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Thursday, August 17, 2006

 
11:02 PM: the return of the keen [#] [9]

we're back from canada, and like the last post, it's likely to be a run-on sentence in no particular order, but this time with a picture:

sven wanted to show me kim graham's studio in georgetown but she wasn't there; the canadians were quite dubious about trixie, though edmonton was a little more receptive; sven never got to go to the thing he was most looking forward to -- the royal tyrell museum -- because he was on what we call the "drumheller diet" which is very similar to a horrible sickness i had when i first moved to portland; we ate a LOT on this trip and i tried to chicken feet at dim sum, but it turns out my cholsterol levels dropped enough despite all that to surprise everyone at my doctor's office, though i still have issues with triglycerides & i'll be on lipitor for a few more months; there was a labyrinth in a neighbor's yard; we watched the perseids from the world's smallest state park until the moon washed out the sky; as we arrived at the dalles we fell right into neon nights, a customized car parade, and trixie almost fit in, which was good because it took forever to get down the 6 streets that make up downtown; waterslide!; we might possibly have seen the northern lights, but maybe they were clouds; we made a diversion to kelowna and okanagan university, somewhere i went to for a week when i was working for webct; we walked down a railroad track to skip stones across a sandy river; i freaked out a little in the mountains during a rainstorm with huge semis barelling down on me but i felt better after i put earplugs in; saskatoon berry and nanaimo ice cream; we should have stayed at the "disneyland" castle/hotel in banff rather than the cabin with two broken lights, no hot water and the key broken off in the lock; ravens are BIG and i now understand why they're so prominent in nw native legends; edmonton has an unusually large number of pyramids; excellent scrabble game & tea shop; the swing of the century, carousels & a virtual fighting game at the west edmonton mall; homemade chocolate chip cookies for breakfast almost every day; wild turkeys and a rocky mountain bighorn sheep escaping the hordes of tourist cameras; a still & quiet lake w/ a shouting boat on the other side; vulcan is pretty boring; boy, we took a lot of pictures i'm still sifting through; i finally replaced the dsl modem and our network is working again.

also worth noting is that we stayed with the incredibly wonderful schewger-bell family on this trip:



thanks, culley, steve, salix, linnea, violet & paisley! they were great hosts, kind enough to make great breakfasts for us when we finally made it upstairs, including a stack of orange chocolate-chip pancakes with a candle on my birthday. did i mention it was my birthday? well, it was. happy 33 to me!

Comments:

Exactly 33! Happy to you! Birthday!

# posted by  Carl Caputo : Fri Aug 18, 04:10:00 PM PDT

 

thanks, carl!

# posted by  gl. : Fri Aug 18, 10:40:00 PM PDT

 

i'm already on lipitor, have been for years.

# posted by  xire : Sat Aug 19, 09:38:00 AM PDT

 

really? how many years? i feel badly about it, like i failed somehow. so i'm still playing around w/ my diet because it's sort of an interesting experiment, but the exercise part of the equation is still not really happening.

# posted by  gl. : Sat Aug 19, 09:51:00 AM PDT

 

Happy Birthday, a bit belated! And the Town of Vulcan boring? How so, when they have "Nine in a Line"! (I'm going to have to go clean the coffee off the monitor after seeing that!)

and Scott's family name is Ingram -- which means Raven of Ing, the Norse god of fertility and peace. We don't have ravens in this part of TX, and we miss them.

It sounds like you had a good trip!
(Thank Thor for "preview" -- how I managed to type 's for every word ending in "s", I'll never know.
(and thor probably has nothing to do with proofreading, but it was alliterative.)

xxujec

# posted by  S. Brown : Sat Aug 19, 10:04:00 AM PDT

 

Your birthday poem is beautiful, Gretchin. Thirty-three is a good year to enjoy, may it be your best yet.

# posted by  Shelley Noble : Sat Aug 19, 10:40:00 AM PDT

 

Um, since before we moved? i have a terrible sense of time, so i can't tell you when i started taking it.

Amelia and i are on the south beach diet. it seems to be working.

# posted by  xire : Sun Aug 20, 05:21:00 PM PDT

 

Dear Gretchen,

It took me a week to gather enough neurones together in cooperation to realize how to issue a comment on your blog.

Formatted as it is the comment link is a filter against the stupid.

Love,
Cheeseburger Brown

# posted by  Cheeseburger Brown : Thu Aug 24, 11:02:00 AM PDT

 

hey, cheeseburger! the comment thing is more like an affectation, i suppose: rather than begging for comments i sort of whisper that they might be available over there if it's not too much trouble and if you wouldn't mind.

i'm SO glad to see you writing again!

# posted by  gl. : Fri Aug 25, 10:44:00 AM PDT

 

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