Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind -listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody.-Eubie Blake, Age 100

Hello peeps!Yesterday was a holiday for us Canadians!
Remembrance Day.
Just a holiday from work (paid) I want you to know!

I whipped up 2 pies Tuesday night! Apple & pear!
November treats for Bryon & Lacey!
October treats are here!
My GF laughed when I told her I went home & whipped up 2 pies after work! hahaha

Yesterday I made us an apple pie, & pear pie!
Just because Lacey texted me Thursday to say the pie was delish!
The pear is made like apple, only cut the cinnamon  & sugar in half & and add about 1/2 tsp. of ginger!
I have to say....YUM!
Did some laundry & played in the craft room.
Oh yeah, and there was a prize for anyone that noticed this card is upside down in this post!

Too bad....you guys missed out, no one caught it!

I made some more Christmas Cards for SAS4K's, and a couple others.

I'll be sending them out on Monday.

The Alberta cards for anyone wanting to play along get sent here:

SAS4K (Canada) c/o Lynnette Pinno
Box 1256
Camrose, Alberta
T4V 1X2

I finished up the treats for my November stamp club.

I got the inspiration here!

I've had them made for weeks, but couldn't decide what to put on them for embellishments.

Then I read my blog friend Theresas' blog;

and I quote:

NO MORE HOARDING.

I am getting far to old to hoard. One day I will die and all my beautiful STUFF would be left, not especially appreciated by my children who would have to decide what to do with it all.

Sorry about this rant, but I just wanted to give a heads up to everyone that keeps stuff, because it is just to beautiful to use. What are you keeping it for?

So I've had those cute metal deer 4-evah!

And thought they'd be just perfect on the little treat origami thingys!

I tied some elastic metallic ribbon on for a scarf of sorts, and wah la!

Thanks Theresa, I needed to hear that!

Then; cause I had nothin better to do I made a whole whack of envelopes!

I had a pack of Christmas papers I wasn't using!

Oh spare me; surely I'm not the only one that has stuff that doesn't get used!?

Seriously!?

These fit a 4 1/4 X 5 1/2 card.

If you're interested send me an e-mail & I'll get you the measurements!

Today, I was up & in town before breakfast.

OK, not really but there were some things I needed from the grocery store, and I wanted some new mats for the entry from Fields. Which they didn't have unpacked yet, told me to come back Tuesday!

Got the fixins for lasagna for tomorrow, and because I AM thee hostess with the mostess for this months stamp club, I started making my goodies!

I made my famous individual chocolate cheesecakes, some pepper jelly tarts, and some butter tarts (not pictured) to get started!

Hey, what if I'm busy the next 2 weekends!?

Then I started another make work project.

Gawd I'm getting soooo good at that!

The floor has needed washed since before I went to BC.

Oh puh-leeze, don't do the math!

So I got out the vacuum cleaner, as no one volunteered to do it last weekend!

And the mop & pail.

Which led to moving the water cooler to vacuum & scrub, moving the fridge out, and taking the grill thingy off the bottom front to clean the coils, which then led to scrubbing the whole thing, and boy am I glad we never get REALLY tall visitors! Then the new washer had to come out, cause someone spilt their coffee down the side of it, and the wall!

Not gonna mention any names, but his initials are Ray Luck!

Wrapped up my baking to take out to the freezer so it doesn't get ate before the par-tay!

About 4 kittens were sitting under the bird feeder I mounted on the bug zapper pole, cause someone didn't get the bird feeder pole in. AGAIN, I'm not gonna mention names!

I asked them if they were bird watching!

So now I'm done for the day!

Yup, REALLY!

Gonna make a bunch more envelopes (it's a BIG paper pack!), maybe have a nap (ha) or just chill in the craft room!

I need a birthday card for my friend Gloria!

Oh yeah, Curt (sigh ) I CAN'T blab about my day or week or whatever when I enter cards for a challenge! Not that I want to win anything, it keeps me on track for getting my Christmas cards done!

They just want a link to the cards nothin else!

What's with that anyhoo!

Have a great rest of the weekend people!

Ta ta for now!

When you are reluctant to change, think of the beauty of autumn.-Unknown

Happy Daylight Savings time!
Like that makes a difference with my sleeping habbits!

Still no snow...knock on wood!
It tried this morning, but didn't get too serious about it!
Between yesterday& today, I've got a pile of stuff done.....I did say to myself a while ago that someone needed to vacum, but no one volunteered, so...............

I put up another motion light yesterday, as the one on the north side didn't need any motion to turn on....it just stayed on!
Today I had a do-over!
The new light didn't work, thankfully it was just the bulb, which I had in wrong!
Lesson there folks, start with the easiest thing first!

Got 1 and some bags of apples in the freezer & made 2 pies!

