September 4, 2013
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The Montreal Nancy-Boys (Ruminations on Canadian football, etc.)
Last night while I did cardio at the gym, I alternated between tennis and Canadian football on the TV screen. The tennis was evenly matched between two dudes I don’t know, one of whom used a lot more spin than I’m used to seeing in tennis.
The football was fascinating.
It appears that Canadian football involves twelve players on a side. Offensive players can be in forward motion, so most plays involved two or three guys running forward at full speed, with the snap occurring just as they reached the scrimmage line. It looked really cool.
From what I could see, they had only three downs to make ten yards, so punting happened frequently. There also were a lot of fumbles, which may have been a coincidence.
One of the teams was the Montreal Alouettes. What kind of team name is that?! I suspect it’s the league’s equivalent of A Boy Named Sue, chosen to keep the players sensitive and angry. Can you imagine an NFL team named after Head and Shoulders Knees and Toes, or maybe The Hokey Pokey? (Actually Virginia Tech’s team is named the Hokies, which may explain some things.)
In other news, my kitchen cabinets are coming along slow but steady. Last night I primed the backs of the doors, but I didn’t have time to paint them, so that will happen tonight. It looks like the door fronts will need another coat of paint before I can hang them. If all goes well, I’ll be putting the doors back up on Friday night. Then I’ll move everything into those cabinets and start on the other half of the kitchen.
We have decided to put laminated wood floors both downstairs and up. Lowe’s has very nice 30-year laminates for only .99 a foot, far better value than anything at Home Depot or Floor & Decor. The nice thing about laminate (compared to tile) is that once you’ve installed it, you’re done. I can do an average room in 4-6 hours. Tile takes a couple of days and makes much more of a mess.
I do plan on tiling the kitchen, breakfast room, and laundry. Most of that area is currently covered with a brick-pattern vinyl. If I can get the old vinyl up safely, I will. Otherwise I’ll need to float out the edges with thin-set for the transitions to bare floor.
I also plan to install tile backsplashes in the kitchen, and to tile the risers on the stairs (although the pattern will be simpler than what I used in Dallas). There’s nothing like nice tile work to make a house memorable to a potential buyer.
Better get back to work.
Comments (21)
Interesting and amusing to read about the Canadian football, and the Allouettes. (now I’m singing and I don’t even speak french and know what the words mean. thanks. lol)
Best of luck with all your home projects.
Apparently the song is about plucking a lark, and serves to teach anatomy to young children, but of course we English speakers just know it as a children’s song.
Thank you. My biggest problem is that my work ethic has deteriorated a lot in recent years, so I don’t work as intensively as I used to.
CFL? Hmmm! Sounds different!
It was fun to watch. Weird that the stadium was at least half empty. Maybe nobody likes the Nancy-Boys?
high! I found you and see you’re here,too.
isn’t this neat?
love jill in Texas
Hi. I haven’t figured out why people show up in my reader but I can’t click through to their blogs from the comments pane. It’s good to see you!
Still trying to figure this new xanga out. I commented on this post on wordpress.
I get the feeling this is a very stripped down WP right now. There are a lot of things missing. Supposedly it will get better with time, but we’ll see. There were parts of the old Xanga that were nonfunctional for years.
and you’re coolly going on with posting just as if you’ve never been in another world? lol Good for you! I’m still a little dazed.
Are you talking about Xanga 2.0 or football or the house remodel?
I tried reading your top 5 paragraphs, but all I saw was “blah, blah, blah”…Hmm….:-D
Ha! Just teasin’ you! That was interesting to read. I have never watched Canadian sports. I bet the footballers play well in snow! :-0
Yay, on your home projects! Have fun! And when it’s all done…please show pics!!! :-0
Oh…Guess What?! I got to go to Home Depot over the weekend! I bought tee-nuts! I was gonna’ post about them…???
HUGS!!!
Tee-nuts? Uh-oh.
I thought of you today when some song lyrics I was reading looked like a winged phallus.
It’s like “Heads and Shoulders, Knees and Toes,” isn’t it?
Right, it goes through the parts of the body as the lark is being plucked.
This made me laugh out loud! I love the idea of football teams with names like the cream puffs or chocolate mousse! hehe! Also the laminate wood flooring is wonderful. We installed it in our kitchen/hall/bath and it looks great. (and so easy to clean!)
I wonder how NFL teams would do with nursery rhyme names.
Laminate is good stuff.
The other team would have been the Toronto Argonauts who lost the game.
It looks like you have enough projects at home to keep you busy!
That sounds right. It looked like both teams were in the middle of the standings.
My house will keep me busy for months to come. I want to fix it up and sell it as fast as I can.
I have all I can do to follow American football. Anyway, I’m glad you’re still on Xanga. I’m still trying to figure out how to navigate my way around — even around my own site, it’s hard.
I’ve figured out a few things but there seems to be a lot missing yet. Just now I tried to create a post with embedded Youtube videos. I couldn’t make it happen here, so I went over to WP and created the post there (still took some figuring out, even though I’ve done it before). I copied it over here and it worked.
Thanks for thinking of me when that occurred. I’m honored!
