A day in the life

ahhh... the life

Libra-T — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 01:00:11 GMT

well, we missed 80 cm of snow while we were in cuba. about 80 more fell the week we got back, then the next week the same thing.... the only thing to keep us sane was... yup... the hot tub!

al loves snow

Libra-T — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:55:32 GMT

man... what can ya say to this, snow everywhere. the cat could not even get around

cuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuba

Libra-T — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:51:43 GMT

wow - we went to brisa in santigo de cuba! it was absolutely awesome. super cheap, super clean, super relaxing, many many hours by the pool bar, good food and some fun friends. cuba does not have the animals of costa rica, but it certainly is a great place to visit. because we were in an out of the way resort, we did not have to deal with any touristy type stuff. we just enjoyed the beautiful beach, water, sun, mountains and relaxed!

roller Derby

Libra-T — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 00:02:46 GMT

Eric, Dave, Nate and I set off to watch Bev (Mz Immoral) and June (Honey Knuckles) at RollerDerby. It was SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much fun!

Pride Parade

Libra-T — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 00:01:07 GMT

The pride parade was very community orientated this year. Lots of people and families strutting their stuff. There were 350,000 people on the beach for the celebrations, plus 450,000 at night for the fireworks!

Illuminaries

Libra-T — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 23:58:36 GMT

On Saturday night we all went to Illuminaires at Trout Lake. My perfect event.... everyone wears glow sticks!!!!!! We wandered around with Todd, Christa, Robin, Eric, Dave and me and Ian. May people had made lanterns or light "constructions!

Waterton

Libra-T — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 23:56:18 GMT

We went to Waterton, on the Alberta/BC/USA(Montana) boarder for Lorraine and Laurence's wedding! The whole town was beautiful and it was fun to spend time with family and friends.

Wow red sunflowers!

Libra-T — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 19:22:01 GMT

the garden is going crazy - and now i wish they plants were smaller (sigh) out of 2 and 1/2 packages of sunflowerplants, only 4 grew, but they are awesome!

father's day 2007 and 40th anniversay

Libra-T — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 19:20:01 GMT

for fathers day and chuck and linda's 40th we went to the cottage with jenny. we gave chuck a gorilla camera thing - very cool - and planted an apple tree - named ruby.

dragon 2007

Libra-T — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 19:16:07 GMT

This year was just as fun as before! we had 2 teams again. i very excited that ian joined me this year - as did becca, harpreet and tim! we certainly did not have any stellar times, but that's not what it's all about!

what could be better

Libra-T — Mon, 14 May 2007 23:14:03 GMT

monday night - pre-rain... the sens play in a few minutes... here we are in the backyard... is it green or what! laundry is flapping in the wind, the cat is ignoring us and ian is fiddling with his bike, i'm hanging out - life is good!

Mothers Day at the Cottage 2007

Libra-T — Mon, 14 May 2007 23:10:17 GMT

Sunday afternoon Ian and I booted it down to the cottage for Mother's day. Yesterday I went to the environmental energy and transportation show, so Linda was "blessed" with many enviromental gifts! Plus.... the best thing ever - the waspinator - with a name like that, i must have one ah ha ha ha ha ha

our own tulip festival

Libra-T — Tue, 08 May 2007 01:26:05 GMT

wow did we score or what! look at all the tulips

our house, in the middle of our street

Libra-T — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 14:36:21 GMT

our castle... looking very springy...

rumplestilskin

Libra-T — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 14:34:36 GMT

Al has decided that the wishing well is his new favorite perch (du jour). This is cool, except it's full of dirt, so when he comes in to cuddle, he brings much of the garden in with him! so i bought him a carpet for his "castle" ahhhh his first piece of "furniture" in his new home. The good news - a clean kitty, the bad news - all those pretty flowers that grew in the well last year won't like it

my first garden!

