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Geordie and Stef left this morning amidst a whirlwind of action! My goodness that was a little too much for me. Stef made enough food to feed a small army, which is good because they are taking part in the national call to fast and have chosen to do the "Daniel Fast" which is just veggies. Since those feul you for oh so very long and so so filling a massive amount of food was needed. Our house smelled very good and might I add that Stef's ministronie soup is probably the best thing out there.

Aaron and mom lucked out on this call to fast, though. It started at sundown on the 12th, so they were able to have a big birthday bash. My birthday falls smack in the middle of it all... so I'll probably just "accidentally" forget about the fast then.

All this talk of fasting... eeekkk... starting to sound religious. Yuck.

If you want to check out what this is actually about, because it's really cool, go to the Watchmen Website and read all about it.

Last night was fun. The birthday bash went well and the Tanasiuk Children got so high on sugar I thought they may pass out. We had an entire bag of marshmallows and they evaporated in a matter of moments as the kids sucked them back with alarming speed. But since they were out in the open, it was lots of fun because their heads just started to spin and off they ran for a good three to four hours. They were also greatly aided by copious amounts of pop and the ever wonderful barbequed hotdog... and large pieces of cake.

We said a little prayer for the sanity of Con and Sue, but I'm sure that the sugar coma kicked in somewhere around two blocks from our cabin, when we left.

And it will all happen again this weekend, as it will be my birthday bash as all who are reading this are invited. It's at my house at 7:30pm on Saturday.

I reigned supreme in the battle of the horse-shoes. I'm not sure how many American's know of this game. Hopefully you all do, but one thing I do know is that horse-shoes runs rampant in most parts Red Neck up here in Canada. So chances are it originated in the USA, but you never know.

Harry and I were on a team and we were amazing. So amazing that we halved the total points needed to win a game and it still took us twice as long. But we were undefeated for two full games, promptly named ourselves Elijah and Elisha and declared our retirement after an astonishing undefeated carrer.

I'm so proud.

But that was all eclipsed by Geordie's "atomic" horseshoe throw. I'll leave that one for you to imagine... and yes, before he threw it, he leaned over and said, "Here's the atomic horseshoe!" and yelled "RINGER!!!" at the top of his lungs. If by "ringer" he meant "decorative water well", then everything turned out just fine.