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I met someone who holds a Guinness World Record today

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I met some great people today at the forestry conference, mostly thanks to an old friend of mine from the Sault, Chrissy, who is also at the conference.

Over a cookie during the coffee break, I was chatting with a nice, friendly woman all about forestry, the conference, the Christmas tree industry, and the real Christmas wreaths that are so popular here at Christmas time.

I said that I haven’t had a real wreath until we moved to Nova Scotia and I love ours so much it is still hanging up outside because I hate to throw it out when it is still green and pretty.

She said she was in the wreath making business, and then she told me she was actually a world record holder!

She is in the Guinness Book of World Records for building the biggest Christmas wreath!

How big you ask? (as did I!)

251 feet, 9 inches !

She built the frame out of re-bar and it took 3.5 months to build.  It took 4,500 lbs of balsam fir branches to decorate.  It took her 27 hours, 42 minutes to tie all the brush to the frame.

Incredible!

Some links:

http://www.trurodaily.com/index.cfm?sid=200014&sc=68

http://community.guinnessworldrecords.com/service/displayKickPlace.kickAction?u=6999174&as=7691&b= (has photos)

I love the Winter Olympics!

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I love the Winter Olympics! I’ve been watching nothing but since it started (oh wait, I did turn the channel for Survivor!)

I like most events.  My least favourite is probably men’s hockey and curling. Everything else gets me on the edge of my seat (or couch).

It is depressing when the ridiculous commentators make it sound like the athletes failed their country when they get a 4th or 5th or even 12th.  I’m proud of everyone competing!

Jeff’s been sick since Thursday night.  I think it’s the Norwalk virus and you don’t want details.  His fever left last night but he’s still not cured. Luckily I haven’t caught it!

I stayed home from work on Friday with him.  It seemed to be a flu and he had a wicked fever so I didn’t want to risk spreading it at work.  (My coworker that I share an office with has two young children, and I think everyone is still H1N1 phobic.)

So this weekend has been another low key, Olympics on all day, weekend.

Tomorrow after work I’m heading to a forestry conference in Truro for a couple of nights.

Perfect weekend

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We usually waste most of our Saturday going to town and getting groceries and running errands.

This weekend we didn’t have anything to do in town and we have spent the entire weekend at home – most of it in the living room watching Olympic coverage.

Jeff is playing his new computer games on his laptop.  I’m on my laptop watching Twitter feeds, complaining about CTV’s coverage, and doing mindless surfing.

I haven’t turned my desktop computer on in my office all weekend.  I haven’t done any work for clients or myself.

We took Monty to the park for a run in the enclosed ball diamond.

I fed the birds.

I replanted the lettuce and tomatoes in my indoor garden.

I went for a walk in the woods behind the house.

Jeff made chili that we’ve had for 3 meals in a row (can’t help it – it’s soo good!)

And Valentine’s Day came with flowers and chocolates :)

Google Maps – see us on Street View

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Google Street View Maps have arrived! Here is our place – oh wait – you can’t see our place because we are up on the hill behind the trees.

You can see our mailbox though and part of our driveway – and if you spin it around you can see the lake and our neighbour’s boat.

Oh and the neighbour walking by :)

http://maps.google.ca/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=972+hwy+7,+antigonish+county,+nova+scotia&sll=45.601548,-62.000141&sspn=0.050323,0.083685&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=972+HWY+7,+Antigonish,+Subd.+A,+Antigonish+County,+Nova+Scotia&ll=45.431881,-62.025622&spn=0.002846,0.010461&z=17&layer=c&cbll=45.431884,-62.025627&panoid=cJMJz9oOYmFu8kJCRJlH3g&cbp=11,131.54,,0,-7.74

Hey look! The flag is up – we had mail!