Wednesday, February 8-it's Wednesday so that must mean girls night out

It was supposed to go down to -18' last night but it's only -11' at 5:30. The wind chill is -18' but I don't plan to spend a lot of time standing out in the wind so it's all good! We should have a nice day today, sunny and -7'

Wednesday has become two things: the day Bernie leaves for Boston and the night we girls go out. It's just kind of worked out that way. Tonight we are going to the movies and then out somewhere for a bite to eat. Tomorrow night Brenda is coming over and we'll put the deserts together for Friday night's pot luck. I'm planning something a little different so we'll see how it goes.

Other than that it's pretty quiet. I got an email from Patti that they aren't coming down for the Jack Frost Festival this weekend. It's probably a good thing as I wasn't really looking at dates when I planned the pot luck for Friday night. Then Sunday I'm helping Brenda with something so I will be busy anyway. The other consideration is  Hockey Day in Canada is this weekend. There are all kinds of special things going on, and Ron McLean and Don Cherry will be here to host some events so I suspect it will be a pretty busy place. Flights in and out might be a bit of a challenge. We're going to try for a few days during March Break instead.  I should be able to take a day or two off so we can do stuff together. I suspect another cross country ski might be in order. It was lots of fun last time and that was two years ago so they should be much stronger this time.

I received this note from one of the guys at work yesterday and I just had to share it:

We definitely are a leader in technology..... read below......

Copper Wire Discovered:

After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year outside of   Vancouver,  B.C. scientists found traces of copper cable dating back  100 years. They came to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 100  years ago.

Not to be outdone by Vancouver, in the weeks that followed, a Toronto, Ontario archaeologist dug to a depth of 20 feet somewhere just outside Trenton. Shortly after, a story in the Toronto  Sun read: “Toronto archaeologists report a finding of 200 year old copper cable, have concluded that their ancestors already had an advanced high-tech communications network a hundred years earlier than Vancouver."

One week later, a local newspaper in Charlottetown, PEI.  reported the following: "After digging down about 30  feet deep in his pasture near the community of  Harrington, Eddie, a self-taught archaeologist, reported that he found absolutely nothing. Eddie has therefore concluded that 300 years ago, PEI had already gone wireless".