Delicious

A lady that Blaine works with gave me this zucchini and cucumbers from her garden. So I made some cucumber salad which I love and I made zucchini loaf. It's delicious!! I am so thankful that she gave it to us. I still have about half of the zucchini left and I think I will either make more zucchini loaf, or some breaded, baked zucchini which is yummy.

What's New With Us

Well, we have had a lot of frustration lately because of our vehicles, but it seems that things may be getting better. It has been a non stop saga of problems and has been very annoying and expensive. It seems now that Blaine's car is ready to be insured in B.C. and is running good. We are going to get his new plates tomorrow. My car is going to the shop on Friday for a new head gasket and then needs its out of province inspection.

Tomorrow evening our friend Terry is coming to visit from Gibsons for the long weekend. We are going down to Spokane.

We are getting ready to start looking at houses to buy, which is so exciting! I can't wait to have our own place. Hopefully we will find something.

Final Medal Standings

Well, the 2008 Summer Olympics have ended. Here are the final medal standings for the top 15 countries. Canada is 15th in total number of medals. We ended with 18 medals.

We look forward to 2010 in Vancouver!!

1 - United States - 36 Gold, 38 Silver, 36 Bronze = 110
2 - China - 51 Gold, 21 Silver, 28 Bronze = 100
3 - Russia - 24 Gold, 21 Silver, 28 Bronze = 73
4 - Britain - 19 Gold, 14 Silver, 15 Bronze = 48
5 - Australia - 14 Gold, 15 Silver, 17 Bronze = 46
6 - Germany - 17 Gold, 10 Silver, 15 Bronze = 42
7 - France - 7 Gold, 16 Silver, 17 Bronze = 40
8 - South Korea - 13 Gold, 10 Silver, 8 Bronze = 31
9 - Italy - 8 Gold, 10 Silver, 10 Bronze = 28
10-Ukraine - 7 Gold, 5 Silver, 16 Bronze = 28
11-Japan - 9 Gold, 6 Silver, 10 Bronze = 25
12-Cuba - 2 Gold, 11 Silver, 11 Bronze = 24
13-Belarus - 4 Gold, 5 Silver, 10 Bronze = 19
14-Spain - 5 Gold, 10 Silver, 3 Bronze = 18
15-Canada - 3 Gold, 9 Silver, 6 Bronze = 18

Medal standings on Day 14

Over the past few days Canada has got some more medals! Here are the top 13 countries and their standings:

1 - United States - 30 Gold, 35 Silver, 34 Bronze = 99
2 - China - 46 Gold, 15 Silver, 22 Bronze = 83
3 - Russia - 16 Gold, 16 Silver, 20 Bronze = 52
4 - Britain - 17 Gold, 12 Silver, 11 Bronze = 40
5 - Australia - 11 Gold, 14 Silver, 14 Bronze = 39
6 - France - 5 Gold, 13 Silver, 14 Bronze = 32
7 - Germany - 11 Gold, 8 Silver, 12 Bronze = 31
8 - South Korea - 10 Gold, 10 Silver, 6 Bronze = 26
9 - Japan - 9 Gold, 6 Silver, 9 Bronze = 24
10-Italy - 7 Gold, 7 Silver, 8 Bronze = 22
11-Ukraine - 5 Gold, 5 Silver, 9 Bronze = 19
12-Netherlands - 6 Gold, 5 Silver, 4 Bronze = 15
12-Canada - 3 Gold, 7 Silver, 5 Bronze = 15

Two More Medals For Canada!!

On day 10, Canada won 2 more medals for a total of 9 now!

15 - Canada - 2 Gold, 3 Silver, 4 Bronze = 9

Day 9

Four more medals for Canada on day 9 of competition

17 - Canada - 2 Gold, 1 Silver, 4 Bronze = 7

The Cranbrook Professional Rodeo

The Cranbrook Professional Rodeo is this weekend. We went tonight and I took some pictures of my favorite event, Bull Riding. It was 35 degrees out so I put on some sunblock and we sweat it out. It was nice though and we had a good time.

Medal Standings after Day 8

After Day 8 of competition, here is the standings for the top 10 medal winning countries and Canada at the bottom, now with 3 medals.

