August

It's August already, where has this Summer gone?   Today is starting out nice and sunny, we had a heavy shower yesterday, so time to go out and pull some weeds from the flower beds.  They seem to grow no matter what the weather.

The dark purple clematis is covered with blooms, holding the plant is place with extra  wood and some heavy string.  Last year it produced only a few blooms, a lovely display this year.

Finished the quilt for my youngest great granddaughter recently, however, have to wait for my long arm quilter to return from her vacation so I can get it quilted, then I can bind it and gift it.  It's cute, with elephant's appliqued on it, not my favourite thing to do, however, not such a problem using the sewing machine to blanket stitch around the design, after fusing it down.  I will post photo's when it is all finished.

My late Mother was in a nursing home in a small town facility, earlier this year I made a scrap quilt which they auctioned off to raise funds for activities for the residents.   I am going to make another in time for Christmas, so it can be auctioned to raise additional funds.  Just my way of donating to the home.  Going to purchase the fabric I need tomorrow, Christmas season will be here before we know it, so better get it started.

My youngest granddaughter, (17 years), this Summer is attending a flying school, run through the Air Cadet program.  On the weekend she did a three and half hour solo cross country flight.  Glad I knew after the fact, or I would be worrying. So proud of her.

Well, like I said, gardening to do before it get too hot, so bye for now.

Have a wonderful day.




Patricia

Baby quilt

On Wednesday, granddaughter #2 and her family came for a visit.  She has five children, lovely family, and I love each and every one of them, but I have never seen such busy individuals, the only one who was quiet was the baby. 

Earlier in the day we had had our lawn fertilized and weed killer applied so did not want them to play outside on the lawn, don't know what chemicals are in those two lawn treatments.   It had also rained earlier in the day so everything was wet, thus the reason for them being in the house.

A bowl of ice cream kept them busy for awhile and they looked at some books.  I have crayons and paper, but no time for that this visit.

I gave the baby her quilt, I have given quilts to all the other great grandchildren, a photo of Vayda's is attached.   Made from Winnie the Pooh fabric I used  
the one block wonder technique..

Have a wonderful day.

Patricia

Senior???

On Tuesday this week I went to a local garden centre to purchase some Privet to repair our hedge.   It was a rainy miserable cold day, up to my eyeballs in soaking wet wood chips that had been laid down to sop up the water, but I did get two plants which we thought would be enough. Took them to the cash out counter and paid for them.  

That evening we decided two more were needed, so back to the garden center yesterday.     A better day weather wise, but still soggy underfoot, I picked up two more plants and again took them to the counter to pay for them.

The young girl rang in my purchase and told me the price.   "How come these cost me more than the ones I bought yesterday" I said, "They are the same variety of plant"  She proceeded to tell me, "Yesterday was seniors day, you got a discount".   "I am still a senior today, can I get the  discount?"  I said.   Well, all the staff started laughing, thought my response was priceless.   The cashier then said "You still get the one year guarantee".    "That's fine," I said, "But I may not be here in a year".  More laughter. 

One of the staff, said that I made her day.

Laughter is the best medicine, so they say.

Have a great day.


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Pinch, Punch the first of the month

May 1st, however, we have been forecast April showers again, but warmer temps, so hope Mother Nature, get this rain out of her system.

No flooding where I live, however, many parts of Easter Canada are under metres of water, cannot imagine what it is like to have your house filling up with water, and knowing there is nothing you can do to protect your property.

Last night I went out to dinner with "girls" I use to work with, nice to catch up on what they are doing now.  All but two of them are also now retired, the two who are still working will be either looking for a new job or retiring soon. Apparently the building that has been the head office of the company we worked for has now been sold and in two years a lease on the office space they now occupy will expire.  The company has been on a down hill slid for many years, so surprised it is still in business.   The company has offices in the U.S. and in Canada, and when the Canadian portion of the business was sold to the U.S. a lot of the jobs were transferred to the U.S. office.   The years since then has seen more and more of the jobs being done in the U.S.  Sign of the times.