Libra-T — Sun, 22 Apr 2007 14:31:45 GMT

update.... it's growing!!! LOOK!! so... we officially own land in canada, so we've decided to return to our farming roots. So far the garden has: ** lettuce **onions **radishes ** peas (x2) ** red onions ** carrots (*2) ** snow peas (for ian) rasperries and blueberries, plus hopefully the root we couldn't dig our it is a volunteer yellow tomato from last year. There is a whole other section of garden like the one is this picture. If i have enough energy today i'll rake it and plant corn and sunflowers. (yup i planted the corn, sunflowers and cucumber and pumpkins) it will also leave space for second planting of stuff we eat lot of! Go farmers!

snow is gone and strange new plants are growing in the yard

Libra-T — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 01:03:57 GMT

now that the snow is gone, we're discovering exciting new plants all over our yard. It seems the old owners planted lots and lots of tulips! yayayayay! we've got our Korms (from Todd and Christa), some roses that survived under hats, some rhubarb (from Linda) and many other surprises! we've also go four of these strange things that have "sprouted" in the yard.... if you don't recognize them, they are bike ramps...?!? Sitting strategically in between the ramps is my green house. If all goes well, we'll have tomatos (red this year), cuc's, pumkins and sweet peas (flowers) growing out of the greenhouse!

Off to Central Alberta

Libra-T — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 01:01:15 GMT

Grandma S had us over for some chicken and treats on the farm! Mom and Dad, freshly home from costa rica, stopped in and we met Wilbert and Kelly. Shirley was working so couldn't join us... Byron and Edith met us in Red Deer. They're preparing for their big house move. Wilbert was preparing for wrist surgery, which should make life much happier! Mom and Dad dropped me at the bus to be picked up at the other end by Grandpa and Grandma.

Cousins in Calgary

Libra-T — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 00:57:37 GMT

To continue my cross canada trek i hung out with jackie, nicole, ron, emma and tessa! We had a short, but sweet visit! By the time i got to calgary I was pretty wiped out from 2 weeks of school and visiting, but Nicole and Ron served and awesome lasgne and we caught up on all the news!

Jan's church on the prarie...

Libra-T — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 00:55:19 GMT

On the weekend - i went to Saskatoon and was hosted and toasted royally by cousin's Tyler and Rachelle (and baby Arielle) and at the Wist family home. Margaret took me on a tour of the Deifenbaker museum and all in all the Sasktoon crew spoiled me. This is a picture of Jan's anglican church. We saw her give the service (what a treat) and then had a big (?) potluck after ... yum yum lemon pie.

Culture in Regina

Libra-T — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 00:52:23 GMT

I spend 2 weeks in Regina, at Service Canada College, learning how to put Citizens First. It was a pretty good course, where I learned that my dominant color energy is Red. I also took a 2 hr tour of Regina (who knew...) This picture is the aboriginal college with only native teachers. The glass TP at the center is a chapel and the design is environmentally friendly offering shade in the summer and facing the sun in the winter. Each floor is painted white with symbolic trim (red, green, blue, yellow - earth, plants, sky, sun). Regina also has the larger man made inner city lake in the country and a lot of ghosts... and of course - Corner GAS!

a weekend in Toronto

Libra-T — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 00:48:14 GMT

in march we went to toronto for a cousins trip/concert! Ian, Marty, Tim and I met up with Doug and Chantal, Rob and Jayne for some proper hospitality at Doug and Chantal's newly sold house! They're last blast in the burb's with us! Then the next night we had delux accommodations (thanks jo/darren) and stayed at the delta chelsea with the roof top pool! johanna met up with us for the Clutch concert. For my send off to Regina, Jenny and I shopped til we dropped (Bond Girl Boots!) fun fun fun!

break out the beads!

Libra-T — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 02:54:23 GMT

Happy mardi gras and shove tuesday (albeit a week late)!!! Ian and I hosted a potluck pancake dinner! We had potatoes, huevos rancheos, beans, bacon, dessert, waffles, crepes, sausages, fruit, rubarb topped of with mimosa's and lots of fun! Tim, Vic, Colleen, Andree, Eric, Chris, Amanda, Al, Jenny, Harpeet, Stacey helped us celebrate! mardi gras is the eve of an important religious event, but in our case - it was the eve of baby Den TC 's identification.... he's gonna be a BOY!

What a babe!

Libra-T — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 22:32:28 GMT

To celebrate Chinese new year, we all got together and played ma jong at Chris Li's! It was lots of fun and i actually learned a bit about the rules and scoring. Later Sara, Colleen and I went to Mac makeup for a barbie makeover! Now check me out! who would have guessed that the elusive secret to beautiful was less-than-real lashes? Definitely an experience to repeat... maybe as an easter treat! my stylist was Jennifer and she was pretty awesome!

Winterlewd!

Libra-T — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 22:29:18 GMT

Tim, Ian and I went skating in the -30 to celebrate Winterlude! We made it 1.5 km down to the first beavertail and hot cocoa place and then hightailed it back. The whole rink is over 7 km... but i'm waiting for just the perfect weather for that...