HONK! (fixed it!)

1)In this scene, Laura played a goose. The geese tried to help return the ugly duckling back to his home, but the evil cat foiled their rescue! Laura is the one with the scarf and aviator hat (aka, in the second row, 4th from the right).


2) Here's Laura and Dad in the lobby.


3)Here is our little chicken in the glorious world of the backstage dressing room.

She did a great job!

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Reporters to the Left of Me, Reporters to the Right!

As I stood in line for a bowl of soup in the food court of our building, Paul Hunter and Eric Sorrensen got in line behind me and chatted about the whole David Emerson fiasco.

Pop Tart Mattress

My mattress arrived in a cardboard box that was no where near to the size needed to hold a double mattress. An hour or two after I had cut it free from it's plastic prison it was close to full size, easily 12" thick and very comfortable.

this ones for Mitch

We have a customer that come in just about everyday, she has a little son who is about 7 and can't get enough of Starwars! He has all tha toys and really enjoys bringing them by the shop to show me. His family went on a little vacation to Disneyland and there they have a MAJOR Starwars theme area?(is that what you call it) Anyway this little guy was just dynig to show me some of the stuff he bought! These are little M&M guys dressed as Starwars figures, theres even a Darth Maul!

An icicle that defies gravity!??

This thing is crazy! The rain spout come 2 feet from the wall and the bottom of the icicle almost touches the wall, but not quite! Just another crazy Pass siting!

Jessica's latest knitting project

This is one of my soon to be matching pair of Super Bad skully mitts. I'm totally excited!

Todays weather in the Pass

These shots were taken just a few minutes ago! This snow is after we had 48 hours of t-shirt weather and RAIN!!! Over night it turned to what you see and has been doing it all day!

Nice Winter pic's for Mitch

These shots were taken after we got about 18 inches in 24 hours! Made it look like Christmas should have been.

The Honourable Members of the House

Olympic Beavers

If you want to see the web site for these two beavers, Frank and Gordon, Google

www.frankandgordon.ca

They are jealous that a groundhog has a special day and they don't and they want you to do something about it. You can also get lots of Bell stuff on their site, too.

Olympics

The weather here is great and where are we most of the time....glued to the Olympics. Well, Dad isn't quite as much as I am.

I thought about staying up for the 2:30 a.m. coverage last night but at midnight, changed my mind. Not quite THAT dedicated!!

Back to the Olympics!!

Single Again

I'm on my own again. Rebeca decided she did not wish to be with me any longer and has moved on.

Happy Birthday, Mitchell

Greetings on your birthday!!! Are you going to Winterlude to celebrate? Never mind lugging your skates along this year. Eat a Beaver Tail for us while you're there. Wear something outlandish so when we watch the news from Ottawa tonight, we'll spot you in the crowd. Better yet....go to Speaker's Corner. We only come across that in a hit or miss fashion so it would be dumb luck if we happened to tune it in at the right time. Anyway you do it, have a happy one. I suppose Rebeca is working so when will you celebrate or did you do something special ahead of today?

Have lots more birthdays to enjoy in the years ahead!! xxxx Dad and Mom

Reno'd cupboards under espresso machine

This is what two hard working people choose to do with their day off! It's not to bad a job either, i don't think the pictures do it justice though. It only took us about 4 hours to do the painting and i made the handles out of old Silver forks about 3 or 4 days before we painted. The old white paint was looking quite grubby and no amount of scrubbing would get them clean. so this is what we came up with!

Any tax consultants lurking out there?

So we met with our landlords yesterday re: advancing the end of our lease and getting started on the sale/purchase of the building. It didn't go well. Since they sold a property in AZ in the 2005-2006 (July to July) tax year, their tax consultant has told them to hold off selling our building. He told them they'd likely pay close to $70 000 in tax and it wouldn't be worth their while to sell until next year. ARRGH! It's so frustrating!

We've asked them to seek out a second opinion, and as they genuinely seem to want to sell to us, they are going to find out from another source if that's the best route to take. What I'm wondering is, should we find out as well from a tax consultant, if this is the real scoop? We don't have all of their background & tax details, but there has to be some creative solution to buying the building without the title changing hands until next year. Some kind of deferred thing? Like we are making mortgage payments to them, but the building wouldn't 'officially' be ours until 2007, or something?

They said we didn't have to feel pressured to stay after our lease is up, if we wanted to look elsewhere, they wouldn't hold us to anything...we dont' want to go anywhere!!! They did assure us that they wouldn't sell to anyone else as long as we were interested, even though they told us a realtor we may have trusted had offered to buy it from them. Scumbag! We have 5 realtors next door and I'm pretty sure I know which one it was.

