Holidays-are almost over

Well it's 22 days and counting, one more day and we've got to head back to work for a few more weeks.

We bought a training collar to teach the dog not to bark. He woofs at the slightest sounds and it can be quite starteling, not to mention annoying. This collar will beep a warning sound if he makes too lound a noise or shakes too hard. If he keeps it up within 30seconds of the warning beep, he gets a level 1 shock, there are 6 levels total. The shock is the same as you'd get sticking your tounge on a battery....I know because I accidentally zapped myself with the collar. If there is some type of true emergency that keeps him barking, it also has a fail safe and will automatically shut off for 3minutes. He yapped once when we 1st put the collar on him, he definatly does not like it....but he has easily shown better behavior and reduced barking since we've been using it for the past two weeks.

We spent the 1st week of our vacation with some more unpacking from the move. The 2nd week saw us travel to St John, NB for Christmas with family. The 3rd week sees us enjoying the New Year and finally getting ready to head back to work next week.

We took or vacation to Cape Breton last august, between work the move and everything it has taken us until middle December to get the photos developed finally. Not all of them did not turn out very well since they did not rewind back into their canasters properly and some of the film was exposed. Still we have some nice shots to go with the memories.

Well, my current contract goes up to the end of March and then I'm not sure what we are looking at. This means for now, I have 10 more courses to teach and then look for an extension to this contract or a new contract. Either way, we are happy to move on or stay if needed.

Enjoy!