Manitoba Foxworthy

If you consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through
36" of ice and sitting there all day hoping that the food will swim by, you might be a Manitoban

If your local Dairy Queen is closed from September through May, you might be a Manitoban.

If you have worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you might be a Manitoban.

If you have had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who
dialed a wrong number, you might be a Manitoban.

If "Vacation" means going south past Grand Forks for the weekend, you might be a Manitoban.

If you measure distance in hours, you might be a Manitoban.

If you know several people who have hit a deer more than once, you might be a Manitoban.

If you often switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day and then
back

again, you might be a Manitoban.

If you can drive 110 KM/H through 2 feet of snow during a raging
blizzard, without flinchin, you might be a Manitoban.

If you design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit,
you might be a Manitoban.

If driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled
with snow, you might be a Manitoban.

If you know all 4 seasons by: almost winter, winter, still winter and
road construction, you might be a Manitoban.

If your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a deer next to
your blue spruce, you might be a Manitoban.

If down south to you means the U.S. border, you might be a Manitoban.

If your 1st of July BBQ was moved indoors due to frost, you might be a Manitoban.

If you have more miles on your snow blower than your car, you might be a Manitoban.

If you find -20 degrees "a little chilly", you might be a Manitoban.

If you actually understand these jokes, and you forward them to all
your Manitoba friends, you might be a Manitoban.

half an hour to kill

Here I sit. I'm ready to call it quits for the day and yet I find that time still hasn't caught up to my needs. So where do I go. I put on the headphones and link up Radio Blau and turn to my oft neglected blog.

What's new with me?

Well, I passed my XP exam today: 98%... so I am officially certified to open my email. And next week I start on my Excel training so at least my excuse of not knowing how to organize my numbers won't be a valid excuse for not being able to show a profit.

I am also in a class of 12 people studying the basics of Greenskeeping. This is an online delivery course and I am the only one from Canada. The rest are mostly from Europe or the UK, so they'll most likely be in bed when I start to study. Its kind of cool, in theory I could attend class in my bathrobe... (some of you who know me know how possible that is outside the virtual realm.)

Today I had my first real massage... I'd recommend it to anyone. Just don't try and do any heavy thinking afterward. I was very relaxed and now very thirsty, go figure.

Dad is doing ok. His Chemo continues to make him cranky. And thats ok. Now he limits his outbursts of construction to one wall a day. Not bad considering he has cancer.

Oh look at the time, the blog has done its work.

My favorite KIDS