too funny...

I just had to take a pic of this. Travelling out west to visit the kids and I stayed at the Travellodge in Edmonton. In addition to being a bit run down, dirty, and not really smelling all that fresh it almost made me laugh out loud when I saw the one picture hanging in the room was actually nailed to the wall about 2 inches under the ceiling trim. Just had to take a picture to share.

Oh well, the bed was comfy and I get to see the kids today.. so, Life is Good!

back in Sunny Manitoba...

Back in Manitoba .. these pics were taken on my little drive from my house in Erickson to Mom's place in Lundar. I almost forgot how nice it is to drive the highways of Sunny Manitoba in January. Oh well, I'll be in BC and hopefully golfing next week.

Life is Good... eh Denny!!??

Me and Bud

Tonight we curled against a living legend in USA and world curling. We played against Bud Somerville and his team. Bud is in his late 70's now and still curls regularly in a couple of leagues at the Superior Wisconsin curling club.

It was something I was really looking forward to. I can recall years ago hearing Bud's name when following world curling results. He is a kind and gracious man and it was great.... getting our ASSES KICKED.. by the local legend. The photos were taken before the final score of 8-2 was posted!

Life is Grand!

Interesting photos... sunrise and snow.

Well, if anyone is peeking at the pics that I have posted, you will note that there has been a stark resemblance between a lot of the lake view photos taken.. And there is a good reason for this.. a damn good reason... cause the scene changes on a regular basis and it's ... like... really really pretty .. and I can't stop myself from taking pictures of it cause it's so .. uhhhh.. NICE!

The pine tree with the snow is the tree Scott cut down for us for an Xmas tree. We didn't get any further than setting it up on the deck. We (Scott, Mary, Jewels, and I) were playing scrabble the other nite and it had been snowing all day. The limbs on our poor tree were sagging... like an old woman struggling through a storm... so nice as well.

I just made that old woman thing up BTW... neat aye?... Life is Good.

A bit of ice on the Superior shore...

I saw a couple of ships coming in yesterday as I was shoveling that damn snow... so I decided to take my camera down to Canal Park and try get some photos of them as the arrived...

Well, my timing was off and I missed the ship's arrival but I noticed that the waves up along Park Point were putting up some large sprays so I decided to go take a look.

I had been there a couple of days ago and noticed a small amount of ice build up that looked like broken glass. That day the waves were small and the ice was making a strange tinkling noise as it lapped back and forth. Well, yesterday I was amazed as the waves had pushed up a wall of ice about 30 meters wide and god knows how deep. Waves were crashing against the wall of ice pushing more shards into the pile.

OK.... so it doesn't take much to excite me.. but it sure looked nice..

Life is good aye???

A nice little visit from Anne Marie...

We were so happy that Annie was able to take some time to drive up for a few day's visit. It's too bad that Jewels couldn't take some time off work but we were able to do some fun stuff during her visit.

On the first day, I took Annie out to the Superior Curling Club and gave her a short lesson on playing the "grand old game". Annie caught on quickly (of course) and was soon sliding her stones into the house at the far end of the sheet.

In addition, she got to meet Wisconsin's curling legend, Bud Somerville who was out practicing with one of his mates.

We had a lovely sunshinie day today and after breakfast we headed out to Scott's cabin to check out his snowshoe trail. We spent a couple of hours treading around in the woods taking in the beauty of a snowy Minnesota winter. It was a bit cold to start but the activity soon warmed us up and it turned out to be a wonderful day.

So nice to have the kids out to visit and we are looking forward to seeing the rest of the gang whenever they can come up for a visit.

Life is Good.

Happy New Year to all.... Awesome morning pics!

Well, sunrise was it's usual fantastic sight out on the mist.

Shortly after Jewels left for work, a laker headed into port and it was just awesome to watch it glide through the fog rising off the lake.

Think we are going to enjoy the coming year in this lovely place. Life is Good!









Whoops..... half an hour later, the mist has lifted and as I look out, one laker is leaving and a few minutes later another arriving and heading into port...

Must go and hang our bird feeders.. must go.. must..

La vie... c'est bonne n'est ce pas?