Susie and Sam in the bee veils :)
1 week ago
Apr 21, 2008
Cheering me up...
Lloyd stopped off to get milk on his way home from work and also brought me home these beautiful roses to cheer me up on this miserable snowy day in April! I'm so glad I picked today to make him his favourite dinner :)
Thank you baby - they're gorgeous!!! A deep, dark, velverty red!And perfect for playing about with my macro lens :)
i think tomorrow I'm going to flick water at them and take pictures of them like that ;)
At home due to the weather, snowed in, in April lol.......it's driving me KWAZY!!!!!!!
The roses defintely cheered me up :)
Off to make my gorgeous hubby a cup of tea :)
(this picture didn't come out well because my flash batteries need charging - and I can't be bothered to wait so I edited it BADLY lol....but thats why its so crappy)
Chris's latest plan......
Chris has a plan. He says he's been doing research on the net. He says if you stay in bed for three days undisturbed, you can grow up to four inches in height. You can't get up though and have to have your meals brought to you.
He'd like to try this over the next long weekend.
He does say that the effects don't last long though because of the effects of gravity.
He was trying hard not to laugh while telling me this.
I was trying hard not to laugh while listening.
I suggested he ask his Father about this at dinner tonight,
If his Dad agrees then he can try it over Victoria Day Weekend (not very likely lol)
The things teenagers will try to get to stay in bed all weekend!!!! OMG!!!
He'd like to try this over the next long weekend.
He does say that the effects don't last long though because of the effects of gravity.
He was trying hard not to laugh while telling me this.
I was trying hard not to laugh while listening.
I suggested he ask his Father about this at dinner tonight,
If his Dad agrees then he can try it over Victoria Day Weekend (not very likely lol)
The things teenagers will try to get to stay in bed all weekend!!!! OMG!!!
Not a normal Monday
We got the phone call at 10pm last night to say school buses were canceled. So today is an official snow day. The children are home. We also got a phone call to say Abigails drama class is canceled for the day. The roads are very bad - lots of cars in the ditch. Lloyd took my truck to work as it's much safer in these conditions.
It is after 2pm and I am not dressed. So lazy but I emailed Val and she too is not dressed so I am not the only lazy slob on a day like this :) That makes me feel better :) Val is a lazy slob too :)
Our pumpkins are flowering like crazy so I posted on LP about hand pllination and Andrea posted a fab link about how to pollinate them - it seems I can wait a week or two until the female flowers (still in bud) flower and then I can pollinate them myself by hand quite easily - or they may not flower until the bees arrive which would be ideal!!
I spent all morning sat in bed studying my bee text books. Then I crawled out of bed and made toast and then have since spent the time at the computer studying bee forums and LP. Sam and Abigail are not interested in me at all when their much more interesting older siblings are at home - so there is nothing for me to do - I did all the laundry at the weekend - we vacuumed and dusted yesterday and I cleaned the bathrooms yesterday too - the kitchen was done by the children this morning (woohoo they are home and its their chore if they are home woohoo) so I am being ultra lazy. I will get showered and dressed in a bit and then make a cottage pie for dinner.
This weather has put me back in lazy sleepy winter mode - I want to hibernate like a bear again!
It is after 2pm and I am not dressed. So lazy but I emailed Val and she too is not dressed so I am not the only lazy slob on a day like this :) That makes me feel better :) Val is a lazy slob too :)
Our pumpkins are flowering like crazy so I posted on LP about hand pllination and Andrea posted a fab link about how to pollinate them - it seems I can wait a week or two until the female flowers (still in bud) flower and then I can pollinate them myself by hand quite easily - or they may not flower until the bees arrive which would be ideal!!
I spent all morning sat in bed studying my bee text books. Then I crawled out of bed and made toast and then have since spent the time at the computer studying bee forums and LP. Sam and Abigail are not interested in me at all when their much more interesting older siblings are at home - so there is nothing for me to do - I did all the laundry at the weekend - we vacuumed and dusted yesterday and I cleaned the bathrooms yesterday too - the kitchen was done by the children this morning (woohoo they are home and its their chore if they are home woohoo) so I am being ultra lazy. I will get showered and dressed in a bit and then make a cottage pie for dinner.
This weather has put me back in lazy sleepy winter mode - I want to hibernate like a bear again!
Apr 20, 2008
sigh........
Weren't we basking in +24.9c temperatures this time last week???????? Enjoying my porch and thinking Summer was here?????
What happened?????????
Assistant beekeepers at the ready!
