A little Behind

With one more day to go Im a little behind in the standings at the Canadian Horseshoe pitching Championships in Saskatoon Sask.  I need to get hot the last day to move up in the standings. Check out the complete standings for all divisions here 
2012-canadian-championships-day-3-results 

Wish me luck

Off to the Canadians

It's that time of year when we travel to a part of Canada for the Canadian Horseshoe Pitching Championships.  This year we are heading to Saskatoon Sk.  Ive been there a few times before and will be nice to view that city again.

I hope that Im ready this year for good success.  But I have conflicting thoughts.  One is that I hurt my knee about 2 weeks ago.  Its not bad now little sore and swollen but I can play without too much pain .   Just have to take it easy.  
The other thought is I just played a tourney up in Ladysmith this weekend and played well.  I finnished 5 wins and 0 losses with a ringer percent around 55%.  Im going to have to play that well or even better this year , as I am in the A group.  
There is 6 players in my group and I will be playing them all once every day for 3 days.  Total of 15 games.

You can follow the results here at the Championship website. http://www.horseshoecanada.ca/2012/index.php Cheer me on.  and see you after its over.

you can see all of the results from the BC tournaments at this website. bc horseshoe results

Funny place for the sign

A few weeks ago, we were walking down the Galloping Goose Trail in Metchosin.  If you haven't been on it , its a great place to get away and just go for a walk.  It runs from Victoria to just past Sooke a old gold town called leechtown.

 http://www.gallopinggoosetrail.com/

Anyway as we were walking I spotted these stop signs and thought they seemed like a weird spot for them.  It was just a old hardly ever used driveway into a farm.  But I guess its better to be on the safe side.    I'm sure coming out of the farm you would look for people on the trail even if the signs were not there.  Anyway enjoy the pics.

Now after a delay

Its been getting close to a month since my last post.  So I guess its time for an update.  You have seen pics on here of trees cut down, wood split, and woodsheds built.   Getting ready for winter .  Now with all the outside work being finished and now that we don't need to burn wood to keep warm. It was time for the inside upgrade.

The wood stove above is the one we purchased back in 1985. It was a Wilks stove.  They stopped building them not long after.  It was a local Victoria made stove.   But after 27 yrs it started to show its age.  With a couple cracks in the inside firebox, it was time to upgrade.   That meant a new more energy efficient stove and of course a new chimney that brought everything up to code and of course looking new again.  
So I bring you the new Stove.  It also is a fairly local made stove.  It is made just up Island by Pacific Energy.  Its a lot smaller but a lot more efficient too.   We went with a smaller unit but added the porcelain touch for decorative looks.
Well do you like it.

  Too bad we have to wait till fall to use it.

Otter?

Spent the afternoon and early evening out at Sidney. walking along the walkway we spotted an otter. Well we assume it was a otter.  It seemed a bit different, maybe its a mink , or something else.  That's where you come in and tell me what it is.  I will research it online but if you know for sure leave me a note in the comment section. 

He was very cute and was running along all along the beach. We saw him at 430pm and about 730pm.  So he was a busy little guy.

Ok enjoy the pics.

 

Start of Summer

Summer has started !   We had our first BBQ on Friday Night.  The long weekend and company from out of town, was a perfect time to start up the BBQ and have our first one of the season.  Luckily I had enough gas left from last year to run the bbq.  And the local store had a great deal on steaks.  So It was all set .  It was delicious and now cant wait till the next one.   Who knows maybe you will be invited sometime this year. Ok till then just savour the sights .

Spreadsheet

I do the stats for our local horseshoe league and keep everyones averages and ringer percentages.   I was using excel spreadsheet to do them and was having a problem with a formula in the spreadsheet.  So I contacted a guy online that helps people with problems like this.

He helped me then he asked if he could use the example to put in his blog and newsletter to help others.  He also interviewed me for the blog too.  You can check it out here and see his take on it.

Ok till later