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What a busy day. We had a local guy who signed up for the Armed Forces and they decided to use the occasion to do some advertising for new recruits. They brought in a wheeled tank-like vehicle and a huge helicopter and had them both on display. Anybody could hop aboard and explore the machines and ask questions.

 Photo by John Nick Jeddore

On top of the Armed Forces visit, CBC Radio had a live broadcast of the show On the Go from the Band Office. There were lots of interviews with locals as well as a number of musical performances by our youth. All in all it was quite an interesting day!

I got an email this morning suggesting that I buy an Algebra book Because I bought a Baby Einstein numbers book. These books are obviously in different leagues. On top of that the email suggests that others who have bought or rated the Baby Einstein book have bought this new book… that’s not even released as of today. Come on Amazon, I’ve had some bad suggestions in the past, but this takes the cake!

Edit: I received another one today. At least this one is available for purchase.

Hi all,

This June I am hoping to take part in the Annual Ride for Sight. Please visit my fundraising page and leave a donation. I set my goal at an easy $50 and I’m already halfway there.

Rene

We need more snow. It’s really hard playing around on the snowmobile with so little snow.

I started playing around in front of the house yesterday evening and went a little overboard. The MX-Z went up the hill and I held tight. When she hit the top she got some good grip and took off, with me hanging on. Up and over the snowbank, the only part of me touching the machine were my hands, gripping tightly. The machine hit the ground, I bounced off the windshield, literally, and then hit the ground. I’m ok, a couple of bumps, nothing serious, but now I have to buy a windshield. Oh, and I had an audience. Siobhan was watching, but didn’t seem very happy. Her mom thought the snowmobile was gonna run me over and Nicholas was in awe. Oops.

Rene

The poor little bugger had his tonsils out on Wednesday. His recovery is coming along good and he’s being a little trooper through it all. We wish him the best of luck and can’t wait for him to get back home.

Finally, after years of waiting and working on getting some sort of broadband service here in Conne River, it’s coming!

12 kilometers of fiber optic cable have to be laid and then the equipment has to be put in place, after that we are on broadband… finally! The expected date of arrival is September 2008, but I expect delays. No matter whn it happens, there will be a lot of happy people here!

We moved in to our new house on the 12th of January. We’re starting to get pretty comfortable now. Nicholas never had a problem with the move and he loves all the room he has to run around. The house is great. There’s a few minor issues with it, but all in all we are very happy with it!

Pictures to come soon!

Rene

P.S. It helps to hit the post button! I had this written up for a week in a tab and never hit post. My bad!

We’ve been clearing out our house for the past two weeks now and will be in our new house on Saturday. Almost everything is brought down there now except for Nicholas’ stuff and our mattress and some food. Pics of the new house will be posted soon!

Why did Nicholas chance his t’s and tr’s to f’s? So now trees are frees and trucks are …. Unfortunately, Nicholas really loves trucks, as well as clocks, which he started noticing a lot when he couldn’t pronounce the l. Do you have any idea of how many trucks and clocks are in this world?

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