1 - United States - 16 Gold, 16 Silver, 22 Bronze = 54
2 - China - 27 Gold, 13 Silver, 7 Bronze = 47
3 - Australia - 7 Gold, 8 Silver, 10 Bronze = 25
4 - France - 3 Gold, 9 Silver, 10 Bronze = 22
5 - Russia - 5 Gold, 8 Silver, 8 Bronze = 21
6 - South Korea - 7 Gold, 9 Silver, 4 Bronze = 20
7 - Germany - 8 Gold, 5 Silver, 5 Bronze = 18
8 - Japan - 7 Gold, 5 Silver, 5 Bronze = 17
8 - Britain - 7 Gold, 3 Silver, 7 Bronze = 17
10-Italy - 6 Gold, 5 Silver, 5 Bronze = 16

29-Canada - 1 Gold, 1 Silver, 1 Bronze = 3

Finally, Canada Wins Medals On Day 8

Finally! Canada won 3 medals: 1 Gold, 1 Silver, 1 Bronze

This article was taken from cbc.ca

Canada's medal drought came to an end on Day 8 of the Beijing Games, with Canadian athletes winning three medals on Saturday.

Wrestler Carol Huynh, a 27-year-old native of Hazelton, B.C., won Canada's first gold medal of the Games, winning the 48-kilogram freestyle weight class final over Japan's Chiharu Icho by a score of 4-0 and 2-1.

"This is unbelievable," she told CBC Sports following the medal ceremony. "I knew I wanted to go in with supreme confidence in my abilities, and not doubting myself one second. That's what I did, and I wrestled the match of my life, and it was awesome."

The men's rowing pair of Dave Calder, from Victoria, and Scott Frandsen, from Kelowna, B.C., started the day by winning Canada's first medal of the Olympics, claiming the silver on the water at Shunyi Olympic rowing park in Beijing.

"It was a tough race; we tried to ignore the fact that we haven't had a medal yet as a country, and just focus on our two [kilometres]," Calder told CBC Sports after the race.

"We can come off the water knowing we had a great race," said Frandsen.

Wrestler Tonya Verbeek won the second Olympic medal of her career and Canada's third of the day.

The Beamsville, Ont., native won bronze in the 55-kilogram weight class, beating Ida-Theres Nerell of Sweden by a score of 1-0, 1-0 in one of two bronze medal matches.

Verbeek, 31, won silver at the 2004 Athens Summer Games, the first to include women's freestyle wrestling.

She was smiling after the match, despite finishing one medal position below her 2004 Athens result. "I won a match to get the bronze and you're losing a match to get the silver," Verbeek said. "So it is a different feeling."

More medals for Canada could be on the way, as three Canadians advanced to women's and men's trampoline finals next week.

Medal Standings After Day 7

After 7 days, here are the top 2 countries in the medal standings. The USA and China are doing awesome. Still nothing for Canada.


1 - United States - 14 Gold, 12 Silver, 18 Bronze = 44
2 - China - 24 Gold, 9 silver, 6 Bronze =39
54-Canada - 0

Taylor Swift - Change

This is for Team USA from the AT&T Team USA Soundtrack.

Life...

Things are going good here. It is still hot and still summer. I have not felt "that fall feeling" at all yet. It's 30 degrees today and will be 31 tomorrow. The weekend will be hot hot hot and next week is forecast to be high twenties and low thirties. I am loving the beautiful weather but also find myself looking forward to fall. I love the fall.

We have the Cranbrook Professional Rodeo coming to town this weekend. We will be going to that for sure. It will be a big event and should be lots of fun. We can break out our cowboy boots! On Aug. 23 Paul Brandt will be playing in Pincher Creek. We will probably go out and see that.

I had a job interview this morning that went very well. I will have a second interview but have to wait to find out the date. Things are good with Blaine and his job. He got to meet and interview the Niedermayer brothers a couple weeks ago.

Well I guess that's what's new.

Medal Standings After Day 5

Five days are done and here is the two top countries and Canada on the bottom, still with zero medals.


