Aren't we a quiet bunch?!

Sorry to hear about your turtle, Beth. I know you had him for a long time, and that he had been well loved by your boys.  Several years ago David and I made the decision not to have any more animals.  I know they make the house a warmer, friendlier place, but they also tie you down.  I don't know if we are better off or not, knowing every back road and casino in Minnesota, but we had hoped to travel even further afield, although doesn't appear to be in our future.  The trips we made to California, Florida, Vancouver Island and Cuba would have been much more troublesome if we had had animals to provide for.

I've been experimenting with Rhubarb cake.  The one we tried yesterday was very, very tasty, but when I really thought about it, the flavour came more from the brown sugar it had been made with than the actual rhubarb.  I'm going to keep the recipe though, as it made a very nice cake.  I found that I had to bake it for an extra 20 minutes before it was done, but that might have been because the rhubarb was so full of moisture.  Tomorrow I will try another recipe, and let you know how it goes.

David has been hard at work in the garden, and it shows.  The neighbour keeps wanting to give us plants.  He says he loves his garden, and his (ex?-)wife keeps bringing him plants from the garden where he used to live --on Woodside Cres.  David has taken out the bush that used to be beside the front door, and I have to admit that the grarden looks better without it, but it was a battle giving it up because I loved the colour of it.  but is was half dead, and really had to go.  Both the Lady Slippers and the Lily-of-the-Valley are in bloom.  I kept smelling Lilacs when I was in the kitchen, but we took the Lilac out a couple of years ago,and the tree in the other neighbour's yard is quite far away.  Well, dummy me, the same neighbour has a smaller Lilac right beside our house.

The last few days have been spent going through all of my trunks and cupboards trying to organize myself for the sale in Pinawa in mid-July and the show in Selkirk in December.  At this point, I know what i| have, and have identified a couple of UFO's that could quickly be brought up to snuff.  I also identified a few things that will never be good enough for either show, and now I have to plan to dispose of them.  Then it will be working full out for the next few months on new work.

So I better get down to work.  Have a great weekend everyone.