Thank you.. thankyouverymuch

Thank you.. thankyouverymuch

I know I know. Don't say it. It's been a month and half. I know.

If you've got any complaints you can talk to the big boss. The one with the sideburns and glasses pictured above.

There are about 50 new pics up on the Flickr site. I haven't organized them too much. But there is the Hot Tub Set, the Nature Walk Set and a few Halloween shots. That only covers about 30 shots. You can view all of those plus about 20 other new ones on the main photo stream.

Winter has come early it seems so expect lots of snowball fights and sledding shots as the season progresses.

Hope everyone enjoys the photos!

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Big Arse Pumpkin

Big Arse Pumpkin

I don't use my cameraphone too often (the quality sucks) but I was glad to have it when I noticed this guy in front of me on my way into Newmarket!  You'd need a chainsaw to carve it!

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Weddings, Hummingbirds and Las Vegas Baby!

As unbelievable as it may sound, I've managed to get off my duff and actually post some more photos. We had a great time at Crystal and Derek's wedding and at the open house up at Paul and Wandy's place. I managed to get a few nice shots. You can check the set of photos out by clicking here. And don't forget that you can view it as a slideshow once you get there (look for a 'view as slideshow' link on the upper right when you get there.)

We also had a great trip out to Vegas. I got a decent round of golf in with Howie and the scenery was just superb. We didn't lose a lot of money (hard to do when you're playing the nickel slots) and had a wonderful time. The Vegas set of photos is right here.

I even managed to get a few decent photos of the flowers and the hummingbirds at Ruthe and Howie's. For that set of photos click here.

Well whatta ya know... finally a blog update!

As always, it took a threatening email from a close relative (in this case Aunty Sandy) before I got off my duff and uploaded new pics.

I've uploaded a few new soccer pics. Em got her first GOAL on her last day of soccer. Of course Daddy was too busy clapping and cheering to have taken any pictures of that moment!

A heaping helping of pics from our recent week off in Haliburton makes up the rest of it. There are loads of great shots from that week.

We had Sarah doing her best Jerry Lewis impression with Uncle's dollar store reading glasses, we had Emily doing her utmost to be both fashionable and beautiful and then to our surprise we had the UFO sighting pic. Emily seems to have loved Grandma's expression on that one! While not a great photo by any means, I don't think it will be forgotten.

And Grandma... the 'sumo' pic didn't get uploaded and will remain in my possession for safe-keeping. Unless of course someone is willing to pay me a hefty sum for it! It's currently locked away in the 'warm-a-tron'. :)

Fiddling with photos and the new Ride!

As you may or may not have noticed, I am fooling around with the header at the top of this blog. I'm not sure I like it the way it is. I may fiddle some more... In the meantime, here's a couple of photos of my new ride!! It's a 2007 Kia Rio Ex-Sport. It drives quite nicely, eases the pain at the gas station and most importantly Emily likes it! :)

Playing Catch-Up

Believe it or not, there are now almost 250 new photos up on the Flickr site as of this morning. I won't go into what they all are, but I'll point you to the various photo sets for you to check out at your leisure. Hopefully it won't be another 3 month dry spell before posting new ones! Here are the sets:

Myrtle Beach 2007 vacation shots

Various Em and Sarah photos from February 2007

Various Em and Sarah photos from March 2007

The Combo birthday party in March in Gilford

Various Em and Sarah photos from April 2007 (this one has the darling hat and bandana pics!)

Easter egg painting pics from April 2007

Mark's visit from April 2007

Shots of our recent Niagara Falls mini-trip

Some more of Emily's skating pics


Phew!

No new pics, but learn something useful instead!

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There are two types of Internet users, those that use RSS and those that don't. This video is for the people who could save time using RSS, but don't know where to start.

While I haven't uploaded any new pics in quite a while, I do have quite a few sitting on my home PC just waiting for me to get off my butt and post. It'll happen soon. But in the meantime, here's a little education for you:

Right now, the vast majority of internet users go around to their favourite websites (blogs, news sites, whatever) every once in a while to see if anything new has been posted. If you're checking this one every once in a while you must be getting pretty P.O'd that nothing new has been posted. ;)

Wouldn't it be good if all those websites automatically provided any updated posts and content to you, instead of you having to check them all every once in a while?

Every time one of those sites (like this blog) puts up a new post, or article, or news story, the info would be forwarded for you to read (or ignore). You wouldn't have to visit those sites to see the updated info unless you wanted to.

That's exactly what RSS is for. Rather than me wasting time trying to explain it, you should watch the above video.

And I'll try to get more Emily and Sarah pics up on the site soon enough.

The three of us are off to Niagara Falls for a mini-mini vacation this weekend. Let's hope the weather holds up and Emily can properly enjoy the sights.

Hope everyone is doing well.

Before I get in any more trouble....

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Before I get smacked down again by the currently flu-ridden Aunty Sandy, I thought I'd better get crackin' and post some more photos. I've got lots of them but going through them and posting them hasn't been as high up my to-do list as it should've been. So here we go with the first of a few new posts over the next week or so.

Two weeks into the new year we had Emily's 5th birthday party for her friends. We had it at a play place down in Concord. There was an abundance of bouncing, running, climbing and pizza-eating. All in all, a great success. After the party, Paul, Sandy, Sarah, Steve, Sam, Meridith, Jen, Emily and I (phew!) headed over to a brand new (and hence happily quiet) Tim Horton's for some Timbits, coffee and tea. It was good fun and I managed to get a few more good shots of the kids before we headed into the big-arse Vaughan Mills Mall for a little shopping.

We had a great time with Sam, Steve and Meredith during their visit. Hopefully it won't be too long before we get to see them (and more precisely Meredith) again. ;)

And Sandy, take care of yourself and that little one. Hopefully you can pull yourself out of bed and/or away from the toilet long enough to enjoy the pictures. :)

Paul - Get Back Home!

Holidays, Birthdays and Celebrations!

It's been a busy holiday season with Christmas, Emily's 5th birthday, New Years, Ev's 100th birthday and the visitors from England to top it all off. Needless to say I snapped lots of pics. I finally managed to upload some of them so you can check them out here:

Ev's 100th Birthday Photos
New Years in Lockport
Dinner at Ruthies

There are a few more still to do, most notably Ev's dinner at the Quaint House and Emily's first foray into skating. But those will have to wait for now...