Adventures of Mandogrl!

Marigold is in this picture! Can you see her?

Well, as I was sitting in the living room last night looking at my screensaver (which is a folder of our pictures) I realized that I took a lot of pictures last summer and never did get a chance to share them with everyone. I really don't know what happened with me and the blog but we just couldn't get it together. Even now as I type I am thinking about the things I have to do, like.....change the beds....etc.... The sun is trying to peek through the clouds outside in the midst of a blizzard warning, what's up with that? We missed the blizzard warning by one day! I don't know about you folks on PEI (Mother Goddess) but we have to have the warning for the schools to be closed. I didn't mind yesterday as we had to take James to Corner Brook for his eye appointment (which turned out to be a good one), his eyes have not gotten worse but we have to keep patching him until his next appointment in September. Oh, yeah, I have highlighted Mother Goddess because if you like reading blogs, this one certainly has a way with words (also she is Spud's daughter, for those of you who know Spud). Anyway, Ma and Pa are here and have been since Tuesday. Dad had an appointment to get his new earing aid checked and they stayed on to attend the Newfie Night at the legion tonight. We are playing 5 songs at this venue in support of the legion and Stephenville Theatre Festival. They are serving a Newfie Buffet from 7-9 and then there's music from 9-1 (let's hope it doesn't get cancelled due to weather). Mike, Dad, Marigold and James are all outside having fun in the snow (shovelling :) ). We were going to go to the Snowy Owl Classic today but it has been postponed because of the weather. The Snowy Owl Classic is a fundraiser for the Heart and Stroke Foundation where you register for $10 for family or $5 per person. There are essentially three teams, Stephenville, Kippens and Blow Me Down (from Corner Brook) and the team with the most ski length wins. I am pretty sure this is how it goes but you can check the link. I think it has been postponed until tomorrow because of weather. So we are going to sit around here all day and drink coffee and basically relax. Mom has been here all week and have kept up with the laundry and little odd jobs around the house, tanks be da God!!!! I will get those pics on some time today.

Today was a beautiful day for a ski so we all headed for the ski trails. Whaleback Nordic ski club started its Jackrabbit program so we enroled the kids. This is the first time they have been involved in such a program. I am sure that they will enjoy it. I know Mike and I will as we welcome the much needed exercise. The kids get instruction and a fun ski and we get time to have a ski as well. Let's hope we keep the snow that we have and we don't have too many storms like we had on Friday night. Wasn't that quite the blow? I checked the wind at 4:30 in the morning and it was clocking 96km but apparently it went up to 118km a new record for here. Burgeo as well was getting hit hard with 108km and the Wreckhouse was 128km at 4:30. We had too much rain as well and Mike is out trying to save our rink. Here is a picture of the beach at Burgeo after the storm.

The Second Stephenville Beavers are on the net. Here is the address in case you would like to check out what the Beavers are up to. James is a 3rd year Beaver and Mike is a leader. Looks like they have lots of fun at the meetings.
http://beavers.50megs.com/index.html

The drinks!

Christmas eve was memorable as always with a trip to the Skinner's residence with much fun, food and laughter and great,,,,,may I say great again, hospitality. All the kids were there on the Mercer side, including ours and they had lots of fun: James, Marigold, Brady, Kaelyn, Shelby, Chole, Taylor,... There was lots of singing and dancing as Derrick brought his gear and the bar (Frank's shiny new bar and drink dispenser) was open.

After leaving this party we went for the annual Chinese supper at Ken and Doreen's house where the food was fabulous and so was the company.

What can you do while tuning your guitar?

and

Where else would you tune up in a crowded house?

This was sent to me by my brother as we were invited to the annual Christmas jam at his house in the harbour. For those of you who know my father he is in this picutre. Can you pick him out? He is very young and with lots of hair.

Well, I seem to have forgotten how busy motherhood really is. During the past two years, doing my masters I was tied to the keyboard so the odd blog update was easy, now I am whisked away by my children, attending to their every need that Mike took care of during my study. There are days that go by that our computer at home never gets turned on. Can you believe it? However, I do have two minutes now to bring things up to date.