I'm going to a BIG poker tournament!!!

THere've been these commercials on the sports channels, advertising a big poker tournament, sponsored by Degree deodorant. They drew a bunch of names from the entries and guess what? I'm one of them!!!

There are two qualifying tournaments one on the West Coast, and one for the "East" June 20-22) , with a final tournament for the finalists from both tournaments coming together for all the chips (June 23-24). The East qualifier and the finals are being held at the Niagara Fallsview Casino. The winner of the tournament gets $100,000 AND a trip to Vegas to play in the World Series of Poker in July.

WOOHOO!!!

If I can get an internet station during the tourney, I will post on my blog...

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My latest project



I've started a new crochet project. At the rate I'm doing squares - one about every hour twenty minutes (yeah, yeah...I'm slow....get over it), I should be done in about three weeks, if I do this twenty four hours a day.

What's it going to be? Eventually, if I do about twenty or thirty more sets of 9 like this, I should have a couple of curtains for my kitchen. Stay tuned.

In other news, we just came back from a couple days at Greg's parents' cottage. I can't say it's REALLY roughing it - we watched the Memorial Cup games on the sattelite. The water from the tap, however is a light brown colour and has a sulphur-mettalic smell, which I've been told is MUCH better now that there are three filters on it. (I dont want to think about what it smelled like BEFORE the filters were installed.) Greg's mom and I went out looking for maple syrup this morning, because God forbid you should have pancakes without it..... mmmmm real maple syrup.


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More Spring pics!!

More updates from the yard...

More tulips are just around the corner


Strawberries!!



The clematis was cut down to the black pipe in the fall... it's growing like a weed!



Of course dandelions abound too.




In other news, Greg and Bandit are at Greg's parents' house and cottage for the next week or so. Greg will be painting the cottage, and Bandit will be going to keep him company.

Greg's brother, Sean, will be leaving for a five-month trip to the Phillipines. He will be training about 800 people for a new call-center to be opened there. His girlfriend Sheila, will join him about a week or two later.

More later,

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Winter comeback update

My climbing plant with the purple flowers....... it's CLEMATIS (getting that word off my tongue - that feels MUCH better)!!!

Today started out cold, but turned out pretty nice...about 10C. Everything seems ok; the strawberry plants even have flowers on them!

Just when you think you can's stand any more precipitation...RAIN tomorrow!

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IT'S SNOWING!!!!!

Yes, you read that right!!! It's April 24 and there's snow falling AND sticking!!!







I just hope the snow doesn't kill the rest of my tulips, which were just starting to bud, or my strawberries, or my climbing plant with the purple flowers....... (dang, don't you just HATE it when you've got something right on the TIP of your tongue, but can't seem to shake it loose?)


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It's definitely spring!!!

Tulips are finally coming up in my garden...


But Bandit still likes to cuddle under a blankie when it gets chilly at night...

Hey, I was just looking back through my blog, and it's been a YEAR that I've been doing this blog. Happy anniversary to me!!!

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Vegas and Grand Canyon pics are here!

Sharon's Wild Vegas Birthday Party - I'm going to have the closeup of the Berllagio's glass artowrk ceiling blown UP.

Grand Canyon Adventure - Some of these pics are also getting blown up

Enjoy!!

You know it's spring when.....

The patio furniture comes out....

The crocuses are in bloom ....

In other news...Maria and I made it back from Vegas in one piece. A good time was had by all. My friend Sharon celebrated her mmmph'th brthday by inviting her friends to Vegas for a long weekend. More details and a page full of pics coming soon.

Bandit gets a BUZZCUT!!

Before.....
After.....

Oh, yeah... I forgot.....

Reading Lisa's blog today reminded me of a MAJOR event that happened in December...

The first Saturday in December was snowy and slippery. However, that didn't stop Maria and I from going off into the county to go to an auction. Somewhere near Wheatley, I hit some black ice, was about to recover, when I hit another patch and skidded off the road and bumped a tree.

It wasn't even enough to make the airbags go off!! Of course, my cellphone was dead :P. We were right next to a farmhouse, so I trudged off to hopefully use their phone to call a tow truck. No luck - there were TWO trucks in the driveway, but no one home. The car was driveable, but there was a pretty big "bump" between the shoulder and the decline to the tree. I'm thanking God for the tree, because if it wasn't for the tree, they'd have been fishing the car from a big 6-7 foot deep ditch. First a car passes by, and offers the use of his cell phone, but it wasn't working out in the middle of nowhere (must have been a Fido phone). A fire truck happened by, and called the police for us. They were told they had to stay there until the cops got there. I felt bad about that, after all, there had been lots of accidents that morning, and here they were wasting their time babysitting us, who weren't even hurt. The cops and the tow truck showed up, and it all took less than an hour.

I figured there'd only be a few hundred dollars damage - a new bumper cover, straighten out the ding in the front fender....but NOOOOOOOOO! The original estimate was $2700, with the disclaimer that once they took off the bumper assembly, the rad and airconditioning systems could be damaged. And of COURSE they were. Grand total - over FOUR THOUSAND DOLLARS!!! and i just BUMPED a TREE!!! Sheesh.

Glad Lisa survived her brush with black ice unhurt! The car looked pretty banged up.