24 February 2008
Happy Leap Year
25/02/08 05:56
This week I started my class. We spent most of the week taking tests such as Myers Briggs and the Strong Interest and the Canadian version of the colour inventory. It has been fun, but very draining and by the time I get back home I am exhausted.
Doug worked the odd hours again. We both are still getting up at 3:30. I'd go into work at 5:00, Doug went in at 8:00. We'd just have time to say hi and then I'd leave at 8:15. Long days for both of us. Overall a tiring week.
The big news is that we got the flooring for the kitchen-dining area-family room. It's hickory laminate flooring. This isn't our first experience with laminate. In our house in Minnesota we put laminate through most of the house. That time we had my brother Curt, his wife Sue, and my sister Marlys helping. This weekend Doug got the kitchen done by himself. After working two days he stood up and said: "This was a lot easier when Curt was doing the hard parts." Doug will be working on this for the next week or so. A few rows a day until it's done.
Spring is here. (To those of you still in Minnesota; neener, neener, neeener). We need to start working in the yard soon. We have two rhododendrons to move, some shrubs to cut back heavily, and some other things to clean up. That's just the front yard. In the back we aren't sure exactly where to start. I do the planning and Doug does all the grunt work and carpentry. It seems like a fairly good deal for me.
Silas's friend Tim took a lot of pictures when they were here. Here is a link for anyone who is interested.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tconklin/sets/72157603961230377/show/
Last week Doug came across a candy bar called a Big Turk. It bills itself as "turkish delight", those of you who remember the Narnia movie will remember turkish delight as the candy Edmond loved. Doug decided to try it to see what turkish delight was like. It was in fact almost completely, in every way NOT like the turkish delight in the film. It was a slab (an inch wide and a quarter to a half inch thick) of something like, well, Doug described it as raspberry gummi bear jerky. Then the whole thing is dipped in chocolate. Doug said it was the strangest candy bar ever made, and not in a good way.
So what is turkish delight really?
That is about it. Nothing else new for this week. Take Care and have a good week.
BC History:
The first artificial ice rink was built in Vancouver in 1911.
In 1921, Edith Munday, daughter of the famous BC mountaineers Phyllis and Don Munday, accompanied her parents on her first mountain climb when she was 12 weeks old. There is a mountain named after Edith called Baby Munday Peak in the Cheam group of mountains.
Clemretta, located southeast of Smithers, is named after the first postmaster's cows Clementine and Henrietta.
Pictures
Some pretty little plant that grows on the rocks. Anyone know what it might be?
Some people work really hard for a picnic. Fortunately the tide was going out.
The Canadian Rockies just beyond the Coast Range.
Marsh and Doug
Doug worked the odd hours again. We both are still getting up at 3:30. I'd go into work at 5:00, Doug went in at 8:00. We'd just have time to say hi and then I'd leave at 8:15. Long days for both of us. Overall a tiring week.
The big news is that we got the flooring for the kitchen-dining area-family room. It's hickory laminate flooring. This isn't our first experience with laminate. In our house in Minnesota we put laminate through most of the house. That time we had my brother Curt, his wife Sue, and my sister Marlys helping. This weekend Doug got the kitchen done by himself. After working two days he stood up and said: "This was a lot easier when Curt was doing the hard parts." Doug will be working on this for the next week or so. A few rows a day until it's done.
Spring is here. (To those of you still in Minnesota; neener, neener, neeener). We need to start working in the yard soon. We have two rhododendrons to move, some shrubs to cut back heavily, and some other things to clean up. That's just the front yard. In the back we aren't sure exactly where to start. I do the planning and Doug does all the grunt work and carpentry. It seems like a fairly good deal for me.
Silas's friend Tim took a lot of pictures when they were here. Here is a link for anyone who is interested.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tconklin/sets/72157603961230377/show/
Last week Doug came across a candy bar called a Big Turk. It bills itself as "turkish delight", those of you who remember the Narnia movie will remember turkish delight as the candy Edmond loved. Doug decided to try it to see what turkish delight was like. It was in fact almost completely, in every way NOT like the turkish delight in the film. It was a slab (an inch wide and a quarter to a half inch thick) of something like, well, Doug described it as raspberry gummi bear jerky. Then the whole thing is dipped in chocolate. Doug said it was the strangest candy bar ever made, and not in a good way.
So what is turkish delight really?
That is about it. Nothing else new for this week. Take Care and have a good week.
BC History:
The first artificial ice rink was built in Vancouver in 1911.
In 1921, Edith Munday, daughter of the famous BC mountaineers Phyllis and Don Munday, accompanied her parents on her first mountain climb when she was 12 weeks old. There is a mountain named after Edith called Baby Munday Peak in the Cheam group of mountains.
Clemretta, located southeast of Smithers, is named after the first postmaster's cows Clementine and Henrietta.
Pictures
Some pretty little plant that grows on the rocks. Anyone know what it might be?
Some people work really hard for a picnic. Fortunately the tide was going out.
The Canadian Rockies just beyond the Coast Range.
Marsh and Doug