Learn to love your dandelions!

No sense in weeding our lawn huh???? lol!
Good job pollinators love them!! Dandelion honey anyone????? ;)

Flowers for Mommy

Sam gave me a bouquet of flowers today so we brought them home and put them in a 'vase'. As you can see, he was just so proud :)

Bertha leaving.....

Bertha leaving on the truck yesterday.....

Dad - she has gone back to have something attached to her underneath - it was supposed to be attached before we got her, but they forgot, so we knew we were getting a belly mower in the Spring so we told them to leave it until then, so they said they'd come get her for free and and do it all now - so we are getting the belly mower and a tiller and they are doing the belly attachment bit......then bringing her back for us :) So no, she isn't sick thankfully! We're getting a rough cut mower and a belly mower - the rough cut mower is for all the prickly stuff like bushes etc so we can cut all the back fields etc that have thorny stuff and not just grass growing in them....the belly mower will be for the lawns.

Coyote...

A not great picture of a coyote that Chris snapped with my camera from the car window on our way home today....it was so close to us but by the time we got the camera ready and the right lens on and Chris had fiddled about with it, the coyote was running off across the field! This was in the field opposite our house...the one with the cows and llamas...

Growing potatoes in buckets

One bucket,larger the better, as you can grow more potatoes,put soil in about 8" deep, put in potatoes about 5" apart,put more soil on top and put more potatoes about 5" apart,and carry on until soil about 2"from top.You could mix fertiliser with the soil,or maybe some of Charlies manure.Keep soil damp,but not soaked,as potatoes like water,maybe drill some holes in base of bucket so to drain off excess water.Let me know how you get on.With all the soil you have you could use a dust bin.Hope you get on OK .I am now going to read the blogs,bye.

Which just goes to show I remembered it wrong! In fact completely wrong!!!! How??????

Thanks Dad!

Funny pictures :)

Head over to Tess's blog bradsmom06.blogspot.com/ and check out the fun pictures from our night out on Friday!!!!!

Oh and by the way Tess - I specifically remember taking a picture of you and Val!!!! so 'fess up girly - where is it????????

Full circle

Abigail now has what Sam had last week. She was up most of the night with her cough and fever and and bad dreams and not being well.

I was hoping she'd be ok to go to drama and I gave her the morning to see how she was, but by late morning she wasn't any better and we gave up and stayed home. It probably did Sam could to have another day to rest at home...his nose is still running like a tap anyway lol! He has preschool tomorrow although half of me wonders why we should bother....not sure he gets much from it....he's not bothered about going and the teachers aren't exactly 'stimulating' shall we say........

I have high ideals when it comes to preschool education lol...and not much lives up to them.....lets just say that my children learn a LOT more at home from me than they do at school and to be honest I don't think that 'socialisation' at that age is vital ;)

They are still keen for me to teach in the Fall here in SCL...and if I do then I can tell you something - my classes will be VERY different to the classes Sam has been attending recently!!

Abby stayed inside this afternoon while Sam and I went for a walk - we headed off into the woods which have grown like CRAZY this last week after all the rain we have had!! It was like a JUNGLE in there!!!

We went down to the beehives but they were quiet - maybe because of the temperature.

Apart from that I've done laundry, washed floors, cleaned the kitchen, the bathrooms, pottered about and checked emails and blogs etc etc and chatted on my bee forum!! Oh and they came and got Bertha!!! Sam enjoyed that! And I chatted via email to Tess!

Hopefully Abby will be better tomorrow and we can go out - Sam can go to preschool and Abby and I can head somewhere together.....no idea where. Weather is supposed to be good from now on so maybe the park or somewhere. Well Lloyd wants to head out for a walk so I am off out for a while. Byeeeeeee :)

Kayaking on the lake....

Yesterday we went kayaking on lake we live close to. A sat in the front with me and spent much of the time paddling for me. She did a great job and had a blast! We saw a lot of wildfowl out there including Sandpipers and Loons. It's one of the best places in the country for seeing Sandpipers.

Dad!!!

Can you send me your 'recipe' for growing potatoes in buckets please!! I was telling people about it today and I just want to be sure I have it exactly right!!!!!

Thank you :)

Susan!

Samantha is just soooo beautiful!!! And that dress is gorgeous on her!!! Just stunning!