Anyway, any guidance here would be much appreciated. Any creative financial solutions out there? Where could we go to find some other purchasing options? There has to be a way around this.

Brush With Fame

Yesterday as I walked up O'Connor Street towards Parliament Hill to catch my bus home Joe Clark walked by. I was looking at him to make sure it was indeed him and he looked at me, smiled and said "Hi".

MOM!

Stop deleting your posts!!!

awwww!

Aren't they lovely?
I don't know how to rotate the picture, which is unfortunate!!

This is Mom and Dad before the big work party. Daddy isn't looking at the camera because he says he gets red eye, but he gets it anyway. How silly of him!

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Mom brought her fish home, and last night, Marcie got very interested!














Jazz hands!!











All the grandkids.













Hi, Mook!

Last picture! I should figure out how to post them all in one post. Here's Steve boogie boarding. 

The water was quite rough, with waves up to 5 and 6 feet crashing. It was a little scary for me, but Steve loved the boogie boarding. 

I'm a sucker for a donkey...faux or otherwise! This was in a cigar museum. 

The locals were a little wooden off the start, but we really warmed up to them.  

Taken in the sugar cane fields.  

Just look at this beach! 

A man enters a bar and orders a drink. The bar has a robot bartender. the
robot serves him a perfectly prepared cocktail, and then asks him, "What's
your IQ?" The man replies "150" and the robot proceeds to make conversation
about global warming factors, quantum physics and spirituality, biomimicry,
environmental interconnectedness, string theory, nano-technology, and sexual
proclivities.

The customer is very impressed and thinks, "This is really cool." He decides
to test the robot. He walks out of the bar, turns around, and comes back in
for another drink. Again, the robot serves him the perfectly prepared drink
and asks him, "What's your IQ?" The man responds, "about a 100."
Immediately the robot starts talking, but this time, about football, NASCAR,
baseball, supermodels, favorite fast foods, guns, and women's breasts.

Really impressed, the man leaves the bar and decides to give the robot one
more test. He heads out and returns, the robot serves him and asks, "What's
your IQ?" The man replies, "Er, 50, I think." And the robot says... real
slowly... "So............... ya gon - na vote for the Liberals a - gain?

Happy Birthday Blaine!!

Have a great day!

hola all!

Hi everyone!
Well, after an epic long day on Wednesday, we arrived in Punta Cana to a gorgeous airport! We would have been happy just staying there, it was so nice!

Anyways, it's +32 and sunny every day we've been so far. Lots of lazing around, alternating from beach to pool. Neither is very crowded, easy to find comfy lounge chairs. The food is good, normal every day stuff with a few surprises thrown in (stuffed rabbit...octopus in its own tint) yumm! Our room is close to the beach and the ping pong tables. Important! Drinks are good, no complaints anywhere really, but it would have been nice to have a coffee maker in the room! We'll bring our own next time.

We are missing our Mook and hope that Grandma and Grandpa are giving her lots of cuddles and snuggles. Someone will have to pass that message along, because we didn't get a chance to hook up their computer before we left!

Hope all is well with everyone else...back to the holiday!
xoJessica and Steve

Free Ipods, Holy Cow

It's one of those things that sounds really too good to be true but indeed the facts speak for themselves. All you have to do is click on the link here, sign up for one of the trial offers, and presto-chango they send a free ipod to an undisclosed address in Ottawa.

Romeo and Juliet

I keep searching and searching to see what comments come up about the production last weekend and so far haven't seen a peep!!

Well?? Well??

Time to clue us in about everything. I'll bet you both were tired and just crashed in a corner somewhere.

Or are you helping your mom study for her big test tomorrow? That will be a relief to have that behind her. What a fun way to spend a Saturday!

Pumpkins in the Park!!

We just got back from a walk through Flumerfelt Park where they hold "Pumpkins in the Park", and man was it snowing! The snow started around 10:30 or 11 this morning and is still going strong at almost 9pm! It's heavy and wet so hopfully it wont stick around too long, I'm not done riding my bike yet! Mom and Dad were supposed to leave today for yet another trip to Woseley but..... lucky for us they are stuck! Looks like many more card games to be played!

Poor Diabetic Willow

Well, today we found out that Willow has developed feline diabetes. The weight blight that we unfortunately burdened her with finally caught up to her. She seems ok on the outside, she's dropped about 2kg since this time last year, but she drinks a lot of water. So we're off to the vet again on Thursday to learn about what we need to do to help Willow live comfortably. A change of food is the first step. I'm not sure if we'll need to give her insulin shots yet or if there is another option.

