One way to get the most out of life is to look upon it as an adventure. -William Feather

Oh bother, another beverage is order!
Long, picture heavy post!

I'll show you the quilled sunflower first, then you can continue blog surfing!
Don't feel obligated to finish the post!
This needs a sentiment, but I'll have to think about it, or wait until I want to use it!

 

I dug out a cross stitch last night!

My boss needed a ruler that had circles in it.

While looking for my knitting needle gauge, I found a couple pictures I should do up!

 

Anyhoo, it's been an eventful week!

 

Earlier this week, in a random blizzard, I was looking for the elk.

Hadn't seen them yet this drug out winter spring!

 

Here they are at the far end of the pasture.

 

 

And here they are on the road one morning!

 

When I drive down there, there's just the tracks on the road!

They're like ninjas......they just vanish!

 

I saw an eagle!

 

 

Here he is giving me the evil eye!

 

No leaves on those trees yet people!

 

I saw the usual geese, ducks, & swans.

 

 

Then added to the mix one day was a bunch of cranes!

 

 

Hahaha, this guy on the right was giving me the finger.....REALLY!

 

Lookit this!

 

 

He/she was just having a rest in the yard!

So cool!

 

After the -16 morning on Tuesday, Spring arrived Thursday night with a vengence!

This is sunrise Friday morning!

The bridge board across the small well behaved creek, is trying to leave the scene!

 

 

This was last night!

The road goes over to the fenced pastures!

I mow on both sides of the little dirt road!

You can see my poor little spruce trees are getting a real good drink!

 

 

Here's Shadow.

She's saying, "Do you SEE this!? My forest is full of water...WTH!?"

 

 

"OH well, might as well check it out!"

Worse than a kid I tell you!

 

On Wednesday one of the gf's said, "Is it dry by your fire pit yet?"

I said, "It will be in a few days"

(Insert maniacal laughter here!)

It's flooding!

 

 

 

Here's the footwear of choice to check out the water situation!

Short pants & rubber boots!

 

It's gone down quite a bit already today!

I think it was just the initial thaw in the forest!

 

The wood furnace is shut off!

It's probably tired after 7 months of working!

All the dry wood left in the woodshed will get split for the fire pit!

I got a hug this week in the computer store for this Sympathy card!

I was buying a new TV for my craft room.

A 19" flatscreen.

I'll let you know how I like that!

I know the sound is better!

 

I took my peeps from the OFH to Walmart in Peace River today!

I only had a few things on my list!

Vanessa met us there, and we picked out some outfits for our friend that had twins.

She has a 1 1/2 year old too, so she's getting a sun dress and coloring book!

 

I was looking for a milk frother!

Vanessa said, "Are they on sale?"

I said, "I don't even know if they have them here, I just googled them and Walmart popped up!"

Vanessa, "OMG, you're just like some people that come in the store, and tell us they saw something on line, and why don't we have it!"

I said, "Don't worry, I'm not going to make a scene, I was just checking to see if they had one!"

They didn't!

 

Ray got new tires put on the van while I was gone.

And he washed it as a bonus!

 

The tire swing got fixed when I got home, and I cleaned up some more garbage in the yard!

Where does that crap come from!?

And if all the snow would melt out of the fire pit, I'd clean it out, so I'm ready!

 

Shadow's going to the vet on Monday, so I'll be back down in PR.

Vanessa's checking to see if they have a milk frother at her store, and Ray needs a new phone.

Shadow's not sick, she's going for her annual shots,

and I'm actually going to pay to get her hair cut!

And a mani pedi, and what ever else they figure she needs to be comfortable in the heat.

If we have heat!

 

Better go, been up forever!

Hope you're all well!

Talk to ya later!

Ta ta for now!

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends. --Shirley MacLaine

Better get a beverage people, this will be a long one!

Stressful week this!
A friend of ours had her twins on the weekend, and her dad died this week.
He was battling cancer.
I need to send a few cards.

Work is CAH RA ZEEE busy!

Had a few commitments, and ended with Happy Hour at the OFH last night!
Somewhere between arriving & leaving last night, I got talked into taking my old peeps to Wal Mart next Saturday.

I fixed my vertical blind that Vanessa & I wrecked when we assembled the tread mill!
I. KNOW!
We're home wreckers!
The blind got pulled off, and it busted the little clip!

 

I got out my trusty little dremel,  my jewelry card making tools,  some hay wire

and got busy!

 

 

I love the dremel set.

A little FYI; that sucker can drill through anything so don't drill directly on your countertops.

Just sayin!

 

Here's the fixed blind!

 

 

I was going to replace them, cause I've always hated them, but hey, they work!

 

Here's some pictures I took this week..............We'll start with the sunrise this morning!

I was up at 4:30 WTH!?

I found this nest over by the creek, which is running.
It's only about 3 feet off the ground; my mom thinks they didn't know better.

 

This was just cool!

 

Here's everyone getting along!

Some geese, ducks & swans!

