A little beauty: our front lawn in fall

That is, in autumn.

I am still a little amazed that we have a front lawn.

What we need now, clearly, is a rake.

PR

Hallelujah. We've been approved for permanent residency. We still have to cross the border and come back in to 'activate' our status ('flagpoling', the lawyer called it),but supposedly all the hard work is done and we have been accepted by the Canadian immigration authority. We're all set, until it's time to apply for citizenship, or to renew our PR status. In Canadian immigration law, 'permanent' doesn't actually mean permanent, apparently.

This is really great news. I know that. I'm happy and relieved.

It's just that along with buying a house, and having that recent unsettling sense of feeling settled, it is hitting home that Toronto is, in fact, home.

Guess we had better get our hearth fixed. We'll need it.