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After my five minutes of fame, we had a visitor come stay a spell.  My friend Twain.  We’ve known each other for nearly 20 years (oh God- I just got dizzy typing that when I read how old it makes me), and I’m not positive, but pretty sure he gets crazier every year.  I picked [...]

I wish I could say “in recent news” here, but this actually happened several weeks ago and I’m just way behind on blogging.  For those of you who know me, you know that I could give two shits about celebrities and do good to keep up with Brad, Jennifer, and Angelina.  While I do admit [...]

I know I said that the last one was going to be the last one, but I just wanted to share some of the videos that we took while in Vancouver. Enjoy.

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s0.addParam(”allowfullscreen”,”true”);
s0.addParam(”allowscriptaccess”,”always”);
s0.addParam(”wmode”,”opaque”);
s0.addVariable(”id”,”n0″);
s0.addVariable(”controlbar”,”bottom”);
s0.addVariable(”height”,”240″);
s0.addVariable(”playlist”,”none”);
s0.addVariable(”width”,”320″);
s0.addVariable(”autostart”,”false”);
s0.addVariable(”bufferlength”,”1″);
s0.addVariable(”displayclick”,”play”);
s0.addVariable(”icons”,”true”);
s0.addVariable(”linktarget”,”_blank”);
s0.addVariable(”mute”,”false”);
s0.addVariable(”quality”,”true”);
s0.addVariable(”repeat”,”none”);
s0.addVariable(”resizing”,”true”);
s0.addVariable(”shuffle”,”false”);
s0.addVariable(”stretching”,”uniform”);
s0.addVariable(”volume”,”90″);
s0.addVariable(”aboutlink”,”http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/”);
s0.addVariable(”file”,”http://www.mel-air.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/mvi_4326aviff.flv”);
s0.write(”video0″);

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var s1 = new SWFObject(”http://www.mel-air.com/wp-content/plugins/flash-video-player/mediaplayer/player.swf”,”n1″,”320″,”240″,”7″);
s1.addParam(”allowfullscreen”,”true”);
s1.addParam(”allowscriptaccess”,”always”);
s1.addParam(”wmode”,”opaque”);
s1.addVariable(”id”,”n1″);
s1.addVariable(”controlbar”,”bottom”);
s1.addVariable(”height”,”240″);
s1.addVariable(”playlist”,”none”);
s1.addVariable(”width”,”320″);
s1.addVariable(”autostart”,”false”);
s1.addVariable(”bufferlength”,”1″);
s1.addVariable(”displayclick”,”play”);
s1.addVariable(”icons”,”true”);
s1.addVariable(”linktarget”,”_blank”);
s1.addVariable(”mute”,”false”);
s1.addVariable(”quality”,”true”);
s1.addVariable(”repeat”,”none”);
s1.addVariable(”resizing”,”true”);
s1.addVariable(”shuffle”,”false”);
s1.addVariable(”stretching”,”uniform”);
s1.addVariable(”volume”,”90″);
s1.addVariable(”aboutlink”,”http://www.longtailvideo.com/players/”);
s1.addVariable(”file”,”http://www.mel-air.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/mvi_4438aviff.flv”);
s1.write(”video1″);

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There was a Malaysian restaurant close to the hotel that got rave reviews.  I’d been wanting to try it since we had arrived, but the restaurant was small and whenever I stopped by for dinner, there was always quite a wait.  Jim and I slept in on Tuesday morning, had a quick snack for breakfast [...]

Sunday morning Jim had to leave early and get to work so I was on my own.  Our hotel was right next to Stanley Park.  Like most people I had never heard of Stanley park either.  It’s something like the largest urban park in North America.  And they ain’t lying.  I had a map, little [...]

As I mentioned before, Jim treated me to a plane ticket to Vancouver as a birthday gift.  He had to attend a conference there beginning with a workshop, two days of down time, then back to work.  Jim has always wanted us to take a trip to Vancouver because he’s heard years ago how beautiful [...]

I’m an expert gardener in just a few short weeks!  You too can be an expert gardener if you move to California where everything doubles its size in the span of a couple of weeks.  It’s truly amazing actually.  And it works out great for me as I am a terribly impatient person.  And although [...]

So many things to write about, and I’m falling behind.  In recent news however…Poooooor little Dingle.  When Jim and I went to Vancouver, we opted to have him boarded because he needed updates on a few shots as well as needing to have his eye looked at.  It’s been getting bigger, and if not bigger, [...]

I would say that the progress on the yard is going slowly, but I’d be lying.

The first couple of days continued to look like a bomb went off back there, but in no time the landscapers were asking for their second payment because they were at the half-way mark, then by Tuesday they were completely [...]