June 30th, 2005 at 8:18 pm (Fun Stuff)
Thomas made new friends at the video store tonight. He impressed everyone with his crazy new dance moves. It is an Irish style jig, with fast Lord of the Dance footwork. Fists fully clenched and held at his side, and feet stomping a mile a minute, he is a young Michael Flatley.
June 30th, 2005 at 8:15 pm (Words and Talk)
Thomas has some new words this week: cheese, uh-oh and book. The vocabulary continues to grow!
June 24th, 2005 at 8:26 pm (Family, Photographs)
Check out the photos of our trip to the Capilano Salmon Hatchery. Thomas loved watching the fish, and danced his own little jig of joy at seeing the fish jump up the ladder.
June 24th, 2005 at 6:49 pm (Food)
Tonight’s dinner ended up more on Thomas’ face than in his belly. Tad made a great slow cooker meal tonight: perogies in tomato sauce. They were great! Thomas wasn’t happy when he ran out of perogies.
June 24th, 2005 at 5:16 am (Art, Fun Stuff)
Untitled.
String and powder paints on corrugated paper.
9×12, February 2005.
June 22nd, 2005 at 6:02 pm (Family, Words and Talk)
Thomas’ vocabulary is growing every day. He is now very proficient with ‘hi’, ‘buh-bye’, ‘yup’, ‘nooooo’, ‘light’, ‘moo’, and his newest word, ‘doc-door’ (we’re not too sure about where this one came from, but it is his definite favourite). He dances along to Baby Beluga, and a new family classic, inspired by the little man himself, ‘Boombadero!’
June 22nd, 2005 at 6:44 am (Dogs / Dawgs, Parenting)
Kahlie is sporting a fancy green and white ’sock’ on her back left paw. She sliced her foot while running with the pack yesterday — but it’s a mere flesh wound and does not affect the pads of her feet. There are two stitches under that bandage.
She wanted you all to know that she is doing fine despite the indignities of it all. And, notes Kahlie, the sedatives they gave her were pretty gooooovy …
June 18th, 2005 at 8:24 pm (Anthropology, Food, No Kids, No Dogs, Photographs)
Imagine our surprise when Mariela noticed that the first wild salmon of the season had arrived in Edgemont Village – and it was from the Stikine River! The people at Iskut Village, with whom I work in northern British Columia, fish along the Stikine River each July and their relatives live along the Stikine at Telegraph Creek and at ‘Old Tahltan.’
According to the website of the distributor, Wild Salmon Canada, Inc., the fish are caught near the mouth of the Stikine River, just inside the Canadian border. As such, it does not appear to be from an aboriginal commercial fishery.
And, these salmon are apparently the first commercially available salmon along the BC-Alaska Panhandle in the last fifty years.
(By-the-by, we barbequed a filet of this salmon tonight. We rubbed the fish with a little light mayonaise and added black pepper and Italian seasonings before grilling it on its skin.)
June 17th, 2005 at 8:00 am (Photographs)
Thomas and Mariela at the Beach
Originally uploaded by Thomas Miguel.
We were back at the beach last night … all of us … and got some more great shots. Check out the rest of the album here (and it is best viewed as a slide show by clicking on ’slideshow’ in the top right corner of the album).
