Goodnight all :)

Hahahahaha keep on guessing guys ;)

Chris cooked dinner for the kidlets tonight :) Lloyd and I went into town - the plan was to stroll around the farmers market which I thought was still at the Salisbury garden centre - but I guess it isn't (my bad!) but instead we had supper at Timmys (yummy chicken and rice soup 1/2 a 12 grain bagel and a coffee) then we went to the garden centre and strolled around there for ages.....actually it was a lovely evening......just strolling round the garden centre together talking about our plans for the bees, the garden, the flowers, the vegetables, the porch...the land. the deck furniture etc etc.....and Lloyd being funny about listening in to the class that was taking place there.

I did buy a new hummingbird feeder ready for the weekend :) And we bought a little watering can for Sammy and a big one for Lloyd - one that I can paint little bees on :) Not that I'm obsessed or anything of course ;)

Guess what I am - part 3

Hmmmmmm Can you guess what we are?????????
;)

I BET you can't ;)

So sad!

Scrappers Haven is closing down!!!

I'm so sad!!!

I mean, I'm so happy that its because Donna is moving on to her PhD and to better things....but I'm so sad that SH won't be there any more!!! It's such a nice friendly crowd of girls - I've met some lovely friends through there!! We were hoping to get together for a weekend crop retreat! I loved the monthly online crops - even if I didn't get much actual scrapbooking done - the chatting was fun :)

Here is the Email I woke up to this morning :(

Well ladies it is with a heavy heart that I am posting this announcement.

I was accepted into a Ph.D program starting in July and this is something I have wanted to do for myself for a very long time and I also want to do it right. I need to have the time to commit to doing my doctorate work so we have decided to close Scrapper's Haven, because I know I cannot do it all.

What does this all mean, it means as of June 30 we will be closed. Starting tomorrow we will start selling off inventory at discounted prices. You can use your e-vouchers if you have some, but we will not be issuing any new ones. We will continue with the Iron Chef contest but there will be no more contest, online crops or newsletters... sorry.

The close out sale will be as follows

- week of May 1 - May 7 - 30% off
- week of May 8 - May 14 - 35% off
- week of May 15 - May 21 - 40% off
- week of May 22 - May 28 - 45% off
- week of May 29 - June 4 - 50% off
- week of June 5 - June 11 - 55% off
- week of June 12 - June 18 - 60% off
- week of June 19 - June 25 - 65% off
- week of June 26 - June 30 - 70% off

Discount coupon codes will be listed on the main page of the store and on the website.
You truly have appreciated your patronage of the last 4 years.

www.scrappershaven.ca

Another warm day :)

20c today I think. Sam had preschool this afternoon so Abigail and I spent the afternoon at the park. I met my friend Samantha there for a while and caught up with all her news.

Abigail met a friend and had a blast playing on the climbing frames and I also got some studying done which was good :)

After collecting Sam from class we raced over to Holy Spirit to get Laurie and his friend form their badminton tournament. So very glad my children don't go to that school - what a nightmare that place is every afternoon with traffic!!! It made me glad my children go to a quiet rural school!!!

Headed home and got back not long before Lloyd. My Beekeeping for Dummies book arrived in the mail which was good. We dropped Lauries friend home.

We tidied up in the yard a little and Lloyd worked on the vegetable garden - the black dirt arrives on Thursday - 5 truck loads of it!!!! Woohoo!!! All ready for the weekend!!!

Tonight we had the first thunder storm of the year :) that was nice :)

Lloyd barbecued again which was also nice :)

Lloyd and I just washed all the floors and now we are going to bed - yes at 8:30pm :) early night to read and relax. We were laughing and sayingw e wondered what people would think if we were to video us washing the floors together and blog it - would you all think the way we do it together is crazy...we have this method you see and its probably quite different to the way most people wash their floors.....

If we were Jon and Kate and were filmed all the time what would people make of us....

We were asked once to be filmed as a homeschool family for a year. A tv show were looking for a Canadian family to film for a year. We changed our minds in the end. I wonder what people would make of us if they were flies on our walls all the time lol! I'm not much different to how I am on my blog lol. Not really. Am I Val? lol!

Hhhmmmmm Charlie has eaten everything we gave her and left the tortilla licked clean on the porch...she liked the hummus and coleslaw and burger and everything else...just left the wholewheat tortilla!!!! GREAT!!!! now I have to go out and get it :(

Never a dull moment here ;)

Goodnight all :)

Fairy Door!

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I ordered my Mom a little gift for Mothers Day at the weekend and the Etsy seller was going to mail it yesterday. I called my Mom this morning to say that it was on it's way and to not open it until May 11th - as it was for Mothering Sunday!

Too late - it arrived today!!! How fast is that for service???? Wow!! My Mom had already opened it and loved it :) It's a Fairy Door :) or Fairy Portal :) This one belongs to a fairy who has gone away on holiday!

Anyway - you can place them in the garden or by your baseboard/ skirting board and you can use them to entice fairies into your home! You can also use them to entice the tooth fairy into your home to get your childrens teeth!!

You can find plenty of them online at my favourite website etsy.com!!!

I hope the link above works to see the picture!! It's just 15cm tall :)

Another first tonight!!!!!

Before I go!!!! The frogs are awake!!!! They're croaking!!!! They want SEX!!!! They are horny!!!!! The frogs in our pond are making their calls for the first time this year tonight - they are calling for sex (this is what we tell the children lol)!!!!! hahahahahaha!!!

