Halloween was lots of fun last night. Sue and I had some guests over for dinner and a movie. Before the movie started, we all wandered down the block to check out the fireworks. Some people from the block had organized everything so that everyone with fireworks was welcome to bring them down to get shot off. They also had hot dogs, hot chocolate, and coffee. Very fun! Read more for my shots from last night.

Today Yoshi and I ventured out to Elk Lake. That is where I took the above two shots. We started with a half hour warm up walk, then followed that by a round of retrieving the ball. Great fun for him. Darn chilly for me! 🙁

Tonight we are off to a friends 30th birthday party. Tomorrow I am riding in Duncan, then attempting to do some yard work (weather dependant).Talk about a busy weekend!

Last night was the annual pumpking carving session. Loads of fun! We had all sorts of Halloweeny treats, and about 10 adults and 6 helpers all gathered to carve some wonderful creations from the flesh of pumpkins.

Once everyone was done carving we set them up on the front porch and had the ritual viewing/photo session. The wind was pretty blustery and some of the candles had a hard time staying lit. I had lots of fun trying to take quality shots. I think I did better with these creations, than I did with the Government House ones.

View the pics.

Saturday morning was Pumpkin Fest out at Le Coteau farm. What fun!

It started off with a haunted hay ride. This would through a very, very scary haunted building. I think I captured a picture of a ghost!

The hay ride dropped us off at the Festival site. There was a live band, Twiggly Wiggley the clown, a haunted house, goats, ponies to ride, a concession area, mazes, and more!

Very fun place, especially for kids (or adults accompanying kids).

And of course there were lots of pumpkins, gourds, and squash.

Lots of fun. Here are all my pics.

Eventful weekend. It all started with Friday nights pizza eat and Government House Pumpkin Art viewing.

Pizza was good, and the kids were out in full force. Here they all are relaxing on the couch after eating a ton of pizza! It was quite the feat to get them all sitting still there for even a second.

Once it got dark it was time to head off to Government House. Here are my shots from the night.

I found the pumpkin art interesting, and some of the carvings were exquisite, but I found them rather boring to shoot. I had trouble making artsy shots. There are a few artsy fartsy shots there, but most were boring. Interestingly enough many of my shots were ended up being out of focus. I can’t believe I wasn’t paying more attention. Anyway, the artsiest shots I could come up with were a string of decorative pumpkin lights that were strung up in a hedge. I also found a line of pumpkins that was neat too.

It was kind of neat, and I might go back again, specially if Sue wants to go. She wasn’t there cuz she was still on her way back from Seattle.

I am begining to think that I should rename this site to snottylaces.ca. This cold I acquired last week still haunts me. I must have discharged a gallon of snot by now. I was feeling great this morning, but as the day dragged on my sinuses became more stuffed up. Must have something to do with the weather.

To top it off, I set up the VCR to tape the WRC Rallye De France on Sunday. I sat down to watch it tonight, and after rewinding the tape I discovered that I had started taping halfway through the two hour show! Crap! Before I set up the VCR I checked the channel listings. It showed Speed showing it back to back. For some weird reason, I decided to tape both showings of it (I set the VCR to tape for 4 hours). As it turned out, the last hour of my tape had the first hour of the race, and the first hour of the tape had te last hour of the race. Good race too. I love watching WRC racing.

Ugh. Have I mentioned I hate being sick? Once again I woke up, and knew I was sick. :grr: I hate that. This time I woke up at 3 am to hear the rain pounding on the roof, the wind tearing through the trees. I was laying on my back, and every time I swallowed I would experience a small wave of pain. I was swallowing a lot since my sinuses were draining down my throat. I tosssed and turned but could not get comfortable. Some time around 5 I think I fell asleep again.

The alarm went off at 7. Closing in on 7:30 I decided to drag my butt out of bed. The shower felt good, but not that good. I was still sick. The magical powers of the shower hadn’t changed a thing.

Sue said her goodbyes, then returned moments later. Dead battery. I think the Cherry bomb needs a new battery.

Wait, back to the topic at hand. I am going to stay at work long enough to determine if anything extremely important needs to get done. If not, I am going home. My head is in a fog today, and I am a walking zombie. Work is not good for Zombies.

Not much happening these days. I have been pretty un-busy. Sue is back now, and I am glad for that, but she has been busy the past couple days, so I haven’t seen a lot of her.

Yoshi and I had a little spin at the park last night.

I need to get out on a bike some time soon!

I also need to come up with some solution for the Photo Club. It is dark too early. We can try doing some night shoots, but I think those will get boring quite quickly. I am hoping that I can get permission some time to shoot with the club, inside the English Inn, which is right across the street from where I live. I still have to go and talk to them about that though.

Tonight we are going out for cake and a movie at a friends house.

This Sunday is the BC SPCA Walkathon. Should you wish to pledge Sue and I, shoot me an email and we will discuss.

What a crazy day yesterday! Holy smokes. I got up early and met up with Todd and Lisa. We headed over to the Dallas Road near Ross Bay Cemetary to cheer on some friends that were in the Royal Victoria Marathon. Congratulations to Laurie and Jeanette for completing the half marathon, and big congrats to Duncan for completing the full marathon! That is awesome you guys.

Around lunch time I bundled up, grabbed some gear, got Yoshi in the truck and headed up to Nanaimo for Thanksgiving dinner number 1. It was an eventful drive on the way up. It was raining and windy the whole way, but the cooles thing was driving through the ends of a rainbow. Twice! Yep, before this one corner, the rainbow ended right on the highway, and right after the corner was another end of a rainbow. It was pretty cool!

Just south of Ladysmith there was a three car accident that had occurred just a couple minutes before I got there. The people were out of their cars and walking about, there was debris all over the highway, two cars were off the side of the road, but one car that was prety badly mangled, was resting in the left lane against the median. One person was out directing traffic, so there was a real slow down right there. I have always hated rubber neckers, and sure enough I was stuck behind a real bad one. The older guy in the buick in front of me slowed down appropriately, but then started gawking at the wreck. He started slowing down even more! I was watching what he was doing, and I couldn’t belive it. He was being pretty dangerous. I honked at him a couple times to hopefully get his eyes back on the road. Like I sai, there was debris on the road, but there was also people walking alongside the highway. He absolutely needed his eyes on the road. :grr:

After that the rest of the drive was clear sailing. Dinner with my mom and sister was excellent, and Yoshi had a good time too. My original plan was to stay the night and head back to Victoria on Monday, but I ended up coming home last night. I am happy to say that nothing stupid happened on the drive back.