1 - United States - 10 Gold, 8 Silver, 11 Bronze = 29
2 - China - 17 Gold, 5 Silver, 5 Bronze =27
51-Canada - 0

Day 2 (August 10) Medal Standings

Well, sadly, Canada still has no medals. Here is the standings after day 2:

1 - China - 6 Gold, 2 Silver = 8
1 - United States - 2 Gold, 2 Silver, 4 Bronze = 8
3 - Korea - 3 Gold, 2 Silver = 5
4 - Italy - 1 Gold, 2 Silver, 1 Bronze = 4
4 - Russian Federation - 3 Silver, 1 Bronze = 4
6 - Japan - 1 Gold, 2 Bronze = 3
6 - France - 2 Silver, 1 Bronze = 3
8 - Czech Republic - 2 Gold = 2
8 - Australia - 1 Gold, 1 Bronze = 2
8 - Spain - 1 Gold, 1 Bronze = 2
8 - Cuba - 1 Silver, 1 Bronze = 2
8 - DPR Korea - 2 Bronze = 2
13-Great Britain - 1 Gold = 1
13-Netherlands - 1 Gold = 1
13-Romania - 1 Gold = 1
13-Thailand - 1 Gold = 1
13-Austria - 1 Silver = 1
13-Hungary - 1 Silver = 1
13-Sweden - 1 Silver = 1
13-Turkey - 1 Silver = 1
13-Vietnam - 1 Silver = 1
13-Zimbabwe - 1 Silver = 1
13-Algeria - 1 Bronze = 1
13-Argentina - 1 Bronze = 1
13-Belarus - 1 Bronze = 1
13-Taiwan - 1 Bronze = 1
13-Croatia - 1 Bronze = 1
13-Georgia - 1 Bronze = 1
13-Germany - 1 Bronze = 1
13-Indonesia - 1 Bronze = 1
13-Switzerland - 1 Bronze = 1
13-Uzebekistan - 1 Bronze = 1
33-Canada - 0

Olympics - Day One (August 9th) Medal Standings

1 - United States - 1 Gold, 1 Silver, 1 Bronze = 3
2 - China - 2 Gold = 2
2 - Korea - 1 Gold, 1 Silver = 2
3 - Czech Republic - 1 Gold = 1
3 - Romania - 1 Gold = 1
3 - Spain - 1 Gold = 1
3 - Austria - 1 Silver = 1
3 - Cuba - 1 Silver = 1
3 - Italy - 1 Silver = 1
3 - Russian Federation - 1 Silver = 1
3 - Turkey - 1 Silver = 1
3 - Argentina - 1 Bronze = 1
3 - Taiwan - 1 Bronze = 1
3 - Croatia - 1 Bronze = 1
3 - Japan - 1 Bronze = 1
3 - Netherlands - 1 Bronze = 1
3 - DPR Korea - 1 Bronze = 1
3 - Switzerland - 1 Bronze = 1
3 - Uzebekistan - 1 Bronze = 1
20-Canada - 0

One World One Dream

"Beijing welcomed the world to the Games of the 29th Olympiad on August 8 with an Opening Ceremony that began at 8:08 p.m. China Standard Time (6:08AM Mountain Time). A splendid fireworks display burst forth from the National Stadium and lit up the night sky with brilliant colors."

"The Beijing Olympic Games starts on August 8 and ends on August 24. More than 10,000 of the world's top athletes will compete fiercely for 302 gold medals in 28 sports."

So the Summer Olympics are underway! Enjoy! 08/08/08.

It was a good Birthday!

So my birthday was just a nice relaxing day for me. Blaine came home for lunch, like he always does, and brought me roses and presents and then for supper we went out to Mr Mikes. It was delicious. The following evening we went out to the theatre and saw Step Brothers. It was hilarious! Here is the Birthday cake that Blaine got for me... Yum! There is also a picture of me making some Mars Bar Squares. They were great.

Oh, and thanks very much to everybody for the Birthday gifts!

My birthday Cake
Debbie and Ted sent this awesome apron for me in my Birthday parcel.

After The Fire

Four days after the fire, on July 26, Blaine and I drove out to were it was and took these pictures. It was amazing. The smell of smoke in the air was so strong and the ground was still smoldering. The fire fighters were still spraying the forest and there was smoke coming up from patches all over the place. The area that the fire had spread over was huge. You could see were the it had spread across the highway and across other roads that we drove down. The black burnt trees and smoldering ground just went on and on.

Fort Steele Fire

On July 22 there was a big forest fire about 7 km from Fort Steele. Fort Steele is 16 km northeast of Cranbrook. Blaine went out to shoot some footage. Here is a video of the B-roll that he shot.