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Okay, time for another post. Nothing exciting to write about, but then the masses have more often demanded quantity than quality.

For Easter weekend we managed to take a few days off and visit the parents (the closer ones anyway). A mere five hours away, but this is the first time we went (together) to see them. A good time was had by all, and we even managed to stop by in Toronto on Sunday afternoon to say hi to a good number of long-forgotten acquaintances.

Nephew and niece enjoying a meal (they're growing like weeds, by the way)...


And another nephew (don't those stripes make him look slimmer?)...


I've been fortunate to be able to go boarding probably more often than any previous season. And no broken bones! ...although not for lack of trying. I took my camera a couple of times and good thing too, because when something cool happens it should be caught on 'film'.

So my buddy r00b was going along a trail weaving through some trees when suddenly he lost control. He landed exactly as you see him in the picture, and I wondered why he wasn't moving. Then I heard his muffled voice, "take a picture!" So, while killing myself laughing, I dutifully snapped a shot before letting him come up for air. Good times, good times...


Another time that he lost control he mauled a tree before ricocheting off it and narrowly missing two others. The other kind of tree huggers would not be impressed by the tree carnage he left behind.


Yet another time, we decided to follow a small trail in the trees that some other enterprising boarder had previously created, so off we went. Before too long we realized that the trail-maker had ended up some place where he could simply go no further; and like him, our only option was to climb back up the hill whilst arguing over whose dumb idea this was in the first place. Unfortunately, trudging up the hill couldn't be done without unstrapping the snowboards; slightly worse was the fact that the snow was a few feet deep :(.


And yet another outing, with a bunch of us.


One morning I noticed a fancy icicle on one of the plant hangers in the backyard. Not until a couple days later did I notice that the same water source was forming a nice big ice sculpture in the tree above the hanger. The one in the tree got so heavy the branch broke eventually.