Had some time on the beach with Bean today and I made a zen garden while Bean was playing. Then he saw what I’d done and promptly destroyed it. There’s a koan in there somewhere, but I’m not enlightened enough to spot it.
Tag: slice of life
Setting up the garcony… or is that the balcorden
We astroturfed the balcony :-) it actually feels reeeeaaaaallly nice. And we have an apple tree, and flowers (orange, of course) and owls, and foo dogs, and the beginning of some veg boxes. Next step is to get a gas bottle for the BBC.
Sunny, lazy Sunday afternoon
Sitting on the beach right now, watching Bean making sandcastles, hoping he doesn’t get eaten by a swan, hearing other exasperated parents saying things like don’t throw rocks at the swans, leave that boy’s castle alone, you’re getting on my nerves… Not just me :-)
I keep saying things like she didn’t mean to, stop throwing sand, there’s enough beach for everybody…
Gorgeous weather though.
Edit
More pictures put online here: https://www.flubu.com/blog/pictures/morges_mar_2014/
Playing on the beach
Bean, Eamonn and Zoe were playing on the beach this past Sunday.
Quote of the day
Saw this on a random Tumblr blog. It hits very close to home at the moment, as I want to lose weight, get tattooed and feel hot… Which is not something you feel when you’re fat, old and bald.
Peso is getting friendlier
She’s getting a lot less skittish to pick up and handle and I think she’s actually enjoying it. The only thing though is that she’s not yelling “Human! Feed me, Human!” while Katy is in the UK with Bean.
How the Bean carries his kids
A good day
Today started a bit on the rocky side, but finished with a bang. My work efforts were recognised and we’ll received. I managed to achieve a personal work goal I’d set myself (get all the kbase services under nagios monitoring). When I got home, Katy had most of the fixings done for a v-day feast, all I had to do was cook the steaks and poach some eggs. We cracked open the nice bottle of gamay we got from le petit manoir and settled down for a night of movies. We watched an Omid Djalili stand up and Idiocracy – a movie so bad it circles all the way to good :-) then there was cheesecake. Ooooh, the cheesecake. Now there is bed.
But whyyyyyy, daddy?
He wanted to be just like me this morning, which included sleeping in our bed in jut his boxers, and then nicking my t-shirt.
Someone to watch over her…
There was chaos on the roads because of high winds and blowing snow on Monday, resulting in a major pileup on Highway 417 in Eastern Ontario, near North Glengarry.
In total, twenty vehicles were involved in this series of accidents, which occurred shortly before 4pm westbound, between the villages of Saint-Isidore and Vankleek Hill, near Highway 34.
A Voyageur coach, two tankers, a semi-trailer truck carrying a cargo of cars and some cars were involved in the pileup which were likely cause by the poor weather conditions.
Fifteen people were injured slightly. Two further people had to be transported to the hospital. Several emergency vehicles were deployed to the scene of the incident, almost halfway between Ottawa and Montreal.
In total, more than 150 accidents were reported during the day, both on Outaouais roads that Eastern Ontario, due to difficult road conditions.
One of the people that went to the hospital was my mom, coming back from seeing my sister in Montreal. The coach got caught in the tail end of a white-out and collided into the back of a car, itself involved in the multi-vehicle pileup. My mom, sitting in her usual spot in the first row seat, went through the front windshield of the bus and landed on the road. Miraculously, and I don’t use the word lightly, the only injury she suffered was a cut on the top of her head, requiring a dozen stitches, and a big bruise on her shoulder. She thinks that the glass probably shattered when the bus hit, lessening the impact when she went through it. I can’t really believe I just typed that…
She thinks she might have blacked out for a bit, but not too long, and was lucid the whole time, after realising she was on the road, getting wet from the snowstorm. The paramedics did the whole neck brace backboard thing, but xrays showed there were no fractures, no concussion and they only kept her for observations for one night. She feels a bit stiff, but less than she expected to. She’s mostly annoyed that she can’t wash the blood out of her hair. Tough (and lucky!) old bird, she is.
