Olympic fever

February 27, 2010
Originally uploaded by Robin's Nest3

It's hard to believe that the Olympics started two weeks ago and are ending tomorrow. I bought the fabled Olympic mittens two weeks ago Saturday, before they became such a hot commodity. Nothing like a showing on Oprah to ramp up the frenzy. Two people asked me where I got them as I was getting lunch at the deli on Friday!

We spent the evening watching Martin win men's gold in curling, as well as basking in the replays of the golds and bronze medals we won today.

Tomorrow, we'll be glued to the TV watching the hockey finale. Here's hoping for gold number 14!

The finished fireplace

The finished fireplace
Originally uploaded by Robin's Nest3

Yes! It's finally finished...well except for a little bit of touch-up paint that the (most excellent) fireplace installers are coming back to do. The marble hearth went on yesterday and we love it!

Brian and his guys did an awesome job finishing it for us (Brian suggested the marble and the tile), considering it was his first fireplace. We like it when he experiments on us...he did our pergola for us as well.

It was too good to last

February 22, 2010
Originally uploaded by Robin's Nest3

I thought we might escape winter without getting out the snowblower again. But, it was not to be. We were supposed to get about 10 cm this afternoon, plus freezing rain. Yippee.

A long strange journey

It's been an incredible long and strange journey for my parents, but they finally have the first of three wind turbines officially up on their farm. This is a view taken by my mom, standing basically at their back door, looking towards the back of their farm.

Woohoo! Long live green energy!

Learning new things through sport

Family Day wasn't so much fun for me as I finally succumbed to the stomach bug that went through the house earlier in the month. I thought I was home free, but apparently it was just laying it wait, ready for me to let my guard down.

So, I spent Monday in bed groaning and moaning, with the Olympics on in the background as I drifted in and out of sleep.

The kids, however, have gotten into the Olympics, and are learning how to cheer on our athletes. At one point yesterday, I woke up enough to watch the final race of Snow Cross (a rollicking good sport). Downstairs I could hear George and the kids cheering on Mike Robertson, the Canadian who led most of the way through the final race, until the US guy, Seth Wescott, took the lead. As they were getting closer to the finish line, I could hear, "GO! GO! GO!" downstairs, and when the US guy won, over the din I heard Blake emit a loud, "Shiiiiiiitttt!"

George denies this actually happened. But, we'll see when we cheer on the next Canadian during a race or hockey game. I'm wondering what will come out of Blake's mouth then.

Olympic spirit

February 13, 2010
Originally uploaded by Robin's Nest3

Our friends' puppy, Finnegan, donned the Olympic scarf to show his support for the athletes today...and conveniently provide me with the picture of the day.

Moved by infinite extension

This morning I had the strangest invitation to join a flickr group in my Inbox.

charles@米魯燒肉 has invited you to be a member of
米魯藝廊ibeer art gallery,Taiwan(your best 5 a day).

flickr has many different groups that people can post to, with or without invitation. But, I'd never been invited to one, and what the heck is an "ibeer art gallery" anyway? So, I went on to flickr to do some more investigation. And, yes, there really is a group called ibeer art gallery. And what is the group's mission? Even stranger:

ibeer is a yakiniku restaurant with
Happy selling yakiniku
Carefully adhere to delicious
As a service and sharing the spirit of the house ibeer

Because the owner and staff people who love photography
2005 opening date has accumulated tens of thousands of photos

Now this set up ibeer art Gallery
Welcome to share your photography
So moved by infinite extension!

Mmmm....while this is an intriguing, and strangely constructed ESL explanation, I'm going to say "No thanks" to being moved by infinite extension.

Now, back to the olympics!