We had weekend visitors!

💕 Happily, we expected the kids. We were having a sleepover! I'd asked for help rehanging the wood duck nesting box. You'll recall I took it down, with great effort, over several days, ready to move it. [More work to do!] I'd walked the perimeter of the property in snowshoes, and found the only likely tree away from the frogpond. The wetland is wet with our warm temperatures. I'll bet the ducks return home sooner rather than later.

We hauled it down on the sled, with the ladder, and the drill. We are ready to go. 

What a lovely day! It was so nice to see the sun.

This old sled, still sits by the tree. I'd found it in the wetland one year when the wetland was frozen, not wet! I've been leery these days. Winterlude in Ottawa isn't exactly Waterlude, but we haven't had cold enough temperatures for people to skate.

Next, we watched Jeopardy. Josee kept score for us. Caitlin was the hands down winner! 

After watching two Jeopardy shows we'd taped, we watched some old YouTube kidlet videos Chromecast on the TV!

We had a concert.

Cinnamon was confused. He took off!

duet from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.

It was a yummy dinner. I'd watched them create a Potato Bacon Roses dish on a talk show <= click there for the recipe. You slice potoatoes thinly, sprinkle olive oil and seasonings on them, lay them out on a couple pieces of bacon, roll 'em up and bake in a muffin tin. My SIL and I made that. It took an army. He prepared carrots, green beans and beef tenderloin on the BBQ. It was wonderful! 

Dessert was wee Valentine cupcakes JB picked up. Mini ones! Just yummy, although there was one missing. Snitched whilst working hard at making us dinner! 

On the way back to the house, an Isabella caterpillar.