James Lind

Okay I didn’t buy a house, my investment partner and I invested in a revenue home. It’s very cute and located close to where I live now. I hope to post more pictures tomorrow! The only thing I’m not sure of is what is under the three feet of snow on the yard? Hopefully nice grass; but springtime will tell! I’m so excited….I bought a house…

Christmas has come and gone for another year, and once again I appear to have tricked Santa into believing that I have been a good boy! He must have been busy with other things!
A few things of note, as I didn’t take photos of all my gifts!

First a special thank you to my friend Samantha for the wonderful hand knitted scarf shown in the left picture above! It’s wrapped around me twice in the picture, and I would guess it to be at least ten feet long! I will actually measure it when i get up this afternoon. I can’t believe the amount of work that went into this…it must have taken over a year to do!

In the second picture you can see the variety of gifts that received! Several books on topics such as hockey, my favorite band U2, and Scotland where I hope to be this time next year! Also in that picture is the U2 DVD of all 18 of their videos as well as several bonus features! These gifts are all sitting on a very cozy blanket that I received as well. More details to follow later today!

It seems pretty obvious that I must have been VERY good boy…

Barney Lind, brother of Clyde and beloved companion of Nikki, Bradley and James Lind, left us today for a better place.

Born in Lynn Lake, Manitoba..Barney and his brother were adopted at one week old. After spending his first two years of his life there; he along with Clyde and James relocated to Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in 1996.
 
Barney made many friends in his lifetime in Saskatoon; but he especially loved it when Chisa came over wearing her black pants! Lol.

He always enjoyed his favorite pastimes…eating and sleeping! Just a rattle of the food bucket and you better not be standing in the line of fire between him and the food dish!

Barney went through a medical crisis about three years ago; but fully recovered quickly and was back to his old tricks in no time!

One of his new enjoyments was laying outside on the hammock…suntanning!

About two weeks ago however, a tumor was discovered that deprived him of one of his favorite pastimes…eating. After trying to combat this with a variety of medicines, with no good results; Barney has now left us for Kitty Kat heaven.

He will be sadly missed by all those who knew him.   Rest in peace Barney.

Nikki left for Grande Prairie, Alberta on November 22nd. It hasn’t even been a week and I miss her. It’s a pretty big adjustment for her too; but she’s trying her best, and next week I think her and her partner are in charge of things in the house! She’s a very organized young lady, so I think she’ll do very well at that! I wish her all the best, and if anyone wants to send her an email please do! I’m not sure if and/or when she’ll get to check her email; but always nice to have something in the INBOX besides spam!

Barney and Clyde and I miss my Nikki

Well, actually I hope it doesn’t! But it did start out great for Nikki! She took her driver’s road test on Thursday morning and scored a perfect test…zero points deducted! I’m so proud of her! She worked very hard at practicing and it paid off.
So we can only hope that November does NOT start out with a bang…at least in the car driving department!
Congratulations Slick!

Congratulations on making it to eighteen and still being relatively sane! (I said relatively!)

The pictures above are from our trip this weekend to West Edmonton Mall! On the left we have Nikki and I on the Mindbender Roller Coaster…15 stories high, three loops and several twists! We went on several times…lost count actually!

On the right is Nikki and I at the top of the Space Shot. It starts on the ground and shoots you up over 120 feet in less then 2 seconds! Then it bounces you up and down several times. Again we lost count on the number of times we went on it!

And then there was the shopping…over 800 stores! And I think Nikki saw every one of them! Well, we both did! Good fun and picked up some nice clothes for both of us.

We also went on the waterslides at the hotel and went to the move The Prestige…highly recommended!

All in all, a great birthday weekend! Thanks Nikki, I love you!

I just had to post some of Nikki’s graduation pictures.
They turned out so good!
The studio liked the bronze one above so much…
that they added it to their graduation display album!