Author: Rene

There have been three deaths in our little community over the past couple of days. First Clem Joe Sr. died on Saturday evening. John Benoit (known to many as John Birch) died on Sunday morning.

Now a third person, who had gone missing yesterday morning in a snowstorm, was found floating in the tickle this morning. He had been given a floater suit for Christmas. It did its job. Unfortunately, the time that he had spent in the water proved to be too much. So now our community of 750 people has to say goodbye to a third member who was only in his mid-thirties — Billy John.

Our thoughts and best wishes go out to everybody who is hurting.

Rene and Siobhan

This morning we received a phone call letting us know that our good friend John Benoit had only another couple hours to live. Within an hour and a half we received another phone call.

Goodbye Uncle John. We’re all going to miss you!

Rene and Siobhan

P.S. Cancer sucks!

We finally did it. Today we left work and went to St. Alban’s for supper… taking the shortcut across the ice! 5:09 – leaving work, 5:15 – pulling into the restaurant! Nice. From there we went to Morrisville and then back to Conne.

I have a quick video clip in the gallery showing us driving on the ice.

I also forgot to mention that my rink worked out nicely on Saturday. Pretty much all of my family showed up and we had a blast skating in the backyard. After we were finished skating we had a barbeque and then lit a fire on the hill to toast some marshmallows and roast some hot dogs. The kids enjoyed some more skating and playing around while my halogen work light lit up the rink and the backyard.

Unfortunately my first time on skates in 13 years or so proved to be somewhat painful. I’m almost recovered though and me and Sio will probably be hitting the ice again this weekend!

Later!
Rene

I don’t know how I missed it last week but the pricing for the Honda RidgeLine has been announced.

Starting at $34,800 I am very interested. Anyone want to make me an offer on a 2000 GMC Sierra SLT Z71???

Rene

Awww crap!

My favourite music downloading site is under investigation. It appears that they have been breaking the law all along.

Go here for more information on allofmp3.com‘s legal troubles.

Check it out here!
It’s one of the videos on the bottom of the page.

We had a little fun on the ice on Saturday and I made a little video out of it. Hope you enjoy!

Rene