I just happened to notice that I have 300 posts published on my blog.

I started blogging on August 21, 2005. I guess you could call that a milestone of sorts. So, to celebrate, I`ve adjusted the look and feel of the site. I`ve also added a Random Post feature in the sidebar so you can painfully re-live the past!

Check it out and let me know what you think!

According to CBC.ca, there were four separate moose vehicle collisions last evening in a span of about 45 minutes, all of them within a few minutes of our normal vacation destination of Conception Bay South, Newfoundland. The article says that three of them were in the Fowler’s Road area on the Manuels Access Road and the other near Paddy’s Pond.

That’s a pretty scary statistic. When we were there just this past Christmas, we came across one such collision within minutes of it occurring about 7:30 pm Christmas Day.

It’s quite a problem back there. With an approximated moose population of 120,000 on the island and with the hunting season and old age about all that can kill them, it’s no wonder that so many of them end up with cars wrapped around them. There’s about 700 moose-vehicle accidents per year on the island. In my own travels I’ve had several near misses, countless sightings, and I have two brother-in-laws who have had collisions with them (one was very serious and the other was so close that it took the mirror off his car!).

We are heading back that way fairly soon for vacation. The moose on the roads is always an additional stress added to the strain of driving for 15 hours across a 24-hour timeframe. Keep your fingers crossed for us.

My brother Bill and his wife gave birth to their daughter Hayley July 16, 2008. Baby Hayley was a healthy 7 pounds 7 ounces at birth. She’s a beautiful little girl.

Just over 25 years ago, my brother Bill and his first wife, Sharon, brought my parent’s first grandchild, Renee, into this world. Our father was 41 (my current age) and our mother was 38.

Now 25 years later, Bill (now 45 years old) and his second wife, Jennifer, have delivered what is likely to be my parents last grandchild, Hayley, into this world. Wow…gutsy!

Congratulations Bill and Jen! Enjoy your new bundle of joy!

Oh, and Happy Birthday Hayley!

Update: Check out some early pics here.

America’s best selling, best tasting filter cigarette.

Man! Time’s have changed.

Stolen from Growabrain, this is Chris Bliss doing a juggling act to the last lyric of the last album the Beatles released.

Worth a look.

Things that make you go “Hmmmmm…”.