My sewing machine is currently being cleaned and given a tune up, so no sewing being done at the present time.   Time to clean up the sewing room.  Found some UFO's that should be finished, they are first on the to do list when I get the machine back, in the mean time fabric to be sorted, magazines to be gotten rid of and a general  de clutter.  Where does all this stuff come from, I swear it multiplies over night.

Going back to my heading, did you ever say that when you were a child?

Have a wonderful day.



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Shrubs....equals hard work

The home that I now live in has, or I should say HAD, very mature (read, old, bent and straggly bits of trunks and green spikes)  shrubs.

 On the weekend, we cut down and dug up the roots, (not an easy task for two 77 year olds)  of the above mentioned shrubs.   They  had been in the ground for many years and looked plain ugly, so it was time for new ones.

As the title suggests, it was had work, but all seven shrubs and roots are now at the compost depot.  The front of the house looks bare and quite frankly quite a mess, as we were not able to tidy it up too much due to the change in the weather,  rain again.  So, that part of the job will have to wait until next weekend.

In the mean time we have taken a photo of the area we want to re-forest, so to speak, and intend to take it to a garden centre and get some ideas as to what type of  shrubs. we should plant.

More hard work in the future.

As we were working on this task, DM (Darling Man) asked, why are we doing this?  I said, because we can.   As noted above we are both in our 78th  year, and thankfully healthy, but we never know when that can change, so right now, we do this,  because we can.   We had aches and pains Monday, today Tuesday we are both fine.   My Mother, passed away in March, in her 102nd year, she was often asked what made her live to such a ripe old age.    The answer was always, hard work.........  look out 101 here we come.

Have a wonderful day.


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Day almost over and no post!

It is getting dark and have not yet posted today, so here I am.

Up early to the garage as I had my snow/winter tires off and the Summer ones put on, an oil change and a couple of other things that needed to be done so that I can keep driving my Chrysler 300.  It's a nice car and I like driving it, so try to keep ahead of any problems.  One of these days it will have to go.  Home for lunch, the garage took longer than I had expected.

I had to take my sewing machine in for a check up, it was making a noise around the bobbin area, and it also need a good cleaning underside that area.   I feel as if I have lost a friend.  The table in the sewing room looks so bare without the machine on it.   Apparently the shop is not too busy so should have it back by Tuesday next week.   Time to tidy the sewing room...note to self....job for Saturday.

Grocery shopping, I don't mind doing it, just wish I could find something different to cook.  It seems that the same things end up in my cart every time I shop.   Have you counted how many times you handle the items you buy.

1. Take it off the shelf and into cart.
2. Take it out of the cart and put on conveyer.
3. Pack your bags and put in your cart.
4. Take bags in car.
5, Take bags out of car.
6. Unpack bags and put items in fridge, cupboard.
7. Take out items to cook.

Do you like grocery shopping

Not going to wish to a wonderful day......its almost over.



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Beauty Parlor

Today it was time to get my hair cut, you know those days when you can't do anything with it, well yesterday was that day.

I have always had a woman cutting my hair, and when I moved to London, I had to find a new one to cut my hair.   Found one close by and have been going to her for a couple of years.  However, she did not have a very good personality and during the last few times did not appear to wanting to give me a good hair cut.   In view of that I looked for another salon, and went there five weeks ago as a "walk in".   Apparently, the owner is the only one who does short hair cuts, so made an appointment for it to be done that day.  The owner was a man, and to tell you the truth I have never had such a nice hair cut. 

As I said before, today was the day for another "treatment at the beauty parlor"  read hair cut.   Again, he took almost an hour cutting my hair, now my hair is short to begin with so he did not have much to deal with.  Apparently I have a lot of "cowlicks" in my hair so it is difficult to make it go where you want it to, and he explained to me how to brush and dry my hair so it will look like what he just did.   Well!  we shall see..


Do you have a woman or man cut your hair?


Have a wonderful day.


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