ice cream thief

While I was painting my hive outside, and Lloyd was gardening, Sam crept inside and came out with a tub of ice cream from the freezer!!!! He was so proud of himself and cheerily walked around eating his ice cream straight from the tub!!!!

My hive!

Just added piccies of my hive to my bee blog - if you'd like to have a look!

For Tanya......and everyone :)

A little video of our horny little chaps for you to enjoy....Here they are impressing their mates and enjoying the evening sunshine!

For those of you elsewhere...this is the noise we fall asleep to on early Summer nights :) I love it :) It's the true sound of Summer for us! And to think these frogs survive our winters by freezing like popsicles!!! Amazing!!!

Anyway - turn up the volume and enjoy!!!

housey stuff

Spent this morning doing renovation errands - head over to our renovations blog to find out more......

Yesterday I was in town getting gifts for birthday party gifts for parties Chris and Susannah are attending today. Susie is swimming for a few hours this afternoon - her friends family have rented the entire pool for the evening - geeez and I have my parties here at home lol!

Chris is off to the movies for his party and sleeping over at a friends tonight!

Laurie is fed up as he canceled a sleepover at the twins house because he was supposed to go drag racing with some friends and now the drag racing is canceled and he wishes he had gone to the twins house instead :( so now he is bored and having to come with us to Home Depots and stuff instead :( So I think maybe we will head to DQ or something to cheer him up - and maybe to look at some dirt bikes for a while!

While I was in town yesterday I ran into two friends - one was an old neighbour who I hadn't seen since I had moved - we didn't know each other that well so we didn't stay in touch but it was nice to catch up. She had known Christie though which was quite funny - small world! LONG story!

I also ran into a friend I knew from PL and we stood chatting about things at PL and how disgusted we are about the whole thing there (another LONG story) - the whole thing leaves a very sour taste on my tongue :( And makes me feel happy that everyone feels very strongly about someone who means so much to me :) 'S' I hope you know how much everyone loves you :) I hope you know the rest of them are just jealous!!!! I'm sure thats what its all about. Anyway 'nuff said :(

Today is all about running about. Housey stuff, kids parties and errands and their social lives and finishing touches to my hive and getting that into place.....rush rush rush.

Tomorrow is about hanging my hummingbird feeders, finishing the garden in prep for the dirt to be delivered on Monday.

Oh and by the way I am LOVING this weather :)

LOVING it :)

crouching in the woods

Last night we were to be found crouching in the woods midst the cobwebs and porcupine poop watching the male Grouse court his female with a VERY impressive drumming rendition :)

We could hear his drumming from our house yet the grouse was two woods away!!! Poor Susie thought it was someone trying to start up their quad!!!

We're going to go back up tonight with the video camera to try and catch him on camera :)

And just for Tanya we wil try can catch those horny frogs in action too :)

Oh the things those horny boys do to get us ladies interested ;)

Christie!

I saw your hospital room friend yesterday - my old neighbour........ :) I passed on your phone number - told her you'd LOVE to hear from her :)

hahahahahahahha :)

OMG see - I hadn't seen her for almost three years and then you mention her and then I see her :)

I passed on your best wishes ;)

Bags of bags!!!

A quick thank you to those of you who have been posting pictures of your LOVELY shopping bags :)

I've spotted them on Monicas blog AND on Susans blog so far :)

If you've blogged a picture of your lovely reusable bags then please do let us know :) so we can all hop on over to your blog to be nosy and check out your bags you old bags ;)

lol!

I've been busy painting my hives and now I'm off to make my gorgeous hubby a cup of tea and bath my stinky Sam who has been out playing in the mud :)

Goodnight :)

Hottie swap atc's

Tess don't look ;)

Be the change!

What would your board say? What would your message to the world be?

My goal for labour day

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Gum is banned in my house. Chewing gum that is. It has been for a few years - This is because a few years ago some children (who shall remain nameless) came into my home and stuck gum underneath my computer desk.

So gum is now banned from my house. My children know they can chew gum elsewhere but they must get rid of it before coming back onto my property (luckily we have a large garbage can at the end of our driveway which works well for this reason)

So, with this in mind, I plan to ban something else from this house by labour day weekend. Labour day weekend - for those of you in the UK is the first weekend in September (or there abouts anyway - I think its something like the first Monday in September).

Anyway, as of Labour Day weekend, plastic grocery bags will not be allowed in my house. That gives me the Summer to completely get rid of them. We have been doing really well and moving away from them for a while now - we have stocked up with quite a large supply of resusable bags from all kinds of stores for months - we keep a stock of them in both vehicles as well as in the house and garage, so we will always have some. I've even passed some on to friends in the hopes they will use them :)

My Mom in the UK and I have started swapping reusable bags too - she has some of the Sobeys bags over in the UK now :) She likes that they have pockets inside for bottles :)

There seems to be times that I STILL end up with those dreaded plastic bags Grrrrr but more times than not now I am quick enough to say 'I don't need a bag thank you' and I get the item and put it in my own reusable bag - and yes - it DOES feel good :)

Lloyd was the difficult one to persuade - he didn't like milk spilling in his car - so I have him keep bags in his trunk so he can put the milk in a bag there and he doesn't have to worry :)

It won't be long before more and more cities and States and Provinces and countries will BAN outright the use of those nasty dangerous ugly disgusting plastic grocery bags and then I won't have to worry about them - but for now I'm giving it until labour day before they are banned outright from entering my property!!!!

:)

How about you?

Are you using reusable bags yet? Do you take them with you everywhere? How big is your collection now? Which is your favourite reusable bag???

Hey - take a picture of your favourite reusable bag and either blog it on your own blog and post a link to it here OR send me a picture of your favourite reusable bag and I will blog the picture for you :) LETS SEE YOUR BAG :)

Piccy above shows some of the bags I keep up in my closet - the blue bag is one that Susie picked out of the tresure box at school for me - they have a treasure box at school for if they are good and they can pick a prize and she picked that for me :) I t folds up into a little pocket sized pouch - it has my library books in it!

Oh and check out the new link at the bottom of my list of links!!! :)

Some of the cookies!!

Hhhmmmm I think we'll call the top one Charlie as its shaped like our pot bellied pig Charlie!

The middle one I think we will call 'Don't play with chain saws'!!!!! A lesson for us all :)

Baking cookies!

Our plans changed this afternoon as the gas board had to come over and do some work here in preparation for our renovations that start next week. So we threw together some sugar cookie dough and A and S made some cookies! Here they are cutting the dough and tasting the cookies afterwards :)

Marthas cookie contest

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Martha is having a cookie contest at the moment - you can see some of the contest entries at the link above - some are STUNNING!!! The other week she had a cupcake contest and the entries were equally stunning. Today we decided to bake some cookies to enter!! Sam and Abigail baked ours and you can see our entries over on our homeschooling blog - I think you'll agree that our cookies are AMAZING :)

The painted ladies larvae - day 3

These pictures were taken yesterday - day 3 for us having them. We put them into their own little pots (well, two to a pot) with 1cm of food and we cleaned the pots of poop and webbing. I took the pictures to show you what the webbing and poop (black dots) look like though.

We can't believe how much they have grown already!!!! Several millimetres already!!!

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 ;)