Talk About Windy!

 Holy cow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It's windy yet again here today with gusts of up to 120 km/hour...
and this is what happened on one of the 2 bridges that gets us off this island!!!!

This was early this morning when the commuter rush was on....
Mike and his team of guys are doing work in Belleville this week
and couldn't get over the bridge....it's a LONG way around to the other bridge!!

Everytime we go over the bridge and it's windy, I think about the wind
just picking up my tiny van and tossing us over the side!!!!!!
This transport truck was loaded too....so I can't imagine how
heavy it was....though it's a blessing there was no car beside
him or even yet that he wasn't going the other direction and possible blown over the side!!

A passing motorist stopped to help him get out as the driver's door
was on the downside and he couldn't get out....
I can't imagine how he'll feel next time he goes over that bridge with his truck!

Heath Ledger RIP

 What a shock this was to the whole world eh??

My hubby thought it was a joke or something when he saw
the headline on the internet that day 

I haven't mentioned it till now as I've been inundated with info
from everywhere, all over the airwaves....
and I just wish now that they would leave him and his family alone 

All the speculation about why did the housekeeper call the Olsen girl instead of 911....
and would it have made a difference?
Really, what does it matter?? I'm sure she will question that herself for the rest
of her life and she'll have to live with that regret
but it won't bring him back and I just don't think the world
needs to keep speculating on this/that and the other thing....
why can't they just wait and let the 'news' come out?
I can't imagine how his family are dealing with all this attention
and media in their time of great loss  
So, so sad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Take Your Dog to Work Day

 I left work yesterday and when I hopped into the van

I thought 'Boy it smells like Nicky in here'

and when I turned around to look in the back, there she was

sleeping on the back seat, LOL!!

She hadn't even moved when I got in, not until I said her name!

The nite before I had gone to pick up some of the kids

and she went with us...she luvs to go for car rides, lol!!

I guess we forgot her in the van and when I got in yesterday

morning for work, it was dark and I had no idea she was there, lol!!

Poor old girl....she's 13 and all she does is sleep so I'm

sure she was quite content, but she did take a very long

pee when I let her out, lol....The girls all came out to see

what the heck was going on and where did I get a dog from, lol!!

When I let her back in the van through the sliding door

into the back, she promptly crawled into the front

and sat up there with me, LOL....

guess she was making sure I didn't forget her

My Paintballers

 Here's Colin and Colton all dressed to go outside last nite to paintball.

You can see Colton already shot Colin on the shoulder there, lol!

I got a couple of videos of Cody and Colton playing today in the snow and hiding behind their barracades they set up on the front lawn too. Expensive toys though, Colin bought his himself with money from working and the other one belongs to  They do have fun though, lol!!

RIP Poppa Jack

 My step-father in-law Jack died Saturday after a brief illness. He had a stroke back in October and then slowly went downhill after that. He went into the hospital on Tuesday nite after he had fallen and my MIL couldn't get him up by herself. She called the fire department and they didn't like his breathing so they called for the ambulance. He really didn't want to end up in a nursing home and really didn't even want to end up in a hospital. My sil was flying out from Alberta because she wanted to bring him back home but he passed just before he got here.

Jack and his first wife had been a friend of the family forever. My hubby and his siblings spent summers at their house and then when Jack's wife took ill with cancer, he nursed her at home. Carrying her around, in and out of the bath, etc.....so she wouldn't have to die in the hospital and my sil just wanted to do the same for him.

Jack was 80 and would have celebrated another birthday on the 13th of this month. He was fit as a fiddle right up till the stroke. My kids have know him as papa since they were all born as he married my mil when Cody was barely 2 yet (he's almost 19 now) Hannah and Colton stayed with them whenever we went to Havelock so they got to know him very well. He was always one for playing games and spoiling them rotten...just as a papa should be. I never, ever heard him say an unkind word about anyone and I know that heaven is enjoying their new angel just as we did here

Still, I wish we would have found more time to pop in to see them both.....they only live about 3/4 of an hour from here and we just never 'made' the time. We saw them the day after Boxing Day when we went to their house for dinner but I know they would have loved to see more of us, just as any parent yearns for just one more visit or one more phone call from their children.

I am vowing to 'make' more time this year to share more treasured moments with all my special someones

Happy New Year 2008

 Did anyone see the New Year in at midnite?

We went to friends' and had homemade chinese food and lots of
yummy homemade pies for dessert. It was is 51st birthday today
so we helped him see it in 
He was the first New Year baby that year here in Picton and
he still has a little silver cup that the town gave him

Hannah and Colton came with us, Cody went to a party and
when Colin found out none of us were going to be home he
and his friends decided this was a great place to hang out, lol!!

I woke up for work this morning and there were 5 extra kids in the beds, lol!!

I hope everyone here has a year filled with health and happiness