Let it Snow Let it Snow Let it Snow

Stockings are Neat

So our stockings have been up for a while. For some reason, just decided to share them with you. They will likely tickle our fancy on Christmas.

Don't mess with Texas!

Boot detail...

Trees, Lights, Snow - Normal Winter Occurrences

So it is now December, which means snow shows up usually, and most people buy trees and put lights randomly around their house, both externally and internally. This is what we've been up to as it relates to those topics.


Went to the Christmas tree lot - a friend's family owns it actually. This sign was neat with the light hangin' next to it.

Meg and Norman...just hangin'...

Norman really wanted to come home with us. So we took him home and dressed him up.

The car has real bad tires, or at least not good for snow. Makes driving in situations like the one above very interesting. Where is Nuge when you need him?

Ate food at a neat little breakfast spot in Victoria - this is the view from out table.

And here are the external lights at our place...very spiritey!

Very Jiggly...

Birthday and Thanksgiving Vibrations

Had a birthday, Stevie came down, Finch came down (the Fullers were here as well), went to Seattle for Thanksgiving, and that's about it for this post. November is a great month, year after year...

It's always good to see Stevie...it had been a year! Couldn't believe that; time flies.

Went to a jazz show for the birthday, it was great! Good people, good jams, and lots of the special pasta.

Finch came up as well; got him a boo-ley. I think he enjoyed the place, except for the fights with Kayo.



Bought Finch this Elvis Chicken...it makes the most horrendous sound possibly ever.

Thanksgiving trip to see the Fullers... This is sort of a sequence, but not really. Had basically officially finished school, so the bubbly on the right is about to be cracked.

There went the cork!

So the cork landed on the roof, bounced down the roof, bounced once on the ground, and landed basically in my hand. Cool occurrence, crappy photo.

Cheers big ears! Down the hose big nose!

And now what we were all waiting for...turkey time! Poultry = 190F. This was the next day of course...

Finch and Cheddar were real anxious once the wonderful aromas kicked in. Finch was even lickin' his chops!

Mandatory self portrait with the poultry.

Thanksgiving sunset - amateur photos never do sunsets justice...

More amateur Seattle sunset photos... That includes the next photo as well.

That's all she wrote.

A Birthday, Pretty Leaves, Chores, and Dead Sal-mon

So this basically goes down monthly now, but at least it goes down. The last month has been pretty crazy, for the both of us. Here is some stuff that might Tickle Your Fancy.

Meghan had a birthday, October 19th! Here she is blowin' out candles. Photos of Meghan blowin' out candles are just great...very cheeky.

More cheeky...

Fall in these parts is absolutely lovely - look at these pretty colors.

Leaves for days...

Chores at Shawnigan...Mark manned the leaf blower!

It was late in the season, but we still saw the Sal-mon running...its called the Salmon Run, but they don't actually run. There were lots of dead Sal-mon, and it was really stinky.

The seagulls come and pick the eyes out of the Sal-mon's sockets.

This bird just decided to post up on this dead Sal-mon.

This video shows Sal-mons swimming, and likely laying eggs. They are real tired, so they don't swim much anymore. When they get to tired to even attempt to swim, they just float down the river until they wind up at their final resting place.

California Dreamin'

The following is a list of what went down on my recent trip to California (in no particular order): some drinking, golf (at the 'lark), college football, fishing, shabu, matsu, shabu again (but 50 people were in front of us so didn't eat), a bit more drinking, shabu again, and of course hangin' with family and friends. It was a great trip, but too short. Nice warm weather was also very nice.

These are the only photos I have that were worthy of a post, which is amazing since so much went down. Too busy to snap photos I suppose...

That's my sis, Katie. Was nice hangin' with her. Got to see her new apartment and met her roomies; nice people. She was at the college football game as well. We had a blast.

The college football game field. The team we were cheering for was victorious on this day.

This was a pretty fun night - the usual when hangin' with the old crew...not sure what time it was, but I do know they wanted to pass out. I only snapped four photos this night, and all of 'em were like this. I miss these guys...

You're a big strong yellowfin tuna.

This big strong yellowfin tuna tasted real nice as well.

Porpoises are pretty neat, and agile. You can see them in action below - pardon the wind.

Lately...

Been a ton going on, but nothing really exciting to report. Maybe the camera hasn't been used appropriately lately...who knows?


This is the bathroom (washroom, WC, whatever) at Shawnigan. I had a chore...painting! Meghan thought it would be a great idea to take photos of me in action! I wear contacts, and it would be a bummer to have little white spots on them.

Straight rollin'...

Throw your hands in the air [aye-yeerr].

Monkey happy.

Irish folk and whiskey in the future!

Pretty view.

We went to this thing called Feast of Fields...was amazing. Would have taken more photos, but we were busy stuffing our faces. Basically, loads of amazing restaurants show up to this gig and give you all you can eat (and drink) for $75 per head. It was presented by FarmFolk.

There were chickens there - a whole coop actually.

Here is an example of one. They seemed pretty happy.

Cheese Rolling (and lots of drinks)

So we checked out some cheese rolling in Whistler this past weekend.
I think they said it is the first event of its kind in North America, which is neat. Whistler is also neat.


We had just arrived - so I decided to snap a quick one out the hotel room window. Hangin' at the pool you see in the background was real fun the next day.

Meg's employer, TAXI, was responsible for the event - this is the first night with TAXI folk and significant others.

Probably tough to tell, but we have pretty bad hangovers...and you couldn't get a Caesar until 11:30 - it was probably 11:00 when this photo was taken.

Some people wore capes to chase the cheese.

The weather was real nice, it felt like the desert. But as you can see, we were in the mountains. That is the cheese rolling course in between the orange fences.

That is an 11 pound wheel of cheese - would have sucked to have it hit you in the head.

That's a cheese rolling hat this guy is wearing...he looks happy, maybe its the Stella.

Cheers to a successful day of cheese rolling!

That's Mike - he had a good time. He is hangin' at the fire pit.

More fire pit - what a wonderful place to drink.

Yet more fire pit. Here is Anna and Colin - very fun to hang with.

Yep, you guessed it...more fire pit. I think we left about five minutes after this photo, but I can't really remember.

Right before we left, we dipped our feet in this river. It was very chilly, but felt very refreshing.

That's the river we dipped our feet in. Nice color...

Here is a video of cheese rolling. The cheese rolling phenomenon began in England. You can click here for some of that footage.

The weekend was sure a lot of fun...can't wait until next year. More carnage can be seen here, as well as some event photos.