eriously, this should be one of the last major updates that is YouTube intensive, I SWEAR!!!!

Winter Snowfall 2008

Dale Changing My Tires

Pelicans @ The River

The Train Accident – In the North industrial end of Saskatoon, somehow a train managed to tip over a couple of the cars which ended up spilling a butt-load of grain and tied up 51st Street for hours.

And now… onto the FINAL videos…. simply a series of videos produced on my Nikon D90 to see how the resolution really is.  It advertises as ‘High Definition’ but I don’t buy it… my Panasonic seems to do better video than the D90

Aren’t you sick of all the YouTube updates?  I know I certainly am!  Just bare with me for another few updates!  We can get through this together!

The first of two summer jobs to keep me occupied while in Canada

A Night Drive through Saskatoon

A Potentially Exploded Truck

Satoshi On The Piano

Stu’s Wedding Reception

Talking With Peter

Cory & Paulie On The Wii

Masashi & The Tubes

Spinning The Dice

Eden, Perhaps?

Ken doing his best rendition of King Of The Hill

Driving in downtown Saskatoon

Sadly as many international students arrive at the University of a foreign land, eventually comes the time for them to ship back to their homes in their respective countries.  Sadly, this is time for Motoaki to return back to Japan.  With a degree in hand, he will head to Tokyo now and work for one of the many large companies.  Moto, we bid you farewell and good luck!!

So since I used two Z’s in one sentence, does that mean I’m a home-boy from South Central?

Driving home from the University

Heading Into Banff

And now driving into Edmonton

Megamunch In Regina

Time For Muggins To Go To Bed

My Spring BBQ – A short clip from one of my backyard BBQ’s in early spring. This time however it’s more of a send-off for our buddy Masashi, so long man!

As is the season for Christmas cards, I happened to receive three more!  One from Yoko (although more a post card than anything – and to be honest, it’s quite old, but I thought I’d add it anyway), a Christmas card from Reiko Hirabayashi back in Yokohama and even a beautiful artsy card from Aki Otani back in Kanagawa.  Thanks to you three!  (and for the record, yes, they each were on my outgoing card list!!)

First up, a beautiful post card from Yoko showing off Mt. Fuji and the Sakura trees (cherry blossoms)

Next would have to be a lovely (and sparkley!) card from Reiko, one of my old students.  Sadly the scan doesn’t do it justice, but in light it shimmers as if the tree were made of a fine crushed glass…. as most trees are in Japan . . . .

Last, but certainly by no means least, is the gold-leaf covered card from Aki.  Sadly I can not read the kanji (Japanese) lettering on the front, so if someone would like to take a shot at it, feel free to post what it says!  Beautiful artwork indeed!