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Dog Kennel End Table

Kirby — Mon, 07 May 2012 18:35:05 -0400

We have an 8-month-old Poodle/Bichon/Shit Tzu puppy named Gracie, and she has shown that she isn’t old enough to be trusted alone in the house. Even with her 6-year-old surrogate mom Diva around, she gets into too much trouble. Restraining her has meant getting a kennel or a crate, and in order to be large [...]

Christmas Greetings

Jennifer — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 13:35:07 -0500

My posts here seem to be getting less and less regular. It seems like I just posted last Christmas’s greeting.

This past summer my family discovered the music of Jonathan Coulton. Jonathon apparently launched his singing career by writing a song a week and posting them on his blog. While not all the songs are . . . → Read More: Christmas Greetings

We Day Winnipeg 2011 – Be the Change

Jennifer — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 20:03:51 -0500

I spent today in a room with 16000 teenagers. It was awesome. It was inspiring. It was loud!

Today was the first We Day held in Winnipeg.

We had met Craig Kielburger at the Winnipeg International Storytelling Festival last year and then had tuned in to the online stream for We Day 2010 . . . → Read More: We Day Winnipeg 2011 – Be the Change

Bathroom: Finish Drywall and Paint

Kirby — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 18:03:27 -0500

While I’ve been doing tile, Jennifer has been sanding drywall, painting, fixing drywall bits that I damage, sanding again, painting again, fixing paint that I pulled off with tape or damaged with grout, sanding and painting again. We’re going with white, because it looks quite nice with the green tile: We chose Zinsser Perma-White Mould [...]

Bathroom: Grout (2 days)

Kirby — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:31:03 -0500

Grout, Day 40 and 41 of the project. I was pretty nervous (again) about the grout. I’ve read some disaster stories about poor grout jobs, and water leaks and ruined walls and all that sort of thing. But, once more into the breech. I don’t have many action photos because I was concerned with getting [...]

Bathroom: Tiling Day 3 and 4

Kirby — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:50:47 -0500

Days 3 and 4 of Tiling, Days 32 and 33 of the project. More tile cutting. I installed the bottom row of tiles, a few of which needed an 1/8 of an inch taken off the bottom, and the tiles around the faucet and shower head. I was in such a rush to get to [...]

Bathroom: Tiling Day 2

Kirby — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:11:05 -0500

Tiling Day Two, Day 28 of the project. With all of the full-sized tiles up, it was time to do some tile cutting. I was pretty unimpressed with the chipped edges that this cheap tile saw generated, so I looked online to see if others had the same problem or if that was just how [...]

Halloween Costumes 2011

Kirby — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 15:06:21 -0500

It’s a bit late, but I promised some folks I’d post pictures of the kids’ costumes. I watermarked them because I’d rather not have copies spread all over the net without a source. If you want unaltered copies, just email me. Click for the full size version.

Bathroom: Tiling Day 1

Kirby — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 15:40:53 -0400

It’s actually Day 24 since the project began, but Halloween costumes and other life-type things interjected. For instance I was ready to start the tiling yesterday, but we had a dinner to go to in the afternoon and Jennifer and the kids were out shopping for last-minute Halloween costume parts so I was looking after [...]

Bathroom: Day 11(plus)

Kirby — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 18:03:34 -0400

Is is now technically Day 20, but there has been only one activity going on in the bathroom: drywall. Jennifer has been going crazy in there. She is mudding up a storm. I didn’t give her the easiest job, what with seams from concrete board to normal drywall, horizontal butt joints for the 6 inch [...]

Bathroom: Day 10

Kirby — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 17:44:53 -0400

The last day before I went back to work. I finished the drywall installation, after making a few notes… I make a habit of leaving love notes to my wife and family inside and major construction that I do. I like to think someone in later years might see them and smile if they ever [...]

Homemade R2D2 Costume

Kirby — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 16:19:57 -0400

My son decided he wanted to be R2D2 for Halloween and it fired up my creative streak. Here’s the finished costume: It started out with a $6 collapsible laundry hamper from Walmart. I looked at a number of photographs of R2D2 on the ‘net and used basic algebra and ratios to map out the lines [...]

My Job as a Drywall Contractor

Jennifer — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 09:20:51 -0400

Our bathroom reno is humming along. Kirby has been working hard and I’ve been holding the fort, doing school and watching the puppy, but that is about to change!

Over the years Kirby has excelled at learning electrical and plumbing and woodworking, but it’s been my job to drywall, paint and put the finishing touches . . . → Read More: My Job as a Drywall Contractor

Bathroom Reno Days 1, 2 and 3

Jennifer — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 09:04:11 -0400

Kirby is trying to blog as he goes but he would rather work than write.

He’s a little behind his own schedule, but things look great.

One of the things we’ve had difficulty with over the years is completely finishing our renos. It’s easy to live without baseboards when so much else in life . . . → Read More: Bathroom Reno Days 1, 2 and 3

Chaos and Gracie

Jennifer — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 08:54:43 -0400

The bathroom renovation is going great. Or at least as far as I can tell.

In the past Kirby and I have done our renovating together. The jobs have always allowed for two people to work simultaneously. Our children used to play nearby and we would have quick breaks for light meals. They napped in . . . → Read More: Chaos and Gracie

Writing prompts: The scientist

DovieGirl — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:00:10 -0400

This one is from the writing prompt: The room filled with blue smoke as George__________. Dove September 20, 2011 The room filled with blue smoke as George poured the bubbling yellow liquid into the green. He made sure that he didn’t know what he was doing, before he started, It was much funner that way. [...]

