NOTES ABOUT NOTHING

I MIGHT HAVE WOKEN UP THIS MORNING TO THIS, AS LEE AND KESHI AND STACE AND AIDAN AND MILLIONS OF OTHER RESIDENTS OF AUSTRALIA COULD HAVE.

INSTEAD, we in the Great White North are dealing with this...

The beautiful bird above is an eastern rosella, brought to my attention by Lee, who has two of these gorgeous winged creatures inhabit her back yard in the incredible world of Down Under.

The picture below it (I think that's my curtain obstructing the right side; DOH!) is a shot of my expansive grassed area outside my apartment in the southern Winnipeg suburbs, looking out on my scenic parking lot.

The trees you see are now devoid of leaves. If I could record a soundtrack, you would hear the bitter sound of a cold, driving wind whistling through those barren branches.

But now, in between my endless search to find my longjohns with the hole in them from last year, on to a major portion of my post -- my hopes to win the Male Blogger Comeback Cleaner of the Year Award.

Several posts ago, I showed pictures of my unclean fridge and my disgustingly blackened oven. I am now able to report that in fact I have cleaned both of these crucial appliances, as below...

Voting begins tonight at 11 p.m. CST and ends at midnight at www.voteforwwhahahaha.com. And I'd refer you back to my original post with the "before" pix, but I don't know how. You'll have to find it yourself.