We are homeless no longer!! Yesterday afternoon we removed the final subjects on our purchase, and in early September, we will be tax-paying Calgarians.

Having spent so much of our early time in this city’s downtown, I must admit that I will miss much of that area. Calgary has a robust yet attractive downtown, with loads of greenspace to wander through.

Our home is a little further away than that. Leaving downtown you pass the suburbs, then more suburbs. We are about the third suburb away from downtown, and there are still a couple more suburbs past our own new neighborhood. Calgary does tend to sprawl…

So that is our tradeoff – The Burbs versus The Bustle. Instead of walking hurriedly with our Grandly Frapping Cocco-cinnos among skyscrapers, we will be ambling along sidewalks in our Dockers’ flip-flops, while marveling at the texture of freshly-fertilized lawns. Our dog Tunamelt will be trained to not only clean up after himself, but he will also immediately compost his by-product once we return home – for our backyard organic herb garden.

I may take to smoking a pipe again…

This is good, looking forward to taking possession of a home. We will get to put our own signature on the place, and find out once and for all if purple goes with yellow in our family room.

More tomorrow. We have discovered that there is an IKEA here.

Yadda, dabba, and do….

Chow for now!!