Art in the capital

This is at the national gallery downtown. We went for a short jaunt in there with the kids. My patience was waning pretty quickly as the kids yelled, ran, touched things. ACK. Too bad really 'cause (almost) everyone else wanted to stay longer.

Christmas 2006

So, this is obviously from Christmas. This is only half of the presents. We had a full (and fun) house!

This gingerbread house was a group effort. Yummy too.

Although it does not look very big, this snowman was about 9 feet tall. The middle ball was increadibly heavy...like back-breakingly so.

Family and friend built two big snow forts and in fact had a great snowball fight. However, we were almost completely bagged by the time it came to fightin'.

A nice beginning to a beautiful holiday morning...

Snow buntings all winter long

These guys have been coming to the feeders for several weeks now. They are snow buntings and have very nice colouring. We had never seen them before, but they are now our favourites... It is interesting, they come by for about 5-10 seconds, then they will all fly off, usually vertically up to the eaves. Then they will return 2-3 minutes later, only to fly off again. They feed on the scattered seed on the ground and only when there are lots of them will they perch on the feeder, although they don't seem to adept at doing that. They can hover for a few seconds though (while waiting 'in line' at the feeder), which is interesting.

I'll try to post some better pictures another time!

E's birthday party

So, E had a reptile zoo come and do a demo at the house for his birthday party. There were a hoard of boys and it was crazy, but we all had fun. Apparently, this is the biggest reptile in the province...a huge snapping turtle...this thing was MASSIVE as you can see.


Jay, you would like this scorpion...huge...and scary.


This is Elvis, he is a king snake...get it? He was very smooth too.