Getting settled in

We've got a small bachelor apartment sized Airbnb for a month here in Ottawa. It's actually set up really nicely, but it's still pricey for what you get. Welcome to Canada, I suppose.

We're paying $1,850 CAD ($1,340 USD) for the month.

It was all about the horses...

This is one of the rare posts from me, Ruth! While Kevin was having a fun time with his friends in Newfoundland, I made my way from Halifax, Nova Scotia to Hamilton, Ontario to visit with my younger sister, Lesley.

We're back!

I think that's the longest blog break in many, many years!

I went to Newfoundland with my buddies for four nights, and Ruth has been with her sister in Hamilton, Ontario. Neither one of us felt the desire to write a blog post... so we didn't!

August Expenses... no real surprises

We had a budget of $3,300 CAD ($2,380 USD) for the month of August, and the total came in at $3,375 CAD ($2,430 USD).

So that's not bad. I always make the budget pretty conservative to give us something to strive towards, so we're almost always over by varying amounts, but this one was particularly close.