Outside My Window... I'm actually sat on the front porch right now...it's a lovely sunny evening. Lloyd is hitting the baseball for the dogs to go and fetch. I can hear the dogs panting. Kitty is walking about down on the grass with Lloyd. I'm sat on the white wicker love seat. Amber keeps coming over and licking me....slobber.....ewwww lol....she loves me...what can ya do??? ;) The children's bicycles are left where they dropped them earlier..always half way up the driveway.
I am thinking... that I really should have put sunscreen on today - I am VERY red :( I guess I still don't have my head around Summer weather in April!!!! I am slo thinking that I am going to look rather lobster-ish in the swimming pool tomorrow!
I am thankful for...this gorgeous weather - even though we desperately need rain - and the fires burning everywhere - and homes being evacuated are quite clearly telling us so!!! Rain would be lovely please but keep these gorgeous temperatures too!!
From the kitchen...We are in Summer mode - the barbecue has been fired up a lot - my veggie burgers are always on the go....salads, baked potatoes.....eating outside on the back deck......relaxed meals and I haven't used the crock pot since last week some time....I have also been trying out several recipes from the Oh She Glows website and have loved them all so far - and so has everyone I've tried them on :) I find if you don't tell them what is in it until afterwards then they LOVE it and are surprised afterwards - I often have them guess what is in things and they never get it right :)
I am wearing...black soccer shorts, black t-shirt, undies. bare feet. It's HOT :) I'm LOVING it.......OMG I sooooo love Summer :)
I am creating...I'm still crocheting, I'm also working on a few projects to do with outside and Summer....my last ATC swap is about to go off and I'm not signed up for any more at the moment. I probably won't sign up for any more through the Summer unless we get a string of bad weather. Lloyd is off of work right now and I am enjoying hanging out with him and keeping busy - and being outside all the time now the weather is good.
I am going... to a new restaurant with James and Val this week - we're trying out a new fondue restaurant in town!! I'm really looking forward to it!!
I am reading...a book I got for Christmas that I just haven't had a chance to read yet!! I haven't started it yet but tonight is the night. It's the third in a series.
I am hoping...that Susannah gets some good news this week with final confirmation from her school of choice!! It sounds like her interview went really well so I'm hoping she gets the place she wants so much!!
I am hearing... the magpies in the wood down by the roadside, and the red-winged blackbird over by the bird feeder....the dogs panting....the frogs down in the pond....and the distant rumble of the grouse drumming...Sam giggling inside the house through the window behind me...
Around the house...Lloyd is home for a while now and is busy working through his list of jobs to do around the house. Unfortunately when Lloyd is home I tend not to do very much as I switch in to 'weekend mode' and just want to relax!! So I am trying to work through that!! Luckily he has had a few meetings to go to and so I make the most of those times and work fast!!! We're making the most of the good weather though and are doing a lot of yard work!!
One of my favorite things...having Lloyd home - and so it is lovely at the moment - every day is like Sunday - brunch on the back deck...lazy mornings.....walks around here during the day....and knowing he's home tomorrow - and next week - and the week after and the week after :) We have some field trips booked with the homeschool group and it will be so nice to have him join us!!
A Few Plans For The Rest Of The Week...swimming, dinner with Val and James, having the furnace vents cleaned out, brunch out, hopefully breakfast or coffee with Val (???), trip to Michaels to use my coupon, and I want to go and find a cedar picnic table for the side woods meadowy bit - I want to have a little place there for picnics and also somewhere we can take our notebooks and art journals on sunny days and paint/ write. I want it to age quite quickly/ well so that it fits into the woodland setting quickly.
From The Simple Womans Day Book - find it HERE
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