Today marks exactly two weeks since the commencement of my new job! Two weeks ago I started working for People's Jewellers in the local mall as a cashier/sales associate-type position. I really love it and it's lots of fun. The customers are a lot easier to deal with than in a supermarket (interesting when they're spending so much more money!!) and the whole team is very family-ish. We're a close-knit bunch and everyone likes everyone else and stands up for each other which is quite refreshing after the politics of a certain supermarket I will refrain from naming ;) So I am now officially saving up for the next visit to Australia!
My bagpipe lessons are going well. Glenn says I'm well ahead of all the other students he's ever taught in his years of being the band quartermaster. Looks like maybe it won't be the full year to two years before I get to graduate to the actual pipes instead of just the practice chanter.
We had our first 'snowfall' yesterday morning. Only enough to dust the ground and make it pretty and then it melted as soon as the sun came up. We did milk testing and had 2 visiting Malaysian government veterinarians come and check it out. They were pretty excited to hear I have a cousin from Malaysia.
I'm currently working hard on a video for a competition called Farm Flicks, about Canadian agriculture. Organic Meadow, the Christian organic co-operative we supply, is partnering with me to give me the soundtrack from their new music video promo, free O.M. tshirts, you name it...if my video is approved, Farm Flicks will post it on YouTube and the winner will be based on which video in the comp. receives the most views between Dec. 10 and Dec. 30. So I'll post on here if and when it's on YouTube and try to get some more hits!
If you have a spare 2 minutes and 32 seconds, go to YouTube and look up Clean Living and Organic Farming ~ Country Music Video. That's our latest excitement here in Ontario's organic sector. All the people appearing in the clip are Organic Meadow board members and Organic Meadow farmers and members. The guy playing the guitar and singing the song is our CEO and his son, Ted Zettel Jr., wrote and composed the song itself. We got an up-and-coming company from just outside of Toronto to film it for virtually nothing, they just wanted the experience and to get a name up for themselves and they seem to have done a great job.
Combining the corn is very nearly finished--now we just have to race to get everything disced, cultivated, ploughed, and possibly roto-tilled before the snow and the frozen ground really hits us...
