With friends like this.....

What is the end of that title????  "Who needs enemies?"

Here is what Megan's friends did to her room while we were away (They may have been assisted by Sari who gave them a key to our house). 

Pranks are fun! (If they are not on you!)  :)

Well, isn't that interesting?????

Cottage Life magazine recently rated the top place to retire in Canada.  In order, here they are.....

1.  Niagra-on-the-lake, Ontario

2.  Stratford, Ontario

3.   Moncton, New Brunswick

4.   Kelowna, British Columbia

5.   Cochrane, Alberta

6.   Comox, British Columbia

AND.......

7.  ESTEVAN, SASKATCHEWAN!!!  (Who would have guessed that??????)

 Click here to read the article and find our why we are so great!

PS.  We are now taking reservations if you would like to come and check it out for yourself!

We're number 1..... We're number 1...... Well, actually we are number 7 but the rest of all y'alls didn't even make the list so........ :)

The Most Canadian Song Ever!!

I heard this on the CBC on my way to work today and had to share it with you.  If they could get Bieber to record it, I think it would be an even bigger hit!

I think I am going to make this my theme song!  Just like wrestlers and boxers have songs that they play before they enter the ring, this will be the song that plays every time I enter a room. Better learn the words as you will be expected to sing along!!  :)

Ps.  Listen all the way to the end or you will miss the sweet key change!

All the cool kids are doing it!

Yesterday, Sari gave me this funny look and said, "Did you wear that shirt all day?"

"Uh, ya!" was my witty response.  "I didn't go to the office without a shirt!  It would have started a riot!!"  :)

"Well, did you intend to wear this too?" she asked as she turned me around and pulled a dish cloth off of my back.

Apparently, at some point in its journey, my flannel-ish shirt was attracted to the dish cloth (or vice versa.... who knows how these shirt/dish cloth romances work these days???).  I had grabbed the shirt off the hanger without actually inspecting it (who inspects their clothes for stowaway dish clothes?) put it on and wore it for most of the day.

The good news:  I wore a coat to and from the office and no one came by to visit or go for coffee, so no one saw the dish cloth

The bad news:  The fact that no one came by means I have might not have any friends!  :(

Anyway.... we did not get a picture of this new trend-setting thing I am doing.  However, it is not the first time this has happened to me.  Here is a childhood pic of the exact same - only worse!!

(Editor's Note:  This is what I would have looked like if this actually did happen to me when I was a child.... and if I had been born a girl!  Other than that.... it is completely accurate!)

Watch out Jennifer Jones!!!

Last Saturday, the four of us went curling together.  It was great!

We won our first game!  Mind you it took the other skip making a mistake and raising one of our rocks in for the winning points, but that is why we left that rock in front of  the house, right?

Then we played a rink that was made up of three rec league curlers and another guy.  This was not a good thing for us.  You see, my family curls regularly tool.... only our regularly consists of once every couple of years.  We started well and stole a couple of points, but then we lost.

In our last game, we ended up playing our longtime brother and sister buddies, Ian and Andrea Muirhead.  This turned out to be an epic battle until everyone but me (seriously all 7 other curlers on our sheet) started talking about going for supper at the Red Barn restaurant in Moosomin.  Every time someone said "Chicken Dinner" our shot percentage dropped.  This continued until no one cared about curling anymore and the goal seemed to be to throw the rocks as quickly as you could so that you could get out of there (It was very disturbing to my ultra-competitive/non-chicken dinner loving self).  We started well.... stole one in the first.... stole one in the second..... gave up four in the third ("Chicken dinner") and then who knows what happened after that......  They play 4 end games and my last rock had barely stopped when it was kicked to the side.... and every one was gone.  In fact, I think that the engine was running in the SUV before I even got off the ice ("Chicken Dinner!!!").

So you may be wondering how losing 2 of 3 games makes us any sort of threat to Jennifer Jones as suggested in the title of this blog.   Well, for one, we had a lot of fun!  We laughed a lot!   And, secondly, we LOOKED GOOD!!!  I mean seriously!  The girls worked on their hair for like hours before we left..... but, sadly, we did not get any good pictures of them (Sadly part 2 - my hair needed little to no fixing!)  :(

On a serious note:  I have been going to this bonspiel for more than 20 years and I remember thinking, "Wouldn't it be great to enter a family team in this thing sometime?"    We had the chance to do that a few years ago and to be able to do it again was great! 

We may not have been the best curlers..... but we were definitely the best family of curlers (Mind you, there were no other completely family teams..... but that is beside the point)

Other years I have stacked my rinks with really good teams and lost..... so if I am going to lose anyway I am glad it was with my girls!

Five months of Fridays

This is what you get when you invest about 20 Fridays into tearing the engine out of a Durango and rebuilding it...... a nice ending!

Anyone wanna buy an SUV?????