Little one

Is this not the warmest little moment? Can you conceive that the same little body is still in existence today.? I wonder what problem I was telling my mother about.Maybe I wanted to be enlightened about making wrong choices ..Hmmm...

Painting

I guess I could have cropped this......it's a small painting...like 3 inches high. Some of you will notice that I copied it off one that hangs in Mom's bedroom. That's against the rules I'd say.

But it was fun to do. I'm not trying to sell it. Hmmm

Frozen in time

I had a moment about 6 p.m....I was prompted to stop and really take in what I was looking at. 5 grandchildren playing in a light rain that came and went quickly. Sun coming out again. 3 sons and a husband in the yard finishing up their chatting for the day. Julie and I just watching. Thank you, Lord.

Not for the faint hearted

Today I accomplished my biggest mind game ever. Going to the dermatologist involves a skin scan. No nurse, no gown. You've seen pictures of people running down to the waterline at the beach, so anxious to get in the water they shed their clothes in a flash. That was me...and all the time I was picturing myself...not with a 5 foot 1 inch, 166 pound 63 year old body but with one like maybe CELINE DION's.hmmm (good check up by the way)

Kitties

How long has it been since you've had baby kitties in your life.? This is how scrawny barn cats start out. Hopefully these furry balls will be advertised on Kijiji when they're old enough and go to a happy home and spend the rest of their days being loved, cuddled and spoiled.
Right now they are tucked away in the "Parts Room" over at the new garage...down 4 rows and over to the left under the bottom shelf. I don't know where their play area will be next month.

How come?

This is my observation today. For some reason my nose was running.(funny expression isn't it) profusely. Used tissues were piling up around me. Wanting to get my half hour on the tread mill behind me (regardless of my physical ailment) I armed myself with a wad of Kleenex stuffed up my sleeve and started my pacing. Would you believe my nose never "ran" again today. What 's the name of that chemical that's secreted during exercise??

Painting

I thought I was going to have to cover up the fact that I've studied water color painting before. But at class tonight I think I fooled them . My crows in the plowed field looked like Holsteins so I don't think I "blew my cover ". Actually maybe if I added some white they could be cows...Hmmm

Recycleables

(recycleables...just put that through spell check...guess I got it right)
I love garbage day...hugh bags of discarded material carried to the roadside..never to be seen again, to be picked up by our neighborly garbage man, and disposed of privately at the landfill.
Today I was horrified to find that what felt like a hurricane was whipping through my world. My precious bag of recyleables had been blown across the road, down into the ditch, come unknotted and had released by life secrets into the whole world. Tin cans, milk cartons, newspapers, colorful cardboard boxes were scattered in the immediate area and the lighter papers had made it through the fence to the pasture and were being swept toward town in the distance.The one good thing was that I didn't have to chase those...they were going too fast. And the other good thing was that while I was tip toeing through the puddle filled ditch repacking my garbage I found a perfectly good basketball. Hmm

Paintings

This arrangement hangs on a wall at the Big Stop.They're not photographs but I don't know how anyone could paint them so perfectly. They reflect such cozy little villages that feel you could walk right into them and find your grandmother's house.

Hints

This is a good shot of Murray...has a long drive ahead of him as he and Lorraine head off to Winnipeg on Tuesday.

Back to household hints. There are some things I hate to throw out. When my expensive candle has alot of wax left and yet the wick is done...I stick birthday candles down in and consequently get many more hours of fragrance as they burn away.

Eggs

Matthew was the first one to go through the Easter egg collection this year. Just a note..I started decorating some of these in the 60's. He wasn't long getting the paints out to do his own...I think it was 31 for a Nascar or something like that.

Family

Here's Mom gazing at her line of lovely daughters. She can't remember Carole as being hers but the word "Carole" kind of brings a bright look to her eye.

Marriage

I shared my new definition of marriage with Juanice tonight and she seemed to get a charge out of it.Philip couldn't understand it and Garry was off visiting at the next table at Tim Horton's. Here it is...like trying to drive a car that's outfitted with shepherd castors.hmmm

I didn't see it

Maria won all these books and the telescope. Value is $200.00. I was around the day she did the project. It seemed like after school homework.I think the boys were into it too. The question was simply to draw and describe an alien. When I checked her effort I recognised it as a quick response....like maybe she just wanted to get it done and get on with living. Good goin' Maria.