Power Outages and a foot a white stuff to play in!

So we got dumped on Sunday evening..about a foot of snow...Victoria and the rest of the South Coast has all continued to get more snow...We lost our power Sunday night and just got it back last night around 9pm....It was minus 6 ish last night!!!!! and the windchill was way way down there.

We moved our mattress out to the living room and camped out next to the fireplace and brought out all the blankies and candles. It was so much fun. When the power came back on we just continued with our power out night in the dark. Oh but we did turn on the radio when we were able to.

It has been sooo peaceful. Nice blanket of white snow covering everything and absorbing all the sound...very few cars, being very slow, the sound of kids playing, no t.v. or anything. Just ourselves and our pets. Its so nice to have times like these. I have quite enjoyed it..Although don't get me wrong, I am quite looking forward to a hot bath. Lots of people still have power out, like about 20, 000 residents are still without power..wholey cow!

So 1986, 1996, and now 2006 Victoria has had big snow storms. But this year some are still recovering from massive flooding from all that rain and also problems from the major winds we had.

Sunday evening right after my last post, the power went out and the snow started, Ryan didn't get home until yesterday arund 3 It was just Tess, Ike, Meekah and myself..... I got the fire going good all day and Tess had a blast playing out in the snow...she just kept doing spins and throwing the snow everywhere..the snow is still continuing to entertain Tessa..she does her spins in it everytime we let her out, its quite cute and funny.

Blogger won't let me post photos I guess I'm over my quota now or something(understandable). If you want to see snow photos go to Alison's site or I will put some on my 'Buzznet' which is on the right side bar.

I'm home from Tofino now

Hi..I went away to Tofino with the four guys I support and a co-worker..we took the guys up for a weekend getaway to Tofino and stayed at a nice quaint hotel for the past two nights. It started to snow in Tofino (and the rest of the wet coast) yesterday morning so it was a possibility that we would be stuck there longer than planned. BUT we braved the conditions and drove the 5 or so hours back to Victoria.....It was crazy blizzardy out there...There's a lot of snow in some spots...the worst of it was probably between Port Alberni and Nanaimo although the whole island was hit and Vancouver was apparently hit even harder.

So they dropped me off in Colwood and I bussed out to our house..And guess what Ry was my bus driveer out to Sooke so I got to spend a half hour or so with him kinda sorta..... he's sleeping in town tonight cause it'll be too icy for him to drive out here when he's off and he just has to work again early tomorrow morning anyway, so he is camping out at sister Alison's house in town. My car is stranded in Brentwood Bay.

So all alone with no car in Sooke..well thats a lie I have my kids here with me (sorry Tessa, Ike and Meekah..how thoughtless that was of me).

Tofino was fun..Andrew and I got up early yesterday morning (before the snow) and it was a nice, clear and cold morning...we walked down to long beach and spent a good amount of time down there..Drew enjoyed filling his pockets with all sorts of shells and it was a blast watching him pick up gigantic peices of driftwood and running down to the ocean and chucking them into the water...He was definatly in his element! Probably one of his favorite things to do! I got some fantastic photos of him on the beach.

What else did we do? We ate a lot of very good food, watched a lot of T.v, wondered around Roy Henry Vickers Art Gallery(I love his paintings!!!), built a snowman, and enjoyed the sights and eachother's company.

So I'm happy to be home but I am sad to see that the snow has pretty much melted out here in Sookeland...I don't think we got very much snow at all here which is weird..we usually get more than in town. I was looking forward to taking Tessa for a walk in it. I won't complain though I'm just happy to have made it home. Its now my weekend. Yippee!!!!

Hope everybody had a good weekend and hope you are staying safe in those aweful driving conditions. By the way I heard it was like 17 and sunny in Toronto is this true???????????

Bye for now:)

PS. If you go to my sister, Alison's blog, you can read about how Ry got stuck in the snow while driving his bus, outfront of her apartment!! pretty funny!!!!!!!! and you can see some photos of all the snow!!

A photo to share with you all

A friend emailed me this...enjoy:)

What a fun night girls;)

Its so nice to be able to be your goofy self and just have a good time and these girls are so easy to do that with...I feel so comfortable with them and its really great..I had a blast Sat. night you guys!

slow down everybody's moving too fast

Slowing down and taking it all in...Living in the moment..I absolutley loved this post from Dr- psy..it explains much of what I've been thinking about a lot these days..so it was really cool to read this..Thank you:)

Living room.....trying to find the right set-up

We fininshed painting and slowly decorating our living room ...moving stuff around etc......what do u think?

Oh and yay I found a couple nice dressy outfits (I'm following in your footsteps Celeste..and posting pics of my new goods)










and here's a really cute and funny video for you

Living in the now and letting what is is

Another simple post(besides the title). I am going shopping for clothes, a new bra, underwear, a hairdryer(mine broke 2 days ago)....oh and a lint remover...wish me luck. I really need new clothes I have been putting it off....so here I go..Hopefully I'll find everything I need at one or two stores:) Also note to self:pick up bottle o'wine for romantic dinner with Ryno. Happy Friday to all...Enjoy your day today.

random is waht this post is

2 quick videos

very short 'It was all Yellow' painting video

very short video of Owen calling me auntie-body!! lol

Eskimo Kisses

love you Owen xox can't wait to see you soon

Tessa's new friend

As I was saying, my parents were down this weekend and brought Kayla with them for the first time. Other than the initial putting eachother in their place stuff and some jealousy(u can see quite clearly in this photo) they got along quite well. Its nice to know that we can visit eachothers houses with the kids from now on.

