featuring Connor Mockett
Hello, everyone! Welcome back to another Life with Connor the Weatherman column. This week, instead of some storm chase storytelling, I will provide a big life update from the Mockett household that I’m sure a lot of you already know about.
For those that don’t know, Zoe and I moved back home to Ontario on September 1st! It’s weird but great to be back. We’re excited to have a bigger place, and a place to make our own for the next long while. We moved into our new place on September 1st, which is in St. Albert, Ontario. That’s right, we’re in cheese country!
It was a hard decision to leave Moncton. We actually really enjoyed our time there. We loved our jobs there, the friends we made, and the exploring we did around the city and the province of New Brunswick. We thought we were going to be there for longer than 8 months, that’s for sure. But the factor of family being far away (and being sad when they left after visiting) made both Zoe and I want to come back to Ontario to be closer to family. It was purely a family-based decision when we fully decided it was time to go home.
In our time there, we explored Hopewell Rocks Provincial Park, Bay of Fundy National Park, PEI, and Parlee Beach Provincial Park. If you’re ever going out east for a vacation, I can’t recommend all 4 of those spots enough. My personal favourite was Parlee Beach Provincial Park, it’s one of the most beautiful beaches I’ve been on (not that I’ve been on that many beaches in my years but you get the point!).
The neighborhood we lived in for 8 months was super quiet. We loved our little area. Lots of new families around, always quiet without any issues, and everything you need within a 4 minute drive. It’s definitely a different vibe living out in the country now, but that’s who both Zoe and I are at heart, two country living people and we couldn’t be happier about where we ended up.
On a more professional note, I recently did a meet and greet at the September 14th Bike Night in Winchester in collaboration with WDMH and the fundraiser for the new Dundas Manor. I was excited to meet a bunch of new people from around the region, and to help raise as much money as we could for the Manor.
You will be seeing me back at Winchester Foodland quite often as I’ll be back working in the freezer aisle where a lot of you were accustomed to seeing me before I left last December. I’ll also be at Iroquois Foodland twice a week as well, so if any of you are ever out there, make sure to pay a visit!
Thanks for reading!
