Day 229

I was sitting in the yard when this freaky bug landed on the sunflower beside me. I have never seen anything like it. It folded up its wings and I swear it looked like a Transformer. It was totally weird.

Look at the choppers on this guy!

Day 207

Today I made a few mini cupcakes for Wally to bring to work.

When Wally got home from work, he brought home this monstrosity. It is an old promo poster for a line of hamster cages they carry at the store, and don't need anymore. He thought the boys would enjoy it so it's now hanging on the back room wall for a few months.

Day 193

This morning I was sitting by the front window when out of the corner of my eye, I thought I saw something white run across my front lawn. I took a look and saw a shih-tzu running around. I went out to try and catch him, and just as I had him cornered between the side of my house, the backyard fence and the cat run, I heard a little meow, and out of the bushes along my house comes a little kitten who starts purring rubbing up against my leg. I was so shocked that the dog took the opportunity to make his escape, and I grabbed the cat and brought him inside. He'll stay for the night, but in the morning he'll be off to the store with my husband to find a new home.

Day 154

This morning when I work up, Ryan eagerly greeted me with a piece of paper and said:

"Here Mom, I drew you a picture"
"Oh thank you!"
"It's you! You're all stinky because you didn't take a shower yet."
"Oh...and who's that? *I point to the other stick figure*"
"That's me! I'm sticking out my tongue going "Bllleeehhhh!!" because you smell so bad"

 

Kids...they just warm the cockles of your heart, don't they?

I also took a drive out to a little dutch store way out in the country. On the way there I passed this tiny little cemetary on the side of the road in the middle of nowhere with 5 graves. There isn't a town, or a church, or anything near by. Makes you wonder why these graves are here...

This one reads:

John McMillar(n?)

Died

Oct. 3, 18--

Aged 85 years

& 11 months

which is quite a remarkable age for the 1800's

This one reads:

In memory of

George Campbell

a native of

---agh, Ireland

Died May 25

1857

Aged 57 years

Day 133

I wanted to take a nice close-up picture of a dandilion, but when I uploaded it, it came out a little dark. I put it through the auto adjust function of my photo program, I got this. I love the funky blue background, so I saved it this way :)

I planted my wild garlic garden today and surrounded it by 2 big ostrich ferns. Not much longer until the leaves die off of the garlic plants and the flowers bloom, only then will I know for sure if it has taken to it's new home.

I also dug up 2 of these gorgeous flowers I found in the woods. I thought they were pitcher plants at first, but it turns out they are called Jack in the Pulpits, and you can eat the root bulbs. Apparently they taste like turnips, which doesn't appeal to me, and I couldn't destroy this beautiful plant just for a taste of it's tiny bulb.

For supper I made bacon carbonara with fiddleheads and some of the wild garlic, and for dessert, a lemon poppy seed loaf.

Day 122

We made our first big purchase from Kijiji today. We've missed a bunch of really good meat specials at the grocery store lately because we just didn't have room in our freezer, so we decided to try to find a bigger second hand deep freezer for a cheap price. We picked this one up in the next town over for $60. Not a bad score I think :)

Going through town to get the freezer, I spotted this on somebody's lawn. Um...ok?

Around dinner time, Wally and I went to look at the gardens outside. He sat on the porch for a second and suddenly yelled out "Babe! Go get it! Run! Go get it!" I looked at him all confused and half paniced thinking to myself "Go get what?" Then I see what he is looking at and follow his eyes to the end of the driveway where a big turtle was trying to go into the puddle/pothole at the end of our driveway. I ran over and grabbed him because I didn't want him to get hit by a car. We've seen smushed turtles on the road before as they have tried to cross over from the lake across the street.

Here's his close-up. This guy really stank. I was surprised at how smelly he was. He also had 2 huge leeches attached to him which we plucked off before we let him go into the lake across the street.

Ryan was fascinated but didn't want to get too close to him after we told him that it could bite his finger right off.

But he did get a kick out of the turtle hissing at us...

After torturing the turtle enough with the camera, we took him across the street to the lake where he would be safe, and let him go. At least he has a great, crazy story to tell all his turtle friends.