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Vancouver

We live in a temperate rain forest

June 10, 2010

Vancouver is well known for all the rain we get, but even for the locals, the last couple of weeks have been very, very, even extremely wet. It was so chilly tonight, I was tempted to turn the heat on in the house. But I refrained. Heat on in June? I just couldn’t do it.

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The Whoopee Cushion

June 9, 2010

Why didn’t I think of that yesterday? The whoopee pies were pretty well received tonight, so that’s good. Someone asked me how I made the whoopee cushions. SNORT! As you can see, Oscar takes a break from his kitty condo from time to time to take a rest in his leisure property – the Day [...]

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The Vancouver Pixely whale

June 4, 2010

Yesterday after work, I had to meet a buddy, but I had some time before meeting her, so I hiked down the new Convention Centre to see the pixely whale. I had seen it under construction, and then Kelaine sent me an article about it – and the whale was completely completed. Thankfully the rain [...]

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The severed head

May 27, 2010

Yaletown is home to a few creepy sculptures. Besides this gigantic severed head – please note Jenette on the right for scale – there’s a very disturbing sculpture by the Yaletown Skytrain station of a huge distorted horse with a tied-up man on top. The man’s feet are gigantic and he looks very downtrodden with [...]

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One word. Firemen.

May 19, 2010

How often does this happen? I leave my office on my lunch break, turn right on Granville Street, and I see this: Fireman appreciation day right on the street where I work! Glorious Community Hero Day! They had a great big boot they were filling up for a fundraiser. I dropped some monies into the [...]

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How to make your houseguests this sad.

May 18, 2010

I took our guests out on the town for some serious tourist action on Sunday. We drove into Vancouver and parked at the foot of Hornby Street (free parking all day on Sunday! YAY!) and took the little Aquabus over to Granville Island. We toured around the island, watched a sweaty street performer juggle fire [...]

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Here we are. Not having fun.

May 16, 2010

We hung out at the beach yesterday for a bit and then headed up to Burnaby Mountain for a view of the city. Clearly, we aren’t enjoying ourselves. We have also watched a whack of movies last night, including Avatar. Today we’re off to Granville Island! And we’ll ride the Aquabus! And then tomorrow we’re [...]

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They’re hhhhhhhhhheerrre…

May 15, 2010

Good thing we didn’t bother going to the trouble to make any signs. C@thy and Andrea created their own signs for us out of barf bags and some felt pens. I know! Genius! And I’ll scan them in so you can all see their hard work later. I luckily came across some princess sashes and [...]

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Hanging it up…

May 11, 2010

Looks like my Canucks jersey will be back in the closet for another season. Those stupid Blackhawks won AGAIN. This was a repeat of last season. And here we thought we’d win the Stanley Cup for sure because we heard a statistic that every Canadian city that hosted the Olympics won the Stanley cup the [...]

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Northern Voice – Day 2

May 8, 2010

Woohoo! Justin Bieber faces at the Northern Voice today. Today was another informative day with topics including tips for podcasting – which, I just may use. I have a joke I’m DYING to tell you, but because you have to hear it for maximum benefit, I think I may do a little video with radio [...]

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