Photo Album 2

This is a picture of my sister Michelle and I having fun in the snow. Well actually I think that Michelle is having more fun then me…I don’t like snow. I am just happy to be with my sister…she is AWESOME!!!

Michelle is a very talented silversmith. She has designed a wide variety of talisman jewelry. To see her work visit her website at michelleangella.com

I love this picture so much of me (two years old) and grandma Christina hitch hiking at the Lewis and Clark Bridge over the Missouri River in North Dakota. I just had to include it in my virtual album! I was too young to remember this but mom said that we were visiting family.

I was four years old when this picture was taken of my dog Hobo and me in Piolet Butte, Saskatchewan.

Back in the mid. 90's I lived near Boise, Idaho for a while. The one thing that really amazed me was how many natural hot springs were in the area. My mornings consisted of getting a cup of coffee to go and enjoying it while I basked in one of the many hot springs in the area. The air was so fresh and cool and the water so hot it was like being in heaven. It seemed to make my morning coffee taste that much better.

The hot spring in this photo was a bit further from home so I didn't go to it as often. The water falling on me was all hot water. There was a cold river (I believe it was the Snake River) right beside it and people would swim in at afterwards, very bracing!!!

There is a commercial hot spring a couple hours drive from here. We go there whenever we get the chance. It has a really nice cave that you can sit in. I enjoy it there but it's just not the same as the natural ones and I find that there are usually too many people.

When I returned to Canada I really missed the natural Hot Springs. I would sure love to take my husband there one day.

Sorry folks this is not a very pretty picture.

When I was twenty-one years old my apartment building was destroyed by an arsonist. I was in the bathtub with the door closed (no window in the bathroom) and a Walkman on when he started the fire out on the deck. Luckily two men on the street saw the fire and got the other tenants and me out before it was too late. The building was very old and in no time the fire consumed the whole apartment and the house next door. Thanks to those two men no one lost their lives. I think my landlord below us managed to salvage a few things but the rest of us lost everything.

I didn't have insurance so I had to start all over again. To this day I am still uneasy around fire. If I smell smoke and I don't know its source my pulse races. The one good thing that I did learn from this experience is that material things are not as valuable as life! The worst thing is that the guy never got charged because they didn't have enough evidence. Oh well, at least I am here to tell the tale.

I have always enjoyed getting dressed up in costumes, that is one of the reasons why I love Halloween so much. When Johanna told me that during our annual Garden Festival they wanted to start a celebration down town that had a Mardi Gras theme I was delighted.

So from 6:30 to 10:30 Main Street was shut down. Restaurants put tables outside. Artists set up booths to sell their wares, stores were open late and there was live entertainment via local bands and Karaoke. Our first "Gardi Gras Festival" was well recieved; fun was had by all! Yahoo, I also won a prize for my costume! I can't wait until next year.

In 1987, my grandma Christina came to Creston for a visit. We took her to many different places in the area and she really enjoyed her visit here. She said even though it was so beautiful she could never live here because it was just too far from her home in Saskatchewan. (Home is where the heart is) This photo of my grandma was taken at the Glass House along our beautiful Kootenay Lake.

Here is a photo of Beartwofeathers, Michelle and I at the Kootenay Band Reservation during our annual Blossom Festival in Creston B.C. It was such an honor and so much fun doing Traditional dance with you two at the pow wow. Thanks you both so much for sharing this wonderful experience with me. I look forward to dancing in many more pow wows with you in the future!

I believe I was six when this photo was taken. This picture brings to mind a funny story that my parents told me as well as every single person that we know! I have no recollection of this alleged incident but they claim that it is true.

The Shrimp Story

Once upon a time there was a very young girl named Margaux who somehow acquired a taste for shrimp. One day her parents and she went out for dinner. Before the waitress came over Margaux's parents said," now remember we can't afford to much so you can't have shrimp." (Roy and Margaret were a young couple just starting out so their income was limited)

Margaux would look at them with a big smile and say, "ok, I won't have shrimp."

Then the waitress came over and took their order. Margaux would look over at her parents with a great big smile and say in her sweetest voice, 'would it be ok if I had some shrimp, please?" The waitress looked over at Margaux's parents with that, well you are going to let your cute little daughter have shrimp, aren't you?!" look on her face.

Well, Roy and Margaret gave in, Margaux had shrimp and they had a sandwich.

When I was a teenager my parents would embarrass me by telling all my friends this story. I think it was for revenge. I would get mad and say geeze you guys may as well put it on the six o'clock news! So I figured that I would go one step further and put it on the World Wide Web! This one is for you Mom and Dad!

I am telling you that I do not have any recollection of ever doing this and I am sticking with that story!