September's been a very busy month, but it's almost done. We've had lovely weather for the most part, and a lot of social and choral activities on the calendar.

Exultate fired up again with the wedding of one of our members, Brent Fifield, and with our participation in the Colours of Music Festival in Barrie. The Barrie Examiner had a full-page article with massive colour photo of the choir on the front page of their Entertainment section last Friday, which, though rife with errors, was still quite a coup. We had an excellent and very appreciative audience, and donated four $500 scholarships to students for their vocal studies.

Anne and I have just joined the Pax Christi Chorale, Stephanie Martin's ongoing Mennonite community choir, who have two concerts a year. It's a bit far to roam to get up to their rehearsals, and the choir's bigger than either of us prefer, but it's great to be singing with Anne and for Stephanie again. We're started working on some very good music for the Christmas concert -- Vaughan Williams, Finzi and Britten.

On Sunday we biked down to the docklands to cheer on our friend Molly McCarron as she completed her first full marathon. Molly's been a serious runner for several years now, and it was great to see her accomplish this milestone. Anne took some pictures which I'll try to get up on the site shortly.

My work has been pretty busy as well, with two part-time contracts under way at the moment. I've been getting quite a few calls and have been trying to develop a network to reach out to. Now that the company has some significant money in the bank, I'm going through the process of setting up payroll and actually paying myself for the first time in almost a year!
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