OUCH!!

I fell off the deck today. It was quite by accident and I'm so thankful that Anne was with me or I might have been stuck. We were outside looking at the garden and were on our way back into the house. As you may not be aware, we are missing about 1.5 feet of the deck between that and the house because of the Stucco work. Walking inside - I had just stepped with my left foot into the kitchen when my right foot slipped forward. I hit my right shoulder against the door and somehow jammed my left thumb in an effort to stop the fall but down I went. I had 1 leg in the kitchen and one dangling halfway down. I got a pretty nasty scrape on my leg from the concrete. I'm sure without Anne's help I wouldn't have been able to get up. My leg is pretty stiff and sore, but I think my thumb on my left hand feels worse. Maybe because you use your thumb all the time? Ah well, hopefully it won't hurt my golf game today, but if so, I've got an excuse...

First weekend up north...

Brrrrr, that's all I can say!! We went up North for the long weekend and what a disappointment it was. It was 50 degree's this morning when we woke up and yesterday we had rain all day. Not a great way to start the year that's for sure. It was nice to see that the trailer survived the winter. A few signs of mice, but this time we were much better prepared as I had moved everything up to the top shelf. Ours garden's looked great!! I can't wait to see some of the flowers open. There is very little weeding that needs to be done.

This week I'm on vacation. I'll work in the gardens and get things ready for next week when Jordan comes along with us for a week of holidays. We are so looking forward to our visit together.

My garden

While it's a slow progress, simply because of lack of time and truthfully energy, my garden in the backyard is starting to take shape. I lost alot of my iris's in the side yard, I'm sad to say, so I'll be looking for some cuttings in the fall from some of my friends ;-) I'm not sure I'll get the front garden looking very good this year. We're well into the warm days right now and I'll be away soon on holidays and won't be able to give them the watering they would need if I planted new flowers. I think I'll clean out the beds, mulch them over and just see what the roses will do and then plant them in the fall for a spring/summer showing next year.

Oakley..... isn't he cute

On Saturday, while I was shopping I noticed that they were doing a fundraising by taking photo's of your pet!! Ah, I thought, what a fun way to get a picture of Oakley and surprise Ralph. So today I picked up his picture. I think it turned out great and so did the photo studio. They were so happy with the picture that they want to hang it up and use it in their advertising. Oakley is going to be famous!!!

Lights !!&$?!!!

Those darn lights..... Poor Ralph, he must have spent 4 hours trying to hook up the lights on the front of the house. Somehow, somewhere, the wiring is wrong and he can't get them all to work. Needless to say he is very frustrated. I'm sure with time and thought, he'll get them working...

Blue Jay attack

Here I was, sitting by the pond, enjoying a nice cup of tea when all of a sudden something swooped down and knocked my hat off!! It was an angry blue jay. We have a nest in my neighbours back yard and he/she is very protective of it. I was planning on trying to take some pictures today, but it was certainly disconcerting to have it swoop down and agressively warn me to keep my distance!!

The eavetroughs are up

Ralph and Ron worked on finishing the eavestrough's on Saturday. They look great! We have been blessed with wonderful weather lately and for this I'm thankful, but now at least we know that it can rain and we don't have to worry about the water.

They also finished drilling out the holes for the pot lights at the front of the house, so Ralph hope to have these all wired and operational on Monday. I can't wait to see how it looks.