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