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This year, the Dine Around will be 17 February - 16 March. Every year, there are a lot of participating restaurants that offer set menus for $20, $30 or $40. It's great value and an even greater opportunity to try a restaurant you haven't been to before.
If you have been thinking of converting to Natural Gas, now is the time to do it. As of 01 March federal and provincial grants of approximately $2350 will no longer be available.
I grew up in Lethbridge, Alberta, where my parents still reside. While attending University of Lethbridge, I studied photography, among other things.
My nephew and his girlfriend are recent arrivals in Victoria, from Calgary. They came for Christmas Dinner and surprised me with a framed photograph.
The picture is a photographic collage and is a photo of the street I used to live on when I was a small child. My nephew, Bradley, found it in the basement of my parents' house and it framed. It looks really great!
In the space of a week, we have had some of the craziest weather in memory.
Last Monday started out with a light skiff of snow. That lead to a huge dump on snow on Tuesday night.
Like all good Victorians, I hoped the snow would leave as quickly as it came. It did.
Be careful what you wish for....
Sunday gave us hurricane force winds! Many ferry sailings were cancelled, including the one my daughter and her boyfriend were returning to the mainland on.
However, today is another day - beautiful and sunny out with a million logs on Willows Beach.
A huge thank you to my valued clients, who have made me a DFH Team Topper for the year 2011. Thanks to you, I have been a team topper since 2000 and this year had the third highest sales at my office.
We are now entering our sixth day with snow on the ground. It snowed almost all night Monday and most of Tuesday. Schools were closed and there was almost no one out and about. My Nissan Leaf drove very well on the snow covered streets, so I was quite pleased.
Then, I called my parents, who live in Lethbridge, Alberta. There is a ton of snow and the temperature is hovering around -33C. Think I need to shut up!
Here is a photo of one of our dogs at Willows Beach. There was so little traffic, we walked from our house down to the beach. We don't often see this much snow so close to the waterline.
After what we consider to be a very cold day, my wife made a large pot of Japanese Curry with boneless short ribs, vegetables and rice. Nice way to end the day.
The 2011 Canadian Housing Observer — Just released!
The Observer is CMHC's annual flagship publication that provides comprehensive insight into Canada's housing market and is a key resource for Canada's housing experts, including housing finance and real estate professionals, policy makers, researchers, educators and builders. This year's feature article is on Housing Finance. The chapters include:
The analysis contained in the Observer is complemented by a broad range of online detailed data tables that provide information on all of Canada's major housing markets, analytic reports, and CMHC's Housing in Canada Online (HiCO) tool.
New this year is the launch of additional online interactive tables featuring housing data at the local level for more than 100 selected municipalities.
For what is believed to be a first for B.C., a condo owner in Surrey has been ordered by a judge to sell her unit due to an avalanche of complaints from other owners.
The woman and her son have lived there since 2006 and have been fined over $20,000 by the strata council since that time.
In a ruling release Friday, B.C. Supreme Court Justice, Richard Blair said it was a "draconian" measure, but was necessary.
Neighbors filed affidavits about the complains, which include loud banging, pounding on the floor, doors slamming and screaming and yelling. Verbal insults were hurled at others living in the complex.
The lawyer for the strata said "in some ways, this was the death of a thousand cuts because they're individually juvenile. But over the course of time there have been hundreds and hundreds of times where people have been intimidated or sworn at."
The woman has 30 days to list her unit and will have conduct of the sale for a period of 90 days after the listing. If a sale does not take place within the 90 day period. the petitioner can apply to assume conduct of the sale.
Someone needs to have a serious chat with Mother Nature! We live in Victoria and it's not supposed to snow here. Fortunately, it's just a light dusting in our neighborhood.
Here are my two dogs acting like they are well behaved....they are not!
Two pots of formerly pretty primula.
This is really good news. Local Victoria cyclist phenomena Ryder Hesjedal initiated the first Tour de Victoria in 2011 and now it's back for 2012!
This year's tour will be on 24 June. Last year, 1,350 cyclists from as far away as Nova Scotia and Texas participated. Upward of 800 riders registered for the 140K course, about 300 for the 90K and 150 participants cycled the 4K community ride in downtown Victoria.
More than 500 volunteers were involved, including 300 road marshals.
At this point in time, it appears unlikely Ryder will participate as he is cycling in the Giro de Italia and then shortly after, the Tour de France.
This year's Tour benefits the GoodLife Kids Foundation whose goal is to make fitness a fun and regular part of children's lives.
Good times! The photo below is the Tour on Beach Drive last year.
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