b - really, really f'ing cool.

Bathtub III from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

e - the fall leaves are fall, fall, falling.

I hope everyone had an awesome Thanksgiving weekend and enjoyed the amazingly beautiful weather that we had!
The fall is fading quickly, it always does though.
Fall has to be my favourite time of year by far. What's not to love about the crisp fall air, the beautiful colours and all the scarf wearing you could ever want? I'm not sure and don't think that there's really anything to top those feelings. I'm happiest if the fall too. It's not too hot, not too cold and i can bundle up in my favourite scarfs and sweaters and not look like an idiot for wearing too much or too little, it's the perfect amount of comfort.
The next best feeling to that is experiencing the first few weeks of a new season, even though we go though the same thing each year and it shouldn't feel too foreign to us it always surprises me the way I feel when each season rolls in. In the winter I always have that same feeling of excitement when the first snowfall graces our presence and I'll watch out the window with the biggest smile on my face and sometime venture out to twirl around under the floating sparkles filling the sky and floating to my feet, don't hate me but I'm really looking forward to the snow - and even christmas, gasp. I bet you it's my job that's having this fa-la-la-la-la-losery feelings. Spring on the other hand I have a love hate relationship with, I love being able to peel off layers when it starts to get warm and I love, love, love spring, the mud, the grass, that humidity that lingers through the air. I also hate spring for it's unpredictableness weather wise, the way it makes everything muddy and icky and the way all of the dog poop appears out of no where like a magic trick you don't want to be part of. ick. And summer is a given, everyone loves summer as they should. You can tell when it's summer here in Kingston when all of the pub's and downtown restaurants start hauling out their patios. The first summer bevy on a patio is something that we all look forward to for sure. And there's all the awesome things that summer brings like camping, kayaking, parties, skinny dipping and passing out on your front lawn. Ahhhhh, loves it.



We'll be enjoying some amazing fall weather in Montreal this weekend with a little baseball watching. Jed, Brant's brother plays on the Oshawa Durham College baseball team and they won the All Ontario Championship last weekend and are heading to the National Championships in Montreal. We're pretty excited, so expect lots of pictures and such!

By the way, as I mentioned, I have a new job, SURPRISE. ha, I'm working at Kingston's amazing, Cooke's Fine Foods assembling Christmas Baskets, it's awesome!

Here are some more pics from my Thanksgiving
weekend in Sharbot Lake at Bran't Granny's.

haha, oh i love you b.

Jed & Brant dueling on a beaver dam, crazy boys.

These 3 shots are from the trails behind Granny's house, beautiful.

Have a good weekend kids!

e, ox.

b - for krista

sorry

for 

making 

your 

boyfriend 

look 

like 

wario.

actually,

i 

take

that

back.

'cause 

wario 

is

a

p

i

m

p

.

e - i am trying to say, what I want to say, without having to say.

Tweeter!

I ask the question, what does one do when they only work 4 evenings a week?

sleep 'til 10? check.
watch whole seasons of Project Runway? check.
nap? check.

What else is left to do? Luckily I have a lot of friend who like art and I can make things for them that they pretend to like and hang up in their homes.

This is my recent work of crap, er - I mean art. ha. I made this art piece for our friend Brenna for her birthday (surprise) that was at the end of September. It was inspired by the photo, a 1917 portrait of Charlie Chaplin. I wanted it to look antique and rustic as well as beautiful, like royalty.

"Charlie" - gold, green, white and black acrylic paint scratched with a fork, stained with tree leaves covered with white tissue paper and bordered with gold tissue paper, newpaper clippings and a jeweled crown made with random awesome metal squares from Dollarama, also made into the corner pieces.

I've also been on a sort of a health kick recently, this is what I whipped up last night for dinner. Asparagus wrapped with Sole with a tomato on top over a bed of amazing Aztec Rice. Delish.

And lastly, Ansel, aw kitty.

b - war, via msn.

it's odd, talking to derek over im.

moreso through xbox live. like, i'm about to hit the "invite friend to game" button, when it dawns on me "oh, right. derek's kinda in the middle of a war zone right now."

thing is, talking online, it just feels like he's on the other end of town, or even a couple of hours away back on base at pet.

not kandahar, where it's noon hour there while i'm poking around these parts around 3-4 in the a.m.

and it's so odd to talk shit over msn. just surreal.

like the convo last night:

d: what's up?
b: hey man! not much. how's things?
d: s'ok.
b: what time is it there? must be like, 10 in the morning or something.
d: ehhh, closer to noon.
b: thought so. it's like, 3 in the morning here.
d: i have such a fucking headache - the 155mm's have been firing all morning at some bad guys.
b: ah... oorah? lol
d: lol, yeah.
d: man, rpgs suck.
b: how so? i mean, they're being fired at you guys, so obvs. they suck...
d: well, they're just really random and inaccurate. one bounced off the ground and hit one of our vehicles yesterday
b: fuck me. wasn't yours, though, right?
d: nah. all it did was make a dent in the side.
d: brb

BRB? what the hell? does that mean "brb, incoming. lol"?

*sigh* just quit worrying.
... make it back safe, d.