I use my Sobeys bags everywhere I go - all the time in Safeway and they don't mind at all in there so go ahead and use your bag :)

I can't wait until June 1st so I can comment on your blog again :)

Head over to 'Its My Blog' to check out Susan's gorgeous li'l gal in her Summer dress :) So sweet :)

Just born....

One of our butterflies just 'hatched' from it's chrysalis.....note it's curly tongue! hop on over to our homeschool blog to check out our other pictures....

Full bloom

Lloyds little friend

Lloyd found a little friend on the Crab apple blossom yesterday. Cute huh? He named it Syd little. By the way Val and Tess - this friend is NOT a tosser ;) - and he is welcome to store his boat in my workshop all winter long ;) Oh AND he can come visit as often as he likes!!! Mind you HE isn't likely to ignore me completely, make offensive comments about breastfeeding or about women in general or just be a completely jerk!. Nope definitely NOT a tosser ;)

I love you Lloyd - even if your friends are dorky :)

Thought I should add that the reason for my rant is because after storing his boat and jetski all winter long for him, Lloyds charming friend (gggrrrr) came over to get it last week. I was watering the strawberries not 10 metres away....hard to miss lol....I smiled and waved.....he didn't even acknowledge me...no smile, no hello......no how are you Jane?....didn't even bother to look my way. I mean what the hell am I???? Hired help?????????? Its my house and workshop too you know......It was me that let him store his stuff for free all winter long too you know.....How rude and obnoxious is that??????

JERK.

My weekend

My weekend catch-up!! Friday turned out to be so much fun! Well, it started out to be hellish! Sam wasn't well Friday morning. He screamed ALL morning! About ants! Normally he loves bugs of all kinds. He catches them, cares for them. Watches them. But after he hallucinated about them the other night, he hasn't liked them at all. So Friday morning he saw an ant in the kitchen and started freaking out. Refused to walk on the floors. Refused to sit at the table. Refused to go anywhere. Cried and screamed. Wanted to be carried EVERYWHERE. Would not let me leave him alone. Even had Abby carrying him. Just screamed constantly.

In the end I had to just leave him on the bed crying for a few minutes while I had a break for a shower. I just needed a break. By lunchtime I managed to get him to come outside. He refused to get dressed but he did ut some shoes on and come outside. By 2pm he was willing to come and look at the ant hills and by the time Lloyd came home he was fine and back down by the hives with me and had forgotten his fears thank GAWD!!!!!

I was exhausted by then though!!! Definitely needed a night out!!!

And what a night out it was lol!!!!

Val picked me up at 5pm and we headed in to town. Met Tess at 5:45pm at the scrapbook store and we headed to the big yard sale at Clover Bar Ranch. All our plans had changed because we had found out that day that the yard sale was a week earlier than normal. It's normally the last weekend in May! Oh well -w e all wanted to go so that was fine! We got there just after 6pm and didn't leave until 9pm!!! It's a whole subdivision (new housing estate) of garage sales (like car boot sales but out of their garages) and you walk from one to the other all evening.

It wasn't as good as normal as not many houses had sales but we still managed to find bargains and had so much fun chatting and looking. I think Tess thinks I'm a little bit crazy - she laughed at one point and said she was a little bit scared to see me drunk!!! Hahahaha! Thankfully Val is used to my wacky sense of humour and just tends to roll her eyes ;)

I got plenty of books (at least enough to annoy Lloyd with). I also found a lovely white rocking chair for the front porch ($10!!!!) and a dish thing for strawberries....not sure what you'd call it - but it is shaped like a basket but its china and it has strawberries in a design around it. Val says its very me :) and that was 50c :)

After the yard sale we went to East Side Marios and had dinner and Bellini's it was a lovely evening! I had such a fun evening - so lovely to spend the evening with Val and Tess! Thanks so much both of you for coming out! And thank you for sharing the funnel cake with me - that was amazingly delicious!!!! YUM!!!! :)

We have to do it again soon! Charlynn!! Cori!!! Sharon!!! And anyone else Everyone else!!! You should all come and join us :)

Off to have dinner and then I'll write about Saturday!!! :)

Taking it home....

This is a bit of a dig at a certain post on LP...but yet another reason I'm glad we have the Expedition! I think the kayak would look a bit silly on a little car!!! And with the amount of junk and dirty paddles and everything else we cart back in the back of this vehicle, it gets a LOT of use :) Some people just don't have a clue!

By the way I though 'luv to scrap' meant 'luv to scrapbook' duh at me!!!! It obviously means 'luvs to scrap ie fight!!!!