty will be on a plane and say good-bye to a quarter of a century of love and will forward to our next quarter century and into retirement.
that's my story.