 

And this guy posed on my way to work one day!

Wish I'd have still had the camera out when he lifted off, his wing span must have been 7 feet!

We cleaned some of the yard today................
The garbage that was sticking out of the snow, went to the dump!

Had to make some ditches in the lawn!
Remember this post, the mess they made digging in the water line!?
Well there's a lake back there!

I guess we'll have to add more dirt close to the house.

Let me give you todays weather report!
Ya know ya live in Alberta if you can go from:
10 degrees above 0, to pouring rain, to below 0 & snow!
Yup, I kid you not, and it's still below 0!

I finished a Mini Album for one of Vanessas' friends.

Then I did a make work project...you know me, there's very seldom an easy way when I'm on a mission!
I received my goodies from Quilled Creations!
I got this kit!
The instructions are not great....usually when quilling they'll tell you to make so many circles or what ever and you use one of these to measure!
These instructions say to make random circles....hahahahaha!
So I did!

That lilac is no way gonna fit in that cute little oval card!
So I made my own!
Here's the finished product.

 

It's going to be a birthday card for a friend.

 

I'm doing the sunflower now, and trying my darndest to make it to fit in the oval card!

 

Ok I'm done!

Hope you're all well!

I'll be visiting soon.

Talk to ya later!

Ta ta for now!

There are Only Two Things to Worry About--Either that Things will Never Get Back to Normal, or That They Already Have.

OMG, I have had THEE worse acid reflux going on today!
I even bought some Zantac when I went to town today, and now I'm drinking Peppermint Tea!?
And.I.Don't.Like.Peppermint.Tea!
On my second cup!
Hope something kicks in!

Dentist was wonderful (she says sarcastically)!
Another crown, andthisclose to a root canal!
Had to get drugs so there'd be no inflamation when I unfroze!

These geese were checking out the campground last week.

It's Rays' sister & husbands.

It's where I get the bottles all summer!

This is what it did on Friday night!

The fire pit is out there somewhere!

Took the van to Peace River on Saturday so they could fix my cruise control, 2nd time......still not fixed.
Taking it back on May 4th, when I go get my real crown in!
They're thinking it's wiring, and I've told them I have a short, 3 times!
They keep saying it's not related. Alrighty then!

This is the album I made to keep track of my stamps.

It's a wooden photo album, so is kinda funky.

I cut the stuff out with my Cricut....I think I need to mod podge the whole outside, but it looks great, and is evben kinda alphabetical!

I think I may finally be over the heartburn/acid reflux all day attack!

I even got drain cleaner in town today, as the sink in our bathroom has been getting s l o w e r & s l o w e r!

I dumped half the jug in like it said.

Waited for 1/2 hour.

Went back to run hot water down the drain & nothin'! 

I put the plug in, filled the sink with hot water, pulled the plug and YES!

It works like a charm.......Ray shoulda done that when he started complaining about it!

Better go.

Gonna try some cards tonight.

V's birthday's coming up, and so is Mother's Day

Talk to ya later!

Ta ta for now!

p.s. Hopefully there's no scary pictures in this post! 

You can't be uncheery with a balloon. - A.A. Milne

Or something to that effect!

Alrighty! Sunday night I went HERE to the Stop Smoking Seminar.
So far so good!
We never smoked in the house, so maybe that's helping!
I get a little anxious a couple times a day, I don't know why, cause I don't crave a cigarette!?
Now if I'd stop eating everything in sight!

Monday I had to be in PR for my eye exam at 9:30 am.
Apparently the doc doesn't like me reading without my glasses, so I'm supposed to get reading glasses to leave by my bed......we'll see!
I had an appointment for the van, because I had no cruise control! WTH!?
I didn't use the cruise control all winter (cause you're not supposed to), and didn't go too far, then Sunday when I had places to go, I had no cruise control!?
I also had an appointment at 1:00 pm.
Did that, shopped til I dropped, got groceries and came home.
My Monday Friends of the Library meeting was cancelled until May.
Maybe the president is unfriending everyone!
You know, after our last meeting!

I also went throught the car wash!
This was a triple coat of something! I laughed out loud!
 It was like a rainbow threw up on my vehicle!!
I'm such a dork!

These elk were at the neighbors bales this morning! There were about 100 or more!

He has cattle, and elk make a real mess of bales.

These guys were looking for enough water to swim in!

I saw this guy/gal on the way to work this morning! I don't think that's enough water to swim in, and I could hear the ice breaking as he/she walked away from me!

I took this next one on the way home!

There's water sitting all over, and I want to see if the culverts are froze, and we need the dugout to fill! 

This happened over the winter, now, was something trying to get in? Or was soomething trying to get out?

Hmmmmmmm!

I also heard today that one of my bosses got married on the weekend!

B & L went to Jasper with their parents, and tied the knot!

Good for them!

Guess I'll have to make a card or something!

What should I do?

I congratulated B when I was leaving.

Better go, might have something crafty for you next time!

Ta ta for now!