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Bertha is showing that the mitten holder (Yeah, it’s finished!) can also be used as a nice dress.

We tried to have a little less presents this year but didn’t totally succeed. Audrey wants to unpack the all, and it a little disappointed when she finds out that not all presents are for her.

[photo: janet agulnik]

The moment we arrived at Alison’s parents’ house in Ottawa, niece Audrey asked if we brought the ‘doggies’. She saw them last summer and they apparently made a deep impression. Every-time she sees us, when we walk in and out the house doing errands, she repeats the question. To satisfy her curiosity I show her pictures of the doggies on my laptop.
Her brother Simon is less interested in doggies, but he really likes the glowing Apple logo on the back of my laptop’s screen. Especially when I turn it on and off when he touches it. He thinks it’s magical.

Alison goes overboard with one of her Christmas presents and spends a couple of days to make a mitten holder for her sister Bertha and her family. It is going to be a haute couture mitten holder, with carefully selected color scheme (she use Excell to design it!) and carefull crafted details. Hopefully it’s ready before Christmas, because, as always, she started late.

I’m very busy with work, last week I worked 120 hours. It’s on a game with a virtual pet, and it’s lots of fun, but a bit tight deadline. Not that we made the deadline, but whatever. Now the deadline got extended to next Wednesday, so still some more days of hard work and little sleep ahead. It’s fun and I get paid well, so I don’t complain. Alison complains a little and our real pets are also a bit cranky. I’ll make it up to them next week!

I’ll posted some pics from last week, but don’t have the time to comment. So you can do the captions yourself by commenting. How’s that?

Poupoune doesn’t like the metro very much. Too many people/smells. She;’s very timid. But the walk in the snow on Mont Royal was really appreciated. Well worth putting up with metro travelling. This was the first time we used her dog boots. Although they kept falling of her paws (she doesn’t have much of an ankle), it kept her paws snow and ice free and warm. She made it all the way to the top. This is on the way back home. I don’t like taking pictures of people, but I just pretended that I was a stranger blinded by the cuteness of Poupoune. Which I was.

A view over a snow covered Plateau, with in the distance vaguely our expensive Olympic stadium. I’m sure there are commenters that can tell why it was so expensive.

I’m not the only one who moved a lot of snow today. Apparently Montréal spends more money on snow removal than any other city in North America. Either because we’re bigger than other cities (Québec city, Winnipeg) or we get more snow (Toronto, Ottawa).

Lots of snow means lots of shovelling. I moved about three cubic metres…