Jul 28, 2007

Hay bales - Mom!

Just a message to my Mom to say the giant hay bales are all done on Marys land now!!! Just a few days late for your pictures.....but I will go up there tomorrow and take some pictures!

Dinner tonight..........


Lloyd decided that me detoxing quite so strictly was not a good idea because of my migraines...and he told me I HAD to have some protein with dinner......so he made me this gorgeous salad......I ran out and picked some cherry tomatoes to go with it - fresh from the garden.....and the eggs are from our chickens of course :)

I must admit that there was a bit too much cheddar for my liking so while he wasn't looking I threw quite of bit of the cheese on his plate ;) but apart from that it was perfect!

Thank you Lloyd......it was delicious :)

Hot...

Its too hot outside.....so we are waiting inside until later and then will go outside and have a fire in the fire pit and relax out there.....

Interesting fact:

In Winnipeg 90% of homes have air conditioning. In Edmonton, less than 5% have air conditioning!

I have a feeling that percentage in Edmonton is going to shoot up over the next few years!

We sat out for a while on the porch until the Sun was fully on the porch and then we had to come inside for a while......at least it gives me a cvhance to catch up with pictures on the blog!

Our BIG BIG news!!!!

Sam hsa not had a do-do (soother/ dummy) since the time he woke up on Thursday morning!!! And he's barely asked for it - maybe a handful of times and when he does we just remind him that he broke them and put them in the garbage!

He had started biting them to the point that it was dangerous....so when he bit one in half I had him put it in the garbage himself and he did - so I just remind him that they are gone and he is fine :)

I am stunned because this is a boy who until Thursday would whine for his dodo frequently :)

Yay - that means all of mine have given them up at the age of 2.....Sam had his the longest by six months but no more do-do's :)

Watermelon Heaven...





Charlie enjoys some slices of Watermelon on the porch...but just like us she doesn't like the skin!

Charlie-Barley cools off......




31c is just too much for Charlie so she cooled off in another of the little 'pools' we have around the place for her and the dogs....

Abby-Banana......






On the porch this afternoon......

detox....

Home again from Costco...we stocked up HUGELY with fresh fruit and veg...we have eaten so much junk over the last few weeks.....eating out too often...eating on the run......that I really feel yucky! So I am going to do a detox....eating nothing today and tomorrow but raw fruit and veggies.....and drinking lots of water.....

I just had a zucchini salad for lunch......I have never thought to eat zucchini raw before but after watching Jamie make his salad the other day I thought I'd try it......YUM!!!

And I bought a huge bag of clementines too and they are just so sweet - almost too sweet...we bought mangoes....apples, grapes, plums, bananas, raspberries, as well as all the vegetables we bought....so I am all set to just eat fruit for a couple of days....of course I have to still take my meds so it isn't a complete detox but the best I can do lol!

I got all my pictures delivered...they came out well....sadly Susies didn't come out well - out of 15 pictures only 5 came out.....she used the whole film up inside with no flash......so they all came out too dark.....what a shame as I ahd planned to take her to the store to get scrapbooking supplies for her zoo pics.....so I think I will take pictures of her and her friend this week and print them off and they can scrapbook those instead....

After Costco Lloyd had to run to Home Depot, so I strolled around Michaels and got some great craft kits reduced to 75c each!!! So plenty of activities to keep the children busy if we ever get a rainy day!

Tomorrow I think we are going to Miquelon....to the lake for a while :) no doubt it will be busy as its the weekend and its hot but we are really only going just to see where it is and what its like - if we like it then I will take the kids for the day during the week......have a picnic and swim.....I've never been swimming in a lake before :)

Saturday.....

Lazy start to the day...coffee in bed...watched the breakfast news....Lloyd is burning some pics onto cd so I can take them to Costco for printing...Susie is having her camera printed too.....a disposable....I am hoping for some good pictures to scrapbook.......and some to send to relatives....Lloyd promised his Grandad some pictures......

Its another hot day here...31 I think they say...yesterday was 31 too......we spent the evening on the porch - I read a lot.....then we went out on the quad bike for a while...stayed outside until the sun was going down.....hot the ball for the dogs when we got back from their walk......oh and then we got the golf clubs out and hit some balls....Laurie and Sam joined in.......I am so crap at golf lol but Lloyd says next year we will get lessons at Northern Bear......geez we live right next to a golf course so we may as well make use of it :) Lloyd hit one ball so hard down towards the road he almost hit a car....bad timing as our road is so quiet but at that moment a car was coming lol! All was well :)

So we are finally off to do a big shop at Costco...we are so out of stuff...have to go!!!!!
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