"Life is a highway! I'm gonna' ride it all night long!'

Saturday we also had a neighborhood "Canada Day" party. One of the neighbor's boys have outgrown their kiddie quad, so they have let us keep it for Buck for awhile. It doesn't move on it's own (hence RKZ with the stick). But Buck LOVES it. I, for one, am glad that it doesn't move.
Only 2 photos today as I've been experimenting with my camera and making the images "more clear" (which means more pixels, I'm thinking). Anyway, I usually use the lowest (VGA - email) setting so that I can download all of the pictures to the site quickly (or send them over email). The biggest problem I have is that they are very fuzzy when printed out to use in real-life frames. Being a woman of extremes, I set the camera on the highest setting to take these very important shots (ha.) and it has taken about 2 minutes for each photo to download. There are some other, cuter shots in this bunch...but forget about it. I'm not that patient (as many of you well know) and neither is the dictator-tot.

This past weekend (I'm including Canada Day Monday) was very fun. Saturday, we began the odyssey of finally cleaning out the boxes from our garage. Many of you might not realize that we have/had many boxes which we never even opened in Toronto. The boxes are now (were) about 1 year old and still sealed. In my romanticized ideals, we could have just thrown all the boxes away because if we didn't need it for an entire year, did we need it at all? (the answer to that is unequivicably no, by the way). But then I was overcome with curiosity - it didn't just kill the cat, it kills weekends too :) We also needed to get the junk out of the garage as RKZ has yet to park his Inifinity inside the building yet.

Anyway, it was a lot of boxes of books. Well, some of the stuff was not mine - there were some office supplies. I had totally been wondering where the stapler was!! We also had the joy of the 'surprise boxes' which were filled with things we could just toss. I have to say that it was a nice feeling to go to sleep with 2 bookshelves filled and a semi-empty garage.

Sunday we took the day off to watch the longest baseball game in history. Now, I saw Nolan Ryan pitch something like an 11 inning no-hitter in Anaheim when I was a kid and we got to stay up through the entire game but that was nothing compared to the "I've seen way better high school baseball" game that we sat through for the professional (like AAAAAA league) Calgary Vipers. I guess the team was resting their starting pitchers and I don't think any of the back-ups pitched a strike all day. Still, they serve cans of Coors Light & Grasshopper (local Calgary beer) and Buck loved the music, so it was a fun day all-in-all. He was terrified of the walking snake mascot and keeps repeating "big snake" all over the place, but Buck has woken up every morning since Sunday saying "baseball game." RKZ has starting charting Buck's professional future - just not with the Calgary Vipers.

Monday, we finished the garage. OUR LIVES ARE SO FACINATING! I also found that I should begin tossing momentos of a sketchy past. I found a single pom-pom, about 20 random letters, and some coffee mugs from high school proms, I guess. Strange. I guess my zen dream of total abandonment of the material is no going to happen ;)

More tomorrow (and smaller pictures let's hope)