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This was a store in a poor area of Sydney , with endemic shoplifting - - once , before she took over , two guys came in and blatantly walked out with a whole rack of clothes , including the rack ! Pam spent much of the winter organizing the annual national recorder-playing weekend . There they have various eagles including Sarah , a magnificent golden eagle ; all sorts of owls including the cute little ground-nesting burrowing owl ( did you know that a 70 cm tall great horned owl weighs only half a kg or so , and its neck , which looks enormous , is only one cm thick inside all those feathers ) ; Snoopy the celebrity vulture ( remember the movie Shanghai Noon , where Jackie Chan is buried up to his neck in the sand and a vulture pecks his head ? The second year he took a somewhat more detached stance by concentrating on writing the second edition of his book Data mining , but in fact did manage to establish something that may be ongoing at Lethbridge . Great fun , with traditional Indian dancing , including the kids ' " chicken dance , " fabulous costumes , drumming , and all the excitement of the rodeo - - broncs and stuff . One boy put his fist through our garage wall ( no , not brick , and easy enough to fix ) : interestingly , he is an accomplished violin player who was going through serious depression following the theft of his rare , exquisite , and extremely expensive violin . " Nikki has had many interesting times in Vancouver , including the Gay Pride parade , participating in the Aids walk , and a wild weekend with friends at Lake Okanagan in interior B.C. There are several Mormons , one of whom has just left for a mission in Tokyo and was quite happy for our ever-curious anthropologist to quiz him about every aspect of Mormonism , from polygamy to converting the heathens . Ian had to work a bit , of course , but on one off day , following the advice of some Calgary friends , we caught a train to a small country town , bought a picnic lunch in the marketplace , rented broken-down old bicycles and pedaled off to Giverny , Monet 's village with its famous garden and water lily pond .