Soaring, tumbling, free-wheeling ...

This weekend I had, yet again, the pleasure of travelling to Denman Island, to stay at the property of my "arch nemesis" :) It's always so lovely to spend time up there, away from the city, enveloped in glorious nature (almost feels like a whole new world ;)) - pictures will follow shortly. We headed up Saturday morning (there were about 25 of us) and as my car was one of the first to arrive, we decided to head straight down to the ocean, and spent some time admiring the ferocity of the roiling sea (the tide was in, and there were some sweet whitecaps). That evening was spent drying off indoors, playing some games, enjoying the warmth of the fire, and watching some movies.
Sunday was a busy day, as much of it was spent outdoors, checking out a local hermitage, and then taking the usual trek through Fillongley Park. The skies actually cleared up, and for much of the afternoon the sun was intermittently stretching fingers of light through the clouds. Just down a path from the hermitage was probably the most stellar climbing tree I have ever seen in my life!! We had a lot of fun climbing around in that tree, and creating some interesting photo ops. And best of all, no one got hurt. Much. On the walk back from the park, I finally achieved one of my life goals of slapping a bull in the butt. Okay, so it was never a goal, and I think I may have done it before, but it made for some good times none the less. Turns out there is a wide variety of things I'll do to make people laugh.

So there you have it - pretty much what I've been up to lately :D I am now back in Victoria, as I had a hockey game I wanted to play tonight. I have the day off tomorrow, so hopefully I'll be able to get some good amount of school work done, as this project is just plaguing me, always there at the back of my head. Other than that, and actually even with that, things are going splendidly, as I am happy, healthy, and blessed!!!

Tempestuous November

I sit at our kitchen table, looking out the window at the torrential downpour ... and I love it! November and I have always been friends :) I love months that bring change, and this month is definitely doing so, at least in Victoria. The only unfortunate part of the rain, in my opinion, is that the kindergarteners I'll be walking to the pool will likely be less than pleased to be getting soaking wet. On the bright side (har har), it may mean they'll behave themselves on the way there and back. Too bad I don't have a 'one adult and 5 kindergarteners' sized umbrella. I'm sure that would be quite the picture - like a mother hen and her chicks! Aaaaaaaaaaaanyway, thisi is sounding a bit like some kind of country magazine column, so I'll cut with the waxing poetical.