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!

Be like a postage stamp. Stick to it until you get there. --Harvey Mackay

Good morning!
I haven't been sleeping.....not sure if it's the heat or what!

We had a slight reprieve on Sunday for a minute when it rained 8 mm!
Yup, that's it. And they didn't get any rain where the fire is!

I found this so you can read up!
The kms is wrong, we have crews working up there, and they say it's closer!
 http://www.industrymailout.com/Industry/View.aspx?id=379728&q=484634120&qz=e7ac76

Here are a few pictures of how smokey it was on Sunday.
This is the back yard.

This is looking north west/ where the fire is.

This is west down the driveway.

Yesterday we had NO smoke, cause the wind had shifted.

We had blue sky & clouds, and heat!

I made my mom a mini album from the Family Reunion that was held near her place 8 years ago.

It's there again this year.

Her birthday's around the same time, I'm sure she'll love it!

I'm also working on her birthday card, which, if I get more than a minute, will be done this week!

Vanessa & Shawn are coming home for the weekend!

It's the annual rodeo!

Our student at work is running for rodeo queen, so I made her a card.

I'll give it to her this morning!

Better go!

Talk to ya later!

Ta ta for now!

You can't think your way into acting positively, but you can act your way into thinking positively.-Nido

I'd love a weekend off!
Seriously!

I watched the sun come up yesterday.....nothing spectacular, except for the sun on the trees!

Then it got cloudy; so I started washing windows.
Got 6 done inside & out, and 3 more outsides. Just 3 more to go, and they're the biggest!
Here are the helpers on the deck.

Hahahaha!

This is my kitchen window.....

right after the public area windows were washed this spring, some over zealous bird crapped on it!

I've looked at that all summer!

Never mind....I'm a hurtin unit from hauling the ladder around....don't wanna do THAT more than I have to!

It's an awesome ladder though, you can go up either side...sturdy, only too big (8 ft.) & unwieldly!

Need about a 6 foot ladder!

Here's the after picture!

Which then led to the make work stuff!
I washed the drapes in the M bedroom.
Then did the valance, rug & shower curtain in the M bath!
Between yesterday & today, I've done about 6 loads of laundry; and had to have a redo of the towels cause the washer was still on delicate! YOI!

I tried out the rice cooker Vanessa & Shawn gave me last weekend.
I had cinnamon tinged Basmati Rice, and was going to cook a smokie over the fire, but was too tired!
How does that rice cooker know when the rice is cooked? hmmmmmm? It wasn't sticky or anything!
I was outside last night drinking beer by the fire pit, when a flock of cranes flew over.

Usually you can hear them and they're so high up you can't see them, and yes; they are headed south!

I was up at 5 am this morning....Gawd, I don't know why!

I did finish this little photo album though.

As Bonnie said, "Just do it girl!"

Here goes.

Originally; I wanted it to fit in this film canister I scored!

This last picture is in acrylic, cause it's on the back!

I don't want it to scratch.

Here's the finished product!

And of course it doesn't fit in the canister!

I'd have to use about 4 CD's and have no embellishments!

Hope I did ya proud Bonnie!

I'm going to take it to my mom, so she can brag....don't worry,

I'm trading mom for her pictures that are the same!

Now hopefully Bonnie forgives me for this next picture!

A Halloween card I made this week!

I'm really hating not liking that Glimmer Mist in red!

Looks like I killed somebody, and I was going for a fine mist!?

I got the card inspiration here!

The haunted house was a $1.50 in the bin at Michaels.

Got muffins in the oven for lunch for work, gonna throw the last load of laundry in the dryer...hey, I hung the other stuff out, and go have a nap!

That's the plan anyhoo!

Have a great week people!

Ta ta for now!