Pictures Now Posted

Hello everyone. You can find our pictures posted here: Flickr

Enjoy!

Pictures To Be Posted Soon!

I've just set up an account with 'Flickr'. I'll provide a link shortly.....its in the works.

Month In Review

"Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages." - Terry Pratchett

Okay....so I've been absent from this blog for a long time..........YET AGAIN. Well here's a drive-by of all the comings & goings of the last month or so......give or take a week.

Here's the new family member that I referred to in my past message.

Her name is Angel.

This is the only picture that Kevin/Kathy have sent me. In fact I haven't heard from them in weeks.

Apparently they've been too busy poop & scooping in their home to send me any more!

Best of luck guys.


Well I can now add "Toaster Repair Man" to my list of job skills.

About a month ago the toaster just stopped working. I managed to pull it apart and diagnose the problem, fix it and put it back together again.

Unlike my engine rebuild on my Jeep there wasn't any parts left over after the repair was complete.

It broke again.....and was fixed again.
Might be time for a new toaster.


- My surrogate niece Courtney & her band "Boxer Rebellion" won regional 'Battle of The Bands' and went on to compete at the finals against 4 other bands. They didn't win.....but they rocked their little hearts out.

My son, Allison (lead singer) has one hell of a voice on her. Were all very proud. I think its safe to say that they finished in a solid 2nd spot even though the other bands were all pretty good as well. Congrats to Courtney.....and the other members of "Boxer Rebellion".

Here's a the article about them that was published in the Gander Beacon.

Other Firsts:

- Brad Gushue's team wins gold for Newfoundland.....I mean Canada. I know this is old news....but I predicted the outcome weeks & weeks ago.

- I went snow mobiling last weekend for the first time. What a blast. I can hardly wait to do it again. I reached a top speed of 60 km/h only to later find out that the speedometer was in Mph which is the equivalent of 98 km/h........zoom, zoom, zoom.

- While snow mobiling we came across a pile of Moose prints.......but for all I know Sherri's brother Dwight placed the prints there to keep the myth alive.....

I've still yet to see a Moose.


- I finally visited Shelia & Craig's cabin on "Loon Bay". They have a great cabin, with an even better view. At night I heard my first ever Owl....outside of a zoo.

- I ate my first ever moose sausage.....although the package said "Hot Italian Sausage" on it.....yet another ploy to keep the Myth going.

Oh yeah......I didn't have a real pic so I used this one.......Sorry Craig.


- Yesterday we bought a computer........weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

Now I can finally catch up with some of you on MSN.

I have to thank Sherri for letting me use her work computer at the risk of being fired over the last 6 months......Thanks Sherri.

Oh and if someone at IBM happens to read this........what are you doing reading a blog on company time?


- I managed to sneak a peek at Sherri's brother Rod's latest project.

He's building a plane and its only a month or so from being complete.

We spent a few hours checking out the plane while Rod was kind enough to field my questions that were too numerous to count.

He's done almost all the work himself.

Bloggin' Late

"Science is nothing but perception." - Plato

Geez....I have so much to say, but I don't have enough time to post it right now. Most of my computer time over the last week has been put into restoring BORN SQUISHY which is currently up and running again.

I'll be back soon to update you on: My toaster, Newfoundland winning gold, our newest 'extended' family member (NO Sherri isn't pregnant!)........so stay tuned.

BUT please don't lose any sleep over the sheer excitement of being left hangin'.

Weather Update

"Of all the major Canadian cities, St. John's is the foggiest (124 days, next to Halifax's 122), snowiest (359 cm, next to Quebec City's 343), wettest (1514 mm, next to Halifax's 1491), windiest (24.3 km/h average speed, next to Regina's 20.7), and cloudiest (1497 hours of sunshine, next to Charlottetown's 1818 hours). It also has more days with freezing rain and wet weather than any other city."
- Environment Canada

Right now were having wind gusts up to 123 km/h

In the last 24hrs we've had 20cm of snow, freezing rain, rain and another 20cm of snow on the way for tonight.

Help The Liberals... 'End The Pain'

"A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven." - Jean Chretien

Here's the proof:


Visit www.cbc.ca/mercerreport for more like this.

Dang! Blog Oblivion in the 1st degree

"Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy." - Joseph Campbell

Well I've out-done myself yet again. A few days ago I started to set-up a third blog and today I decided that I should really just focus on the two that I already had on the go.... So I deleted the blog. The only problem was that I deleted BornSquishy instead of the intended blog.

I'm still clinging to the faint glimmer of hope that the Blogger staff will answer my email begging for them to restore my blog for me... a long shot at best.

I'm kinda bumbed at my stupidity.

Oh well, it was time to revamp BornSquishy anyways.

Now I've seen everything

"The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going." - George Carlin

I knew Newfoundland was different from Ontario in oh so many ways... But now I've seen it all. We were out and about today and we happened to drive past a Ponderosa.... Yes an actual Ponderosa restaurant. I was under the impression that they pulled out of Canada almost 15yrs ago. I googled them and found their website with ease only to be surprised yet again. There are a total of 7 Ponderosa's still in Canada. One can still be found in Ontario at Belleville... 3 in New Brunswick... And finally 3 in Nova Scotia.

Your probably thinking the same thing that I was... 1 in Ontario, plus 3 in New Brunswick, plus 3 in Nova Scotia equals 7... They must of forgot the 8th one in Newfoundland.

And then the real bombshell was dropped... According to their website St.John's is part of Nova Scotia... Who knew.

I sent off a quick email to Ponderosa to help out our Geographically challenged friends to the south.

Monday Morning Cartoon: BryGuy #7

"No matter how fast light travels it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it." - Terry Pratchett (from "Reaper Man)

Dang! Its been sooooooo long since I've posted any cartoons. Here's the only one I have access to at the moment......#7.