Trying out the new beekeeping veils! I won't be wearing one after the first day I doubt, but Lloyd wanted one and we got a childs veil too so that the children feel more comfortable around the bees to begin with.
white out :(
I can't see the end of the driveway any more and Lloyd is out driving :( He has gone into town to get Susie from her swimming party. I will be glad when he gets home. I will be glad when Chris gets home. I have vacuumed and watered all the plants and tidied round. Laurie has dusted everywhere downstairs and refilled al the bird feeders. Abby and Sam have been tidying away all the toys. But really we're just waiting for Lloyds truck to come up the driveway. I hate this weather. I ahte this weather in January - but even more at the end of April.
Lloyd says he can't even work from home tomorrow either as he has some meetings he has to attend :(
What a day :(
The weather is absolutely horrible. Lloyd doesn't think the school buses will run tomorrow! Imagine - a snow day in April! Late April!!! I guess I will have to check the news in the morning to see if the buses will run.
Lloyd is going to take my truck tomorrow for work and so Abigail will miss her second drama class. But the snow is piling up fast and they forecast even more over night tonight. It has been coming down heavy all day and it is blowing around so much! The roads were a real mess going into town. The plows are out working hard but it's just coming down too fast. we were in the mall for about 40 minutes but all our footsteps and tyre marks by our truck were totally covered by the time we got back to the truck.
Chris went to the water park at West Edmonton Mall today for a party. I hope they got there safely - I haven't heard anything so I assume so.
Lloyd and Abigail had hair appointments at lunch time, and Susannah is swimming with friends at a birthday party in town this afternoon, so we all went into town for that. As we only had three children with us (which seems such a small family to us) we went to Smittys for lunch. It means we won't have to cook dinner tonight now as no one wil be hungry!
I always have the same at Smittys and can never eat it all.
I order the 7 grain short stack of pancakes which is 3 pancakes. And I order the sugar free syrup. How many pancakes can you eat? I can only eat 1 1/2 pancakes on a good day. Most days I can only eat 1. Can anyone eat all three? They are huge!! Some days I can't even eat 1.
Now we are home and soon Lloyd has to head back into town to get Susie from her swimming party. Then Chris will get home around 6:30pm.
To be honest I will be very glad when 7pm is here - everyone will be home and safe and in the warm here again. The weather is nasty and the roads are just horrible.
If you are out on the roads in this weather over the next few days please PLEASE drive carefully. My dear friend Mandy lost her beautiful children and her partner in weather like this and I never want to see anyone go through an experience like that again.
Take care everyone.
Lloyd is going to take my truck tomorrow for work and so Abigail will miss her second drama class. But the snow is piling up fast and they forecast even more over night tonight. It has been coming down heavy all day and it is blowing around so much! The roads were a real mess going into town. The plows are out working hard but it's just coming down too fast. we were in the mall for about 40 minutes but all our footsteps and tyre marks by our truck were totally covered by the time we got back to the truck.
Chris went to the water park at West Edmonton Mall today for a party. I hope they got there safely - I haven't heard anything so I assume so.
Lloyd and Abigail had hair appointments at lunch time, and Susannah is swimming with friends at a birthday party in town this afternoon, so we all went into town for that. As we only had three children with us (which seems such a small family to us) we went to Smittys for lunch. It means we won't have to cook dinner tonight now as no one wil be hungry!
I always have the same at Smittys and can never eat it all.
I order the 7 grain short stack of pancakes which is 3 pancakes. And I order the sugar free syrup. How many pancakes can you eat? I can only eat 1 1/2 pancakes on a good day. Most days I can only eat 1. Can anyone eat all three? They are huge!! Some days I can't even eat 1.
Now we are home and soon Lloyd has to head back into town to get Susie from her swimming party. Then Chris will get home around 6:30pm.
To be honest I will be very glad when 7pm is here - everyone will be home and safe and in the warm here again. The weather is nasty and the roads are just horrible.
If you are out on the roads in this weather over the next few days please PLEASE drive carefully. My dear friend Mandy lost her beautiful children and her partner in weather like this and I never want to see anyone go through an experience like that again.
Take care everyone.
Best News Ever!!
Graham Norton is now on BBC Canada on Saturday nights!!!! Woohoo! He has always been on Out TV over here which is a Gay TV network that you have to subscribe to. I have sooooooo missed Graham Norton!!!! He was my favourite back home - I LOVED his shows. OMG they are soooo funny!!!
Last night I spent a whole hour laughing out loud watching him with Letitia Dean and Gabriel Byrne...and at the end he had The Backstreet Boys on. The whole show is full of bad language, sexual jokes and just rude stuff but it is so so so so funny. Graham Norton is so funny he really is and now I get to watch him each week again :)
They were taking the piss out of the Finnish sport of 'wife carrying' and they were also trying to figure out if it's true that you really do marry men who look like your Father.
