Day 84-90

Reese finger painting

We had a Chinese cooking class at Vida's that day, it was DELICIOUS!!!!!

Reese picking my tulips in the backyard!!!!!

 

clarification

by epic fail I mean that I've failed to upload pictures to this blog!!! I HAVE however kept up my 365 on facebook since I found it much easier!!!!

Well I'm currently on Day 212, and my pictures on here only go up to Day 55!!

So I've been an epic fail at my 365!!!! I'm going to try to catch it up but I've been having photo problems so this is a trial run!!!

Project 365 Day 56

Day56, a photo by REBurwell on Flickr.

Well hope you had a great summer!!

It was a very busy summer in our family, mid July we left for England for a week and went to the great yorkshire show which was very fun!! It was ridiculously COLD in Leeds that week and I'd packed for summer but other than that I was so happy we went. We saw Prince Charles!! Would have been a lot more thrilled if it was Prince Harry or William but what can you do. Reese said "Hi Prince Charles, Hi Duchess" and Lynn shook his hand!!!

Reese and I flew from there out to Canada for two weeks and tried to see as many people as we possibly could. We also packed up our house with the intention of selling it but the market is pretty crap right now in our area so we decided to rent it out again.


My camera also broke at the end of July and had to be sent into get fixed in the UK so my project 365 was put on hold for a month while I was waiting for it to come back.

Then Hailey flew back to Italy the same day as Reese and in the beginning of August and stayed with us for two weeks until Lorie, Jamie and George joined us and we did a whirlwind tour of Italy and then went to the Canary Islands for a week. I will try to catch up on pictures since I think I can post them here from flickr now, or potentially even from mobile me. I got frustrated with the lack of photo sharing space and gave up on my blog!
I'll figure it out though and then throw pictures your way!
Grocery shopping last week was insane, back to school and the line ups were awful and the place was PACKED with Italians.
This weekend is the festival of the Saint in our village and that is what we're planning on doing tonight!!!!! rides and games, music and street vendor food!!!!

Tiger mosquitos

So here in Italy there are THREE types of mosquitos that plague us in the village. The "Commune" which is your garden variety type of mosquito, bites, red bump from it etc etc. Then there is the "Tigre" or Tiger mosquito which is grey striped, more aggressive and larger than the regular one and its bites are more painful and can cause more swelling. We think these have been the ones attracted to Reese because the poor kid swells up horribly from some of her bites, like big, red, swollen areas of arms and legs that are hot to touch, it looks SO painful! Then there are the "Tropical" variety which explains itself really and which I haven't heard too many nasty things about yet. Being that we live near the rice paddies the mosquito levels are quite high here, so far they haven't been AWFUL, but it does make sitting out in the evening(which is the only time of day that its NOT boiling) rather distracting!!! We have a mosquito zapper upstairs and this has decreased the number of bites Reese was getting overnight( the one night she got 9 huge bites all over her arms and legs that swelled up by morning...poor thing!!!!!!!) there is spray here that you spray on your yard that deters the mosquitos for 6-8 hours. I'd use it but god only knows what chemicals are in it to keep them away so up until now we've avoided it at our house, might have to get some as the summer progresses though, not sure citronella candles are going to cut it!
Never thought I'd be missing Canadian mosquitos!!

Living in a hot climate

So when we moved to Italy I thought that this summer I would be lounging outside, in the sunshine working on getting a tan and reading books while Reese played in the shade in the yard. Being from Canada that's what we DO when it's nice in the summer!!! Well you don't do that here in Italy! Instead of lounging outside and soaking up the heat and sun I am literally hiding from it in my air conditioned living room!!!!!!
Today it feels like +40 with the humidity and that is WAY hotter than it needs to be in my opinion!! We still go outside to play a few times a day but the length of time that we stay out is quite short because you just get overheated SO quickly. HMMMMMMM

WHO KNEW!?!?!

Whimsical- an I Heart Faces Challenge

So this week the theme for the photo contest at I Heart Faces is "Whimsical" So what better picture to illustrate that than one of my little fairy running through fields!!!

"When Fairies Dance"

I Heart Faces

CHECK OUT THIS CONTEST!!!!

Seriously this is an amazing contest, they're going to fly whoever wins from anywhere in the world to go for a weekend workshop with them!!! AHHHHHHHH

CLICK HERE TO SEE IT!!! CRAVE PHOTOGRAPHY

Agrigento, Sicily

Once again the pictures are hosted on flickr from now on so you'll have to click on the link below and it will take you to the slideshow of the pictures with descriptions!!!! I'm kind of sad that the pictures can't be in my blog right now, I'm working on a way to fix this!!!!

Ok....so I've managed to embed the slideshow in the blog now, you just have to click on the triangle play button and then it should start. If you click on the four arrows pointing in opposite directions in the bottom right corner it will take it to full screen for you!!!!!!
Hope this works this time!