Happy Robbie Burns Day

May you all raise a pint of ale to celebrate the day.

Cheers The Canadian/Scottish Code Minkey

Gude Ale Keeps The Heart Aboon

1795
Type: Poem

Chorus-O gude ale comes and gude ale goes;
Gude ale gars me sell my hose,
Sell my hose, and pawn my shoon-
Gude ale keeps my heart aboon!

I had sax owsen in a pleugh,
And they drew a' weel eneugh:
I sell'd them a' just ane by ane-
Gude ale keeps the heart aboon!
O gude ale comes, &c.

Gude ale hauds me bare and busy,
Gars me moop wi' the servant hizzie,
Stand i' the stool when I hae done-
Gude ale keeps the heart aboon!
O gude ale comes, &c.

copied from: http://www.robertburns.org/works/509.shtml

Let's hear it for running water!

Monday morning Michelle got up and moments later I hear: "There's no water". I panic, it has been 1 year since the frozen pipes incident and that's all I could think of. Turns out that the water main had frozen and burst. With our recent warm weather (highs of -7), the break thawed and water gushed into our neighbour's front yard. We went two days without running water. Daily morning trips to my sister's to shower other inconveniences abound. Today was our second morning with running water... truly miraculous.

Let the rehab begin...

Happy day folks! Saw the doctor today and the bone is all healed. After 10 weeks (tomorrow) no more crutches, no more braces...just lots of physio and rehab to build up the muscles. Ahhh...the pain will feel good if it means full freedom!

Aerobics – a full contact sport for Prairie Girls!

Many of you already know that I broke my leg on Thursday November 16, 2006. It was two days before I was scheduled to leave for Ottawa to attend my good friend Rae and Chris’ wedding, spend a nice weekend with friends, and sit through 2-days of meetings doing grant reviews. While attending a BOSU (BOth Sides Up) class, I lost my footing and twisted my leg causing a fracture of my fibula just above my ankle. After seven weeks in a cast and a walking boot, I am finally free…well sort of! I am now wearing an aircast (an ankle brace) and am learning how to walk again. Yippee! You never fully appreciate the little things until they are gone – wearing shoes that match (and are of equal height!), no longer being called new nicknames (the Gimp, Peg-Leg-Pete, Hobbles – some of these names I even coined myself), being able to open my own doors, sitting without (always) having to elevate my leg, driving. Oh the list is endless. Therapy is beginning, but I am doing well.

HAPPY NEW YEAR – 2007!!

Happy New Year to Everyone. After a long hiatus and a mild revamp this academic odd-couple is back online. (From Prairie Girl: Jason's odd…I'm unique). Rather than overwhelm with stories of our downtime we will recount our tales from 2006 in a series of short entries over the next while. Of course our planned break was to be a month long in July that has since turned into a half a year so it may take a while to cover our rather eventful grieving period.

From Prairie Girl: I found that every time I would go to the blog, I would see Moe's sweet face and get all weepy. So, I am writing this in Word and will be sending it to Jason to post. I have already planned a number of entries so count on at least weekly tales.

From Code Minkey: Grieving continues, but I blame my absence from blogging on lots of work and procrastination. Between us we continued home renovations, bought power tools, gardened, visited Sweden, injured legs, taught engineers and med students, applied for grants, and wrote papers, drove the Prairies, read lots and I managed some programming.

The New Year looks exciting and we hope everyone enjoys work, fun, friends and family.