Some October pix

This year's official fall photo
Kids with their pumpkins BEFORE someone stole Simon's (bottom right). We will do a replacement today. The big one is from the farm.


Thanksgiving in Brantford

20 years on

Queen's University football game in October 1987.
with Eddies Dell and Jane
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Queen's vs U of T October 2007.

A first football game for Corinne, Simon and Chloe

The Italian Mob Does Judy's Birthday

I finally got the first sort done of photos from Tuscany -- to separate out the ho-hum shots from the rest. The next pass will collect the WOW! shots from the "...and on Tuesday, we all went for a walk in Chiusi to see Etruscan tombs..."

I offer these for now, and will link to two online collections when I'm done. I'm sorting through about 1500 pix.

The Centurions and Gladiators at the Coliseum were fun.



Mom and JJ celebrated my birthday over one of the best dinners of our trip in a restaurant outside a fortress town in Tuscany called Montalcino.

We enjoyed breathtaking landscapes...
amazing architecture...
and classic countryside.

A Birthday and a birthday and a half...

Happy Birthday to Gramma. We Skyped her this afternoon from Calgary, and Natalie played "Happy Birthday" for her on the piano. Natalie's now three weeks into Piano lessons, and she's loving it. I'd never dreamed anyone would be so entheusiastic about practising her piano.

On the work front, its stilly busy for me, and i'm taking a time out from doing project budget projections in the office to send this quick blog entry.

Here's a quick list of some pictures from the last little while.

Starting with my favourite, a sunset of Benjamin, Natalie, and three of their cousins walking on the exposed rocks (due to some seriously low water levels) in Lake Huron in August, at the cottege in tobermory.

Next are some images from our weekend trip to Field, BC, two weekends ago.

The falls are Takakaw falls. (5th highest galls in Canada!)

This is just a very artistic stump, on our hike around emerald lake.

And this is a corellian Bear dog, used for teaching bears to stay away from populated areas. But he's a big softie. We met him at a centre for the education of people about wolves.

This is a group photo from a class we spent with a 7th level Blackbelt who came in from Edmonton for the day, to give us some Pointers in our patterns. He's the guy in the centre, back row. He's just one year older than I am. and he's a 7th Dan...

And finally, here's a publicity shot of the music group from our church.

Hot Time at Birthday bash

Gramma Celebrates her 70th with all who could be there on Thanksgiving weekend.
Chloe, Simon and Fiona glow with the full 70 candles on the yummy Corinne Special Cake.
October 13th is the day to say
HAPPY BIRTHDAY

it's ginger time again

BOOOO
Fiona and her Ginger Bread House
thanks to gran and grandad
Jelly beans are most popular

Fiona readies herself for the first trip to the O.R.
Dressed as Alice In Wonderland, she's off to have her tooth extracted at the Hospital.
First getting her pulse, dressed to go in her red stripey gown - with her tooth fairy pillow and friends the rabbits.
A little worse for wear as she comes out of the sleep. Holding her tube with not only one, but a surprise SECOND tooth out too.
Her new smile.
One was a super numeral tooth - genetic and a full rooted tooth that pushed out her baby tooth last november.
and the one beside was apparently loose enough to come out too.
With her bottom pair coming in and the missing top pair
she can certainly sing
All I want for Christmas is my Two Front Teeth
Her lisping is minor but sweet.
mummy recovering nicely from surgery episode also (it's tough to put your kid asleep on purpose!)

run rabbit run

The farm has added a new critter to the collection:

Hip Hop Ho
the bunny.
fiona likes to take him for walks
Cats are Ok with him
Dogs like to bark at him during deck visits.
lives in the house and in the hutch too
come visit hime!

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Earth Sept 16th 2007:

Happy birthday to Sibling Judy!

:-)

this one's for mom

Ok
so it's for Glenn, and Fiona and me too
but
what started as a tidy the basement and make it a play area
turned out to be more adventurous!
I decided to put backs on the stairs and upgrade the overall lighting in the old basement
Then fiona can have her play space, and I can have my sew, craft and workout room
BUT
friends came over and
well
see what they did!