Are Canadian tourists damaging Antarctica?

I saw this on Scrappershaven.ca and thought it was great :)

For those not in Canada, Tim Hortons is like a drug to Canadians....Moms can't do the school run without a 'Timmys' coffee....no trip to the store is complete with a Tim Hortons break :) The drive thru coffee shops are like Starbucks in the UK - practically on every street corner :)

Emily Yeung.........

Emily Yeung was at Disney Worlds Magic Kingdom today...and then behind the scenes in the costume design department at MGM Studios.....

I want to be back at Disney World :(

Empire of the sun.......

Last night we curled up and watched Steven Spielberg's Empire of the Sun.....I remember when it came out in theatres....I went to see it three times in the first week! I even had to pay for my friend Nicky to go just so she would go with me - and she was bored silly lol! I just fell in love with that movie - I thought it was just amazing....

I haven't watched it for a while and Lloyd had never watched it all the way through, so we sat and wtached and he loves it too...and I still think it is one of the best movies ever made......

Funny to think that the little boy in the movie is now Batman!

My favourite scene is when the Americans are bombing the Japanese runway and Jim is running about on the rooftop yelling "B-51...Cadillac of the sky........."

Great movie :)

Oh and for the first time, we spotted Ben Stiller in it...he only has one tiny scene but it was definitely him :)

Alberta bound............

Sign said 40 miles to Canada

My truck tore across Montana
Ian Tyson sang a lonesome lullaby
And so I cranked up the radio
Cause there's just a little more to go
For I'd cross the border at that Sweet Grass sign
I'm Alberta Bound

This piece of heaven that I've found
Rocky Mountains and black fertile ground
Everything I need beneath that big blue sky
Doesn't matter where I go
This place will always be my home
Yeah I've been Alberta Bound for all my life
And I'll be Alberta Bound until I die

It's a pride that's been passed down to me
Deep as coal mines, wide as farmer's fields
Yeah, I've got independence in my veins
Maybe it's my down-home redneck roots

Or these dusty 'ol Alberta boots
But like a Chinook wind keeps coming back again

Paul Brandt-©Foothillbilly/Gianfoothillbilly-BMI/SOCAN 2003

future tv presenters.......

Yesterday the children spent HOURS playing with the boxes the groceries came in........they turned one into a tv and took turns being weather girls and news reporters...they even made buttons for the tv and a remote contril so they could switch each other off and turn the volume up! Then they made cars and boats and space ships...and this mroning Abigail came into the bedroom first thing in her space ship!!!

Ruby slipper card..............

Rhonda!!

Hi Rhonda...you are a permanent reader of the blog now so it shouldn't run out at all so just ignore any emails that say it has run out :) Let me know if you ahve any problems though.....

Also I can't change your username - you will have to do that...when you write a comment it should ask which name you want to use - so you can click 'other' and then write in the name you want to go by.....but unfortunately I can't do anything this end!

HTH :)

I loved th epicture of the Elk bridge you sent me yesterday! Thank you!

At last!

Christie will be proud of me!!! FINALLY I got a new broom lol....I know Christie was disgusted by my old broom when she looked after the house in January...the old broom even had a big gap in the middle of it so that all the bits in the centre never got caught by it anyway...well I have a new broom :)

And the winner is.......

The winner of the altered playing card contest is:




NO ONE!!!!!!!

Not one of you entered!!!! So I don't get to send a little prize to anyone!

Oh well.....I thought it would be a fun idea but I guess not!

altered tube....

I turned this old cardboard tube into a money box for the iron chef contest...I decided to make it a money box for saving for 'bling' (ie the real bling - diamonds!!!!) I had to use bling and a monogram on the item....I embossed the lid and cut a money slot in it......

I think I will enter this instead of the explosion box......although I love explosion boxes, I am not happy with how I used the contest ingredients on it..........