Iraq - Is There Any Question?

Rainlillie over on Great Minds Think Like Me posted this video this week and I have watched it twice now. It is a very powerful speech. I don't go here in my blog very often, but I cannot help but ask the question.

Is there any question that this war that has killed 4,000 Americans and wounded over 30,000 was based on lies?

Carbon Tax - Ain't it The Truth!

Our provincial government has implemented a carbon tax on gasoline. Gas prices are going through the roof as every one knows and our government has decided that we need another tax on it. I am all for getting people out of their automobiles or at least into smaller ones. I too would like to see the earth a cleaner greener place, but why don't we tax the corporations more for the pollutants they spew into our air all the time? I don't think we will ever really make a dent in our carbon foot print unless we have a combined effort to do this and not just taxing an already over taxed and over burdened segment of our province. The government recognizing that there would be a major back lash over this gave every one a carbon tax rebate of $100.00 every four months and then encouraged us to spend that money on making our lives more green. With the price of gas being so high the price of most goods has gone up as well and because we are hosting the Olympics housing is at a premium and very costly. Most of us will be spending that hundred dollars on food and it probably won't be high priced organic either.

A fellow co-worker sent this little gem along to at least give us all a chuckle;

The provincial government is sending each and every one of us a $100 Carbon Tax rebate.....

If we spend it at Wal-Mart, the money will go to China.
If we spend it on gasoline, the money will go to the Arabs.
If we purchase a computer it will go to India.
If we purchase fruit and vegetables it will go to Mexico, Honduras and Guatemala.
If we purchase a good car it will go to Japan.
I we purchase useless crap it will go to Taiwan...
and none of it will help the BC economy.
The only way to be sure to keep the money here at home is to spend it on prostitutes, weed, beer and tattos since there are the only products still produced in Canada.

Where Did She Put the Jewels?

One of the stories that caught my eye one morning last month was about a man in Tampa Florida who hired a woman off the internet to clean his house in the nude. The maid is supposed to have arrived in nothing but a cotton dress which she took off and proceeded to clean the house. However, while she was cleaning she also cleaned out $40,000 in his wifes jewels. When the wife found out she proceeded to divorce him, but I am not sure if she divorced him because he hired a nude maid or if she divorced him because of the missing jewels. Some how I suspect the latter. This story left me puzzling over some things. Why would any one hire some one to clean their house in the nude? Better still - why would anyone clean someone's house in the nude... don't they know what those harsh cleaners do to your hands let alone more sensitive parts of the body? But my most burning question is - If she was wearing only a cotton dress where did she hide the jewels to get them out of the house? Ahh.... don't you just love the internet. Before we had to rely on major news papers for our source of information who knew what we were missing!

Rumours Of My Demise...

have been seriously over exaggerated. I will admit that I have been buried under a sea of work and for awhile it looked like it would kill me, but I am woman and I have survived.
I have missed blogging and I do try and get a look at everyone else's blogs a couple of times a week, but I am usually so tired that I don't have the energy to do much else, but browse.
It is an election year here and I am very involved in my constituency getting other people involved so we can be ready when the writ is dropped. Politics is a very strange addiction I think. Most of the people I am involved either love it or hate it. Believe it or not even though I work in a politicians office we have people working there who have no interest what so ever in politics. As I have been involved in this most of my life I often ask myself why? I don't have a lot of answers for it other than I have always been interested in politics and how governments effect the people who elected them.
Being so busy means I have very little time to chat with friends or e-mail them for that matter. Today my British friends have flown across the Atlantic to the US to travel by car across the country. If they are reading this I hope they know I am sending them good thoughts for a safe and happy trip. I hope they understand and forgive me for being so busy these days. Have a good one guys - send me lots of happy pictures.
However, no matter how busy I am I try to spend some time each week taking pictures and walking and playing with Miss Lucy. Almost every weekend I go to a park or the beach and snap pictures. Despite the fact that the weather has been miserable it still is very much spring. The blossoms on the wild berry bushes are out and so are the bees.










The bunnies are back in my yard driving Miss Lucy crazy.

My favorite - the wild daisy's are everywhere you look.

Being able to get out for a few hours every weekend to snap pictures and play with Lucy keeps me sane. I am going to try and get a few minutes to write this week. Lots to catch up on.

May 24th Long Weekend

I can't believe that I have not posted for so long. I worked my butt off last week so I could get a few days out of town with my daughter. The weather for the first time in what seems like months was warm. Very warm! In fact where I was it was well into the high 80's low 90's.

We had planned a road trip going from Vancouver to Cache Creek and then over 99 to Pemberton and back through Whistler and Squamish. We managed to get out of town in record time considering it was a long weekend and all the roads were packed with travelers with the same idea as we had, but when we got to our turn off we blew a tired and had to spend the night in hope and drive part way back to get a new set of tires. However by 11:00 am Saturday we were back on track and headed up the Fraser Canyon. All along the way we large groups of bikers and wondered why so many of them were traveling the route. When we got to our Motel in Cache Creek the mystery was solved. Apparently there is a motor bike track there and a motor bike event was being held there that weekend and every motel in the town was booked solid with bikers. Fortunately the clerk informed me we had made reservations, but except for us the entire motel was booked with bikers! They were everywhere - sitting on their bikes and drinking beer. Surprisingly the evening was quieter than I expected which I think has something to do with the fact that most of the bikers these days are getting a little long in the tooth and a day in the sun drinking beer means that they do not have the energy to party too long into the night.

All things considered the weekend was a welcome break from work. Of course I took lots of photo's but I have not had a chance to put them all up, but here are a couple I really like.Lillooet

Seton Lake

Duffey Lake