November

 

 

 
November is off to a great start here with clear skies and a morning temperature of just 6C.  We walked by Fish Trap Creek and I managed the walk by avoiding the trail that goes up a few hills. Small hills but hard on my hip so it's better to be cautious.

DH gets to have his cast removed this week which will be a big relief.  The one he's had for 5 weeks is completely waterproof. No more need for plastic bags secured in order to shower. He was told by the doctor that it was so waterproof that he could even go swimming. Still, it will be nice to not have the awkwardness of the cast.

 

Browsing through Pinterest  I came upon this jewelry box exactly like the one I had when I was about ten or eleven years old.  It brought back a lot of memories. I think it had a tiny ballerina that  popped up when you opened the lid. It may have had music that played when you wound it up but that might have been a different one.  Seventy plus years can mess with details :)

 

 

 

GD Kate is back home after a week in Disneyland. We're looking forward to hearing all about her fun trip.  It was a birthday present to herself .  Hers was one of the many October celebrations in our family.  That's about all for today.  I hope you're enjoying a lovely Sunday. 

 

 

 

Sharing a Home

 

I almost didn't post that picture ( avocado/orange/banana).  I thought it was too silly but I'm happy to know you all have strange senses of humour similar to mine.  
When you enter our house there's a little 'foyer' and straight ahead is the door to our son's family's home. If you turn left instead then you come into our part of the house.  In that little area is a sturdy wooden bench where things get left  to be picked up. Like mail or packages that were delivered.   

The day I left the "face" I had picked up a  bag of avocados marked down because they needed to be used soon. The logical thing to do was to leave a couple on that bench for son#2. Then, of course, I had the idea of the face. 

 A cross stitch that I made many years ago. It hangs on the other wall. 

 It's been raining off and on all day.  For the sake of all the little people who will be out trick-or-treating tomorrow, I hope it clears up.

 Thanks for coming by

 

Wordless Wednesday

 

 

 

Putting Tea Cups away

 

 This is a little potting area behind my garden shed.  The white wooden box holds a bag of potting soil and that little cart has 2 back wheels so I can move it around. Unfortunately it's very heavy so I rarely do move it.  
I've started cleaning and storing my garden tea cups for winter. I got about half of them done so far and will finish that job this coming week. I'll watch for a day when it doesn't rain but the forecast is not very promising.  Oh well, can't complain. We've had a great Summer and Fall too.

 

 

Later....I finished putting them away just in time. The rain has begun.

 

I saw these on Pinterest and I find them so pretty.  If I sewed I'd never be out of inspiration.

 

 Thanks for visiting.

 

 

 

Wild Tulips and a Summons

 

 

 Our weather has changed from warm and sunny to chilly with showers. Actually the forecast for today is now predicting heavy rain.   Good thing we got our walk done earlier this morning. I'm pleased with the  3200 steps that I managed.

 

Very soon it will be time to put Spring bulbs into the ground. Among other bulbs that I did find I also  wanted to find species tulips but was unsuccessful. However a friend of Eldest D found some for me. 
Some info from the internet in case you're interested.
Species tulips (also called botanical tulips) are the wild, unbred ancestors of modern garden tulips. They are native to regions spanning southwestern Europe, the Mediterranean, the Caucasus, and Central Asia.

 Species tulips generally do much better in British Columbia’s mild, wet winters than large hybrid tulips. While hybrid varieties are prone to rotting and rarely return year after year in coastal B.C., many wild species tulips (such as Tulipa tarda, T. kaufmanniana, and T. turkestanica) are far more resilient and reliably perennial in the Pacific Northwest. 

 There are definitely some advantages to being older. I received this in the mail this week. I'm happy to see that being over 65 years of age one can automatically be exempt.   Have you ever served on a jury? I'm sure it would be interesting but very stressful.

 That's it for today.  Thanks for coming by.

 

 PS   Don't forget to look at the full moon tonight and tomorrow night. It's the Hunter's moon this month.   Luckily I got a good look last night ( it was 95% full) because now cloud has moved in.

 

 

 

My Day

 Thursday is grocery shopping day and we got that done. It was mostly cloudy and quite chilly. Not a day to spend much time outside.

 I did manage to go for a short walk. When I came back this lovely vase of flowers was waiting for me by the front door.  They're on the dining room table now and every time I look at them I feel blessed.

 

 Chilly weather didn't keep my DH and Youngest Son from starting the latest project in the area behind the house where one of the raised boxes which had obviously rotted dropped its load of soil and needed cleaning up.  Fortunately a couple of new boxes had been built and were set in place. A few more days of work to get it in place.  Not the best picture because I took it through the window.

 That was my day. Now I hope to get some reading done. Thanks for coming by.

 

 

Thankful

 

 

 I didn't mean to be absent for a week. I guess I'm in a slump.  It's not that nothing happened blog worthy...  we celebrated Youngest Son's birthday followed by Eldest Daughter's. I didn't even take pictures. The weather is great...chilly nights followed by sunny days. I have so much to be thankful for and I'm trying hard to do just that.

Our biggest thrift store had posted on their FB page that they had all their Christmas stuff out so yesterday we took a quick trip there to take a look around.  I took the pictures that they had posted on FB so you can see what they did.  It's a lot of work and their volunteers are so helpful. I looked but found not as single thing that wanted to come home with me.

 

I doubt any of you are thinking of Christmas yet, in fact many are still planning Thanksgiving.
Even for me it is just too soon.

Nothing else to write.  Thanks for coming by.