On another note I got an email from CBC News Sunday asking me to read an email comment I made so they can possibly broadcast it during their feedback segment.

Update:I spent about an hour at the vet last night getting all of the info on what we need to do for Willow. She will be getting one unit of insulin twice a day for the next while then we take her back in for testing and possible modification of the dose. The vet did a demonstration with saline on the office cat, a fairly cooperative cat. I tried to examine Willow tonight to get a grip on her skin the way I'll need to so I can inject her and at first got a nasty look then the teeth came out and she was having none of that. It looks like I'll be wrapping her up in a towel twice a day. It wasn't too expensive but this will be a lifetime thing unless someone comes up with an easier way of doing it. Looking on the bright side we won't have to test her blood every day (an unpleasant process of pricking the edge of her ear to get a blood sample).

Disposal

What's the recommended method of disposal for old cd's? I have a mountain of old technet and software cd's I would like to get rid of but don't want to burden the local landfill with yet more plastic and metal. Any thoughts on what I should be doing with this stuff?

SeatGuru.com - Your Enlightened Guide to Airplane Seating

Here's a little something to help with your flight to the DR. David might find this useful too. SeatGuru.

Dos cervezas por favor...

We booked our holiday today! Wah laloo!

We are going for two weeks, leaving on November 16th. We fly into Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic, arriving at 7pm (or so) for our all inclusive, long-awaited vacation. Now to brush up on the espanol!

We'll be staying at the Grand Paradise Bavaro. I'll see if I can find a link...

Like this one? Grand Paradise Bavaro

Happy 70th birthday cake!

Now thats a cake!

Project Porchlight : Change Within Reach

I had an email waiting for me this evening from a local blogger, we'll call him Dan because that's his name, informing me and the rest of the people on his list of a new and brilliant idea [pun intended]. It's called Project Porchlight. The idea is to distribute compact fluorescent bulbs to every household across the country, they're starting with Ottawa South, with the intent of reducing power consumption through conservation. Get this: put one of these babies in one lightsocket in each home across the country and we'll be reducing pollution to the tune of taking 66,000 cars off the roads. As a cyclist this is most appealing. As someone who would like my kids to see polar bears this is most appealing.

I love this idea and can say, proudly, that I recommended to my condo association last year that we replace the many incandesent lights throughout our building with compact fluorescents. And they did!! That's no less than 10-12 on each of three floors and the basement level. We have several in our loft too.

Want more info? You'll want to click on the button below. If you're in the Ottawa area you'll want to head out to the big Giant Tiger on Walkley Road and get yourself a bulb free. Better yet, get your free one then head inside and buy a bunch to replace the rest of the bulbs in the house. You'll want to save the incandescents to be sold on ebay in the future, they'll be museum articles in no time.

Mom and her Birthday Presents

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Hey Mitch! We got her with that wind up butterfly thingy you sent us, i tries to get a good action shot of it, does she look surprised? We just finished dinner and are getting ready for an evening of birthday cards. I'll have a couple of shots of the cake as soon as we surprise her with it!

Jack Layton Siting

While I was standing waiting for my bus the other night after work Jack Layton passed by me on Bank Street headed towards Parliament Hill. I didn't say anything but if I had my camera with me I would have got a couple of quick shots.

Cantabile at SJ City Hall!!

We were on TV around the city hall for the grand opening. Mom took this picture, and a bunch of other ones, but when I tried to zoom in a bit, they got very blurry. I'm in the second row, fourth from the right. Laura's in the first row, second from the left.

www.whereswilly.com

I entered three bills tonight and checked to see what the statistics were. Not good. I've posted 99 bills and had one hit. I think the breakdown was 77 $5 bills, one $50, 4 $100 some twenties and a few tens.

Where's Willy?

Trapline

Has anyone checked the trapline lately? Oh, please don't let there be critters there.

On the road again

I thought i would show you guys what one of the loads we did for Mom and Dad looked like this summer.

Do you see what isee?!!

Are you ready for winter?

Mook is ready fro that bone chilling blast of winter! This is a shot Jess took, trying to come up with an ad for our bathroom advertising that we "try" and do every month. It's a pretty fun way to advertise, you can be a little more care free. it is in a bathroom!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!!

We're celebrating by going to the Columbus Day Parade tommorow, which Andrew and I are marching in. Should be fun!