My Own Dyslexic Ways...

I was contemplating how to start out this entry and in light of recent developments in the comments, this only seemed fitting. The title of this blog is rather misleading in the sense that it's only my friends that are dyslexic (even though they're really not) but I'm here today to fess up. I'm the queen of dyslexia but the fact that I'm the holder of said list means that my entries conveniently get left off of it. My friends are very aware of this convenience and have started making their own lists. One of which I found sunday morning, stogged in my purse. Thanks Liss!

It all started out rather innocently. Saturday night was sorta my welcoming home party since I missed Festivus festivities and got home through the week, it was our first opportunity. Liss and I had discussed that night and thought it would only be us but we were ok with that. Of course, things naturally snowball with us and what started out with Liss and I, turned in to us being joined by Scott, Mary, Chris, Tracy and her significant other that we finally got to meet... Andy. The more the merrier. Good thing there was lots of company as I turned out to be a lost cause and was in bed by... hmmm, I don't think I made it 'til 12. Just so everyone knows, I had a great time up 'til then and thanks for the entertainment.

Try as we might, we could not get Darcy to play the guitar for us, (too sober? too on call? both?) even though he took the odd stab at the electric. There's not much singing along you can do to the electric guitar though, particularly since Christmas as it's now hooked up to a Marshall amp that rules out any chance of thinking, let alone being heard. Acoustic guitar or no, we carried on anyways, singing familiars and we somehow got on to that song, "Delta Dawn." You can only imagine what came next. We may have gotten one verse out of the normal version but the bad version quickly took over. I made the mistake of being overheard singing, "Porcelain Penix," - Me, and it was all downhill from there. Will we ever learn to keep our mouths shut when preying vultures are perched waiting for fresh kill? We are slow learners, that's for sure. We still haven't learned not to believe drunken promises of breakfast or from friday night camp syndrome, just to name a few.

At some point during the night, we started noticing these strange flashes. Darcy, just having returned from an emergency trip to Carter's, came in explaining the crazy thunder and lightning storm going on. All of us had heard of this phenomenon but none had witnessed it. It's very rare to have a winter thunder and lightning storm. The flashes of bluish purple reminded me of seeing a squirrel being fried on a transformer oh so many years ago or the guy that tried to cut the live electrical wire at the substation, but that's another time, another post.

Next thing you know, it's jackets and boots flying everywhere as we're all now going outside in the rain to see it, putting the Skidd deck to it's maximum occupancy limit test... which it passed with flying colours. I, of course, grabbed my camera to get some video. With video now rolling, we're all standing around waiting for the next flash. Listen closely as I find this rather amusing too. The video's only 1:43min. long but it seemed so much longer than that. Right after you hear me asking to see another flash, Liss proclaims, "It's probably over!" Ask and you shall receive! We got three cool shots of lightning (second one's the coolest) as well as some great thunder, immediately after that, which literally shook the deck. It really is a neat phenomenon and I'm glad I got to witness it as it's a very rare occurence. To check out the video, click here...

Last night I also got to see another rare occurence. Not necessarily a world-wide phenomenon but one that occurs regularly in our own little world. Anybody who knows the Skidd's dogs, also know how much Kate and Jake detest each other, well mostly it's just Kate detesting Jake, well, everyone for that matter. But you know that it's crammed for space in the livingroom when you see this occur...



This next few pictures are carrying on with the couch potato theme. Geez I love the focus of my new camera. Here's Jake taking a nap...



This next one's of Meg and Kate. I love the expression on Kate's face in this one...



I did manage to fire off a few pictures before going to bed saturday night. There's people missing from them so for those, we may have to get some pictures from Mary.

This first picture's of Liss. Not quite sure why she felt the need to strike such a pretty pose but I like this picture and after the pics on Matt's blog, I felt sorry for her, hahahaha...



This next one's of Scott. You all might want to save this to your hardrive as I think this is one of the few normal pictures we have of him without a beer or some other crazy thing to screw up his picture...



And of course, another close up of the most photographed dog in the world. This was funny 'cause he kept trying to sniff and lick the camera. He's such a sniffer so it's only appropriate that we get an extreme up-close of his nose. I apparently thought it very funny, judging by my expression in the background...



Ok, these are totally out of order and backwards yet but these pictures were taken saturday day which later turned into the crazy thunder and lightning storm. I thought this all so weird and cool as well that I decided to snap a few pictures of it. It was so foggy later that night that when I was trying to drive to Douglastown for my mix, you couldn't even see the lights until you were almost across the bridge. You'll hear Scott saying in the above video that it was like driving off the edge of the earth. It was...



I love the way this picture turned out...



Needless to say, it's been pretty eventful since I got home. We woke up this morning to a heavy snowfall warning and the radio has been announcing cancellations all day. Mitch'll be happy as he got to extend his Christmas vacation by a day, even though it wasn't even snowing when they cancelled it. Probably a good idea though as the roads would have been messy for them coming home as we've now got about 3" accumulated. So far no rain as it was predicting but hopefully we're on the cusp enough that it'll just stay snow.

This could make things interesting for travelling up to the camp this weekend though. I can say I'm not feeling quite so invincible about travelling through the Plaster Rock highway after the last trip but surely I've significantly decreased the chances of hitting another moose. Here's hoping the camp roads will be ok as I'm not going to be making it out there 'til saturday and of course everyone will be arriving friday so please have the search party ready. It will be fun but sad as this is going to be Scott's going away bash. We're going to miss you Scott but you'll have a great time.

This'll be my last post 'til I have more blackmail pictures of the camp this weekend. Those always produce blog worthy entries. Liss came up with a good game idea for the comments so feel free to jump in one and all!

'Til next time...