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What’s the best comic ever?

There are lots of ways to answer that question. What comic strip do you read every day? What comic do you remember most as a kid? The way I look it, the best comic is the one that survives the longest on your fridge. By that logic, this is the best comic ever:

This comic has a long history on our fridge. I think that it actually started out clipped from a newspaper and pinned up in my office cubicle. Eventually it got photocopied and enlarged and found its way home and onto the fridge of our first house in Cold Lake – probably around 1990. Due to a pretty complete lack of interest in taking photos of the fridge, particularly in the days before digital photography, it’s pretty hard to come up with exact dates. However, in this picture, taken on my birthday in 1991, you can see the comic displayed prominently:

Even today, that same comic is on our fridge – not quite so prominently, but still there making us smile after more that a quarter of a century. It’s a bit dog-eared and stained, but retains it’s place as probably the best comic ever.

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Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

This is what appeared for dinner today.  It’s is hard to imagine how the Irish survived prior to the invention of green food colouring!  Everything looked like it should have a slight minty flavour, but thankfully it did not. I do have to say that green rice is oddly mind-bending.  For dessert, I think that Brenda has found a recipe for home-made “Shamrock Shakes”, that has got to be an improvement over the green-tinged dinner.

And, of course, in other news – today is my license plate game anniversary.  As you surely recall, I began the noble quest on St Paddy’s Day back in 2003.  Sadly, I have to report that the pace of progress remains woefully slow.  This year ended at plate 865, only 46 new plates seen in the last 12 months.  I definitely have settled to a new lower level of plates spotted per month ever since my commute has switched to public transit. The 4-digit plates haven’t helped, particularly as they make up the majority of plates now. At this rate, you can look forward to about 3 more annual updates!

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Friday is our usual pizza dinner and movie with the kids evening.  Back in Chestermere, we quite often would buy pizza, either at the local Domino’s (which was actually quite good) or we would buy the 4-pack of Costco pizzas.  Now, though, the local pizza places are kind of expensive and the drive to Domino’s is more hassle than it’s worth.

So, lately Brenda has been making pizza dough in the bread machine and then we create our own pizzas with as much pepperoni as we want.  Tonight Alyssa has been helping to punch down the dough, form it and add the toppings.  This is Bobby, the sauce guy.  I am sure he will be delicious.

Especially with all that pepperoni.

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We headed up to Rocky Mountain House on the Family Day weekend to hang out with family there. It was also Valentine’s Day, so we had the older kids pick up pizza and keep an eye on the younger cousins at Barry and Breana’s while the adults had a nice dinner together at Ronny and Carla’s. We made it a bit of a pot luck and had a really nice evening with the 6 of us.

Brenda brought hibiscus flowers (in syrup) that we floated in the sparking wine, it was very exotic!

This was the view on the drive up – a glorious late winter day.

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