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Category: Rainwater

Grand Slam of Curling

The girls and I headed down to The Mattamy Athletic Centre at old Maple Leaf Gardens for the Grand Slam of Curling Players Championship. Gillian came in from school and we met her on the GO Train.

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Our seats for Draw 7 were on the east side and the game closest to us was Kevin Koe against Mike McEwen.

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The feature game (i.e. on tv) was Heather Nedohin against Eve Muirhead.

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Eve Muirhead’s rink beat Nedohin 8-3.

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Kevin Koe releasing the rock before the hog line.

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Koe sitting three for the time being. He eventually fell to Mike McEwen’s rink 7-5.

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Brad Gushue won his game.

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We had to clear out before Draw 8. While we were waiting we hung out at the Loblaws and watched curling teams go in and out. For Draw 8, we were on the west side and the closest game was Jennifer Jones against Team Feltscher from Switzerland.

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Anna Sidorova of Russia.

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The feature game of Draw 8 started out as Rachel Homan against Val Sweeting, it only lasted five ends before Team Homan conceded. Then they switched to the Jennifer Jones game as the feature game.

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Here are the girls with Jennifer Jones, she was all smiles after winning 6-5 in extra ends.

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The girls with Jill Officer.

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And Dawn McEwen.

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And Kaitlyn Lawes.

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Gillian with Rachel Homan.

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After the game we had dinner across the street at Daio Japanese Restaurant. It was back on the GO Train and then we drove Gillian back to Hamilton.


Chloe All Cleaned Up

Chloe was overdue for a haircut. I had fallen behind on her grooming. As usual I started her week long grooming process.

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I had her sides cut and there was long hair on her back, it looked like she had a cape on.

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Today I finished her trimming and we gave her a bath. She looks good and is good for another couple of months.

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Happy Birthday Angela!

Angela celebrated her 17th birthday. Here she is in the morning before school.

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Angela with her shuttlecock googles. Angela is on the senior badminton team.

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Celebrating with cake later in the evening.

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Bedroom Upgrade

Susan and I took some time off in February to finally get around to re-doing our bedroom. It was long overdue. Here are some photos of the room during the preparation stage.

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We painted, put down new flooring and new furniture.

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I had more time to use up, so a couple of weeks later I painted the ensuite bathroom, and replaced the fixtures and the wall cabinet. I also finished the flooring in the closet, painted and re-organized the shelving. Next on the list is the main bathroom.


PEI 2015

PEI-logoWe have booked our summer vacation to Prince Edward Island. We are flying to Charlottetown (cashed in my Aeroplan miles) and renting a SUV to tour the island. We are heading back to The Good Cottages where we had stayed in 2012. We are in the Wild Rose cottage as the Oceanview was already booked. We are going for two weeks and Gillian will join us for the second week. Looking forward to beach combing, lobster suppers and exploring parts of the island we didn’t get to last time.


Happy New Year!

We were a little behind in our photos this holiday season. This photo was taken just minutes before we were packing up Gillian to take her back to school. Never the less, Happy New Years to everyone.

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4th Annual Skating Party

We hosted our 4th Annual Skating Party at the Meadowvale Four Rinks.

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We had a good turnout.

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Katie.

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Emi.

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Gillian and her girlfriends.

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The girls with Katie.

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Christmas 2014

Our Christmas schedule was a little mixed up, we ended up going to Midnight Mass instead of earlier in the evening. Chloe waiting to open presents.

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Once again Santa was very generous to us.

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Chloe right in the middle of things.

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Gillian with some of her Christmas bling.

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Angela had asked for some movies that we had on VHS but not on DVD.

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Angela and Claudia with their Hulk hands.

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Hulk sad.

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Claudia on wrapping paper detail.

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We headed out to Lori and Dale’s for Christmas dinner. Here is Lily starting into another round of presents.

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Kaiden and Grandpa.

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On Boxing Day we headed out to Mom and Dad’s in Dundas for dinner and some Rummoli with Uncle Ken and Aunt Bev.


Christmas Chloe

We had our Christmas tree up early this year. We went to our usual garden centre to cut down the tree (from the rafters). Once we had it up, Chloe was taking up residence under the tree.

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Chloe with her Santa suit on. Not very impressed from her look.

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Time for a stretch.

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Happy Birthday Gillian!

We headed out to Dundas on the weekend before Gillian’s birthday to celebrate, she was able to come home due to her upcoming exams. Not sure what everyone was laughing about.

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Happy Birthday Gillian!

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