My Funny Baby

My son and his wife stopped over tonight for a bit, they brought me a loveseat and chair for my basement which is fantastic. They are making room for baby things and I have the room.

I was holding my granddaughter and she was trying to fuss, her bottom lip was sticking out and she was wanting to cry but got way to tired, she was fighting sleep but ended up dozing off sitting up like this, it was hilarious!

Fall

I find it rather interesting how I have no trees on my front lawn (unfortunately), yet I'm raking up tons of leaves. Both neighbors on either side of me have trees and who knows, maybe next year I'll have a tree or two of my own.

The Drive to School

 I could actually call this the drive to get to almost anyplace I go...I have to take the freeway to head to school, to downtown, or to anyplace that's not further south of me. I love the freeway. At times I forget momentarily that I'm in the city when I drive down this road. It's beautiful and when it's not rush hour I don't generally hit a lot of traffic. I now wonder why they call it rush hour when it lasts for two hours... hmmm.

What Happened?

So much for my clean desk, it's that time of year where I'm trying to organize my classes and assignments. It's going to all come together I'm sure and one day this desk will be cleaned off again... like in 2 years!

There's a saying that says that a clean desk is the sign of a sick mind, so I guess I'm alright!

Right on, I'm back up and running and now can post once again. I had to figure out this new thing that they've done to blogger and I guess that I got lucky and hit one of the right keys so I'm back. I'll catch up on posting as soon as time permits.

Cheers!

Blogger Issues are Frustrating!

Is anyone else having problems uploading photos? I've been trying for quite a while now and am giving up for tonight, for some reason I can get to "upload photo" but the screen won't load up... grrrrr. Oh well, I can always catch up another night, will try again tomorrow.

HELP! Sideways Sunset Sunday

I can't figure out how to flip or rotate this photo, I've tried to decrease the size but for some odd reason it keeps coming up this way and I don't have all day to figure it out, any suggestions?

Metis Sash

Tonight, along with approximately 40 other students from Alberta, I was presented with my Metis sash. The sash has a rich, colorful history and I am extremely proud to have this, it's a real honor. I was presented this sash at the Belcourt Brosseau Metis Awards celebration. The music was traditional with violins and guitars and the meal was fantastic! There were seven salads and three or four types of meat plus all the fixins', the Metis know how to feed people!

My daughter accompanied me to this celebration, thank you Michelle. As it turned out I was the first one on stage to accept my sash and my daughter wasn't ready with the camera so she snapped a shot on the big screen, so here you have it... I finally made it to the big screen!  :-)

I will wear this sash with honor and pride, I am an extremely proud Metis lady.

Edmonton Oilers All Season Gnome

Both of my sons are die hard Edmonton Oiler's hockey fans, I think that between both of them they have everything ever made with the Oilers logo on it. I had to chuckle at my middle sons gnome, I've seen it before but with the sun hitting it the way it was it looked funny. This gnome has all seasons covered, first off he's a gnome, that takes care of spring/summer, in the fall he proudly adorns my sons landing in support of the Oiler's and in winter, around the Christmas season, this cute little bugger has the Santa beard. Yup, only in Alberta an all season gnome! 

Oh and the number painted on it, well that's my son's favorite player!

All In A Day

 First thing this morning I drove across the city to help out with a catering job, I didn't have a class until 1pm. I finished up work around 12:30 and just made it in time to get to class. 

After I was finished at the University this is what the traffic looked like, it was bumper to bumper all along Whyte Ave., but I don't travel along this road long. I drove for about 15 - 20 minutes then I hit the freeway, I was home free. Once I'm on this road it doesn't take me long to get home. 

I love the freeway, it reminds me of getting out of the city, speaking of which... I think that it's time real soon for a road trip out to the farm. Have books, will travel!

Life is astounding...oops,  break is over, it's time to get back to the reading for at least another hour!

Time To Winterize

This morning it was chilly out there, as you can see my car windows were covered in frost. I got to wondering it it's time to winterize, it seems a tad bit too early for that and sure enough this evening the sun is shining down on us, it's warm out there and the extended forecast is a gorgeous weekend followed with seasonal average temperatures and hopefully no more frost until at least November... this is nuts!

I'll hold off on the winterizing for a while yet and hope that this morning that someone only pissed off Mother Nature for a little bit and that she's over it now.