Books

Laundry is washed, dried and folded ( a few things to iron later). Now it's time to read. I finished my Christmas Miss Read book ( enjoyable as I think they all are) and now I'll move on to my library books. Three old favourites that I'm going to reread.

I have an apple crisp ready to go into the oven later.  While the oven is on I'll mix up some cheese biscuits ( cheese scones to some).  

 

I hope the script is easier to read today. Please let me know if it isn't.

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Birds and Flowers

 

 

I started this post this morning but obviously I didn't get very far.  Granddaughter Kate came by for a visit which she often does on a Sunday. While she was here she showed me how I could try different fonts ( I am so very technologically challenged) so that will explain the different "look".  We had a lovely visit and she left,  back to her busy life :)

It was raining when we went walking earlier. As we often do we chose to drive to Willband Park to see if the swans were still there...and they were. So many of them!!   There were also many Mergansers, one of my favourite birds!  In spite of carrying an umbrella I got somewhat wet.

Yesterday we took a drive to my favourite plant shop. I chose some pretty African Violets, a cheery yellow Primrose and a couple of ferns.  There were Hellebores on sale and I chose 3 white ones. They're still very small but they are blooming. All 3 are white.

 I also got some cut flowers 

The lilies are still tightly closed. I wonder if they will be white or maybe yellow? Either colour will be fine.

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Happy New Year

 Happy New Year my dear friends,  Things got rather busy around here and I couldn't keep up. *sigh*.
 I'm happy to be back now and I want to say Thank You to all that have visited here  and many who have left lovely comments.  When I sit down to read those comments with a cup of coffee or tea beside me I feel like I'm truly visiting with you.

Christmas was a  good time of family, food and fun. We played a sort of trivia game which ended up having such difficult questions that clues had to be given. The "creative" clues were the main fun lol.

I found these inspirational Quotes and pictures on Pinterest and I hope you find something to inspire you for the coming year. 

 

 Once again....  thank you for your visit today.

 

Hello

 

I seem to be taking a short break from posting. Things seem a bit busy right now but surely will quiet down after next weekend. I hope you're all well, having survived the festive season.  In case you need a recipe for a good dip I'll post one.

See you again soon. 

 

 

 Thanks for coming by

 

 

Flowers, Paper and Real

 

 Youngest son's partner makes amazing crafts and she made this for me. It looks like a bouquet of paper flowers, and it is, but it's also a calendar. ( It comes in a "vase" but I forgot to take a picture of that part).   Each month has one bloom or leaf on it.

 

 

Real flowers grace the table for Christmas. 

 

 I will try to do another post before Christmas but just in case I don't I wish you all a wonderful Christmas with family and friends.  Thank you for all the kind comments  this past year. 

 

 

Amaryllis for Christmas

 Here we are in the last days before Christmas. Nothing to do but to wait.  A couple of weeks ago we dropped by a plant shop so I could admire the lovely flowers.  The primroses in the first picture are lovely but I've bought them before and can't keep them alive so I walked past those.

 

  The Amaryllis were all full of buds and very reasonably priced so I chose one...

... and now it is blooming.  It has 2 stalks, each had 4 buds and now the first 4 are open. I measured  one flower and it is 7 1/2 inches across.  

 I don't have much to blog about but I did want to drop in and say HI.

 

As you know, I love all the cute pictures on the internet and can't resist including them here.
I hope you enjoy them too. 

 

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This and That

 

 We did the weekly grocery shopping this morning.  Eldest daughter came at lunch. She made us a living wreath for the front door.

 DH brought out the old sled and propped it up outside and hung some greenery on it. Later I hung some old skates on it as well. 

 Eldest collects miniatures and this fridge is quite something. The attention to detail amazes me.
The little drawers all open, in fact the fridge comes with an assortment of tiny food.  ( If I'm not mistaken the fridge is about 10  inches high.)

 

 

We went downtown yesterday to look for something not all that important and the traffic was terrible. 
We decided to turn around and go back home. We'll get what we need after Christmas. ( The grocery store at 7:30 AM was not busy though.) Do you have all those last minute things?

 

 

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