Everybody has a different lifestyle and living experience. These snapshots from the last couple of weeks does give a hint of ours, anyway. Busy busy busy! but with lots of time for the improtant things, such as play and gardening, fmaily and friends.
BTW: You will see some pics of Sugar and Spice’s friend Tigger. Guess [...]
Of all the strange places in the world, I finally bought my very own injera pan in… wait for it… New Norway, Alberta. Look it up on google maps and you’ll know why I was surprised.Â
Jrock and I were taking a round-about way home, wandering through the secondary highways looking for antiques, when we pulled [...]
Last year we had this grand scheme for the side yard, which was basically this grassy, weedy pit of a place. The previous owners has some half-baked plans that never came to fruition. We decided to build a shaded play area, with butterfly attracting, soft plants, trees to make shade, and many indigenous plants. Then after [...]
The Easter Bunny paid us a visit Saturday night. He brought candy and Lindt chocolate Easter Bunnies for the girls (dark chocolate for Spice and milk chocolate for Sugar, of course.) Then he hid their eggs all around the bedroom, and they had to find them before they could eat them for Sunday breakfast…
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I feel sanity approaching… for the last couple of days the girls have spent at least an hour outside by themselves, mucking about in the dirt. They are working on a couple of vats of dirt soup, and discovered the water standing putrid in the wheelbarrow. You know - kid stuff. Aside from having to [...]
Sugar turned down the opportunity to go to the movie store with Daddy tonight, just so she could help Mommy cook a fish!Â
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BTW, have I told you this kid is destined for culinary genious? She tasted my wine a few weeks ago, and for the first time, I asked her “what [...]
To Spring
by William Blake
O thou with dewy locks, who lookest down
Thro’ the clear windows of the morning, turn
Thine angel eyes upon our western isle,
Which in full choir hails thy approach, O Spring!
The hills tell each other, and the listening
Valleys hear; all our longing eyes are turned
Up to thy bright pavilions: issue forth,
And let thy holy [...]
Eat your hearts out, prairie folk - we have tulips 4 inches high in our yard. (And the Vancouver people say “so what?” lol!)
But with the Olympics on the tube every night, we felt inspired to spend our day off up on the skihill. Despite Spice’s pleas to ski, we decided they should start off [...]
This just gave me mushy eyes when I saw it. Call me a sentimental ole BC Girl.
Warm anise-orange bread, turkey soup (finally all the turkey is gone!), snow bear and snow alien decorating the local park, and wet wet playing at the playground.Â
So went our first day of 2010.Â
I can see the clouds breaking over the hills; the blue sky is peaking through for the first time in days. I think it will [...]
And it’s time for fall activities - hikes, cracking nuts, crunching leaves, making birdfeeders, and getting the most of sunny days before the winter rolls in.
Enjoy the pictures from the last week or so.
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July 1st came and went last week, so now we are in the meat of the summer. We had a nice brunch out at J and C’s - goggled their new baby girl (new from China, anyway!) and then headed out to Harambe (family camp for families with kids of African heritage.) We actually had [...]
Cats can get very poisoned by lilies - if they eat enough, they get kidney failure. So after a close call once with Haatim and some tiger lilies (he was force fed charcoal and barfed for two days) we only have lilies outside! It’s a bit of a shame, since they are Jrock and I’s [...]
 Ingredients for a nice summer afternoon:
Green sun tea with mint (Add green tea bags to water in glass jar along with sprigs of fresh mint and set i the sun for a couple of hours. Then chill, baby.)
One friend with nice pastries from the bakery
Her cutester daughter
Mint and chicken spice (sage) ready to be picked, [...]
