February 11, 2012

So that was May of 2010 - a great trip to BC and then we came back to sort stuff.

The garden centre we had looked at in May sold - but not to us.  We just loved Powell River though and we were told that the buyer of the garden centre would not be running it as a garden centre.  So we looked around for another property and found a great site.  One with two houses, one a good size and the other tiny.  Perfect for a store.  WIth 2 and a half acres there was lots of room.  The pictures were charming (of the outside, the inside was a little wierd) so we went ahead put in an offer and I inspected at the end of June.


Here it the ourside of the house

And part of the inside

But the little house we now use for the store is adorable

The 'To Be" Store

In all of this of course there was still the ongoing things of life.  Our two girls were finishing their school year - grades 8 and 9 and they did just fine.  More power to them; they really are great people.

At the time I was working full time for a government department.  High stress and getting pretty hard to take.  You can only be a beurocrat for so long before it either wears you down emotionally or you develop "I don't care" sheilds.  I find it really hard to take the "I don't care" approach and I had been at it for years.  My husband was managing our seed business and the farm on his own.

So we worked up to what we agree was the worst day of our lives.  Moving day.