The party is over but what a day, here are some of the antics!.

Tags: Kids, Snow

I don't want to boast, but, ...can anyone say future champion? This video of ThingTwo was taken about a week before her 4th birthday. We have been building a toboggan run in the yard for a while now and I added a few features for the girls to practice their snowboarding on. I think all that shovelling is going to pay off. Enjoy!

Tags: Snowboard, ThingTwo, Little Ripper

Last night, I almost lost an eye. the left one to be exact. To be honest I'm kind of attached to it. I would be upset if I lost it. So you're probably wondering how I almost lost it. We have a woodstove which heats the lower half of our house. A good friend of mine was in town for one night and upon such occasions, our playroom where said woodstove resides gets turned into the guest room, complete with our blow-up camping mattress. Now let me say this is an electric-powered-self-inflating-twin-size blow up mattress so it's not as bad as it sounds. That said, after many beverages and ridiculous stories, I wandered down stairs with our guest to check the woodstove one more time to ensure that the fire/heat would last through the night for him. I put on my insulated work gloves, opened the stove door, grabbed the wrought iron poker and began to break up some of the coals and spread them around so I could fit a few more logs inside. So far so good, I then proceeded to insert and readjust each piece as it went in to optimize the amount of wood I could add to keep my good friend warm through the night. As I was shifting things around I heard a pop in the fire and had a split second to see the fiery particle flying directly toward my eye. I reacted fast enough to close my eye and the piece only hit the bottom half of my eyelid. Of course I didn't realize I was so fortunate until after I did my best Matrix-like backwards twisting lunge in an attempt to avoid the fireball landing square in the middle of the super-deluxe air mattress, which now subsequently doesn't seem to hold air too well. Coincidence?.......maybe not.

So imagine my amusement when I get an email from Rod this morning wanting to share blog posts. Rod runs a site called Safety and Style. For the Canadians in the audience it;s like Marks Work Wearhouse, with attitude. As I'm taking a look at his blog, what do I notice , not three weeks ago he chose to blog about protective eyewear. I mean, what are the odds? Now I've been around fire my whole life, I've been camping and building fires since I was a little kid and nothing like this has ever happened to me. It just goes to show, you never know when an accident can happen. I'm very lucky and I know it. Safety First!

Tags: Rant

OK so I'm a delinquent Blog owner/writer. We already knew that. Before I get started, go check out Penelope's Dream. Tell 'em I sent ya. With that out of the way, on to the winners.

WINNERS

My Photo contest got more captions than the captions got votes so I decided to be totally arbitrary and pick my favourite. I have fond memories of Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom growing up and without further ado the winner is:

Having been raised by the pack, the man-cub developed an early interest in veterinary care. - Weaselmomma

With and honourable mention to:

You using the whole fist Doc? - Nuke Dad (props to Fletch)

In recognition of this achievement the winners should get.......something. I'm still working on that one, but I still maintain that it will be good.

LOSERS

Today while picking up ThingOne from school, she managed to wrangle an extra passenger for the ride home and ensuing playdate. Not a big deal, but in the added chaos, my normally razor-sharp personal belongings radar was temporarily jammed and it wasn't until we arrived home that I realized that ThingTwo's shoes were still at the school playground. Knowing that the playdate was only going to be an hour I opted to wait until we had to go out again to pick up Sugarmomma from work to make a stop at the school to retrieve the shoes. Due to my military like attention to schedule we had to leave the retrieval for the return trip and when we rolled up to the playground, there were the shoes, sitting neatly at the bottom of the slide just where we left them.

These particular shoes are Crocs, little pink ones that did have faux fur lining in them for the colder temperatures but were converted to the open air style for summer. Because the are "winter-crocs" they do not come with the heel straps you normally see. On one of the trips the girls went on in the last year, Sugarmomma purchased some straps for these Crocs, nice sparkly, beaded fancy straps. The fact that they were too big to actually add any fit benefits to ThingTwo's tiny feet is irrelevant, they look pretty. So Imagine my horror when I find the Crocs this afternoon, strapless. Someone had removed the straps and put the Crocs neatly back where they found them. They stole the straps off of my pre-schooler's Crocs!!!!! WTF?!

Tags: Winners, Losers

Who knew that the only thing you had to do to get people to comment on your blog was post a picture and ask people to give it a caption. I got 16 comments, SIXTEEN! that's a record here at BBDR. It's not like I'm Mr Lady and can blog about asparagus and get 45 comments, but 16! that's pretty darn good. I should take this time to thank Weaselmomma for sending most of you my way, without her she'd probably be the only one reading this. Now on to more important things. Let's sort out these entries. Here are my picks in no particular order, but in the spirit of democracy, I'm going to leave the winner up to a vote. The winner will be whichever caption has the most votes on by Friday. I tried to get a cool polling widget but they all wanted me to create an account and I'm so not interested in that right now. So I'm kickin' it Old School....counting by hand!

1. Having been raised by the pack, the man-cub developed an early interest in veterinary care.
2. The modern day Westminster Dog Show can trace it roots all the way back to the time of the cave man.
3. I know it hurts, but if we don't find Dads remote control, he's going to be pissed!
4. You using the whole fist Doc?
5. When "I'll show you mine if you show me yours goes horribly awry..."

Here's the photo once again. Happy voting!



BBD

Tags: Photography, Caption

This is one of those rare mornings where I am up before, .....everyone else. There was a cry out and a stir and hour and a half a go, I took the dog out to pee, and even he went back to sleep! So I thought to myself, blogs? or breakfast? Breakfast I can do while they are awake, blogs it is!

ThingOne has been helping herself to the camera lately, and it's a good thing because it means we are still documenting our life together, but she needs to work on things like holding the camera still, and actually getting people in the frame. However, as I was downloading the camera to the computer to get the surf photo for the last shot, I was slapped in the face by this one.



And so......

THE BIG BAD PHOTO CAPTION CONTEST

The best caption for this photo will win.........something!
I'll think of something, and it'll be good.

Tags: Contest, Photography, Caption