Friday February 13, 2026 Unlucky?

 

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Friday February 13, 2026

 Being Friday the 13th, it rained all day, keeping us inside, which was probably a good thing.

I was up early to do chores so I could watch Olympic curling at 8:05am and was basically stuck in the recliner all day to watch more hockey and curling.

I would like to know who has hexed our #1 women curlers in the world, but Team Homan looks petrified out there, can't read the ice, can't make the usual great plays they are famous for...  Unless they snap out of it, they will be out of the medals for sure..

The men's Team Jacobs however is now 3-0, making the shots and playing the way we know they can.  They have one shaky player who blew the mixed doubles with his wife earlier, but maybe he will shape up too, soon...  The other 3 players are carrying him...

Our Team Canada hockey team, with our Edmonton Oiler Connor McDavid leading the way, won 5-1 against another spunky team, the Swiss this time.  They most certainly need to improve before they encounter the powerful American team.  I can't say that I am too impressed with about 1/2 of that team right now.  Too many "professionals" making rookie mistakes, and yet, our youngest player, Celebrini, is just 19 and is showing awesome puck sense...., and he is scoring....

We were supposed to have Wolf and Fabiola visit for ice cream today, but the cold (for them) and the rain has postponed this.

I just marked down times for Olympic events of curling and hockey I need to watch for the next 3 days...  The other events are just fill-in fluff...  I am not in favor of "sports" that rely on "style points" by judges, which always generate controversy.  

 The plan is to get at least one concrete ramp's finishing layer done tomorrow by the ex, Carlos...  

We also need to get a set of windows repleced in a bedroom and add 3 to the outside storage room, the bodega... 

No photos today.  That was the day’s excitement.

Al

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Thursday February 12, 2026 Real Hockey

 

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Thursday February 12, 2026

 I was up early to catch Canada's Women's hockey team beat Finland 5-0.  That was followed by the Men Beating Czechia by the same score, which is good, because goal differential means something in International Hockey.  And I LOVE International and Olympic Hockey because of the much bigger ice surface to handle 10 skaters, 2 goalies and 4 officials at one time....  NHL rinks are too small and the games are almost boring.... those big men need room to show their skills.

This was good hockey, so I followed that by watching some curling, then the USA - Latvia Game, won by the Americans 5-1 (less goal differential..)..

And Germany took out a gritty Danish team 3-1.  Good hockey...

A truck pulled up to our door and the next Temu order was delivered, mostly stuff for, or about, cats....  We are now the proud owner of 2 more cat-houses....lol. 

I am not about to get up at 3:05am to watch Team Jacobs (Men's curling) take on the USA, but rather will watch Team Homan (Women's curling) at 8:05am against the USA as well..  But Team Jacobs takes on Sweden at 13:05 (Sweden lost to Team Mouat of England today (I caught the end of that game too).

And at 15:10 the Men's Hockey team takes on the Swiss.  Should be another good game for scoring...

Then Saturday at 10:40 the Women's Hockey team plays Germany.  They played quite well that last game but they really need to up their game if they want to be in the same rink as the Americans. 

Don't tell anybody, but I even watched some figure-skating yesterday... 

I hope you enjoy the pictures.  That was the day’s excitement.

Al

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LOVE Olympic hockey!

We own 2 more cat-houses like this

We score....

We win...

 

 

Wednesday February 11, 2026 Birds

 

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Wednesday February 11, 2026

We always need to be up early Wednesdays and Saturdays to get the garbage to the curb for the garbageman who shows up anywhere from 7:30am to noon, and is preceded by scravengers/recyclers who ruin our bags looking for treasure...  I hope a few of them get dog sh*t for being such nuisances.

Yes, we went on Amazon and have ordered a rear wheelchair for Tommy.  Right now he is moving pretty good to get close to our Turi, who has been fixed long ago but inexplicably still goes into heat.  Little NeNe is another little nuisance for poor Turi.  Grande, Nino, Buddy and Dary are no real problem.  Tommy will need to be fixed sometime soon too.

I was shocked to find both electric mopeds tipped over this morning...!!  How the 3 cats managed that is a mystery to me.... 

Today, the men's curling got underway and our Brad Jacobs team won their first with a last rock hit in a surprisingly tough match against Germany.  

We got a bronze medal in Ice Dancing (Figure Skating) and a couple of men's hockey games had some surprises.  Our Canadian women curlers, Team Homan, play twice tomorrow I think, with the first game at 3:15am..  No way I am forcing myself to catch that one.  They should win easily, we hope.

Our men's hockey team also plays tomorrow so I will definitely not miss that one... 

I managed to finally catch photos of a very small yellow and black bird that shows up occasionally in the yard.  He is very quick, and Google Lens says he is a Common Tody Flycatcher....  I think that is a new name to me..

Tom Thumb was cooperative and I like the photos of him grasping on the chain link fence with those tiny black claws...

Without hockey in the evenings, and the Olympics being done early because of the time difference, I am turning to watch some interesting movies that I have not seen before, ... usually leaning to the "action" ones

I hope you enjoy the pictures.  That was the day’s excitement.

Al

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It's a dog's life for Grande and Nino.

Common Tody Flycatcher

CTF is very small, almost as small as Tom Thumb

CTF

Tom Thumb

Finding a new place to perch between sips

TT

Look at his grip on the fence!

Caught him landing

TT

TT

Tiny feet, big grip

Landing again

and again

Plantain leaf

Aloes

Aloes

Sleep all day, play all night

Brad Jacobs played very well

It's a cat's life for Blanco

and for Misha too...

Tommy is one of the household now

Nina's face is much like Tommy's