End of year curling

Well, our team's curling has improved a million fold since the start of the season. In fact, we're on a four game winning streak, including two Olympic worthy come-from-behind edge-of-your-seat-nail-biters. But even better that all the glory is that George won this week's Turkey Draw! He was the closest to the bird. So he got to take home a butterball. Can't wait for him to cook it up now!

Is that an original group of 7?

So, I took paintbrush to paper and painted my second landscape a few weeks ago by copying a Group of Seven copy that mom and dad have at their place. Overall, I'm quite happy with the results. The rock looks a little meh and the hills in the background look a little dark... but if you look at it from afar the tree looks like a group of seven tree. It's certainly better than my previous work, The Purple Penis.

Backyard update

Now that the cold weather is here, we officially finished our backyard. A little backwards I know... but nonetheless we managed to enjoy it over the entire summer season. The hammock George bought me for my b-day was simply perfect.

We initially had planned to fill the space between the stones with soil and plant things like moss but unfortunately we came across two mortal foes: wind erosion and money. Moss, and the amount we needed, was incredibly expensive. We spent about $100 and that covered about 10% of the yard. So, with no moss growing, the wind had a grand old time blowing away the soil.

Long story short, we decided to fill in the other 90% with pea gravel. And you know what? it looks awesome. We'll undoubtedly plant more moss and stuff over time but for now we're quite happy with how it looks. Now if i could only get George to rake those damn leaves :)