Everything is growing!

The garden

We've had 4-legged friends by. The garden near the magnolia, I worked so hard building it. It's gone crazy as I have neglected it. I managed it by putting up a fence. You'll recall the dead elm knocked it up a bit. Having the fence meant I didn't weed it much. I checked on it, and I think one of JB's friends got stuck in it, knocking the fence over more, trying to find a way out.

He was after the hosta. I give up!


JB helped me take the fencing down and roll it up. I give up! I don't want Bambie to be stuck in the garden.


Have at it, dude! He's pretty skinny, so he deserves it. One of JB's friends!

After dinner, I heart the barred owl calling a couple of times. Then, the blue jays yelling at it. They haven't nested near us this year. This is an archive photo.

Walkabouts: indoors and out!

BTW – this I bought from the online auction! I quite like it! The violets I grew from two leaves. My father always had African Violets.


The lilacs are nearly done. I wanted to trim the bush, and sent JB in with these for the vase. Now we can see to the backyard!


You are supposed to prune bushes by 25% annually.


Before Monday's rain, I thought I'd go walkies. Hat sprayed with bug spray, long pants, boots. 
 Hooper chose not to go!


The honeysuckle are amazing. They'll produce berries that the cedar waxwings adore.

The flowers!


Then, in the forest... poison oak beside old stumps.


bear evidence


I'd forgotten about the lady slippers, which bloom in June! They are done for the year. Fortunately, I have old photos!

The frog pond is full and lush. I am covered in bug bites.


I've taken an antihistamine as the hives are horrid. I didn't cover up enough. yowsa.

Monday's rain was amazing. We had 20 mm. In the rain, a confused driver! They are sitting half on the left turn lane, as well as our lane.

Make up your mind! from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.

People on our nearby lake have been complaining about boat wake on FB. I'm happy not to be there full time anymore. A lot of people do long swims, or use kayaks, which don't go well with speed boats and jetskis. Summer begins.

What a busy day –a couple near misses, too!

Yes, off we went. It is a 35 minute drive to visit our dentist. Off we went. for our 11:00 a.m. appointments. I was eagerly hoping to see a Snowy owl, like all the rest of the world, and had my zoom lens all hooked up, heavy in my lap. Several people have seen them, one along highway #7, where we were driving, and one in Perth, too.
No owls. Again. Sigh.

About to turn into Carleton Place, to turn left and drive north up highway 29 off of highway #7, the car in front had an issue. S/he couldn't make our turn. We sat and waited behind the car in front of us.
There was a car blocking the northbound lane. Some dippy driver was sitting BESIDE a left turning car (black car), in the correct lane, trying to make a left turn.
We had to sit and wait for the light. Funnily enough, there was an OPP SUV that stopped to talk to her, wondering what the heck she was doing. You can't really see the white car in the first photo, but in the 2nd photo, she does a quickie reverse to get behind the properly turning black car.



 We made it to the dentist.

Quite a snowy day! On the way home driving west to home along Highway #7, another yahoo.

Just before I took the first photo, this guy veered into the oncoming lane, checking to see why they were going so slowly. Of course, the guy with the trailer was slowing down to turn. Heaven forbid red car dude would have to do less than the 120km he'd been doing when he passed us, on a double-yellow line, 5 minutes ago. 

Red car dude speeds up, about to pass the truck in the left turn lane a few metres later, despite the fact that there was a clearly marked passing lane 500m further west. He's tailing the truck. He ran out of a turn lane, or he would have passed him. 

We arrive at the passing lane, which we find frequently all along highway #7, and red care dude speeds along. Another car passes us, the white car, doing 90km in an 80. Two minutes later, doing 90km/hour, we spotted him turning right. He lives in the area, methinks, and was risking our lives showing off. 

Finally, we made it back to Perth, where I had my hair cut, we had lunch at the pub, and we took a deep breath.

Trimmed and a selfie

Christmas is coming!

 We made it home, and I took the cats out for walkies. Sady waited in the window, as she doesn't like the other cats. It was nice stress release after our big drive!

Sady inside her bedroom window, hubbies office!

Grandchildren - and drivers driving at the speed of stupid!

 How joyful to drive into the city to babysit grandkids.

It would have been more joyful if we didn't have to contend with stupid drivers trying to cause an accident. It was 9:00 a.m., and s/he didn't like the driver in front of us doing exactly the speed limit. The car in front of us turned off shortly after, while driving at the posted 60km/hr in Gillies Corners.

Drive safely, someone out there loves us.

Role play: Sleeping Beauty
(Josephine's idea!)

Time for art!

Gobo (hand puppet!) kisses her
 and she wakes. (My idea!)

Grandma's turn. (Josephine's idea!)
Jofee took the photo, too!

Caitlin, her mummy, ADORED puzzles in Day Care.
We'd drop her off, and she'd barely have time to say good by.
She'd head straight for the puzzle table!

Good job. Give yourself a pat-on-the-back!
Jofee shared with me that HER Papa doesn't like it
when she jumps on his stomach!

Meantime, Grampa rocks Izzy to sleep!

Wrong cat. Took him in last week!

The day before was not quite so much fun. Having to get Sady into the vet. Attempt #2! The first attempt we were both scratched and gave up.

I put food in the cat carrier. Of course, Oliver just leaped in. Finished serving #2 of food.
Sady had a bitter pill to swallow. She was very angry being in the carrier. Last time she was in it it was moving day, and it wasn't pretty.

Turns out Sady has a urinary tract infection and needs 'banana medicine', in the form of pills for two weeks.

Day 1: Hid the 1st pill (2 x's/day!) in her food. So far so good. 13 pills to go.
Day 2: The 2nd pill she threw up. Yes, I made Joe look to see if she threw it up. Yup. The next morning pill Joe ground up into her food.
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