HAPPY NEW YEAR 2007!!!

Hope it's a good one!!!

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SNOW IN OCTOBER!!!



Yes you ARE seeing that correctly. At 5:45 pm on October 12, I took this picture of the snow. So far, none of it is sticking (knck on wood)

In other news, we went up to Greg's parents' cottage for Thanksgiving. I took this picture of the full moon poking through the trees.



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Labour Day, 2006

I took a few pics at the Labour Day parade. They're here.

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Vacation and birthday, 2006

I just came back from vacation and birthday celebrations

Maria came up for the birthday bash, and we went up to Kettle Point (it's only a couple of kilometres from the cottage) . Pictures are here.

I celebrated one of those "milestone" birthdays on Thursday. If you want to know WHICH one, pictures are here. (Yes...that cake IS what you think it is!) Thanks to Karen for baking tha cake. Thanks to those folks who came up to help me celebrate my birthday...on a weeknight!

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Xmas in July (on Civic Holiday Weekend)

It was that time of year again. Yesterday marked the latest in Oakes family reunions. Pictures are here.

If you want the original, uncropped versions, please email me.

In other news, seventeen days until I hit that "milestone" birthday. Ugh.

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Photos from the garden here.

On Canada Day weekend we went to Greg's parents' cottage. Greg ended up with a bug all weekend.

I don't know if I want to go up for the family reunion next weekend. The last three times we went up there, something bad happened to one/both of us.

• Easter- Greg got his teeh broken
• Victoria Day - car accident on the way home
• Canada Day - Greg's mysterious bug

Stay tuned...

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HAPPY CANADA DAY!!

Here we go again - PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker.

I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker!

This Online Poker Tournament is a No Limit Texas Holdem event exclusive to Bloggers.

Registration code: 4938891

If it weren't for bad luck.....

...I'd have no luck at all.

Why do I say that? Well, let's see...in the last five weeks or so, Greg has had his front two teeth broken, I bashed my head, and got a big cut on it, and yesterday, we were in a car accident.

We were driving home from Greg's parents' cottage, when a pickup truck in front of us decided to slam on his brakes and make a left turn. I hit my brakes, and stopped before hitting him, but the guy driving behind me, bashes me in the rear end. Everyone is ok

I KNEW I should have gone on that field trip with Maria...

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%#$#$!$*%& - I LOST!!!

After all that trouble, I lost in the second round - about 50th out of 240 left in the tournament. The top 36 went on to the playoffs.

Just goes to show...you can know how to bluff, know about pot odds, and all that stuff, but once in a while, you STILL need to get good cards, which I DIDN'T get.

Oh well, there's always next year.

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