Mic's Blog

So even if it's not official yet, it feels like summer. Ultimate season has started up. Both teams are looking like they should do pretty well, and will be lots of fun. I missed the first and only Wednesday game last week when mom's house flooded, so today's the day to see how that team is. Should be lots of fun, and if the weather holds, a beautiful afternoon!

We went camping for the long weeked out in Dinosaur National Park. It's a pretty cool place, looks a lot like a really big Horseshoe Canyon, for anyone who's been out to Drumheller. We did lots of exploring, ended up in restricted areas once or twice, but we tried not too. There are some beautiful beaches there along the Red Deer River (at least I think that's what the river is called). We spent a day just sitting on the beach reading and sleeping, and playing in the river. You don't get to do that too often in Alberta! Hopefully I'll get some pictures up soon if any of them turned out well. It's one of those places that is amazing in person because of the sheer size of everything, but the colors seem to end up looking washed out and flat in pictures... The only bad spot in the weekend was when I stepped on a clothes hanger and punctured it about half an inch into my heel. That hurt for a couple days, but fortunately it got better enough so that I could play ultimate last night!

So, that's it for now. I'm looking forward to having a more relaxing weekend at home for this next one, try to get laundry and cleaning done, since it's been a while. Should be a good time ;).

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So, got to my mom's today to check the mail, and arrived to my little brother and sister asking, why is there water dripping down the wall? It looks like a planstic pipe got a hole in it and leaked through from the top floor to the lower two. After an extensive clean-up, with help from a flood clean up company, things are looking okay, but we'll have to have blowers going for at least a couple days to dry out the walls and to prevent a "mold problem". Blech. Hopefully the next few days are calmer than this one...

That would be my mom's wall, pretty nice with all the holes and stains. Stupid water leak. And to top it off, I had to miss our first ultimate game. :) So here's to hoping we have a couple of calm days to come. Dinosaurs, here I come!

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Well, we made it to and from Toronto in one piece. I'm glad to have gone, it was great to be at the funeral, and to see all of Mike's family. Hopefully (and almost for sure) we'll get out there again this summer under happier circumstances.

We managed to fit in a couple caches while we were there, which was fun. Traded travel bugs to help get them moving along a bit faster. When we got home the yard looked as though the dandelions had taken over our yard. I spent the better part of an hour digging them out, which is good, but when you look at our neighbour's yard, I do tend to wonder why. It's a rental property, and the owner just lets the grass grow wild, cutting it back once in a while, but that's it. Maybe if we end up spraying our yard, we'll have to sneak over and do theirs too...

Ultimate starts today! Should be a good time, if tiring. The weather is amazing here at the moment, which is great, but I'm a little worried about my stamina running around outside in 250C weather... oh well, we'll see I supose.

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We're now officially heading out to Toronto until next Monday. I've never been on the red eye from Calgary to Toronto, and that should be quite the experience. Maybe I'll actually get some sleep, but who knows. Airplanes can be really loud, and with all the ambient noise sometimes it's hard to get any real sleep.

Fortunately no vacation days had to be used up for this trip so we should still be good to do a week in Ontario in August (looking forward to my first real taste of summer out east... somehow I missed out on that despite spending 4 years there for school) and a week somewhere else, maybe in July (west coast, or one of the parks in the States... we really haven't thought much about it yet, but I think anything would be fun).

Well, that's it for now. Back to work for me, if only concentration would come to me... :S

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Sitting here at work trying to convince myself I want to do just that... it's not going so well. It's amazing how sad news can do that to you, just drains all the inspiration to do anything right out of you. In related news, we might be going to Toronto this weekend. If not we, then Mike more than likely. While it would be nice to see all of Mike's family, I wish it could be under better circumstances. Oh well, we'll go out in August again and enjoy cottage country.

I really wish it was time to go home now...

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We went snowshoeing out in Kananaskis a while back, somewhere by the upper and lower lakes, I think, at least. Ended up finding a great big pipeline for water that must've been hot, and that is apparently leaky. It was covered in great big icicles and water spurts. Despite the fact that the pipe had lots of holes, it was really cool.

Anyways, I must say that I don't really get the snowshoeing thing. We've gone out a couple of time, and despite assurances otherwise, I'm pretty sure that you wouldn't really sink any deeper without the showshoes on. Mostly because I was sinking down to what seemed like pretty much grass. It's nice to go out to the mountains and wander, but I think that we may have added an unnecessary level of difficulty with the snowshoes. I'm probably wrong, and maybe if the show was a little more packed, and a little less fresh, it would work better. Maybe we'll test that theory next winter...

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