Privacy Gone!

This past fall and winter saw the small house behind us demolished and a large duplex condo being built.

I never really realized how much I valued my privacy until this started to go up.

Compared to the houses around it this "thing" dwarfs them all. I would need a 10 foot high fence to get any privacy at all. Guess that this is something I will have to get used to. I am just glad that I do not live in one of the houses right beside it. Poor Harvey the ultimate farm boy is having a problem with this. Me, the city girl is as well. It was so nice not to worry about others being able to see in the yard. Now the back decks on this building will have direct sight lines into our yard. Hope we don't have nosy neighbours!!!

Harvey got busy today outside. The yard is raked, and ready to be dethatched, and so he decided it was time to get my wooden planters out.

He washed most of them and then decided they needed a coat of Minwax stain.

The coat of stain really brightened them up.

Even though our backyard privacy may be down to almost nil, I am still going to make my yard as beautiful as I possibly can.

Everybody have a wonderful evening.

God bless.

Isn't It Supposed To Be Spring????

Yesterday it started to snow, and while the area I live in did not get much some places around us got up to 35 cm by this morning.

What did I wake up to?

A thick coating of frost on the vehicle that the sun did not want to melt too quickly, causing me to have to start my SUV early to get the frost off.

I took this picture after the car had been running for 10 minutes, I am sure you can picture how much frost greeted me when I went out the door.

Well at least the sun is shining and we managed to get above freezing today.

Everybody have a wonderful evening.

God bless.

Rough Day

Today was perhaps the roughest of days I have ever had subbing.

The morning started off well and then all of a sudden bam!! The student I was working with pulled a Jeckle and Hyde on me.

He started playing badminton with his eraser and pencil and when I left him to stick my head in the door three feet away and get the teacher, took off and hid in the bathroom. The secretary and I finally pulled him out of where he was hiding under the sinks and started to take him to the office. Well he started hitting, trying to bite me and then hauled off and did this.....

Yep, that's right kicked me right in the ankle. I am now hobbling around and getting an ice pack ready to take the swelling down.

To think I have to work with him again tomorrow! Hope it goes better than today.

Everybody have a wonderful evening.

God bless.

Menu Monday for April 29 to May 5

Monday

Leftover roast pork from the fridge freezer made into Spanish Rice.

Tuesday

Leftover beef roast made into Beef and Onions in gravy. Served over mashed potatoes. The sides will be frozen carrots and a salad.

Wednesday

Leftovers from Monday and Tuesday and leftover salad.

Thursday

Slow cooker Beef Stew.

Friday

Soup and egg salad sandwiches.

Saturday

BBQ Hot dogs, and baked beans from the freezer.

Sunday

Roast Chicken, corn on the cob, rice, and a salad.


These could change a little bit, but not much. I am trying to get everything used up and save on the grocery bill as well. Meat prices are sky rocketing and we must get a handle on this before too long.

Everybody have a wonderful day.

God bless.

Sunday Ramblings

While today was not as nice as the previous two, I still went out for a walk. After all its free exercise and as I did not sleep well last night it woke me up for the afternoon.

I am slowly but surely getting close to the end of the embroidery project. I now realize that I will not be finished at the end of the month, but bit by bit it is getting done. I am looking forward to seeing it on my table. Right now I am on the center portion and using up lots of embroidery thread I inherited from my mother.

My next project will be getting the afghan and dishcloths done for the family reunion. We have a Silent Auction that raises money for the next reunion. Cuts down a bit on what we need to spend as a family.

I have two days of work lined up for next week, one as an aide and one as the secretary. Should be an interesting week. Hopefully I will do a good job.

Harvey and I are going to have a movie night tonight. Should be interesting as usually we don't watch movies at home. He wants to watch Django Unchained. I am not a big western watcher, but this is what he likes. Perhaps he will let me watch a "Jackie type movie" next time.

Everybody have a wonderful evening.

God bless.

Gorgeous Spring Day

Well most of the snow is gone, just a little bit still hiding in the shady parts of the yard. Hopefully it will be all gone by next weekend, provided Mother Nature does not pull a fast one on us.

I did get out for a short walk this morning, but the rest of the day was spent using this object a lot.

At noon I had a telephone conference with my priest and another lady from a different parish. We set up our next big Deanery meeting and it went quite smoothly. All the worrying I did about this type of conference is no longer bothering me. However one of the executive did not get in on the call and the other member was out of town. This saved me gas and the time it would take traveling to where ever we would have the meeting. Money in the bank so to speak.

Next during breaks from trying to finish my novel and almost falling asleep a few times, I was trying to get our youngest son Kris to answer his phone. He finished off the job he has worked at for the past 6 years and has moved on to a new position with a new company. This Monday he starts at Kramer Tractor in Regina as a Business Systems Analyst. He sounds very excited about the whole thing as he will be working on setting up a whole new computer program and system for them.

When he finally phoned back, just as we were going to eat all he could talk about was the shopping trip he went on to Tip Top Tailor's where he bought some dress shirts, dress pants and sports jackets. He was over joyed with the fact that he bought so much for $600.00. In fact he was extremely happy with the purchase of one of his sports jackets. It was regularly $300.00 and he got it for $70. I think he may finally be developing a frugal streak!!!

Everybody have a wonderful evening.

God bless.

New Idea for A Project

While cleaning out my drawers a couple of days ago I got the bright idea for a new project (save me from bright ideas for new projects, especially when have a white board full of unfinished projects).

I took a bunch of the t-shirts that I was going to give to the church rummage sale and cut them up. I got quite a bit of material from them as you can see. Soon I will be cutting the pieces up into 1 x 5 inch strips. I will use these strips of material on this.

I got this rug hooking mesh on sale a few years ago thinking I would take up rug hooking. Hmmm, not going to happen anytime soon, however weaving strips of old t-shirts through the mesh is doable.

I am going to need many more t's in order to get this done so it will be an on going project over the next year. I am thinking blues, creams, blacks and pinks would be a good colour combination.

Here is hoping that I can get started on this project very soon.

Everybody have a wonderful evening.

God bless.