Top gift ideas for Christmas

Ok now is the time for
the best Christmas presents to buy this year. Now I'm just looking around on the web so far to see whats out there and I tend to look at the weird and technical ones.
So that's why I'm asking your help this year. What have you found that should be in my top list this year. Please click on the comments below this blog and tell me what you have found. Who knows maybe I will find a prize for the best suggestion. And if I was rich enough I would buy that for you. But dint worry I wont be buying the present for you.

Ok lets say next week I will post the results of my top gifts of 2009. So help me out and comment on what you think should be on the list. If you have a link where you found it please let me know.

Ok happy hunting for the top ones

A mystery

It is a mystery. It seems so strange we can't figure it out. Why would someone decide to steal 10 bags of leaves?

Our nephew bagged about 10 bags of leaves and brought them over for my wife to compost about 6 weeks ago. They were left half way up our driveway in a good place to store them. I was waiting for the driveway to be dry to load them up to the top and then put them in some compost bins.

I hurt my back and was waiting till it felt better and then deal with the leaves.

But tonight as i was backing down my driveway in my truck I noticed all the bags are gone.

My wife doesn't know what happened to them.

Where could they go. Would someone come half way up the driveway and steal them.
It is not like they are worth any money and could be pawned. And we were home too when this happened.

The only other thing we can think of is that a garbage truck came by and mistook them for garbage. But the problem with that is it was obvious they were leaves in them. And we don't get our garbage picked up here we take it in ourselves.

So If you have any other ideas what happened to the leaves please let me know.

I'm baffled that someone would steal them.

If I find out what happened Ill let you know

ok till next time keep a eye on what ever is in your yard. People will steal anything

Lights on

Well today is Dec. 01 and we went for a walk at Butchart Gardens. Now today is the official lightup there at 5pm. But we went early just for the walk. It is interesting to go and see the sights without the lights and crowds and because we have a yearly pass it didn't cost us anything.

So now you can according to me anyway start your Christmas lights. You see I have a rule here at our house and I always say that you cant do that till Dec. 01. You must be wondering why. Well my reason is my birthday is Dec.o1 and I want you to concentrate on that first then its ok to move on to Christmas. Well we all have our reasons for things we do.

Anyway this is a important birthday for me , I turn 55 and now its freedom 55. Tomorrow is my official retirement day. But I have been on holidays for the last 4 weeks so I have just eased into it.

ok turn on the lights lets do Christmas now

storing pictures

With the new digital camera comes the problem of how to store your pictures. At first I stored them on the hard drive of my computer . Then came a memory card. Then burn them onto a CD.
Now I'm in the process of trying other ways. I'm looking at buying a portable hard drive like 500mb. But want my pictures in two different places in case one fails. So I'm looking into online storage too. But don't want the whole world to see them so it must be somewhere private.

Im testing a online site right now. So this picture is from the site so lets see how it works.

Remember the picture a month or so ago of my old hat that I wore when i first started work.

ok till next time

Old Victoria and Vancouver

Here is a video that was sent to me from my brother in law he found on you tube. It is a newsreel of visiting Victoria and Vancouver in 1936. It interesting to see the inner harbour without the walk way below. And no welcome to Victoria on the grass. Even Butchard gardens is still recognizable but still it is different. Enjoy it and tell me in the comments what you thought about it. It is just over 9 min long.

OK till next time

new email

Well now that I am retired, I have to have a new email. So what best way to do that than just put an x in front of my old one. Now if you don't know the old one it would be hard for you to figure it out. So to fool the bots on here that scan for emails I will decode it but you should be able to figure it out. I know your smart readers. But if you cant leave a comment and ill get back to you with it. Ok are you ready here it is

x
postie at
shaw
dot
ca

ok you got it figured out. just type it the way it sounds.

ok till next time

Now finally I know what its all about

Well finally I know what it is all about. The names in the song that is. Remember the song We didn't start the fire by Billy Joel. If you are like me you know a lot of the things mentioned but can never keep up with the lyrics. Now someone has done the work for you. This guy must have spent lots of hours getting all the pictures to bring the song to life.

It was sent to me by a friend , So now here is the link , Sit back turn up the sound and enjoy the song and the sights.

http://home.uchicago.edu/~yli5/Flash/Fire.html

Hope you enjoyed it. till next time