Mixed bag of painting, plastering and snow.

The impending camping trip which was intending to relieve our somberness at having returned back to the four walls of home has been thwarted somewhat by the arrival of some really, truely crappy weather. For the past four days it has done nothing but piddle down in Cochrane and the surrounds - although with the first sighting of the hills today from the front window, it has been doing a little more than rain out west....Yeah, yeah, I know this is Canada, and I know that those big chunks of rock out there are the Rockies, but it still tickles me pink (not my pink) that there's a bit of the white stuff coming down in the middle of August. That makes for snow on the hills during every month of the year so far - lets hope the trend continues with much vigour.

As can be seen, the crappy rainy weather we've been having has given way to the blue sky of today - so hopefully we'll be off for a stint of sleeping under the canvas sometime this week. And speaking of canvas, here's the latest acquisition to the Williams' household...

Brina had been searching high and low for a picture of Rundle for the house (as it's where we got wed - aw, bless) and this nice colourful job caught her eye when we were wandering through Canmore. To make matters more excitable for Brina (and me too, although I pretended to be cool) we actually met the artist who painted the damn picture in the shop (as he only sells them in this one shop in Canmore). It was picture perfect (pun intended) and alas, has found a home on the living room wall. To my even greater delight, Brina's need for a new painting has justified my need for a new splitboard - so there'll be plenty of stories of that to come when the snow falls (hopefully another month of summer left yet though).
The basement boys are doing a bonny job and the bottom of the house is now habitable (almost) - expect pictures of the new basement which I could not (and will never attempt again) rennovate - you either got it, or you aint - and I am more than happy to state "I aint".
Still keeping the legs spinning on the bike and we've both now got one eye on getting back to work (horror of horrors) and I'm actually thinking about planning a lesson sometime next week (may as well seeing as though I didn't do any last year!!!).
CT scan on Tuesday, so I may as well head into work and make it a really miserable day (school is next door to the hospital). Hope the new saddle has staved off any "worries" that may show up on the scanarama.\
Hoping that all of your walls are square,
and tuck into the headwind,
Keeping it steady,
Smiles all around,
S&S.