Road Trip

Before I leave Alberta, which I'm sure I'll do at some point in my life, I must go the Torrington Gopher Hole Museum.

Yep, gophers, prairie dogs, ground squirrels. Whatever you call them, at this museum, they kill 'em, stuff 'em and dress 'em up in ridiculous clothing. I'm sure there's an PETA campaign here somewhere, but seriously...this HAS to be a ridiculous museum that I have to go to sometime.

Steve has a lot of ground squirrels around his work. They PEEP to each other and stand guard at their various holes in the ground. Steve like to throw nuts at them. I think they are cute. I think they are pretty dumb though. They are probably the reason why there are so many coyotes around there too. Easy prey. But if they were dressed up like women doing their grocery shopping, the coyotes probably wouldn't know what to do.

Hmm...maybe the Torrington Gopher Museum is onto something. Maybe they are trying to teach the gophers how to protect themselves from hungry coyotes.

Sammich!

I had a sammich for dinner. Then I saw this and had to share. Look at this stupid thing. The interwebs will never tire me of all the freaking cuteness and humor out there.

Cops.

It's Stampede season again. I like the Stampy. The windows downtown are painted, the tourists are out in droves, the cowboy hats are in full effect, and free pancake breakfasts every day. If you work downtown, everything slows to a southern drawl and work doesn't seem to happen.

Even the Calgary police who patrol the streets downtown wear cowboy hats. Like the cops I saw on the way to work today. They busted a drug addict and they were going through his bag, pulling out needles and other various drug paraphernalia. It was sad, but had a light-hearted feeling because the cops were wearing their cowboy hats.

Cowboy hats seem to make the saddest situation seem a bit less sad. Next time I have to do something or deal with something sad, I should just put on a cowboy hat. Or a beenie helicopter hat. Those hats are funny too.

Bunnniez

OMG cute! Look at the eye to ear ratio. Holy crap I wan one.

2 more days til movin' day.

Burrrr....

*warning: lame weather post below*

Weather here is nuts. Yesterday is bright and sunny in my neighborhood with 70s and summery. But. It's hailing 3 miles away with crazy amounts of damage. Now today. Burrr...and 40s.

Where's the summer now? Huh?

So, I drink ginger tea and try to warm up while researching how to install tub doors. I think I want a tub door and no more of this shower curtain nonsense.

HAHAHA

Cute!

Aww...a cute mouse ran across the sidewalk in front of me yesterday. He was like a little brown bullet who couldn't find a place to hide, darting back and forth along the building. I hope he found a yummy garbage can to hide out in.

Ouch!

yeah, yeah...haven't posted in a while.

You know that saying "be careful for what you wish for"? It's weird when that becomes true, huh? Yesterday, while riding the bus (the new bus I recently discovered that cuts my commute home by 30 minutes!) I was thinking to myself "gee, it sure is weird that I've never been in an accident on the bus" because there are some crazy bus drivers. 5 minutes after that thought...BONK and a *gasp* from the crowd on the bus. I thought "Wow..an accident...that's weird after I just thought that!"

But apparently, the bus driver had only hit a guy on the head with his side mirror.

...ok I shouldn't laugh, but HAHAH! What is that guy doing, hanging his head into the road when a bus is coming??!?!?