Writing prompts: The portrait

DovieGirl — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 19:06:47 -0400

We started school a couple of weeks ago and this year we have this really cool “class” called writing prompts. What happens, is we get a subject to write about. (examples: My aunt Doesn’t ______ ,Three shades of blue, or the place where two rivers meet) Then we sit down for 15 minutes and just [...]

The butterfly

DovieGirl — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 14:30:36 -0400

This summer our family raised nine butterflies. It was really cool to see the caterpillars transform. That is what led me to write this poem. The Butterfly Crick, Crack Out of the egg Comes the Caterpillar Munch, Crunch Eat all day Hungry Caterpillar Stretch, Groan Getting bigger Grows the caterpillar Slow, down Start [...]

Spring poem

DovieGirl — Fri, 20 May 2011 12:27:39 -0400

Spring By Doviegirl The birds a twitter in the trees, Singing to their hearts content, The flowers blooming with the bees, buzzing on, wherever they went, Through the flowers comes the breeze, laden heavy with their scent, Sings of spring are all of these, There’s Joy wherever they are sent, Caterpillars on the ground, [...]

Online printable Princess Kate’s tiara

DovieGirl — Wed, 11 May 2011 15:16:19 -0400

I’m not big into celebrating the royal wedding, or cross stitching the date on a sampler, Or anything like that. But I must say, I love the way tiaras look, and Kate’s tiara was gorgeous. I was so excited when I found This online printable of her tiara. Us kids have been playing palace, with [...]

Thirteen things I’m Thankful for Thursday

DovieGirl — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 11:14:26 -0400

1. Rats 2. E-mail 3. Spring 4. Tag 5. Math 6. My parents 7. Music 8. Diva our dog 9. Poetry 10. Writing 11. Nature 12. Colours 13. Fairy tales

Reasonable Report to Read

DovieGirl — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 12:00:15 -0400

My writing assignment this week was to write a poem using as many “RE” words as possible. Remorseful Remembering I remember December with remorse, For not rehoming my favorite horse, For regard my equestrian relative, Badly knowing he’de refuse to live, In my refinished basements stall. But I, not knowing I’d regrett it at all, [...]

30 Things I’m Thankful For

DovieGirl — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:17:11 -0400

1. Life 2. My family. 3. My friends. 4. Sunshine. 5. Granny smith apples. 6. Home-schooling. 7. Our piano. 8. Our house. 9. The littlest page(LittlePage5) 10. The Manitoba Living History Society 11. Baby island (This is the first book I ever read all by myself) 12. Winter (my favorite season) 13. Dolls 14. Climbing [...]

Cherry Branch Haiku

DovieGirl — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:49:04 -0500

I now have discovered the wonderfulness of writing haiku. (Traditional haiku usually have one verse though) Here are some I have written. Cherry Branch Cherry branch falling blown down to the earth by wind Falling and falling beautiful tree branch Drifting gracefully downwards Driven swiftly down Small bit of nature Floating onward to the ground [...]

Sleepy puppy

DovieGirl — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:03:47 -0500

Sleepy puppy By doviegirl Puppy, puppy,in the sun, why not get up and have some fun? why do you sleep right now, mid-day? why do you not get up and play? you do not yip or jump or bark, you do not want to walk the park, why do you make my heart so sad [...]

I Wonder

Lost — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:30:27 -0400

These posts are going to be random things that I wonder at random times. It like a window in to my brain. Hope you like ‘em. Hope they make you laugh! I wonder where we are going, where we have been and where we are. I wonder if the earth stopped spinning, would anyone other [...]

Crocodiles -Cat Jahnke

Lost — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:26:37 -0500

Cat Jahnke is my new favourite musician. I went looking for lyrics for her songs and I only found one site and they only have lyrics for six of the fourteen songs. So I have decided to write out the lyrics myself. Some of the lyrics might be a little if-y but they are the [...]

Burning Stick

Lost — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 23:54:31 -0500

I stood outside in -25 wether with a -30 wind chill for an hour this morning to see a burning stick. Yey.

Just That Kinda Day

Lost — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:55:58 -0400

This one is so random. I wrote it off the top of my head on a day that just felt like nothing was going right and I was completely helpless to help anything. It is actually a song not poetry. But I am really bad at transferring music from my head onto paper so you [...]

Superchick

Lost — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 21:45:45 -0400

I’ve always called my sister, who is four, BabyDuck. I have absolutely no clue why but I do. She recently informed me that she’s “not a little baby anymore” so that I should call her Duck. Then she decided that she was a super hero called ‘Superlady’ but we can call her ‘Superchick’. We all [...]

The Somnolent Hedgehog

Lost — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 11:01:09 -0400

The Somnolent Hedgehog by Lost A hedgehog asked a typewriter, If she’d like to go out on a date The typewriter answered, “That would be nice As long as we’re not out to late.” After they finished dining The hedgehog was heard to remark, “It’s a beautiful warm summer evening, Let’s go for a stroll [...]

Why The Streets of Tashbaan?

tashbaan — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:36:37 -0400

The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S.Lewis is one of my favourite series and The Horse and His Boy is one of my favourite books. In the book, the lower part Tashbaan is crammed with houses and markets, and these are all swarming with people and animals, beggars, soldiers, merchants, children, slaves, dogs, pack horses-the list [...]