I also have to do something with the pears, and believe it or not, found a pie recipe for them.
I'll try it later this week!
Got the bag of peppers in the freezer, defrosted the beer fridge in the entry; ok, so it's technically NOT the beer fridge; it has beer in it!
And yes, it's THAT old  it has to be defrosted....remember those!?! I figure it's over 30 years old!
Still doing laundry, put out my big a$$ bird feeder I got at mom's in June.
Cleaned a bathroom, cle3aned the bathroom fan, fed cats, & hauled cat food from one cat house to another!
The old washer got hauled away
Dug out my snow shovel...who are we kidding, I'm gonna need it one of these days!
Got out the roof rake & broom for the skylight & roof.
Put Halloween away. Brought out some snow people!
Coffeed with some GF's that came out yesterday.
Got a roast & fixins in the slow cooker, and baked a loaf of bread. Don't get excited, it was a mix I found in the process of defrosting......I added a can of beer to it, mixed it up and wah la! Sure smells good!

I had a Stamp Club the night before I left for moms.

This next one is the wonky Birthday card. I say that because in order for it to stay open to be displayed, the ribbon just fall down & sits there!

Also, the BIG circle thingy on the front!

We made another Birthday Card, but I didn't finish.

Hey, she just gives suggestions....we don't have to play along!

I'll finish it up, and show you!

I've made some SAS4K's (Canada) cards.

There's a link at the top right of the blog.

We're playing in Alberta now!

I got some awesome colors of embossing powder so made the following!

I made 3 others with a different saying.

Then I made 6 Christmas cards for them.

I got the inspiration here!

I didn't have kraft card stock, so used ivory.

I'm going to make some Christmas tags, then send them in!

I've been making treats for my Stamp Club.

We're not meeting in December so have to be done this month!

I'll show you those when I'm finished too.

I volunteered to help with appetizers for a Cancer fundraiser the town is having on November 19th.

I know, I know; JUST SAY NO!

But my little mind says 'JUST DO IT'!

I also volunteered to drive the handi van for the community run on Thursdays.

My turns are the next 2 Thursdays!

We get a turn about every 9 or 10 weeks, so figured I could handle that!

Better go, you guys have a great week!

Ta ta for now!

If you are lucky enough to have done well, then it is your responsibility to send the elevator back down.-Kevin Spacey

Alrighty!
Life's sure got in the way this past week!
I went to GP on Friday, and when I got to Vanessa's, I said, "You have a plant!"
She said, "It's for you."
Isn't it great!

Vanessa cooked supper!

We had a wonderful lasagne......

Followed by awesome apple pie!

I did buy her a trivet before I left on Saturday!

We watched movies with her friends!

We watched RIO, and Something Borrowed.

I've found out that Vanessa is a lurker...Hi Honey!

Just so ya know, the next 2 pictures, are spiders!

She has a phobia!

I made a card last week before I left.

Then I bought a few treasures, & changed it up!

Much better I think!
It was inspired by Curt's card; here. Which in turn inspired this card, I tell ya, it's a vicious circle!
But it's all good!

Saw a deer on the way to work one day.

I knocked down another tree....no troubles this time!
Had to drop it before Ray turned it into a production!
I'm going to see how long it takes for him to notice it's gone!
It was a leaner, and I said, "Why don't you knock that tree down, before it's big enough to fall on the house when it blows down?"
Ray, "It'll hit the gardens."
Well......it didn't!

There's the gardens on the left, and I dropped the tree on the right! About 30 feet away I say!

Here's the after I cleaned it up picture.

You can just see the stump in the middle of the picture!

Here's my audience while I put the cut up tree in the woodshed!

Such a big help!

I'll tackle the other trees on the weekend.

It's supposed to be really nice out starting tomorrow!

Here's the tomato crop!

There's only about 1/2 of what we usually get! Good thing I have salsa left from last year!

Here's the other 2 babies that are hanging out!
I haven't seen their mom for quite a while!

One orange one, and one grey one!

I got Shadow a heated dog bed....not what I thought; it was pretty expensive, and I think I'll have to crawl in the dog house & sit on it when it's 40 below to see if it works!
I also put a door on her house, and so far she's left it up!

I really hate intensly dislike September!
All my meetings start up, I've had one every week for the last 3, and have 2 next week.
One is stamp club, so that'll be fun!

The O/S is on a cruise right now.
He asked when I wanted to come visit, and then asked if we could meet at G-ma's!
Someone misses his grandma!
So instead of going to beautiful Victoria, B.C., I might be making another trip to my mommy's!
I told him to think about the weather, cause I'd be driving, so he said he'd call with a plan this weekend!

Better go, hope you're all having a great week!

Ta ta for now!