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visit…

08 Saturday Oct 2016

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the orchids are happy, and of course, that makes me happy…

had a great time with my grandson who came over to do some yard work for me… 

he mowed the grass, cleaned eavestroughs, put away outdoor furniture, treated weeds in the front flower bed, emptied and put away flower pots… such a relief to have his help…

while he was doing all that I got the potatoes, cauliflower, turnip and stuffing ready for tomorrow… we had lunch and a good visit…

after he left I worked on the Halloween goodies…

rocket lolly pops that look like ghosts;-)… have done about 120… haven’t quite decided whether to add black dots for eyes…

lately the ladybugs have been everywhere… the other day my youngest grandson counted 20 at the front door…

tonight one came to visit me… nice to have company throughout the day and evening, lol…

halloween…

31 Saturday Oct 2015

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had a sleepover at the kids…

this morning I took a picture out the living room window of the front of their house… 

 

ignore the bloody footprints, lol… so much brighter with the cedar tree down…  

and now you can see the beautiful birch tree…

this morning we headed out and about to look at tiles and countertops which was great fun… but now I am rather worn out, lol…

this is the front of the house very early on Friday…

  

put out some pass-along boxes, yay… having a box on the dining room counter to pop items in has become a great habit… whenever I get a call from an organization who wants to collect stuff I know immediately if I have enough to pass along, so I’m not running around like a crazy person trying to find stuff… 

this was the front of the house tonight just before I turned out the lights…

  
plastic pumpkins looked cute… didn’t have the energy to put out the usual Halloween decorations… not sure what that was about, although it was much more fun to hand out the goodies with George, lol…

ended up with a total of 17 kids… fair amount of candy left which will need to get out of the house so I am not tempted to eat it…

here’s my final Halloween picture… my youngest grandson admiring the pumpkin his mom had carved with a drill… he was really enjoying the process this year…

 
busy day with lots of fun memories… 

carving…

30 Friday Oct 2015

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we have just spent three hours carving pumpkins…

  
started with four pumpkins and then friends arrived with two more… I picked up two plastic ones for my house…

guts were yanked out… carving tools were used… everyone worked very hard and had lots of fun expressing their creativity…

  
the drill came out and not one hissy fit was had…

  
the work was all done…

  
hope you are not too scared… Grandpa would have been proud… he had the most fun getting ready for Halloween…

here are the cookies that I took to the office today… brought the rest over to my kids’…

  
put some out in cute little spider web bags…

  
fun day…

ready…

26 Monday Oct 2015

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worked the late shift today so first thing I walked over to the grocery store to pick up a few items…

really considered taking the car, but knew I needed the exercise…

on my walk I saw a nicely decorated yard…

  
fun to see it as I was walking by so I could admire all the pieces… was especially taken by the crows, which at first I wasn’t sure were fake, lol…

encouraged me to walk down a different street on my way home to look for other cool places…

been thinking about Halloween and being ready… kids brought me a new candy bowl and I have a box full of chocolate bars…

not so ready with the pumpkin… usually we would have carved three or four pumpkins by now… I don’t even have one to carve… but did notice that there were lots at the grocery store…

hope we have an opportunity to do some carving and decorating…

still have to put out the decorations around the house… usually the boys help me with that too… not as much fun on my own…

will see how ready I am by Saturday, lol…

treat…

03 Monday Nov 2014

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have enjoyed a couple of lovely treats in the last few days…

while we were on our trip to and from Carberry we stopped at the Robin’s Nest Cafe where we picked up some delicious battered mushrooms…

IMG_9156.JPGwe were very good, and only got one order to share, lol…

today I took leftovers from our Saturday night dinner for my lunch… but one of my colleagues made me a toasted salmon sandwich with avocado and apple…

