Thinking Out Loud

It snowed for two days.  I called it a blizzard.  According to environment Canada though, if I understood the weather report, we were having a heavy snow fall.  You need to have falling snow, winds over 50 km/hr and extreme cold weather and wind chill.  It was actually only about -5 degrees, so we didn’t qualify.  But our heavy snowfall (read blizzard here – my opinion) did close all of the highways, and pretty much made driving in the city impossible.

Here’s some photos:

where's the car

My car is under there someplace.

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So I’m stuck inside having fun doing some digital artwork.  So what do I draw?

Something warm and tropical one would think, but I decided on snow.  Here’s the WonderDog goofing around.

Snow Bandit

Sometime around 5:00 am last Sunday morning, a loud crack of thunder woke me up rather suddenly. Bandit, the courageous guard dog that he is, immediately jumped up onto the bed to assure me that it was not the end of the world. Read the rest of this entry »

It probably falls into the “you had to be there” category, but here goes anyway.

The other night, there was an annoying little moth fluttering about the living room while I was watching TV.  It alternated between crawling on the television screen and circling the lamp on the coffee table.  Bandit the wonder dog watched it with extreme interest.  Read the rest of this entry »

Or, if you weren’t in the predicament, you would say “My tongue is stuck to the rock”

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All was well and good, and kinda funny while the dog was licking his hand. Read the rest of this entry »

When I bought my camera, I managed to convince the salesman to throw in a remote control. I didn’t know why I wanted it, I just wanted it because I wanted it.

I had never used it, but it was supposed to let me take a photo from as far as 25 feet away. So, when someone said they wanted a family photo while we were in Edmonton, I thought it was the chance to try it out. Read the rest of this entry »

I started writing this post when I got back to Calgary, but never had time to finish it until now…

Ivy, Natasha, Bandit and I decided that a day trip to Banff was in order and set out at about 10:00 towards the mountains.

I had originally planned on doing the “tourist” thing in the town of Banff for a while (mostly for Ivy’s sake, because I thought she would like to look at some of the little shops there) but the Town of Banff decided that this was the week to literally rip up the main street from one end to the other to replace the storm sewer. It certainly didn’t resemble the scenic little village you see on the post cards and TV shows. After traveling through about six blocks of major construction, I was fed up, and just wanted to move on. Read the rest of this entry »

I more than hate them. I despise them. I do not understand their purpose on this world. I hate when I see one, and I hate more when I see one on me.

Wood ticks are arachnids. That is a spider as far as I’m concerned. Right after wood ticks, spiders are second on my list of bugs I don’t want to see. Ever. Read the rest of this entry »

Been a long time since I’ve added anything new here.

The dog and I went for a walk today. That’s not unusual. I decided I would once again try to take some photos in Happy Valley, even though I had Bandit with me.

The ducks fascinate him. Today, he was determined he was going to get close to them. Bandit’s natural stocking instincts are a little rusty, but he did manage to get within a few feet of the birds before they flew away. Read the rest of this entry »