Hurricane Bill

Wow! What fun to be in Nova Scotia when a hurricane hits. Bill wasn't quite parallel with Eastern Passage but we decided to go out and take a look at what was happening and how the waves were shaping up. Oh what fun.

So here we are with Heidi and Joel going to the shore line...


Here is where we stopped to get the first set of pictures of the waves crashing into the shore.


Then we braved it and got out of the car and got totally soaking wet on one of our bodies...luckily it was the side without the camera.

Sure wish you could have seen this because pictures just don't do it justice!

Beware of being friendly

So there aren't any pictures to go with this post either but I want to share with you the dangers of being too friendly with people. So I'm out in Nova Scotia visiting Heidi and Joel. Thursday night Heidi works in the temple and Joel has stake meeting. Yesterday night I went with Heidi to the temple and took in 2 sessions while Heidi worked. On our way out to the car there is the usual chatting with those that are around and wham it happened. The temple president introduced himself to me and then before I knew it he is match making. Oh my my my!! So now I'm suppose to email a letter to his nephew through Pres. Blake. His wife was the funniest when she said there's probably greener pastures somewhere else! She later countered with he is a great catch, good looking and fun but he's hard to catch. I'm sure they have the best of intentions!

Scandals

This one goes out to Tanya who was looking for a juicy blog filled with scandals...I think that these new "environmental" toilets are a scandal. Why you ask....well I'll tell you why. They are suppose to be good for reducing the amount of water used each flush with a choice of flushing capacities for liquids or solids (up for liquids, down for solids). The problem is that with the "liquid" flush 95% of the time you are left with remnants. How when it's liquids you are flushing? The darn toilet paper doesn't go. What courteous person wants to leave their toilet paper remnants in the bowl for the next person who thinks "that darn person who left as I came in never flushed and probably didn't even wash". So really these so called "environmental" toilet systems are a socially constructed hate machine that make you think you are using less water but really they are teaching you to think that no one is flushing or washing their hands. Case in point is that now all of our new "environmentally friendly washrooms" in our green building now have hand washing instructions taped to the wall right beside the sink. Maybe a better reminder would be on the back of the door so that when those non-flusher/washers go to leave they are reminded to wash!

So that environmental flush turns into 2 or 3 tries and I don't think that it is really using less water than a normal regular run of the mill toilet. Back to the drawing board boys cause it isn't working.

How's that for scandalous!