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.