We're the curling champs! We're savouring this moment, because we know it might be shortlived. We have a great skip named Doug - it was just the three of us today, as our fourth couldn't make it, so Jai and I got a little more practice at throwing rocks. I haven't seen anyone stretching or anything like that yet, but I can see that WE are going to have to stretch, even if we're the only ones, and we look like dweebs, cause we don't look very cool hobbling home, either!

Today we had our first snow.

This is us getting snowed on, and enjoying it. Tragically, Jai's face froze that way forever.

We got our dining room painted today. Yesterday we sanded and primed the walls, and today we got two coats of colour up. We think it looks great, and a major improvement on the Pepto Bismol pink. We also replaced the light with a much nicer one, which really helped the room. We'll probably put the old light up in the library, as even it is better than the existing light in there.
Before and after:




Some other shots:





That last one is in the daylight, and much closer to the true colour. What do you think?
We also primed the ugly old piece of furniture the previous owners left behind, and it looks MUCH better white. We actually kind of like it now, so that worked out well. Unfortunately, I don't have a before shot of it.

While we were painting, the birds finally discovered our little bird feeder, so we had a little chickadee visiting us all afternoon. It was great. Yesterday, while Jai was cleaning the gutters, we hung the suet feeder as well, so hopefully soon we'll get all sorts of birds. Does anyone know what kind of seed chickadees like? Right now we have sunflower seeds in the feeder, because I saw the bluejays eating Pearl's sunflower. They seem kind of big for chickadees, but the little guy did keep coming back. If anyone knows, and they prefer something smaller, let us know...