Things that Go Boom in the Morning

A house exploded here in our small city this morning. We were alerted to the fact by an e-mail from M, who, along with her husband S and university-student daughter K, live very near by. (S & M are going to Italy with us in May/June.) Anyway, since it was a nice day- relatively speaking, 34 F with a stiff breeze, but sunny - we decided to walk over to check it out. Early reports said that the house belonged to an elderly couple who go south every year. The parents of a colleague of mine live on the same street and fit that bill exactly, so that was another reason we trudged over. Thankfully, it wasn't the house of my colleague's parents, but it was a house just across the street. A natural gas leak is the suspected cause right now, I believe. The place was a complete wreck, with just the civic address of the house left standing essentially. Incredible. Houses on either side had their windows blown out and some of their siding melted. Suffice to say that Brad and I will never have natural gas.

I am sad that the long weekend coming to a close. It didn't really feel like a long weekend, since we had so much on the go. I biked 3 out of the 4 days, though, for a total of 63 km (almost 40 miles). Our walk today was for a total of 1.5 brisk hours, so I think I have got my exercise for the weekend. Tomorrow I start back at the pool and will swim at least a half hour. I WILL be 160 lb. when we go to Italia!

Our very good friend, Maurice, over at ammusing.ca (link in the sidebar) is moving from Halifax to Montréal this coming weekend. Good luck Maurice! We're sure all will go smoothly, especially since Cleopatrick is there to help you! And YAY! Someone else to visit when we hit Montréal. (Now looks like our next visit to the big MO will be in July, after we get back from Italy. Hopefully the snow will be melted by then!!)

Here, it remains cold and VERY wintry. It is supposed to go down to minus 18 C tonight (that's 0 F) with more snow coming on Wednesday and the high temp for the week is a balmy 36 F. Sheesh. Enough already!

To keep us warm:





Surely you're warming up to shaved pits by now Mark?! There's NOTHING femme about boy No. 1! :-)