Friday and stuff....

The peace of this house right now is delicious. Kids are in bed, I'm here with my BIG cup of coffee and things are coming together. First few things, bills are being paid off (whoohoo), Christmas presents are starting to show up in the mail, I've figured out what I'm going to do for my parents and my correspondance course is going well.

For those that didn't know I'm in the process of taking a Braille correspondance course to continue working with my student who is legally blind. I've been frustrated at first because I'm seriously working on a brailler from 1957. No joke. I've finished my first 3 lessons and they went out for marking. I got them back in the mail this week and I seriously didn't want to open the envelope. Big chicken I know. So I took a deep breath, opened it and I got an excellent mark. Breathing a sigh of relief, because I need to have an accuracy mark of over 95% to pass the course.

On more happy news....I got my new lens!! I won a fluke auction on ebay for a 50mm f/1.7 prime pentax lens ($45 w/shipping!!!!!) and I got it yesterday. It took some monkeying around with settings but man its freaking cool. Time to get the whole family dressed and take some Christmas card pictures. Ron will love that ;) he's worse than the kids to take pictures of. You'd think by now he'd be used to a camera in his face, hee hee hee.

Anyhoo, I'm off to scrapbook with my sil because of the snow day...got to love living close to civilization. Have a great weekend!

Let the booing and hissing begin!

As of 10 am this morning I'm offically done my Christmas shopping. Pausing here for the swearing @ computers ;) no really I'm done. Between ebay, sears.ca and futureshop.ca I'm just waiting for it to come all in. I figured I better give adequete time for shipping so hopefully things will arrive on time.

On a side note...I've offically signed up for high speed internet. Whoohoo!!!!!! I'll be getting a call as to when they are coming to install. Too cool. Now more pictures can be posted with less wait times, less swearing and fewer cups of coffee. (ok maybe not the coffee, let's not get crazy)

Offically a great day!

No butts about it...

We had a great time at the POPWA Fall Show. I just loved this picture of the birds' tails and it was just too funny. This is the way that most of the competeters bring their birds with long tails (a seperate catagory) this way they won't break their tails in transport. Some actually steam the tails to smooth them out. Next picture is part of the whole room (arena) just so you guys can get an idea of the scale of it all. The last picture is Ron handing in the yearly won trophies from last year. He won Grand Champion and Impeyan Pheasant with his Impeyan Male. (I'll find a picture of him later). Though we didn't win this year we still had fun and there's always next year!

Heading out tonight....

This weekend is our annual return to Lloydminister for the Prairie Ornamental Pheasant and Waterfowl Assoication Bird Show. Don't worry we never say it all at one time ;) Not that I'm into birds all that much, what I do like is that its a weekend that Ron and I get to go away and just spend time together. Plus my parents get my kiddos, which they love. The only bummer is that I'm going to be missing taking a very cool card making class (sorry Donna!) cause we are leaving tonight. I still have a ton of stuff to do. Between laundry and packing and having to be parent helper this morning at playschool...I'm swamped. On the bright side, Donna has my scrapbooking order this morning :) I'm going to have to start putting together some page kits and pack up my scrapbooking stuff...did I mention that I get uninteruppted scrapbooking time at the hotel? I tell ya its bliss. Quiet, no cooking or cleaning, time with my wonderful husband, some shopping and scrapbooking. My kind of weekend. I'll post some pictures when I get back on Sunday!