Out of Office

As you may have gathered, I haven’t exactly been near my computer lately. Which I know, in today’s world, is no excuse for not blogging. But I’m using it. I’m going to go see Mickey Mouse so I’m going to spend at least another week not blogging.

Eastern Alberta, July 2010
Or is this my house pre last week’s renovations?

See you all later! I hope you are having exquisitely wonderful summers and that all your wishes are coming true! (I know mine have been. Even those ones I thought were pinned up on the ‘ain’t gonna happen’ side of the fence.)

Hey, I’m Back!

I have returned! 5000kms later and surprisingly few bug bites seeing as I went north of 60 on this latest family adventure. Here are a few highlights, photo style. Woot, woot!

The wildlife (bison shown here–sorry, they kind of blend in. We also saw plenty of bears, moose, deer, mountain goats and a few porpoises too):

However, didn’t see any of these:

The carnage that ensued as we battled our mighty Yaris across the last frontier:

Tenting near a glacier:

Strange and Unusual (Lots of that! But here is a small sample. How about thousands of signs in a signpost forest?):

Or…Really, a cinnamon bun as big as a child’s head!:

And lastly a nice shot of the mountains in the middle of pretty much freaking nowhere:

Hope everyone is having a wonderful summer!

And We’re Back…

Well, we’re back home again. No vehicular mishaps or otherwise. Well, other than a lightning storm that prevented the ground crew from putting on bags on the plane on time. So, a one hour delay. But we had one of those planes with the cool TV sets in the back of the seat in front of you. So, we had TV and movies and music. It was great! I loved it. I got to watch some episodes of ‘How I Met Your Mother’ and ‘The Class’ that I hadn’t seen before. I really like those two shows.

“The skeeters may eat us, but they’ll never beat us…”

So, yes, we have some mosquitoes out here at the cottage. Went on a quest to find little kid mosquito repellant. Evidently, out here, not many little kids worry about skeeters. Or at least their parents don’t seem to buy them the reduced Deet stuff around here. The third place had some. In my wisdom, I left some here last year, enough to get me through the first few days before I would have to go out and stock up again. But, alas, my plan has been foiled by someone, somewhere…possibly a little short person who was fearful of being taken away by the bugs.

The ducks seem to remember us from last year and are hounding the dock, begging us to give them more cracked corn. Maybe it is just plain old ‘crack’ corn and we’ve gotten them addicted. Problem is that they are pooping on the dock and where we swim. Evidently their poop doubles the water’s ecoli content, plus will give you some nice swimmers itch. (Like shaving your bathing suit line wasn’t enough trouble…)

I think I took my screwed up email and really screwed it up. <sigh> Sometimes I know just enough to really mess things up.

In this cottage, you can hear everything. EVERYTHING. Dear lord. Farts. Little kids whining and wailing themselves to sleep (hopefully). I feel so self-conscious clicking away on my computer. Like I’ve broken an unwritten code. But, really it’s not like I brought a TV in here. (Never been a TV here). Although, dad says that he has about ten movies on his drive…does that count?

Another Road Trip–Successful

Took a road trip the other day to the zoo and guess what? We got there and back without any vehicular mishaps.

There was a little kid pit stop on a small side road…and, well, a bit of a mishap there. You really don’t want the details though…trust me.

We’re heading out to my grandma’s cottage in a few days. I love the cottage. Not just because if you get hot, you run off the dock and into the water…ahhhh…refreshed! But the best part? Sharing the cooking. Whenever I come home from a stay at the cottage, I’m like, ‘What? I have to cook EVERY night? I’m responsible for EVERY meal? EVERY grocery shop?’ UGH. That’s the nice thing about having several families all together in one place. You can share the mundane, everyday burdens. Although, this trip there will be no other little people to distract my little person. Two weeks of just mom for entertainment. I almost want to bring her portable DVD player…almost. It is nice to go TV free. Although, I am bringing my computer… Does that count? Especially since dad now has high speed Internet at the cottage. And Grandma is putting in a shower. I guess no more ready excuses for not washing your hair very often or not checking your e-mail. Shucks. Whatever am I going to do?