Scant news to be had from snowy Cochrane this past week (that's right - snowy Cochrane. My gleeful boasting that spring was on the way has come back and smacked me right in the ass once more, we're on another "weather warning" tonight from the weather office, with 15cm predicted, and up to 25cm in localised areas, all by tomorrow morning - It April 20th for God's sake!!! I WANT TO BIKE).
We're off to Lethbridge this weekend for the first round of the Alberta Mountain Bike Cup, so that'll be good (and piss freezing no doubt). Had a good ride out on the weekend with Brad, ending on a closed road up in the mountains, tres windy made for interesting bike handling on the decents, - it's all good and well having an awesome light bike - that is until it gets blown away in the gales (with you straddling it).
A bite was had at a Tibetean restaurant in the week to celebrate Portland Ken's 36th birthday which was all very social.
The best news of the week comes from the wife.... Brina was out at Canadian Tire (a big store much akin to B&Q for those not in the know about Canadian hardware retailers) and she waltzed into the garden centre area of the store - and got locked in! So there she was, stranded all alone amongst the gnomes, singing wishing wells and clamatis. The doors failed to let her out and the only other exit was firmly padlocked shut. It took a serious amount of banging and screaming on the doors, as well as an intense bout of panicking (one pee two pee), before the security cameras picked her up to send somebody to her aid. They must have thought there was a crazy lady in there from the noise she was making (or maybe thought that one of the little gnomes had come to life like a frenzied little deamon).
I think this is the first post sans picture - sorry, next time we'll post a load - I tried to take some of the deers out front this morning in the snow, but they came out as tiny specks on the horizon.
Had a cancer check this Monday - all going well (thank you to all who are keeping their fingers crossed), and next time I go it will be the TWO YEAR mark - major celebrations in order.
Also getting hooked into the Stanley Cup playoffs again (hockey), although it still aint football - Man Utd 7 : Roma 1 - Sweet!
Pedal hard,
Hoping for a break in the clouds,
S&S.
WOW WOW WOW - BREAKING NEWS!!!!!! I JUST NIPPED OFF TO FIND A PICTURE TO PUT ON THIS BLOG AND WANDERED TO THE FRONT WINDOW LITERALLY TWO MINUTES AGO, WHEN THERE I SAW A BIG BLACK DOG - OR SO I THOUGHT. I LOOKED FOR THE OWNER, THERE WAS NONE, THEN REALISED THAT THE DOG WAS LUMBERING AS IT RAN - NOT BOUNDING LIKE A DOG. BUGGER ME, ON CLOSER LOOK IT WAS A BEAR!!! WOO HOO!! A BLACK BEAR WAS JUST TROTTING ALONG RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE HOUSE, LITERALLY TEN METRES IN FRONT OF THE HOUSE. IT WAS HEADING DOWN TO THE BOW RIVER - AWESOME. SO THE LITTLE BLIGHTERS ARE AWAKE. LOVE IT!
I'LL BE ON MY EYE OUT NEXT TIME I WANDER OVER TO THE POST BOX THAT'S FOR SURE.
By the way, the gnome comment in the first part of the blog led me to these dirty little blighters; not too sure why the perv in green needs binoculars.
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