well, Hayden is certainly growing, he was quite happy in his new toy on Thursday. Next he will be rolling all over the place and bouncing and jumping around in bouncy toy like a crazy man

shine, shine, shine, spit, swirl, shine, spit, shine shine shine, Arianna trying to shine her air cadet boots.

well, I have now officially been 1800 feet under ground, no that's not a typo, I have had a tour of an underground uranium mine in Saskatchewan. complete with steel toed rubber boots, coveralls, a hard hat with a miners light attached, and a battery pack, and some sort of safety breathing apparatus which I have no idea how it worked. something about follow the yellow?? then I went to tour the mill where they turn the ore into a saleable uranium product worth 50 dollars a pound, there are 1000 pounds in one barrel. too bad it's so hard to carry a 1000 pound barrel of uranium. what a heist that would be. The flights there and back were pleasant much to my surprise as for the most part I don't like the completely illogical concept of flying in something that weights as much as a plane full of 29 people.

well tomorrow will be my last day at work for the next five days or so, I will be in saskatoon at the canadian chamber agm and on tuesday, I will get to fly out to maclean lake and mcarthur river lake mine sites. That should be interesting. Makes for a long day though, as we fly out at 7 am and fly back at 8 pm.

well, we went to pizza hut tonight. One of the restaurants in this City I haven't been to before, even though it has been here for many years. After today, I now know why, perhaps some instinctive esp would regularly convince us to go elsewhere and save us the experience of pizza hut in p.a. The first clue was when the waiter spilt the pepsi on the table, or maybe when they didn't give crystal a kids menu even though they have one, or maybe when we got our pizza before our appetizers or perhaps when the pizza we ordered was not the one we received and were told to eat while they made us another one. Ah yes, the benefit to all of this, we got to take home two pizza's one we wanted and didn't get to eat (at least not at the restaurant) and what was left of the one we didn't want but got to eat oh yeah and we also took home the breadsticks as while we wanted them and actually got to eat them, we were full of pizza by the time they came and so didnt eat very many. oh well, at least I have supper for the next three days!!!

well, it certainly has been a long time since our last post. Due mostly I suspect to the annoyance of dial up in rural saskatchewan. We still have dial up, but at least dial in an urban centre, just that much faster, and hopefully that will only be for a short time until I have time to phone the high speed people. Oh yeah, that would the monopoly people, sasktel. Canadian Idol this summer has just been a sorry state of affairs, especially if compared to the supernova competition, which I have to miss now, because I only have the two free channels. ahhhhh life sucks with crappy tv. Not to mention the drastedly cold that I have somehow managed to catch from somewhere. My nose is so stuffed that my teeth hurt. ahhhh, maybe I will go to bed, and get some sleep, my nose can't possibly be as stuffed tommorrow as it is today.

well it's a done, done, done deal. Taste of Prince Albert is over, with a 10 percent increase in ticket sales over the previous best year's ticket sales the event was a great success, over 9000 people in four days, with ten restaurants and thirty menu choices, great weather, great local entertainment and a super promotional job.

whew, do my feet hurt or what, oh yes they certainly do. From 7:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. all day long on my feet, organizing the taste of prince albert, where food is tantalizing and the entertainment is interesting and exceptional all for only 1.25 a token, as opposed to 2.00 a token in Saskatoon, albeit the choices are many more as we have ten restaurants and saskatoon has more participating.

So the whole thing about the superstore adds to attract people to Alberta is annoying. Perhaps Saskatchewan should run an ad stating "move to saskatchewan where living is still affordable." and guess what there's work too.

well, the first batch of clover blossoms are boiling for tea. The field is full of blossoms so it will be pick, pick, pick for the next while. The black pansy jelly is fabulous. with access to more flowers for each batch the flavor and color is more intense and quite delightful. Now, just to order some jars for the syrup and the jelly. Then I have an opportunity to display them at the tourism centre in pa and a small organic restauant in the city is interested in trying a few things. If only I had the time to concentrate more on the flowers. oh well!

well, I am going to be on the telly tommorrow. Ctv at lunch time i believe. what to wear, what to wear, my oh my, what to wear?

ho ho ho, it's off to work we go, soooo is that work all day in prince albert or work in the garden with the pansies, or work in the house with the meals and the cleaning or work with the papers, ho ho ho it's off to work, work, work, we go.

Congratulations to Carmen and Dan, a great baby girl, a sister for Hannah and between her and hannah probably a lot of trouble for cousin hayden when they visit.

bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz whine bzzzzzzzzzzzzzz whine, I think perhaps someone has let in some mosquitos. why do you suppose they only come out just a split second before you fall asleep, only to be so rudely awakened by that annoying little sound. I think I would be happier if they would just bite and get it over with rather than circling for hours looking for the tenderest spot to munch on.

rain, rain rain and more rain, I believe tuesday is going to be sunny, hope their right. Fun Food and Golf onf Thursday, so better not be raining.

well, it's off to the head and neck specialist in Saskatoon to check out the old lumpy thyroid. June 21st is the day, hopefully he will be able to tell me something and not just line up a whole battery of tests that will take another six weeks from which to get results. A surgery date to simply make it go away would be nice.

well, caragana jelly is quite interesting tastes a lot like lemon meringue pie. Very light color though.

well, the lilac flower jelly is very tasty almost addictive it is sooo good. We are only in need of some certo and we can try some caragana flower jelly tomorrow. Much more fun than fighting off the black ants which seem to have decided our house is their house. WE will fix them tommorrow too when the ant traps come out. ha ha ha. I am not even really sure where they are coming from as I haven't seen any ant hills nearby. perhaps they are lurking in the basement and are planning an acttack on us because we are eating the flowers. I can just see it now, Alfred Hitchcock's The Ant's

ok, soooooo, maybe making jelly from lilac flowers is well, perhaps a little less than yummy. or at least the juice that we made prior to making the jelly is a bit questionable. but then, pansy juice is a little vegtable tasting as well, and makes a great jelly. go figure. We shall now the truth tommorrow when we turn the lilac juice into lilac jelly.

It's official as of June 5th, I will be the CEO for the Prince Albert Chamber of Commerce. That will make life even busier than it already is. The chickweed is back, how about some bacon, tomato and chickweed sandwiches.

o where o where has my little dog gone, oh where oh where can he be, with his tail cut short and his ears so long, oh where oh where can he be. do you suppose that the more nursey rhymes one knows and can recite the less stressful the real world becomes.