Category: Rainwater

Rainwater Ribfest

July 3, 2011
Rainwater

On Sunday we got together with our neighbours for our first annual Rainwater Ribfest. Lars did up some smoked ribs and chicken in an electric smoker. We had tried it out a couple of weeks ago and we planned on the long weekend. Susan made some pulled pork in the crock pot.

So much food!

We also had potatoes, corn, and chicken wings.

More food!

And still more food!

The girls digging in.

Dig in!

Lars looking content. We all ate probably a little more then we should have, but it was delicious.

Lars "Mandarin full"

The girls occupied with their technology.

The girls

Angela and Gillian braiding Madyson’s hair after dinner. We followed up with brownies and cheesecake and ice cream. It was a great evening with our neighbours. Claudia said it’s kind of funny that we called it “Rainwater” Ribfest when it was only our two families, to which I replied “we are Rainwater!”.

Angela, Maddy, Gillian

Out to Lori and Dale’s

July 2, 2011
Rainwater

On Saturday we headed out to Hamilton to Lori and Dale’s place. The girls were looking forward to swimming and seeing their cousins. Here is Alex using his muscles to pump up an inflatable.

Muscle Man Alex

Angela.

Angela

Claudia doing it the old fashion way.

Claudia

Alex and Claudia

Alex and Claudia

We recently bought a new camera, it is a Panasonic Lumix that is waterproof (to 40 ft) and shockproof (from 6 ft). Here are some pictures from it underwater.

Alex

Angela underwater.

Angela underwater

Angela taking a picture of me from under the water.

 

Me from under the water

The quality is pretty good.

Angela

Angela’s Shutout Half

June 30, 2011
Rainwater

Thursday night was Angela’s league game, there were only 9 girls at the game, so there was a lot of room and running. Angela played goalie the first half and held the other team scoreless.

Angela

Here she is making one of her two saves.

Angela making the save

She has a good drop kick and can get it down the field, on this one she got an assist on their second goal. They ended up winning 3-0.

Big drop kick

Rain Caddy 1.0

June 30, 2011
Rainwater
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Ever wonder how much rain has fallen in the last 7 days? I came across an web site that takes the guess work out of it, it is called Rain Caddy. All you do is enter your postal code and it will find the closest Environment Canada weather station and give you the results.

I updated the local weather display on the website, I replaced what I had (originally from the Environment Canada website) with a php script that pulls the same data from the EC website. The old one was flash based which didn’t work on the ipad.

The Guitar World

June 29, 2011
Rainwater

Claudia has been taking guitar lessons this year, she has been enjoying them, she moved from Monday nights to Wednesdays. She really likes her teacher, Dion, and we have run into a few people who have had him as a teacher and they all say good things. Her lessons are 30 minutes and I enjoy sitting in the store while I wait for her lesson. The owner and people that work there are very good and go out of their way to help people. If your looking for a guitar or lessons, check out The Guitar World.

The Guitar World

Claudia’s Shutout Half

June 27, 2011
Rainwater

Tonight was Claudia’s soccer game, she was playing goal in the first half. She had a shut out as her team jumped to a 3-0 lead.

Claudia

Claudia wondering if it was raining.

Rain?

Claudia making saves during practice.

Claudia in goal

The girls stretching before the game.

Stretching

They won the game 3-0, they are now 4-1-1. Here is the one of the coaches running them through some drills.

Practice

 

Soccer Practice

June 26, 2011
Rainwater

We headed over to the school Sunday night to give Claudia some practice in goal. This week she has to play net for one half of her game.

Claudia

Angela

Angela

One of the trees out back of the school. It looks like a pretty symmetrical tree, the goal will be to come back in each season and take a picture.

Tree

Claudia and Chloe.

Claudia and Chloe

Angela practicing her goalie skills.

Angela

Chloe turned 2 years old on Sunday. Hard to believe two years have gone by.

Chloe

Muppet Movie

June 26, 2011
Rainwater

There is a new Muppet Movie coming out on November 23, 2011. It is titled “The Muppets” and stars Jason Segel (from How I Met Your Mother) and Amy Adams (Night at the Museum:Battle of the Smithsonian). The Muppets is about three friends, Walter, Gary (Jason) and Mary (Amy) who help try to save the Muppet Theater from destruction by oilman Tex Richman (Chris Cooper). They help reunite Kermit with the Muppets, who have all gone their separate ways, in order to stage The Greatest Muppet Telethon Ever and raise $10 million.

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Get Ready for Muppet Domination!

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Mississauga Celebration Square

June 26, 2011
Rainwater

Saturday night Susan and I went to dinner at Brad and Lesley’s house. Lesley is a colleague of Susan’s. After a fabulous dinner we headed over to the new Celebration Square by City Hall. The official opening was last week. This weekend there were a few events to coincide with the International Indian Film Academy (IIFA) events. The main act was “delhi 2 dublin” a band from Vancouver that mixes Indian music with Celtic music.

delhi 2 dublin

On both sides of the stage there are state of the art media screens.

delhi 2 dublin

The band was really good, there was a drummer, couple of fiddle players, vocals, guitarist and a DJ spin dude.

delhi 2 dublin

A couple of giant balloons were tossed into the crowd.

delhi 2 dublin

We’ll be going down to the square more often this summer. On Thursday nights they will be showing movies on the big screens.

delhi 2 dublin

Lesley on the left with Angela and Susan.

Lesley, Angela and Susan

The new Celebration Square stage.

Celebration Square

Looking back towards Mississauga City Hall.

City Hall

They have increased the size of the fountain pool, in the winter it will be frozen for ice skating. They have also opened up the area around the square.

Celebration Square

Sunday afternoon they are attempting a Guinness World Record by hosting the world’s largest Bollywood dance class.

delhi 2 dublin

June 26, 2011
Rainwater

The headline act was Vancouver based “delhi 2 dublin“, according to their website they are a mix of Bhangra, Celtic, Dub, Reggae and Electronica with global rhythms and club beats. They put on a good show.