Road Rash

No not road rage. Road rash. Related to our older post Dog Walk I thought it would help explain things to some reads (and tell a funny story).

Picture the family dog walk. BigE is riding his bike on the side walk on a main 4 lane road. Now in these new neighbourhoods the sidewalk is about 15 feet from the road. Mama and I are walking along side. Mama has Arnie.

Arnie spots another dog on the other side of the street and he wants to go meet him. Now Arnie is a sweetie. He just wants to go play. But when 140 lbs wants to go play it can be hard to restrain. With the help of a gentle leader Mama does the job. While our attention is drawn, BigE takes a spill. I scoop him up to comfort him and stop the crying. There's nothing really wrong.

Except when things take a turn for the worse.

Then like out of a movie Mama is yanked towards the street. While our attention had been turned to BigE, Arnie had decided to make another pull for that dog. This is where the fun begins.

Mama doesn't let go. "I couldn't let go of the dog" she would later say. What would the other person think. So she tries to keep up. And by keep up I mean stumbling along trying to run fast enough to keep up with Arnie who is in full stride. Mama's upper body is going about 50% faster then her legs. It's quite a sight.

She's able to keep it up until the middle of the road. Then trip! Now Mama doesn't come to a complete stop. I'd say she made it about another 5 ft before coming to a complete stop. All the while one arm is out stretched clinging to the leash . Of course that pulled up her shirt on one side and caused some nice road rash.

Thankfully at 5:00 p.m. when the traffic is just pouring back into our neighbourhood there wasn't a car this whole time. I ran out with BigE in my arms and scooped up Mama. Once we got to the other side then the traffic came pouring back.

I think the damage assessment was hip road rash, sore fingers and wrist, and one embaressed Mama.

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Letter from nanny

Somebody was happy to get a package in the mail yesterday. A few toys left at nanny barb's. Well it included a little letter. Boy o' boy that letter has been pure gold. BigE has hardly put it down in the last 24 hours.

Oh and that chocolate hockey puck was pretty darn good too!

Dog Walk

BigE [To Dada] "When Mama falls down you pick her up and go get ernie. I'll stay with my bike"

Somebody remembers the "Graceful fall" episode. Even better he just assume's Arnie's gonna take Mama down.

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Share on Facebook

Ok, so as many of you know Mama is big into Facebook right now. While we're quietly trying to share a little family blog we also want to be some what useful and share some events.

So I've started adding a little link "Share on Facebook". This lets you add a link to facebook. Either as a post to your facebook profile OR send the link to another user to let them know about it.

If you post it to your profile your friends will see that in their what's new feed under your name.

If this is all gibberish to you then you can probably safely ignore this posting.

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What to do with that old IPOD

Well if you have an IPOD (click wheel, mini or nano) that is older, or slighty busted one (oxymoron I know) or one that is definitely junk that you haven't gotten rid of there is hope. Check out http://www.buymybrokenipod.com/index.html

Why post this on TBF? Because I'm pretty sure in the hipper techie circles there are a few sketchy IPODS.

Looking at their form:
* An good condition working 20G IPOD, no box, but USB cable and charger is still worth (as of today) $50
* A first gen 4Gig Mini with a cracked screen, cables, and charger is worth $16.


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Dirt and Poop

BigE does a poop 30 minutes into what was supposed to be a nap. Of course dada get's the wiping honors.

Dada "Hang on, stop squarming I have to get poop"

BigE "Pardon dada"

Dada "I have to wipe up your dirty bum"

BigE "My bum is dirty"

Dada "Well yeah it's poopy"

BigE "Dirt is poop?"

Dada "Uhhhh .... no Poop is dirty"

BigE "Oh ... OK"


There was that moment when the mind was reeling with the implications of dirt is poop.

That's about as good as any post titled Dirt and Poop will get.

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Mother's Day & Consumers Reports

So I was thinking of surprising Mama with a subscription to Consumer Reports. Ok so that it's a little bit of a wiener gift but (a) she wanted it (b) it would be a nice little surprise. In the (our) modern two income world you end up buying most things you want anyways. And let's face it I can't out shop Mama

So I head over and there are two adds for subscriptions. A small one on the side and then this big Mother Day's Gift Subscription.




But after trying to login I got this error.



On Friday.
On Saturday.
And finally on Sunday.

I can't find an email on the website. So God only only knows how many people couldn't get through. I mean if it was everyone then somebody in Marketing is going to sh*t on Monday when there were 0 subs over the weekend. Unless they had really, really low expectations.

So here I sit, still unsure if I should keep trying.

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Happy Mothers Day

A Happy Mothers day goes out to Mama, Nanny Dot and Nanny Barb.

Can't let the day go without saying "Happy Mothers Day"