Friday, December 30, 2016

Friday, December 23, 2016

Wishing you a Very Merry Christmas and a Lovely New Year!

The cake still isn't made but here it's still Friday ..so I have a day to get it done! Most of the pressies are safely purchased ..now just a couple of things to get and some wrapping to do.
The car decided to smoke this morning ...electrical fire anyone... and then the truck decided 5 degrees was too cold ..unfortunately it decided this right in the middle of an icy and busy intersection and had to be towed home .....my poor OH .... and as a finale I have poured rather hot water over my hand ..ouch...still we have a warm house, lots of nice yummy Christmas food and it's the start of the Christmas break. I think we shall have to watch A Christmas Carol and fight the cats and the dog for a place on the sofa.
Wishing you all a Warm, dry, safe and Happy Christmas !





Wednesday, December 21, 2016

Monday, December 12, 2016

Eight lives left.....

You know that moment (well hopefully you don't) when you've turned the dryer on and the load of wet laundry makes a thumping sound as if a trainer was in there by mistake.
I stared at it for a second ..puzzled ..I surely didn't load anything that would thump...so still puzzled I stopped the dryer and opened the door..and I was very glad I did.

Out shot Tinker ...that was a close call..I normally check before I shut the door..

Anyway thankfully no harm done and she has been especially affectionate since ...so she either thinks I'm dangerous and she needs to keep om my good side or I'm her rescuer?

Anyway much relief that she's Ok ...Much checking every time I load the dryer and I'd say One life definitely
used up!

Saturday, December 10, 2016

Cats and a Sock!

 Breakfast?.......Now please
 Wood stove appreciation
 Ditto
 18 ? Next Birthday..even my brain is cold this morning ...darn it.
 Daughter's  first sock ..clever lass...
 Cuddling across the generations
What do you do when it's really cold out and the whole family has colds and coughs?
You post photos of the cats enjoying the wood stove and the older daughters first sock ! clever girl ..the knitting skills comes from Granny Not Me (shame but there you go)

Thursday, December 1, 2016

December the 1st

And it snowed last night....and as it is the 1st of December I'm beginning to feel Christmas'sy so that means Beatrix Potter and the Tailor of Gloucester...enjoy


from an old gravestone

If you hold your nose to the Grindstone
and you leave it there long enough,
Then soon you'll say
there's no such things
as brooks that babble
and birds that sing,
these three will all your world compose,
just you, the stone and your poor old nose.

(from memory so may not be word perfect)