Hot enough yet??

And I hear on the radio that there are frost warnings in Alberta!  I certainly do not want frost yet, but a little cool breeze would be nice. Speaking of frost, yesterday I managed to get most (most) of the houseplants back into the back room again after being outside all summer.  This is a multi step process - first to clear space in the back room and then clean the plants from all the dropped pine needles, and then figure out where to place them on the limited shelf space. I still have two big tree like plants to bring but they should go on the floor. Oh, dear, better clear some more floor space haha!
Have heard from all the "old girls" and we have planned a luncheon for Saturday, October 3 in Huntsville at the Swiss Chalet. It is on a Saturday to accommodate the one who is still working. All the others are now retired. So there will be five of us and I am looking forward to the outing. We usually have a good time and it's fun to see them again.  They all have such different lives from me, sometimes it is hard to relate, but they are still friends.
I believe today we are picking fresh parsley and boxing it up and sending it on the bus to Harry's sister in law in Kirkland lake. I have to check the schedule yet but I think the bus will go around two pm - give us time to get it ready.  Yesterday Harry went to the grocery store to buy some ingredients to make green tomato relish - came home with a bake yourself pizza so we had that around 2:30 pm which sufficed for lunch and supper! And still some leftover for today. So today I believe it will also be make relish day?  I'll have to ind more jars. never seems to end.
Better get going, sounds like a full day and I haven't had my coffee yet.  Take care

Another adventure?

Got up this morning, Stopped in the bathroom and headed for the kitchen, where I found David waving a flyer from the paper, at me.  Superstore had Chapman's Ice cream bars on sale.  Gotta go and get there early, before they were gone.  I had a coupon from Micheal's and had planned to go on my own and borrow their scooter and just cruise around the store, as it is new in our part of town.  Well, grab some clothes and off we go--no breakfast--no tea.  We found the ice cream bars about 2 seconds before another older couple did, each grabbed six ( yes, six!) boxes--the limit, and headed for the checkout.  Unfortunately that left about 3 boxes of unpopular varieties for the other couple.  Do I feel guilty?  Na-a-ah.

Considering that the heat and humidity were through the roof, David dropped me off at Micheal's, and headed home with the ice cream, and then came back for me.  I had enough time to get through most of the store, and used my coupon for a large ( 24" X 36") sketch book of newsprint for some free sketching lessons I hope to be able to attend over the next couple of months.  This is the size of paper I use for my art quilt patterns, in any case.  Than back home where I spent about 1 1/2 hours sorting out the next meeting of my Tuesday Stitchers  ( One lady can't attend the next meeting as she is off on a cruise down the west coast of N. America and through the Panama Canal--poor thing)  Interesting lady.  She and her husband, a retired academic, live frugally, but travel extensively.

Watched my afternoon tv show, and then went to lie down, when the heavens opened amidst great sound and fury. We had been through a terrible thunder and lightening show around 2:00 this morning--enough to wake us and keep us awake, and this was more wind, thunder and rain, but the lightening less noticeable.  Evidently there is more forecast for tonight.  But the heat an humidity continue, so we still have the A/C on.  All of this meant that I didn't get to the library this afternoon,and now have next to nothing to read over the long weekend.  I may have to do housework!

Have a good weekend!

How to say "Thank you"

Around here, a few bottles of home made wine would do the trick.

Neighbours

Today our neighbours showed up and cut and split almost all the wood we had piled in the yard.  How do you thank someone for  doing that.  If not for them it would have still been piled up next year!

Stash busting

Cathy, your daughter is welcome to raid my stash anytime she's in the city.  I'll even give her a can of pop, or a cup of tea, while she does it.

Hot & humid

The "dog days of summer".  The humidex is 38 for today and tomorrow and then, just in time for the long weekend it gets cool and rainy. My week off has been  busy, but I took yesterday off and did no work at all.  Today it is back to the garden. I don't think we have ever had so many, and such large green peppers! The neighbour is coming over to help us clean out our fire pit.  We usually take multiple wheel barrows full and dump them in the bush.  He is bringing his gator so that we can do it all in one load.  then he and Jim are going to check out the propane system in our camper van.  There is no fruit at all in  our area this year.  Everything was killed off by the early spring storm.  And people that have apples are finding them all wormy or rotten.  Our neighbours have 2 large apple trees and got 4 apples this year.  I still have a bag of saskatoons in the freeser from last year.  Pati, if you ever decide you want to purge your material supply again please let my daughter know.  She is now into sewing all sorts of little things, like cup holders, pencil cases, shoulder bags etc.  I think a quilt is also on her list to attempt.  It seems her artistic skills have emerged as she is also doing a lot of painting and metal pressing, as well as still writing.  The window replacement is going slowly at work.  They have only done 5 windows so far, but the government requires them to do full sealed hoarding on the workspace and have negative air flow inside the hoarding.  Time to start the day.  My first cup of tea is delicious and I am ready for the next.

Another week indeed....

It's Wednesday already! A few words before my first coffee for the morning. It is a bit foggy outside this morning although it is also a bit dark  - it's also too early but could not sleep anymore.
The crab apples have been front and centre so far this week. Instead of dehydrating, the apples are being made into juice. This process is a bit more complicated and time consuming but so be it. The juice is a beautiful deep red and should be very tasty. I am still using some from last year as we have a goodly supply still downstairs.Eight more baskets are lined up on the table outside ready to do today - will be another busy day. Tomorrow we will be going to Huntsville to visit the lady friend. I called her daughter Carolyn last evening -she has to attend a meeting today because they want to move her mother again to either Orillia or Penetangusene to wait for a long term bed. It is a real struggle for caring for elderly - and I sure hope I shall not fall into this when I get older. We cannot possible visit her if she is so far away -  nor says Carolyn - maybe they could go once a week?
My chore for this morning is to find the sealer lids- I brought up more jars last night but couldn't find the box with the lids. Oh, it's there but I just have to find it haha!  How are your days off Cathy - getting any garden work done?Take care