So, we do not have the camera cable to download the pictures from the camera, so I have not been able to get anything from the memory card! Doh!
I have pics of the new house and yard as well as the new car with the rims on it...
Anyhoo...sometime...when/if we find it...you will see some more pics up here.
Cheers
Friday, July 21, 2006
Monday, July 10, 2006
The weekend with T, H, E, A, G, A, C, S, N, and Y
H's mom and stepdad came down for the weekend and parked their trailer on our driveway (with lots of room to spare). We had many-a-BBQ and many great chats. We spent all weekend outside and I used the riding mower for the first time. It is an 18 hp 42" Toro...the grass was pretty long, so it took a bit over two hours to cut. Ended up using about 6 litres of gas. There's still a lot of raking to do to get the clippings up. We met our next door neighbours on the east side. He is a building inspector and she is a teacher, they have a 3 year old and 2 Siberian huskies too! Nice people. We probably chatted with them for about 15 minutes.
H and I (by ourselves!) went to the Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young concert. It was AWESOME. Those guys are so talented. The first set that they played was mostly new stuff from Neil Young's new album. They got cheered back on after the intermission and played some wicked awesome acoustic songs. Most of the second set were their older, classic ones — their harmonizes are amazing. They are great all together and also individually. Graham Nash and Steven Stills sang Guinevere and it was earth-moving. There were also several anti-dubyah/anti-war songs which received a lot of audience support. Steven Stills did a great blues song with lots of feeling in it too. It was pretty funny, but H and I were tired at about 9:15...shortly after the concert started...and it went until 11:15...it was a late night for us.
When they finished up they got cheered back on by standing ovation and screams/whistles and cheers. It was downright deafening! My ears were ringing from it! The place was pretty much packed.
H's mom and stepdad looked after the kids for us and then we came home and basically said goodnight!
H and I (by ourselves!) went to the Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young concert. It was AWESOME. Those guys are so talented. The first set that they played was mostly new stuff from Neil Young's new album. They got cheered back on after the intermission and played some wicked awesome acoustic songs. Most of the second set were their older, classic ones — their harmonizes are amazing. They are great all together and also individually. Graham Nash and Steven Stills sang Guinevere and it was earth-moving. There were also several anti-dubyah/anti-war songs which received a lot of audience support. Steven Stills did a great blues song with lots of feeling in it too. It was pretty funny, but H and I were tired at about 9:15...shortly after the concert started...and it went until 11:15...it was a late night for us.
When they finished up they got cheered back on by standing ovation and screams/whistles and cheers. It was downright deafening! My ears were ringing from it! The place was pretty much packed.
H's mom and stepdad looked after the kids for us and then we came home and basically said goodnight!
Thursday, July 06, 2006
House and car!
So we moved!
We are tired, filthy, the house is full of boxes, the recycling bins are stuffed, there were 8 bags of garbage out at the end of the driveway this morning, and we are HAPPY.
We are just taking our time to get everything into the right places. We are just finding things as we need them and then putting them away. It's amazing how much stuff that little rowhouse held. We we first moved to this city, we came up in a little cubevan stuffed to the hilt. When we moved this time, we did 3 much larger truckloads stuffed to the hilt and then another half of a load on the 2nd day to clear out some straggling belongings.
We are absolutely in love with our house. It is so great to have so much space everywhere both inside and out! We basically spent all weekend outside. The kids played in the 8'x8' (!!!) sandbox, went on the swings, picked strawberries and raspberries in the garden, or simply ran like maniacs all over the place.
On our latest national holiday, we shot off a load of fireworks in our backyard in an effort to blow out our eardrums, burn off our fingers and get eaten alive by mosquitos. The kids had sparklers and they thought those were great. 'A' burned her thumb and finger when it went out and she touched it...poor girl. She ended up with two huge blisters.
So, we picked up the car last night too! It is so great. It handles almost gokart-like. Good power, comfortable, lots of room inside too!
Cheers!
We are tired, filthy, the house is full of boxes, the recycling bins are stuffed, there were 8 bags of garbage out at the end of the driveway this morning, and we are HAPPY.
We are just taking our time to get everything into the right places. We are just finding things as we need them and then putting them away. It's amazing how much stuff that little rowhouse held. We we first moved to this city, we came up in a little cubevan stuffed to the hilt. When we moved this time, we did 3 much larger truckloads stuffed to the hilt and then another half of a load on the 2nd day to clear out some straggling belongings.
We are absolutely in love with our house. It is so great to have so much space everywhere both inside and out! We basically spent all weekend outside. The kids played in the 8'x8' (!!!) sandbox, went on the swings, picked strawberries and raspberries in the garden, or simply ran like maniacs all over the place.
On our latest national holiday, we shot off a load of fireworks in our backyard in an effort to blow out our eardrums, burn off our fingers and get eaten alive by mosquitos. The kids had sparklers and they thought those were great. 'A' burned her thumb and finger when it went out and she touched it...poor girl. She ended up with two huge blisters.
So, we picked up the car last night too! It is so great. It handles almost gokart-like. Good power, comfortable, lots of room inside too!
Cheers!
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