January 31, 2008, First Month Down

In honor of the first month of pictures finished, I'm posting two not-so-good pictures. The first is the condiment grouping on a table in the new restaurant SIL Greg introduced me to last night. I had never heard of WokBox before, but after my first experience there, I'm sure I'll be going again. Have to introduce Lloyd to it.

The second picture is three of the cards I made during my enforced snow day on Tuesday.

January 30 - Her Favorite Toy

His nephew gave this animated golf lamp to Lloyd for Christmas - press a button and the golfer swings, hits the ball which goes in the hole, and the crowd cheers. Sydney has loved it since she first saw it and every time she comes over she wants to play with it. She knows I'm taking her picture here so she's looking kind of self aware wondering if she's doing something wrong. Cute.

I'm feeling better today - It's still cold (has warmed up to -28) but I'm mobile - both vehicles are running. What a difference it makes to know that I can go out if I want.

January 29, Enough is Enough

I took this picture when the snow was still pretty. There's a lot more now and it's been -40 all day and will stay hovering around -30 for the rest of the week. Neither of my vehicles would start this morning so I had an enforced snow day - no hardship there - I don't mind staying home from work - but don't know what I'll do the rest of the week. Of course it's impossible to get through to the CAA to get help. One of my sons-in-law will try to help get at least one vehicle started tonight. Lloyd is on his way to Victoria and from his reports it's been a snowy trip. He won't fly so he's been driving. Sorry this is such a whining entry but I hate this cold weather when it lasts so long. Global warming - bah! humbug!

January 28 - Brrrrrrr!

We had a blizzard yesterday and are now in the midst of a week-long deep freeze. This shows the temperature outside my back door at 5:00 this afternoon...-27.8C...a little bit nippy! The official temperature in Edmonton today was -30C with a wind chill factor making it -48C. Arizona sure is sounding good these days!!! There were huge snow drifts on the roads this morning. I don't think I would have made it out to the main road without the 4-wheel drive.

January 27, 2008 - The Man

There were no grandchildren around for me to take pictures of today so this handsome fellow agreed to let me use him as my subject. This is Lloyd, the center of my life for almost 40 years now. I want to play around with the color picture and take all the color out except for the blue of his eyes. I was practicing with my new 50 mm lens, and with the b&w feature of my camera.

January 26, 2008

Amy pointed out to me that I have a couple pictures of Kenzie on this blog but none of Sydney and Aidan....so here they are. Sydney is two and a half and has a lovely bump/bruise above her left eye. Aidan is 6 months old and looks a lot like his big sister Kenzie. Eventually this blog will contain pictures of all of my grandchildren, interspersed with various and sundry other pictures. I got a 50 ml lens for my Canon Rebel today so will have fun playing with it.

January 25, 2008

This is a layout I've been working on today in response to a challenge on one of the scrapbook websites to do a layout with the focus on journalling. I've wanted to do one anyway about my namesake, Dad's mother, Millicent McCarthy. I like the way this turned out. It was nice to put my feelings about my name and memories of a wonderful woman into a layout. It's not so bad being named Millicent when I love the only other person with that name that I've ever met.