Bribery with sausages.......

My girls....Amber and Rosie........Amber is 'blowing coat' right now......meaning all her white under fur is coming out.....you can see in the pictures the big lumps of loose white fur coming through her golden outer coat........you groom her and then its there again....and my yard is covered in little wads of white soft fur...................

For anyone ever considering a golden...these are the things you need to know BEFORE you get one........they don't just shed the odd hair...once or twice a year they 'blow coat- and lose big lumps of under fur.......all over your house!!!!! You can groom and groom but its there..........if you are overly house proud or don't have time for regular grooming, then they aren't the dog for you............

I don't mind....they're worth it :)

In the pictures above they are watching Lloyd who has a plate of sausages for them.....naughty really but they get so much exercise it shouldn't matter lol! And it was a great way to get them to be together for a picture!!!

Strippers!!!!!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/norfolk/5275506.stm


What a cool old lady.........a stripper for her 102nd birthday!!!!

And what a fab nursing home to do that for her!!!

Playing outside and cooling off................

We spent the afternoon outside enjoying the lovely hot day.........

Limbo dancing..........................

The children had a blast this afternoon cooling off under the sprinkler and hose............they played limbo for ages......I love watching them play.......they play so well together..........I love how homeschooling has brought them close as siblings................it was 29c today..........a storm is coming in now to cool things down which will be good :) No hay bale pics today though....maybe tomorrow night.....................

procrastinating............again...............

We got these trees at the Canada Day festival in town...they are given away in celebration of Arbor Day..........well they have been sitting in mugs on my kitchen window ever since and I kept meaning to repot them.......today finally we did! Susannah helped me get them done and now they are ready to grow a little more in their post inside over the winter before we plant them with Christophers in the front field.................

Another job I can cross off of the to-do list yay!!!

Swainsons Hawk.............

We get a lot of birds of prey flying over our house but they are often too fast for me to get my camera, change lense and get ready to take the picture.....Laurie saw this Hawk coming over from the back though so I had time to get organized..............By the time I was ready it was hovering above the house and front yard circling....such grace............................beautiful.......

These Hawks were named after William Swainson who was an early 19th Century British illustrator of natural history................

In Memory....Robert Barrington-Leigh............

I'm lost for words and so, so sad.

A quote from the website:

Dear friends,
Robert was found dead in the N Saskatchewan River at ~11:00 a.m. this morning and identified by police around midday.

We are holding a vigil for volunteers and community tonight at 8:30 p.m. at the Mill Creek Pool Parking lot, in order to give our appreciation for the amazing outpouring of support this week.

Thank you.

silly me....................

I really should have checked for electric fencing before I peed......

My lightbulb moment..............

I figured out why I blog so much.....apart from my obsessional personality lol........blogging is my new scrapbooking! I used to scrapbook sooooo much (I over-filled 16 albums in one year) but I often left spaces for journaling that I never got around to doing...plus I got bored with it all as I often do lol! But blogging is scrapbooking!!! Except its fast and easy and I can instantly do the journaling and instantly share my pictures and journaling with family and friends far away..........and scrapbooks take up so much room........

Blogging is the new scrapbooking :)

For me at least!

bye bye Monday..............

Last nights sunset...........

Todays Abby-ism................

Abigail was lying in bed beside me this morning, all sleepy..........she looked over at the clock, which said 8:37 and then groggily said ' Oh I'm a bit late for Family Guy...it starts at 8' and with that she rolled over and out of bed and went downstairs.................

Its going to be 29c today and Abigails choice of outfit is a bumblebee Halloween costume.......perfect!!

Its Tuesday!

Chris should be at work. We should be at the homeschool picnic and park day...but here we are at home.......Chris has swapped his work day for Thursday and we arranged with friends to meet for a picnic another day instead of today........I'm not sure any of us are in the mood for group stuff today.....

My neighbours hay was baled yesterday so this evening I plan to take pictures of the kids by them........I want them all dressed fairly similar....blue jeans and white t-shirt...............casual pics in the evening light..........we'll see if we can get Chris to smile.....he doesn't like having his picture taken much...typical teen that doesn't smile often lol!

My blog notebook was busy this morning.......what did I write down? hhmmmmmm Air Canada is starting a direct route to London Heathrow from Edmonton this October........3 days a week and then daily from April.......their cheap company Zoom does a direct flight in the summer but not all year...so this is a good thing....might mean my sister will finally fly!

Tomorrow is my Nephews 5th birthday. He had his party on Saturday at an indoor playground. Abigail will phone him tomorrow to say hello and Happy Birthday.............

I just love the music on the commercial for Rice Krispies...the one where the mom is making Rice Krispy cakes with her two little girls...what kind of music is that????? Anyone have a recommendation?????

Everything else I wrote is for another post!

My little handyman.......

Laurie did great putting these drawers together for Christie...................he's learnt a lot from helping Lloyd in the workshop and building the downstairs bedroom and helping with bookcases etc etc........

Sam wanted to help but was a little too eager!!!

Every picture a name.......

My camera card holds 500 picturs and I have a habit of filling it quickly......I like to have room to taker pictures when necessary so I have to get my pictures off the card and onto the laptop as quickly as possible....but as Christie learnt today, I have an obsessive personality lol and I have to name each and every picture...I have to go through each picture and decide whether to save it and then I have to give them eacha different name so I know which ones I want to print, which ones go in which blog post and which ones to email etc etc........

So I may have a folder for splashpark...in that will be
Abby nice
Abby nice best
Abby nice best1
Abby best nice2 etc etc all the way up to 9 and then
Abby nice best 99
Abby nice best 999

Abby best best

You get the idea lol! Yep I don't make things easy on myself......................so I have 500 pictures from yesterday and today to sort through........................Its a really boring job......I think I'll do some later...I;'m going outside to join Lloyd by the fire........

Oh and many of todays paintball pictures I can't blog because Abby only had underwear on.......I kept asking her to go put some clothes on for pictures and finally at the end of the afternoon she put a tshirt on so she could shoot the gun!!!

Ooops I missed......................

Our aim at shooting wasn't always the best and the house, garage and porch managed to get hit lol! It looks like someone has vomited pepto bismol all over my house but I kind of don't want to wash it off yet because it reminds me we had so much fun today!!!!

And this was actually our target.........a chest of drawers for Christies boys bedroom.....I think it looks really cool and it's extra special because my Son Laurnece built the drawers all by himself and then decorated them with paintballs! Very cool :)

He had so much fun Christie thank you SOOOOOOO MUCH!!!!
Of course now he wants paintball guns for his birthday :)
I don't think he will forget today for along long time!