On Sunday it was sunny and warm so we went out for our first exploratory cruise around the harbour. No mishaps unless you count Buddy almost drowning! Shortly after we left the marina, Bud was walking around the outside deck of the boat, which he usually does, but lost his footing when he tried to [...]

Well, today was the first day back at work for me. it was interesting how it really felt like I was back at the office when I was buried in email for hours at a time. I managed to step out for 15 minutes for a short walk at lunchtime though, and came across a [...]

Can’t believe we’ve lived here for 11 days already! It’s been A LOT of work but our house is almost a home…most of the unpacking is done…just our offices and the garage to work on, now. Poor Allan–this is supposed to be his vacation and every time he turns around I’m asking him to hang [...]

Well, the furniture arrived today, and now we’re officially ‘moved in’.  The movers didn’t arrive until just before noon, so we had the morning to drink some coffee on the deck, and explore the neighbourhood.  It was a bit chilly in the morning, and we didn’t bring our jackets with us, so we drove around [...]

Today was moving day, and we made it!  Here we are sitting on our deck at 9pm, looking out over the water, watching the  orange light of the setting sun light up the opposite shore of Pender Harbour, and seeing the moon rise in the south-east sky.

Well, we’ve been busy the last few weeks slowly packing our home up, and we’re almost there. Shelley has done an amazing job keeping things organized and making sure we don’t forget all of those little things, like change of addresses, etc. This weekend we’ve stepped things up another notch and have been working like [...]

Welcome to our new website! As part of our move to Pender Harbour, we needed to get new personal email addresses, so we figured it was time to just get a domain name and email addresses to go with it.  Please note that someone already beat us to allanandshelley.com (we have no idea who they [...]