It's not even electronic!!

When my lovely friend Katie was here, she bought us a salad spinner. Maddie was thrilled since her biggest meal option is... Salad. So one night I am spinning the lettuce, and I wounded myself, this is supposed to be an easy tool to use, then today Maddie wounded herself.....

The spinner was getting our of control.....

so Maddie put her finger in the hole to stop it...OW!!!!!

I on the other hand caught my thumb nail on my other thumb....

and scraped all the way down my thumb at a lightening quick speed!!! And it's not even electronic!!!???

Where's the pot of Gold??

We are crossing our fingers that the weather is good for Maddie's teaparty that is planned for the back yard. We watch the weather report daily hoping. We have had some wicked lightening shows, and hail and hard rain lately, so I'm thinkin there won't be any rain left by the time the date rolls around. Today we saw something you don't often see, a full rainbow! There wasn't any gold at the end of it tho'?

How do they.....

One of my favourite books as a kid was Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Well, the Caramilk chocolate bar people are making this story come to life. They have hidden 10 keys in Caramilk bars and shipped them out across Canada similar to Willy Wonka in the book.

From the official rules:

Phase 1: At the Ceremony, each of the Prize winners in attendance (the "Finalists") will have the opportunity to select a new key (the "Key"). Note that Winning Keys used to redeem the Prize cannot be used for this portion of the Contest. The order of selection by the Finalists of a Key will be based on a random draw. Each Finalist will then have a chance to try their Key in the Caramilk* "Secret" Vault. The Finalist whose Key opens the Vault will receive a cheque for $125,000 and a sealed copy of the Caramilk* "Secret".

And similar to the book, there's a twist:

Phase 2: Six months after the Ceremony, the Grand Prize winner will have the chance to win an additional $125,000. At a pre-determined time the Grand Prize winner will be required to return the still-sealed copy of the Caramilk* "Secret". Upon inspection of the sealed envelope by the Contest judging authorities to ensure the Caramilk* "Secret" envelope has not been opened, tampered with, damaged, or destroyed, the Grand Prize winner will be awarded $125,000, payable by cheque. Decision of the Contest judging authorities are final and binding in this regard.

So you must keep the Caramilk secret for six months or it costs you $125,000! Cool!

One of Maddie's Father's Day gifts for me was indeed a Caramilk bar - we all gathered around as I unwrapped the bar and attempted to crack it open..... Here was the result:


The bar was good though! Thanks Maddie!

The weekend

On Saturday we had the Hanna's over for a BBQ. They brought a gift thier favorite I.T guy :-) Pewter all the way from Costa Rico.




A good place for Scotch... (yuck)

laughing with Annabell and Cliffy

Sunday night bonfire. Summer has arrived :-)

nothing beats dogs, on a fire!

yummy.

Nostalgia at it's best

When we were in Nanton, Maddie bought a comic at the antique store. I noticed it sitting on the stairs, and I picked it up and flipped thru it. Then I turned to the back cover... haha I noticed something that needed a closer look.....

sure enuff, there was the old Polaroid Swinger.....

.....that I have in the basement!! So I ran downstairs and took a pic for you. Amazing what excites a blogger! lol

Dang! do you mean we COULD'VE had the Xray glasses instead???

The weekend in a nutshell...

We had a fun and busy weekend this past weekend. It started out with going to see Jade pitch in her Baseball tournament, they kicked butt!! and I got to see just how fast her pitch really is.... WOW, I would NOT want to be in the way of that fire! Then Saturday morn it was Ice cream in Cochrane ( sorry Carolyn it was a spur of the moment or I'd have called, just to see your smile lol ) Then on Saturday we went to a Grad party at our friends.

If you hadn't guessed this little doggy doesn't live here.... the bones are as big as she is!!

Rich, the proud grad, we gave him a card that may help in the future ;-)

from his Aunt, a familiar gift! (That's what we gave Jade)

and from Richard's GF a very special watch.

sister Kimmy grins awaiting Rich's reaction to the gift from her....

a monkey, lol with personal touches!

the Grad Bobble

Poor Dean grabbed the wrong drink out of the cooler

this is the dog that lives here, BIG difference in size! We started playing with him and the balloons and all was well, until he popped it! He ran, and shied away from them the rest of the night.

The next morning Dean and I headed to Banff, destination.... Gondola. We hadn't been on it in long time so we got our coffee and tea, and headed up.

in the newly designed Gondola's

wayyyyy up from where we started

I got a kick out of watching our shadow

now the new destination was walking to the old weather station

one man's proper shoes may not be my idea of proper shoes.

we made it over, that's where we came from

I liked the one dead tree sticking up above the world.

inside the weather station

we made it :-)

I wonder what was so special about this tree? they built the walkway around it!

back at the start, one last pic of the weather station

on the way home Monica tx'd that she was popping by, so when she arrived I invited her up for a drink..... Today was the first real summer day we have had where you want to sit on the deck all day... and that we did!! Sometimes, the most unexpected visits are the funnest! the 3 of us sat on the deck drinking wine, ( and beer, and later sambuca... ughhhh ) way into the wee hours of the night. It was good fun.... I kinda had, sort of, a headachy feeling the next day.... not sure why haha

the end of the evening, still laughing!!

Lucky Duck

Maddie's Dad came over to drop off some tea he had for her, and he asked her if she wanted to see a baby duck. We looked at him with question marks over our heads, and he said "I have a baby mallard in the car" well, sometimes ( most times ) it's hard to get a straight answer out of him, so we were waiting to see what the joke was.... but he came back to the door with... a baby duck!! He said the other ones got hit by a semi :-( but this little lucky duck was struggling to get up on the curb when Glen rescued him. He was on his way to the wild life people who can feed, and train the duck so that he can go back into the wild once he's all grown up. He was the cutest thing!

Karyn's quick visit

It makes you feel special when a friend is in town for a short amount of time.... and they make time to visit you :-) We got to see Karyn while she was in town for a wedding. Jeanne hosted a wonderful shower and we had a few ( many many ) laughs. Good times..... good friends :-)


Kate and Karyn

me and Karyn

Karyn is having a girl, but we know she will be a Tomboy, so Jeanne's gift is helping that fact.

Kate bought the cutest little runners, and a promise to take her shopping for her first pair of heels ;-)

we cut a ribbon to size, the size we thot Karyn's tummy was. Gloria was close but Gayle won. I was way off!!!

Jeanne our awesome host.

Heather brought her famous ( I'm never giving out the recipe ) fudge. And there were many other goodies to try tonight.

In a pickle

Last night Dean told me I was in a pickle, and we laughed ourselves to sleep. Why did he say this you ask, well......

I came home last night, and looked in the fridge, There is a new jar of Winnipeg style home made pickles sitting there. MMM how I wanted one of the garlic riddled gems. But ... I couldn't open the jar :-(... so I moved onto the giant jar of pickles that Dean bought when we had a pickle low... and I couldn't open it either! FINE, I say to the fridge... I'll have a damn pickled asparagus.... AND I COULDN'T GET INTO IT EITHER!!!! Grrrrr, I swore at the demon fridge, slammed the door shut and went pickless all night.... hmph