Teaching Jr. High in June

The end is almost here! Thank goodness for summers off, because it's just not healthy to work with hundreds of manic pubescents for extended periods of time.

I'm looking forward to playing a few summer gigs with PRE/POST at the end of the month. Come have a cold beverage and listen to some good summer music.

peace

T.

May Days

Mothers Day!!

Finally this cold spring has started to turn. We were lucky to have nice weather for a picnic with Ma. It was exciting to set up our yard (our first spring in our new house) for our V.I.P.!! Happy Mothers Day!

My bro came for the event too, but managed to find a wifi signal on his ipod, so lunch took a back seat. I wish I had a picture of him trying to play frisbee with is ipod in his hand.

Last weekend we went to visit my sister, Rachelle, and her hubby, Dave, and baby Mya in southern Alberta. They have a beautiful house on the coulee. The next day we decided that we should take the opportunity to visit the Calgary Zoo, especially since Mya LOVES animals. The day we arrived, she kept telling us "I saw baby cows!" so it was basically a must to go to the zoo.

Here's me with my baby sis, beautiful niece, and one on the way!
Awwww! I know she's a baby, but sheesh! There must be some real fat heads posing in the koala there. And I bet the Australians who visit love that it says "G'day Mate!" We were there last year, and I guess I do remember the koalas saying that...
Mya loved the animals. She usually had this look of wonder and concern on her face. I took more pictures of her than the animals. Zoo pictures are never as cool as you want them to be anyways.
There was a lot of pointing and "MOM, LOOK!!!" going on.
Here she is riding the woolly beefeater.


Banff!
This weekend Kelsey took me with her on her first business trip as the Director of School Programs! I love her new job.

On the way down, we saw more Canadian wildlife than we've ever seen before. Without exaggerating, we must have seen well over a hundred deer! We also saw a coyote, a beaver, geese, ducks, bighorn sheep, elk, possibly a young moose, and your standard varmin on the road. (porcupines, squirrels etc.)


The scenery is awesome of course, so we have to include some of that:



The road trip was great. We had fresh cherries, beef jerky, cold drinks, tunes, and great weather! Here we are at the classic Castle Mountain gas station.

One of breathtaking mountains. It goes on and on like this. I forgot how beautiful the Rockies are.
Nothing like the freedom of the road. Next time we're doing it on the motorcycle!

We stopped in at Lake Louise on the way home. Beautiful.
We also bummed around the Chateau Lake Louise and enjoyed the live harp music and the comfy chairs overlooking the lake before heading back home. It was a great weekend. Oops, I should mention that Kelsey did some work on Saturday... Thanks work!

Tyrn

Space & Science Centre

I am the new Director of School Programs at the TELUS World of Science.

I am really looking forward to it. Even though it has been crazy busy so far, I am excited about the possibility of creating amazing things there.

K

Old Alberta

A long time ago (Easter Sat) two brave adventurers traveled EAST of Highway #2. (Yes, the province extends east of the QE2.) The adventurers found a wonderful family living in a place called Brownfield. As spring was being uncovered all around them, the adventurers decided to take a look at the past life in this area, as new life starts again.
Our adventure begins:

The adventurers forged rushing streams. (synchronized jumping)

They used the materials available to them, to test their surroundings.

They collected samples of our natural world.

They sat and listened to the ice breaking on the river.

And they just sat and looked pretty.

The adventure really started getting interesting when we saw signs of old life on the prairies.

We saw other signs of life as well.

In this forgotten place, the adventurers became archeologists. They seemed to find "artifacts" everywhere. As people leave one place, nature takes over and a tangled dance begins.




Little did our adventurers know that the biggest adventure was still to come. Back in the big city, they found that there was a surprise waiting for them. That's right, the adventure of being a home owner who finds a crack in their basement.
Only about 1/3 of our basement is finished and of course the snow melts and in comes the water. We weren't flooded out, but as you can see, we did have to take out some wall and do a bit of air drying.
Once everything is dried again, we will look at where this adventure is going to take us.

K

Moonshine and Music

This weekend we went to K'naan. Check him out- this was one of the best shows that we have been to for a LONG time. He is FANTASTIC. He inspires movement in your feet and your heart.
On Sunday, Mat and Tyrn bottled our first attempt at wine making. We can't believe how good it is, especially the red.
Here is the operation set up in the basement. Since our basement is so cold, lack of insulation, the wine took a lot longer than normal to go through all the stages.
It took the boys about 3 hours to fill, cork, label and seal the bottles.
Our moonshine is bottled and ready for sampling. Feel free to come over and test it anytime.
Seriously, we have lots of it- COME OFTEN!

K