Our evening.....

We spent the evening outside enjoying the warm temperatures and the lovely sunny weather. The children were on the quads so Lloyd and I got on his (Laurie was on mine) and Sam was on with us and we went all up over the fields and it was lovely :) Back through all the woods and I had my camera with me so got some pictures of the girls going through the puddles left by the melting snow.

The quads need a good wash this weekend I think! But it was great fun!

Lloyd also spent some time getting the vegetable garden started - he ordered the topsoil today and he bought all the lumber for the raised beds yesterday. It should all be done by the weekend nd as we are covering all the plants with frost protection, we should be able to get them all planted out this weekend! We found a seller of polytunnels :)

Ok busy day tomorrow and things to do now so switching off and going up to bed! Goodnight all have a great evening and a great Tuesday!!!

Enjoying being outdoors again!

After last weeks winter storm that brought 31cms of snow and canceled all our classes and plans, we were glad to be outdoors again! A is very glad to be back out on hr quad bike and has been enjoying all the puddles left by the melting snow!!!!

A little early for Fall pictures but......

Jasper seemed happy to pose amongst some old Fall leaves....

Jasper

They're back!

Just run inside to share the news!

I have my first mosquito bite of the year!!!

The bastards are back! And they are BIG!!!!

Egghead updates!!!!

Here are our eggheads now that they are grown and ready to be 'trimmed'!!!!!

Remember all you need is cress seeds, cotton wool, water and an empty egg shell!

Susies free book!

Susannah and her free book - she got this today because her Hannah Montana book wasn't in stock :)

What a difference a day makes :)

So - it was a crappy day yesterday - great day today :) still in pain but my I didn't let it get to me today :)

Lloyd took the day off of work and that cheered me up as always :)

The guys came to do some work here - it was the air conditioning guys that were here today so we now have the air conditioning unit moved out of the way for the new addition.

Lloyd phoned the Provincial Apiarist and got me registered with him. And he did some other phoning round for me (I have this aversion to phone calls lol)

We took Abigail to her drama class and then went to get some lunch. Got back from lunch and sat outside Festival PLace chatting with Sandy, one of the other homeschooling Moms and her DH (I'm assuming anyway lol) We were chatting about leaving Alberta and where to go and how...which seems to be a major topic amongst Albertans wherever you go these days.

Then we went to get my permit for my beehive. So I am all legal for the next year :)

Then we went to Costco and got groceries.

Then we drove to Millwoods and picked up the butterfly larvae that we ordered ages ago ready to study butterfly lifecycles. Very cool - and you can see pictures over on our homeschooling blog!

Came home and checked mail and found a gorgeous card from the wonderful Kendra over at Scrappers Haven! Inside was the cutest embellishment abou pigs ready to use ona layout about Charlie :) Thank you so much Kendra!

I switched on the computer and got the best news - Kendra won her group in the Iron Chef contest this week :) Congratulations Kendra! Thats wonderful - and well deserved because your pieces this time were amazing!!!! That altered notebook was WOW!!!!!!

I was having such a funny conversation with a guy on my beekeeping forum last night - a guy in Texas was saying how my house looks like something from a Stephen King novel hahahahahahha!!! I thought that was hilarious :) He posted pictures of himself barbecuing and adding a certain kind of fuel to the bbq from his butt OMG you would never guess the things they discuss on a beekeeping forum! But then I guess you ahve to be slightly insance to want to keep bees hahahahahaha!!

Came home and then Lloyd went to get Chris from his drama rehearsal. I unloaded the groceries and tidied everything away and cleaned up the kitchen etc etc....threw in some laundry and all the boring stuff.....read up on the butterflies....

Lloyd just bbq'ed a pizza for the kids and is now doing a steak for me. The children are playing outside and eating ice creams as it is 19c outside!!!! :) so glad the good weather is back :)

Susie is very happy today. They have run out of her book from the book order so have reordered it - so they gave her a FREE High School Musical book to apologise!!!! - so she is happy - and she got yet another birthday party invite for next weekend. swimming in town. So she is happy.

OMG Lloyd is cooking potatoes on the bbq and it smells like Palmers chippy back home - I want fish and chips from the chippy!!! The REAL chippy not the fake stuff they sell here that they THINK tastes like British fish and chips but really doesn't lol.... I want the smell and the taste and the feel and OMG I can smell it and I want to taste it!!! Lol!

Which is funny because when I lived there I probably only went once a year! I don't think I ever went when I lived in Scotland! I guess when you know you CAN'T have it it's always different lol!

Still Lloyds spuds on the bbq smell GORGEOUS :) and the steak :) MMmmmmm nice bit of cows bum :) or whatever bit of cow it is :) we always tell the kids its cow bum lol!

Lloyd spoils me :) I sit here blogging and he brings me chocolate milk, plonks it in front of me and says 'drink this'! Then he goes back to cooking my dinner :) I wish he stayed home every day :) I love having him home :) Poor guy would probably die of exhaustion if he stayed home lol! He probably goes to work for the rest ;)

I love you Lloyd!!! I'll make you a nice cup of tea later baby :)

Laptop time...

A is doing really well on the computer right now. She is still enjoying webkinz but is enjoying a game called pony love right now.

I love the picture above where her brother is helping her with a game :)