Yes! Go Oilers Go!!!

Woohoo, the Oilers are going to win this @#$^#@^$ - yay in overtime they scored!!!! Which means they are heading back to Rexall for another game against the 'Canes......and there is NO WAY we can let them win the cup in OUR town :)

My tiredness just got worse and worse through the day and this evening I feel horrid.....I've been curled up on the bed watching the hockey match. Lloyd brought me a cup of tea and a bar of Toblerone to make me feel better (love him so much!) but I still feel yucky. I have Susannahs cold now.....Laurie thinks he does too and poor Susie has gone through a box of tissues this evening! I hope we didn't give our germs to R and family! I think Sam is feeling ill too as he has been soooo miserable all day and hasn't slept at all!

We had a lovely afternoon. I took Laurie to the store to get soem cookies and treats for everyone. We saw two geese with their babies crossing the road.

Our local store is AWFUL.....it's a tiny country store......sells the basics at ridiculously high prices...so high that no one buys anything ...which means everything goes out of date...you HAVE to check every date on the things they sell.....They only had 5 packets of cookies (not 5 kinds but 5 packets!!!) and 4 of those were out of date!!!! Like March this year!! Lloyd picked up a packet fo cornflakes there a couple of months back dated summer 04!!!!!! Anyway, I spent $6 on a packet of grotty oatmeal cookies.....a brand I've never seen before...but they were the only ones not out of date.

R came over with her three children. We got the playdoh out, they made paper bag puppets and played on the trampoline, watched some of Chicken Little and just pottered about while R and I chatted and played playdoh :)

Laurie spent the day pottering in the workshop taking his bikes apart and building things.....Chris arranged his voluntary work at the museum......he also arranged his training program for his voluntary work at the library.

R and I were discussing whether you should buy hard backed books or paperbacks (paperbacks for fiction and hardbacks for non fiction OBVIOUSLY!!! lol!) and whether you should read magazines in the bath! (Yes!!!)

She also told me that her DD has been calling everyone 'Idiot'. I was thrilled to hear this!!! My child is NOT the only one after all :) Abigail spent last summer calling everyone an idiot.....we had a gate between our yard and our neighbours yard so that the girls could go backwards and forwards to play......but Abby would call their DD an idiot constantly so would get sent home.....she'd wait a while and go back but five minutes later get sent home again :)

She grew out of it thankfully....although now has just learnt to talk to people as if they are idiots rather than actually calling them idiots lol! She gets that from her oldest Brother I'm sure ;)

Well, Lloyd has finished driving the garbage down to the end of the driveway so I can go and collapse in bed for an early night hopefully......and please please let me get a GOOD LONG nights sleep!

Today I am thankful for:

1. The Oilers winning and getting another chance to bring the cup home!

2. The space ship S made for Sam!

3. A fun afternoon with our guests :)

4. A cooler day than the 27 they forecast this morning.....although we could have done without the grey skies!

5. The wonderful pile of magazines I was given today...can't wait to have time to curl up and read them all!

6. Tea and Toblerone in bed this evening :)

7. Not having to cook tonight :) Lloyd picked up a rotisserie chicken, some potato wedges and a bag of salad :)

8. Bedtime......I need sleep!

Rocket Man!

R's Daughter S brought a gift over for Sam today....a rocket ship!!!! She had made it out of a cardboard box!!! Sam thinks its very cool and has been playing in it a lot since! At first he got in backwards but I think he was a little nervous about flying into space so preferred not to look out of the windo and see all the planets!!!

Firey skies and white tailed deer.

The first week we lived here I got up and went to make coffee in the kitchen. As the kettle was boiling I looked out of the kitchen window and there on the grass outside, about 2 metres away, was a beautiful white-tailed deer.....it was chewing the grass and then slowly walked around the house and down the hill to the pond. It stopped for a drink in the pond and then walked off into our woods. It was wonderful! Lloyd was in a meeting so I couldn't call him - so I called Mum in England instead and she was as excited as me :)

The other pictures are of the amazing sunsets we get at the front of the house most evenings and also of one of the old gates that are dotted about our land.....I think they are lovely and when we take the fences down I will keep the gates and grow things over them.....

My favourite place to be.

This is Capeside. Our home for 8 months already...but it feels so much like home that I feel like we have been here forever.....it felt like home as soon as we walked through the doors....or even into the driveway! These are quite old pictures really...from the Fall and winter......

Our house from the road...through the Fall leaves.

A close up of our house taken last October.

Our house from the driveway in the Fall as the leaves started to turn...this slope is actually steep enough to be a pretty good sledding hill in winter!! At the bottom is our pond...we find coyote foot printes across the ice in winter and in summer it is filled with life....and noisy frogs :)

Our home in the snow......it was so pretty!

This black and white picture is one I named 'The Divide'.....its taken at the rear of our land and is the fence between our land and our neighbours land.

Too little sleep

I didn't sleep very much at all last night.....I can barely keep my eyes open this morning....I ache all over and feel about 80! I was so hot and couldn't get comfortable...my stomach hurt and my mind wouldn't switch off.......at 3am I was fed up so I was sat in the bedroom window looking out to see if Lloyds apple core had gone.....he threw an apple core out last night to see if it would be gone by this morning...

Lloyd has been emailing me throughout his meeting this morning...I love that he has his blackberry now and we can chat so much :)

Christopher stayed up late last night and finished Tuesdays with Morrie....he said it is a book that has changed him....which is a good thing....until he said he isn't interested in money any more....of course Laurie and I laughed - obviously the WRONG thing to do.....Chris is over tired and decided we are all horrible and mean to him....oops.....bed early tonight!!!! He's now watching the World Cup soccer matches on tv.

R is coming over this afternoon with her three children. S is around the same age as Susannah and they get on really well. The boys school friends have stayed in touch but Susies haven't so I know she needs new friendships to grow.......she likes S a lot.

I hope I wake up more before they arrive...when I'm this tired I'm a little brain dead and can't think what to say.....

CK magazine was good this month and has made me want to scrapbook again...maybe I will do some tomorrow. Maybe a trip to the scrapbook store is in order....it's been months!

It's supposed to get to 27c today but it's grey and cloudy right now as we are on the edge of storms to the south of us....maybe it will warm up later...we still haven't had a really good thunder storm yet this year......

Laurence has been in the workshop all morning taking apart his two bikes....switching tyres etc etc and taking apart the old video recorder...Lloyd said he could have anything in the barn and take it apart and build whatever he wants......

The girls are building things with Lego...elevators and penguins and various things.....they were out playing with the dogs earlier.....and heard coyotes so Abigail came in and drew a picture of a coyote.....she asked me how many legs they have and said she is bored with drawing animals that have four legs...so she gave the coyote 8 legs instead.......

I think I need breakfast. Most week days I have dry oatmeal (uncooked) mixed with two pots of apple sauce and 3 tablespoons of hemp hearts....I love it and it stops me getting hungry for ages........and the hemp hearts give you energy.....in fact maybe I will have an extra tablespoon today...I could do with some extra energy today ;)