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I'm looking forward to Quebec in a few weeks, a break from the boredom..lol.
Mom is searching for her next show dog to add to her line. The eyes on this one are brown its just the flash.

My hockey suspension is finally over and after this week I'm be glad to get back to crashing & banging along the boards to let off a little steam. We had a good season but lost 5 players since Xmas to injury & suspensions.

We will miss you gran.

It is with a heavy heart that I write that my great gran passed away on Sat Jan 24th.  

She was 87. She was also the only person in my life I let call me by my given names. It was 'special' to us & I'll miss it. 

She died Sat of a heart attack while sitting down to tea. She was the 'glue' to our little family & will be missed in the days & years to come.

She lived 31,835 days and added prayer to each day. 

Her funeral was nice, lots of flowers and I got lots of hugs from the other little old ladies who all made jokes about being 'hookers' like gran. 

Monday morning rug hooking will never be the same I'm told.

Love you gran.

Winter fun

With huge high snowdrifts all around us its hard for the guys to get out. We built a race track out back & they had lots of fun . Here are a few pics of the racing & then the 'chillin' inside.

Happy New Year

Finally home after being stranded the last few days at a friends house by the blizzard that dumped about 30+ cent. of snow. We enjoyed ourselves but I like to be able to leave when I want & staying put was hard.

I hope everyone has a good 2009.

Extreme Chinese Crested Racing

Zoom..off he goes...

We've all seen 'extreme car racing or extreme fighting'... but have you ever seen

 'extreme crested racing' ? I have...yesterday,  it was warm & a bit windy here and I had the dogs out back. Joker decided he had energy to burn and took off for about 15 minutes of 'extreme racing' around the yard.  It was as if he was being chased by the Devil himself...maybe he was, but all I saw were leaves occasionally getting kicked up in his wake as he followed a track only he could see around & around the yard. It of course led right through a few of the muddiest part of the yard. Oh well, you can't be a pretty boy show dog every day.

I managed to snap a few action shots of the fun.

A momentary break with Rosie...

After a few laps he stopped to look over his 'track' before taking off again....notice the feet...

What mud?

Fifteen minutes later a happy worn out racer takes a break...

Local 'Loverboy' struck down...

 Authorities are calling it a senseless act of random violence. 

Last night during the wee hours while the rest of the neighbors were snug in their beds ,with visions of sugar plum dancing in their heads, a local Loverboy was attacked and torn apart by two thugs. 

Police apprehended the two not far from the crime scene after following a trail of 'fluff'. 

One of the suspects, a male teen, ( well known to local authorities ) still had fibres from Loverboy on his coat. The other male hung his head in shame and has never before been involved in anything like this say local authorities .

" It was a suprise to me that xxxx was involved in anything like this " said a local man, who also witnessed the crime. " xxxx is usually such a momma's boy and very quiet. It must have been the influence of the younger more unruley teen" said Mr. H Bear who was putting up his Christmas decorations and heard the commotion, but was too late to help.

Authorities now have the two suspects behind bars awaiting a hearing before the local judge, however given that the judge knew Loverboy and was rather fond of the lad, its doubtful the two thugs will be released anytime soon.

^Two suspects in local jail. ^

We will miss you Loverboy.

Loverboy is by:

 KitLane

Fudge anyone?

Currently girl-fiend-less so a bit more time to hang with my friends. 

Mom has been thinking of starting a gourmet fudge company for over a year now and has been sourcing ingredients & flavors , she has a friend in the bakery supply industry so will be able to get unusual ingredients and flavors not easily found. I get to be a guinea pig...nom, nom....

She's trying to decide on a catchy name...and is tossing a few around:

Not Your Grandma's Fudge

Oh Fudge! ( but its taken)

Ol' Fart Fudge

Forbidden Fudge ( me likies) 

Apparently she's going to do them like our soaps in loaves with lots of cool colors & flavors 

( Blackberry Champagne, Pralines N Cream, Raspberry N Cream, lots of Creme de Menthe, Natural Madagascar Vanilla Sugar etc) with a real 'artsy' look. Slivered almonds, dried raspberry & cranberries, dark chocolate etc. She's big on the visual part of food and will have a Organic  line too. I suggested  'Orgasmic Organic' but she says that may turn a few peeps off....lol

 Anyway, since I'm home this morning so thought I'd jump in & post to let you know I'm still kickin. Hockey has been good, slight injury to my shoulder in a shoulder vs. boards ( after hit) matchup, but have scored a few and had a few 'chats' with my opponents...you know the 'hows your momma' type of thing...