IMG_9155.JPGwonderful treat…

I brought in the last of the Halloween hands to share…

it is quite amazing how the simplest things can make your day…

halloween…

31 Friday Oct 2014

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barely slept last night and my cold seems to be a bit worse so I decided to stay home… slept for most of the day…

put up the last few decorations in between and took a few pictures…

IMG_9100.JPGpicked this up at the dollar store and put it on the front door… looks pretty good…

IMG_9109.JPGfinally got dressed around 4:30… put on my new velour cape and my witch hat from a few years ago… kids started coming about 5:45… by 6:30 there weren’t any more… most of them commented on the candies being in the hand:-)…

the little boys came about 7:30 and we got a picture together, thanks to daddy…

IMG_9108.JPGmy total was 18, counting my boys… too funny, because when they started coming I was worried I was going to run out…

prep…

30 Thursday Oct 2014

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this morning I prepared for an afternoon memorial service as I got dressed… chose a purple top and a special scarf so that I could leave right from the office…

saw these geese as we were driving…

IMG_9032.JPGthey were everywhere… sadly I didn’t get a shot of them flying overhead…

here’s a picture of my afternoon snack…

IMG_9033.JPGtook the smallest plate because it had purple on it…

today the sky went from dark and filled with clouds, to sunny and clear as we drove home…

after supper I prepared the goodies to give out tomorrow… I put together 30 medical gloves filled with candy and 3 sets of Halloween gloves for my boys…

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happy halloween…

31 Thursday Oct 2013

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had a lovely evening…

got a call as I was driving home from work and met Crystal and Kyler at the Subway just up the street from home… got subs for everyone, which was rather sad for the people in line behind us, cause everyone likes their sub a little different and there was only one person working…

got home and had a great dinner with Spiderman flashing in and out of the room… everyone ate their dinner, they all love subs…

then we got down to the serious business of getting our costumes on and posing for our annual Halloween photos… each boy gets a photo with Grandma on their own and then there is the group shot, lol… sometimes it takes quite a while to get them all done, but we did very well tonight…

most everyone cooperated and we got a few great shots…

one of the group shots...

one of the group shots…

then, like a flash, they were off to collect goodies…

I played on the computer between the groups of kids who stopped by our house… in the end there were 23… this year they got glow sticks and I must say that nearly everyone was excited to get them…

although now there is no candy in the house for me to snack on, sigh…

carving two…

30 Wednesday Oct 2013

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well, I put on those big girl pants and carved my pumpkin, all by myself…

it was still a bit messy, but no pumpkin guts landed on the floor…

had just finished when my son-in-law texted a picture of their finished pumpkins…

felt like we were working together, even if it was across town, lol…

my pumpkin is filled with little pumpkin lights… looking forward to setting it up tomorrow night for the trick or treaters…

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carving…

29 Tuesday Oct 2013

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tomorrow I plan to carve the pumpkin that we got last week when we went to the pumpkin patch…

usually the kids would be over and we would carve them together… this has been a tradition since the 13 year old was a little tyke, even though he doesn’t always get to participate… Grandpa loved to carve the pumpkins and each year they got more and more intricate…

ready for action...

ready for action…

pumpkin carving was serious business and the table would be covered with a plastic tablecloth and a bowl set out for the seeds and another for the guts…

tracing the pattern with care in just the right spot...

tracing the pattern with care in just the right spot…

then there would be the decision making about which pattern to follow for each pumpkin, unless someone decided to go free form…

one down... still a couple to go...

one half done… still a couple to go…

everyone would participate… until they got bored, and then Grandpa would finish off the job… he liked that because then he could do exactly what he wanted, lol…

Grandpa finishing up when others lost interest...

Grandpa finishing up when others lost interest…

great excitement would take place when a candle went in and the lights went out…

pretty cool pumpkin...

pretty cool pumpkin…

this year I will be carving my pumpkins on my own… our thirteen year old has a project due on Friday and tomorrow night is set aside for he and a classmate to get that done…

tonight’s pictures are from the last pumpkin carving we did with Grandpa, two years ago…

I am so thankful for all of the pictures I have taken over the years… it was great fun to go through and pick a few…