Category: General

I had a nice ride to Mount Sylvester on Sunday. The Band Council’s Economic Development Department sponsered a ride into the mountain and back. They also had a planned stop at one of the Band’s Hunting Lodges where we all enjoyed soup, sandwiches and Hot Dogs.

It was a nice ride on a great day. Unfortunately Siobhan couldn’t go with me (due in 5 weeks) but I did get my pal Cory to join in the ride.

We spent about 7 hours on the trails and travelled about 120 kilometers. My Polaris Trail Touring DLX 550 fan burned 23 liters of gas for the whole trip.

Pictures can be found here.

A picture is worth a thousand words…

Have fun Brayden!

Of course, I can play too!

My 29th birthday came and passed the other day. Siobhan gave me a wonderful gift and she made me a fantastic cake.

We also had a visit to our Nurse Practitioner and I managed to record a little video clip of our baby’s heartbeat.

Gotta run now. Suppertime!

Rene

I was in St. John’s last week to do a wireless course. I had to leave Siobhan home all by herself.

I had the evenings all to myself so I did what any other self-respecting father to be would do and went baby shopping. Looks like I wasn’t the only one with that idea.

To make a long story short. I came to the sudden realization that this whole baby thing was real. I left St. John’s with barely enough room to fit a book in the CR-V.

One nice thing I learned about baby stuff is that the manufacturers don’t want to be held liable if you fool something up while assembling it so almost everything for babies is already assembled.

Now for the long journey home. I thought I would share a few pics of Max, our Super Mutt with you.

Max discovered his food dish on the floor. He was too lazy to get off his butt to eat though!

We stopped at the pull over spot by Dunphy’s Pond in Terra Nova National Park. This is Max’s bathroom spot of choice. He’s always nosy and goes sniffing in the bush before he decides to do his dirt so you don’t have to worry about stepping in any of his do-do. He was actually quite energetic here for once!

I guess that little run was too much for Max. He decided to have a little rest.

We are home now. Siobhan’s belly is still growing (The pic above was taken about a half hour ago) and Max is upstairs sleeping.

Later all! Hope you enjoyed the update!!!

Rene

I am in St. John’s right now. I have just finished a 2-day course titled “Designing and Deploying Wireless WANs” with Jack Unger as the Instructor. If you are at all interested in wireless technology I would have to recommend this 100%. It covers many technical aspects that I thought I had some idea about but have since learned that I really had no idea. I have already put some some knowledge into effect by connecting two Linksys WRT54G wireless routers to one another to extend a network with the help of Steve Drew. My next step is to extend that link to 1 kilometer. Beyond this I have learned a great deal of knowledge regarding what’s required in the setup of a wireless ISP and the science behind the scenes.

Highly recommended!

Rene

Well, the big guy came and left again. Lots of new toys left behind here. Me and Siobhan woke up at four am and couldn’t get back to sleep anymore so at five we finally got up and started ripping open our gifts. Max had a little fun with his as well. I can’t imagine what it’ll be like next year with a little one crawling around!

We had a wonderful white Christmas with lots of snow to plow and shovel. You wouldn’t say it now though. Just two days ago my family was at our house and my nephews and nieces (and me) were out sliding on the hill behind the house. Since late that night the snow we had has become non-existant. We went from having four nights during Christmas where the temperature got below -10 and even went so low as -14.3 Celsius. Yesterday it was back up to 10 degrees.

Tonight is another celebration so we just want to wish everyone a wonderful Happy New Year.

Later now, time to start celebrating.

Rene and Siobhan

The temperature started dropping pretty quickly last evening. When I went to bed it was at -11 C. I checked the memory this morning and it had hit -14.1 C sometime during the night! The bay totally froze over right up to St. Alban’s and across to Morrisville. I hope this is a sign of things to come. It also looks like we won’t be having rain on Christmas day now…. keeping my fingers crossed that we have somewhat of a white Christmas!

We’re all off work now. Marshall and Gertie are here for Christmas and Dana and Steve will be home by tomorrow. Just waiting for the big guy now and taking it easy for a bit.

Later

Rene

Merry Christmas everybody!

It’s getting close now and we are all excited about the visit from the big guy in just a few more days.

Siobhan’s belly is growing uncontrollably and we can even see it move at times. Kinda scary knowing something is growing inside of her!

We had a big snowfall a couple of weeks ago. Nearly a foot of the fluff fell. I got to take my snowmobile for a little ride around the house. Then it rained for a week. Oh well, can’t win them all. The weather is nice and crisp again now and looks like it might hold through until Christmas Day.

Gotta run now, and if I don’t get a chance to say it again, Merry Christmas!!!

Rene and Siobhan

What a busy month this has been. It started with a trip to Daniel’s Harbour where Siobhan finally became a godmother. She was quite excited to have a godson finally and we made a good weekend trip out of it. We drove through Gros Morne National Park and saw our first snowfall of the year. No Moose on the trip though, just 50+ caribou in Daniel’s Harbour! We also checked out “The Arches” near Daniel’s Harbour and a few other sights in the area.

Then next weekend we went to Ottawa to visit our friends and do a little Christmas shopping. That was a good weekend, Mark and Annette threw a little dinner party one night for us to meet up with some of the people we met this past summer at their wedding and I found a wonderful new beer. The sticker on the side of the box proudly announced “Buck a Beer”! 🙂

In between all that we have torn up our basement, finished putting up drywall. gotten some plastering done and painted the inside of two closets and a bedroom. Now it’s time to finish up all of that and clean up the rec room which has everything from the rest of the basement tossed into it.

Finally yesterday we were in Grand Falls Hospital to get Siobhan’s ultrasound done. Yup, you read that right, she’s pregnant again. Right now she’s about 20 weeks along. We got to see the legs, arms, stomach, ribs and spine and the face of the baby. Looks a lot like… a little face. Hopefully we’ll have a copy of the pic next week and I can make a good post showing it off to the world.

Gone now!
Rene

P.S. We also got our camper back yesterday… things haven’t been taken care of like they were supposed to be. Not happy, but we are working on that again now. 🙁