Now that the 4 boys and I are settled in at school, it is time for Howard to head back to reality too! Our family and the Conlan family have done a TRUE exchange! Vince and I have traded schools, we have all traded farms and Howard has now begun working for the same company that Mary works for...Ningana Enterprises...NEI.
During our first week of school, Howard met some of his coworkers and toured their facilities. They are a government agency that employs clients with disabilities. They have a farm and a wine bottle labelling facility. They are trying to build an organic strawberry farm and are two years away from achieving that status. (I am still learning about their company so will add more as I learn more.) Howard's role will be to act as a general labourer/farm hand/mechanic.
My man began working full time for NEI on Monday, February 6. That day was pretty easy as he completed more paperwork, opened an Aussie bank account, bought new work boots, had a breakfast meeting and picked up his work ute! (The tires are a lot smaller than the big white ATCO Pipelines truck but we don't seem to have the need for them here!)
Tuesday and today have seen reality set in! Howard gets up at 5:00 am and is out of the house by 5:30 am. He works from 6:00 am to 3:00 pm then drives to the school to meet the boys and I at 3:15 pm. During these past 2 days Howard has picked very pokey weeds from the potatoe patch for 6 hours, fed the pigs, picked up sheep from a farm, labelled wine bottles, dug potatoes until there was a breakdown, ripped apart the broken machine, delivered broken parts to the welder, picked up new potatoe seeds, visited for 20 minutes with the police officers that pulled him over (checking that his potatoe seed load was secure - it was!), met all the employees and clients at another meeting, talked about Canada and explained to them where Mary is, labelled more bottles...etc. I am sure I've forgotten something! It was a busy and entertaining 2 days for sure!
The house is very quiet in the evenings now because all 5 of my men are in bed before 10 pm. (If I knew what was good for me, I would be too!) NEI will be a great company to work for and they have been very generous to us with Howard's wage, paid holiday time, vehicle, school holidaytime off, etc. We appreciate Mary setting that up for us! Thanks, Mary! Again, I'll add more pictures when we get a tour of "Daddy's work".
During our first week of school, Howard met some of his coworkers and toured their facilities. They are a government agency that employs clients with disabilities. They have a farm and a wine bottle labelling facility. They are trying to build an organic strawberry farm and are two years away from achieving that status. (I am still learning about their company so will add more as I learn more.) Howard's role will be to act as a general labourer/farm hand/mechanic.
My man began working full time for NEI on Monday, February 6. That day was pretty easy as he completed more paperwork, opened an Aussie bank account, bought new work boots, had a breakfast meeting and picked up his work ute! (The tires are a lot smaller than the big white ATCO Pipelines truck but we don't seem to have the need for them here!)
Tuesday and today have seen reality set in! Howard gets up at 5:00 am and is out of the house by 5:30 am. He works from 6:00 am to 3:00 pm then drives to the school to meet the boys and I at 3:15 pm. During these past 2 days Howard has picked very pokey weeds from the potatoe patch for 6 hours, fed the pigs, picked up sheep from a farm, labelled wine bottles, dug potatoes until there was a breakdown, ripped apart the broken machine, delivered broken parts to the welder, picked up new potatoe seeds, visited for 20 minutes with the police officers that pulled him over (checking that his potatoe seed load was secure - it was!), met all the employees and clients at another meeting, talked about Canada and explained to them where Mary is, labelled more bottles...etc. I am sure I've forgotten something! It was a busy and entertaining 2 days for sure!
The house is very quiet in the evenings now because all 5 of my men are in bed before 10 pm. (If I knew what was good for me, I would be too!) NEI will be a great company to work for and they have been very generous to us with Howard's wage, paid holiday time, vehicle, school holidaytime off, etc. We appreciate Mary setting that up for us! Thanks, Mary! Again, I'll add more pictures when we get a tour of "Daddy's work".
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