What do you think about Pictionary? I love it it is my favorite game...but we rarely play it cause a certain somebody is bitter towards the game because I was mean one time when we were playing. I told him I have matured since then.lol anyway I love pictionary...Sarah, Chris...remember our pictionary summer? that was a blast...ahhh good times, good times!
wow I am on a posting frenzy

Whiffin Spit Photos from last week

Whiffin Spit is a very nice place for walking and enjoying nature. Unfortunatly the lovely view across the way kinda takes away from the tranquility of it all(see photo). Its very sad to look out and see the development happening in East Sooke in this particular spot. This was not necessary. For the people who live in Sooke Whiffin Spit is one of the special places to go and take your dogs for walks and enjoy the outdoors

When we were on our walk, we reached the end of the spit and we were sitting and enjoying watching the seals play and listening to the birds and the ocean and then we started to hear machinery digging and crap and instead of looking across at the trees in East Sooke Park, you are looking at a big clearing where houses are going to be built. I don't like it...I just want the trees back. Why did they have to do this there...stooooopid. I know development is necessary but I don't think it should have happened here.

Little B

Here's B (Leah and Rich's little girl) in her Halloween costume. Leah put her in her costume after Halloween for photos and Bailey was excited to dress up all over again...I've never seen a chld as young as her enjoy putting on a Halloween costume... I love you and miss u already B:)can't wait to see you!

family and friends not here anymore and Ry's gone too..alone time here I come

Hello alone time..It seems like we haven't seen eachother in quite some time.. I'm sorry, but I have been having so much fun without you.

First Leah came over for two nights and three days..Erika was here for one of the three as well. We were busy painting and enjoying eachother's company. And then I worked and then Leah came back over for two more nights:) and then she left and I worked more and then my parents came from Nanaimo and my sister Alison came over too. So I haven't really missed you that much.

I've been enjoying the company of everybody..its been fun. But now that we are together again, I am happy to see you. I have time to catch up on my blog and to do some reading. I get to sprawl across the whole entire bed tonight...(this is me trying to be happy about sleeping alone..I really don't like it). Ry is taking the ferry to Vancouver after he's off work tonight...so I will be all alone until Thursday:( I will make the most out of it though

hmmm. so I don't have to work until Wednesday at 5pm! yippee doodle!!!!! so umm I have so many things I've thought about blogging about..so much has been going on and so many random thought moments that I've wanted to share but haven't had the time to write them down..So maybe some things will come back to me over the next couple of days.

Its looks like it is just gonna rain so I'm gonna stay at home and be lazy. I wish somebody would delever me cheeseburgers. I was reading doggas blog about mcdonalds and I know how disgusting it is but I always crave it after a night of drinking. Why is it that a greasy burger helps cure a hangover? So today is one of those days..but I am still in my pajamas and don't want to go anywhere.

I don't like to cook for just me so chances are I won't end up cooking anything...what should I do for dinner then..hmmm... leftover roast beef ..no I don't like the same tihng two days in a row. Bring me cheesemurmers. this craving will not go away....umm yes it will go away this craving will go away! monitor your thought Lindsay!! remember..the law of attraction!!! I'm probably going to do lots of posts over the next couple days...hopefully I have lots of brilliant thoughts to share with y'all

Painting fun

Welcome to Bloggy-Land Pocket Sized Sista!

My Sister, Alison started her very own blog a few days ago....SO YOU GUYS ...go give her a big bloggy welcome!

Love you Alley Walley Walison

xoxoxoxoxo

and may we have loads of bloggy goodness in the future!!!!


sorry I'm late with this Alley....I'm sure you understand though with the painting madness going on over here...right now we are waiting for a coat to dry then we get to apply our final coat yippe!! then the living room is done!! Thanks to Leah for all your painting skillz you rock!

crazy crazy flooding neverending rain

Its been raining like torentual downpour monsoon rain. Its bucketing down. Our suntube has a drip and just outside the entrance to our house there is a deep puddle..not in our house..but close and scary close. Too much water for the gutters and drainage to keep up its all flooding over.

Sooke Rd. has a five ft deep puddle on it in front of Westcoast Tirecraft. Soooo traffic is majorly backed up and people aren't making it through the big puddle so are needing to get towed out. Traffic is nutso out there. What really sucks is that Leah and Erika are coming to visit. I hope they get through ok and safely. Maybe Erika will have second thoughts about the drive out here.

Poor Ryan...he drives the city bus and he just called and said traffic lights are out everywhere. and he said he''s driving through lakes. To top it off his destination sign is broken so it says 'not in service' and there are no backup buses so he has to pull into each stop and explain this to the people waiting.....What a day!

I also just talked to our neighbour and her store she works at is completely flooded...she came home to pick up the camera for insurance photos..So many many people is busy out there fighting floods! Good luck to you!

Why don't the newscasters cry when they read about people who die?

A billion people died on the news tonight
But not so many cried at the terrible sight
Well mama said
It's just make believe
You can't believe everything you see
So baby close your eyes to the lullabies
On the news tonight

Who's the one to decide that it would be alright
To put the music behind the news tonight
Well mama said
You can't believe everything you hear
The diegetic world is so unclear
So baby close your ears
On the news tonight
To the news tonight

The unobtrusive tones on the news tonight
And mama said
Mmm

Why don't the newscasters cry when they read about people who die
At least they could be decent enough to put just a tear in their eyes
Mama said
It's just make believe
You cant believe everything you see
So baby close your eyes to the lullabies
On the news tonight

-Jack Johnson

i just can't quite get 'em all! sorry these are so overdue