Once all the forms were in place the next thing I needed to do was shape the stems. The idea is that the outside of each stem is 1/4" wide and the strips lie flat on the stem as they run out to the forms.

wow, Emma May gets her first haircut and looks all grown up. Emma kept getting really bad tangles in the back of her hair.

Holy moly batman, I haven’t updated my blog with canoe stuff for a long long time. Where to begin… Well, I should say something about the strongback.

No, I’m not referring to some amazingly trumped US army attack in Iraq. What I’m talking about is much more real.

Grady got his hair cut yesterday and it looks damn sharp. I guess he wanted it cut because he’s joining the forces?

A couple of weeks ago while visiting the folks in Invermere I had the chance to go fishing with my buddy John Z.

I’m thinking about tying some flies, and I put together a page that lists flies I’ve typically used over the last few years.

I watched Apocalypto last night. It was a pretty disturbing movie, I really was hoping for a lot more. I didn’t know much about the movie prior to watching it, all I knew was the Mayan setting.

Well, several months after finish the kayak we finally got it into the water two weekends agp. Such is life when you are busy with little kids!

Last Saturday we had a big 4th birthday bash for Grady. It had a little bit of everything: two cakes, scavenger hunt, tons of presents, a bbq, beer and face painting.