It's been a busy couple of weeks. Just finishing off a midnight shift, last one tonight. Yahoo! Last Wednesday was Angela's convocation (graduation) from the U of A. She's finally done and has the letters behind her name to prove it. We had a little celebration at the house last night with a few friends over and lots of dessert. On Friday night we went to a musical dinner theatre for Dianne's office Christmas party. It was a tribute to all the oldies from the 50's and 60's and was quite enjoyable. On Saturday night we went out to Leduc for a while to give the kids a hand laying some new flooring in their living room.
For the next few weeks I am going to be pretty busy. Along with all the prep stuff for Christmas I will be playing sax in the orchestra for the Singing Christmas Tree which is put on by one of the local churches here in Edmonton and has been a big tradition for many years. It involves a lot of rehearsals and 10 performances so it's a pretty big time commitment.
We have been languishing in glorious weather for the last week or so and it's supposed to continue, which is good as I still have to put up the Christmas lights and I hate doing in the snow at minus 20.
Over the weekend we had a missions fest at our church and I had spent the better part of last week building a display for it. It is for the IHS Orchestra which is the big band I am involved with and the display looks like this. It has a video screen in the middle that plays a little 6 minute video that I put together using footage and stills of the band from the BBC show they did and pictures that I took on a couple of tours.
Well I guess it's time to get out and start doing the Christmas shopping. Hopefully the nice weather will stick around until we get that done.

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Monday, November 07, 2005

And So It Starts

Winter seems to have descended on us finally as we received our first snowfall last night. I think we got off pretty lightly this year as this isn't really much and it's already a week into Novemebr. We usually have at least this much by the end of October.
Here are a couple of shots of Nikki's new friend Chris down there in Florida where any kind of snowfall is probably enough to shut down the city.




It was a rather busy weekend for us, so I didn't have much time for perusing the web. We helped a good friend of ours move into her new house on Saturday and then I worked in the evening. Today I have the day off so after shovelling a bit of snow I have been catching up on a few projects that needed to be done.

Posted 1:23 PM by Jeff

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Tuesday, November 01, 2005

Home Again

Just got back from Saskatchewan last night after spending the weekend visiting the folks and attending the 60 Anniversary do for one of Dianne's aunts & uncles. We did a bit of visiting with our own relatives while there but overall nothing too energetic. However, it was nice to get away with Dianne for a couple of days. Had the day off today so I putzed around after I had my teeth cleaned by Dianne and basically just took it easy.
And from the "Wacky Things To Do On The Internet" department comes this guy who does an informal talk show called DriveTime from his car on his way to work. It's co-hosted by his wife who reads viewer mail from the glovebox and his guest are people he just happens to pick up. Pretty cool.

Posted 5:35 PM by Jeff

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