Then they went to a local pub and got people in the pub to shout out a line from the movie The Usual Suspects to see if they could shout out this rude line without laughing (Because Gabriel Byrne said it took them ages to film it because all the actors kept laughing and then one of them kept farting). They even got this little old lady in the pub to shout out "Give me the f*cking keys you c*ck s*cker' - well, she did it!!!!! Without laughing!!!!!! This little old lady!!!! So funny!!! Letitia Dean from Eastenders did it too and apologised to her Mom for swearing so badly too!
If you get BBC Canada - check him out - well worth the $5 a month or whatever it is to get the channel :) I promise you will laugh out loud!!! :)
Anyway its a funny show and I am so happy its now ona channel that I actually get - because I was tempted to subscrbe to out tv just to get it :)
Last night I spent a whole hour laughing out loud watching him with Letitia Dean and Gabriel Byrne...and at the end he had The Backstreet Boys on. The whole show is full of bad language, sexual jokes and just rude stuff but it is so so so so funny. Graham Norton is so funny he really is and now I get to watch him each week again :)
They were taking the piss out of the Finnish sport of 'wife carrying' and they were also trying to figure out if it's true that you really do marry men who look like your Father.
Then they went to a local pub and got people in the pub to shout out a line from the movie The Usual Suspects to see if they could shout out this rude line without laughing (Because Gabriel Byrne said it took them ages to film it because all the actors kept laughing and then one of them kept farting). They even got this little old lady in the pub to shout out "Give me the f*cking keys you c*ck s*cker' - well, she did it!!!!! Without laughing!!!!!! This little old lady!!!! So funny!!! Letitia Dean from Eastenders did it too and apologised to her Mom for swearing so badly too!
If you get BBC Canada - check him out - well worth the $5 a month or whatever it is to get the channel :) I promise you will laugh out loud!!! :)
Anyway its a funny show and I am so happy its now ona channel that I actually get - because I was tempted to subscrbe to out tv just to get it :)
One last snowflake...
I snapped this one flake yesterday...it isn't very good because Lloyd was nagging me to get on with helping with ripping the carpet up and he didn't seem to care about the pretty snowflakes on the window that were calling to me and begging to have their picture taken......so here is the one I quickly snapped and it didn't come out very well and is horribly cropped ad just not very good at all...but anyway.....
Snow........again......
Aren't you all a little bored of snow pictures??????? I know I am!! This is the view from my window today. And they say there is a lot more on the way...At least 15cm on the way.....
Severe Weather Warning for our area:
Snowfall warning for: City of Edmonton-St. Albert-Sherwood Park
Issued at 4:17 AM MDT SUNDAY 20 APRIL 2008
SNOW WILL CONTINUE AND BECOME HEAVY AT TIMES BEGINNING OVERNIGHT TONIGHT.
AN INTENSE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM CURRENTLY DEVELOPING OVER MONTANA IS FORECAST TO TRACK NORTHEAST SLOWLY TOWARDS SOUTHERN SASKATCHEWAN. THIS WEATHER SYSTEM WILL BRING SIGNIFICANT SNOWFALL AND BLOWING SNOW WITH POOR VISIBILITIES TO PARTS OF NORTHERN ALBERTA FOR TODAY AND MONDAY. PERIODS OF SNOW WILL CONTINUE TODAY IN THE CAPITAL REGIONS, BARRHEAD, SLAVE LAKE AND FORT MCMURRAY REGIONS. SNOW WILL BECOME HEAVY AT TIMES BEGINNING OVERNIGHT TONIGHT AND PERSIST INTO MONDAY NIGHT. BY TUESDAY MORNING A TOTAL OF 20 TO 30 CENTIMETRES OF SNOW CAN BE EXPECTED. LLOYDMINSTER AND ST. PAUL REGIONS WILL BE THE HARDEST HIT WITH HEAVY SNOW DEVELOPING THIS MORNING AND PERSIST INTO MONDAY NIGHT. A TOTAL OF 40 TO 60 CENTIMETRES OF SNOW CAN BE EXPECTED BY TUESDAY MORNING. IN ADDITION AS THE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM MOVES INTO SOUTHERN SASKATCHEWAN TONIGHT STRONG NORTHERLY WINDS WILL DEVELOP ON THE WESTERN EDGE OF THE SYSTEM GENERATING BLIZZARD CONDITIONS IN OPEN AREAS. EASTERN SECTIONS OF THE LEDUC AND FORT SASKATCHEWAN WILL SEE WIDESPREAD POOR VISIBILITIES DUE TO BLOWING SNOW.
PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST PUBLIC FORECASTS FOR FURTHER DETAILS.
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