“Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say.- Alice Walker

Well, it's still smokey here today, and dry!
Some of the province wide fire ban has been lifted, but not here!
It's pretty dry, and freezing at night this week!

I DID get the yardwork done on the weekend, but I didn't plant the rest of the garden...Thank God!
Maybe tomorrow or Thursday night!
I've been hauling my bedding plants in at night!
I HAVE been baking for the 'wedding party' of one of my bosses this weekend!
I'll see if I can get some pics!

Bonnie, I tried to comment on your comment & couldn't!?
The one where I said I hated sticky, smelly bug spray for mosquitos.
And you told me about some mechanical thing that clips to a person.
I couldn't comment on my.own.blog!
I'll have to check out the bug spray aisle next time I'm in the hardware store!
I DO have some bracelets, but wear them around my ankle cause the smell is atrocious!

I had supper out with the GF's cause it's P's birthday tomorrow.
She loves birthdays, cause she gets a home made card from me! hahahaha!

So, I got some blog candy last week! From here!

There are 5 pads of Martha Stewart paper!OMG!

Thanks Michelle!

I also made this card.

(Not with any blog candy)

I actually had some unused Samantha Walker stamps! OMG!

And the paper was out, cause I'd used it a while ago, and I like it, and I guess I only bought 1 (one)!?

I planted my petunias on the weekend.

I kicked Jerry the cat out of my chair on one of my trips to sit outside.

This is how far she moved!

This planter is right behind the chair!

I don't pull the old stuff out of the planters when it dies because this is what the cats do!

They sit in my planters!

The planters were on the list to be painted this year, but it didn't happen!

Remember my friend Buster from work?!

I talked about him HERE! And in an earlier post, but I can't find it.

Don't worry, I have been putting labels (when I don't forget!)!

They never show up when I view the blog though!

Well...he has a chicken!

The farm next door to my work raises all sorts of chickens & birds, and once in a while there's a mess of feathers outside....hmmmm.......but Buster.....he LIKES this chicken!?

It's like it's his pet!? WTH!

This picture is not really blurry...I DID say it was another smokey day!

Better go, gotta fix my lunch for tomorrow!

Talk to ya later....have a great rest of the week and weekend!

Ta ta for now!

Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty .. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out..

Hi Peeps!
OMG! Can I just say that the last week has been sooooo stressful, and we're not even near (72 miles) a fire!?
It's raining sporadically, hopefully it's enough to help out the fire fighters!
Then I read this!
I cooked one summer at the Tanker Base in Manning.
It was a pretty slow year, thank goodness, but I had just fed the Bird Dog pilot, and the guy that rides with him, and they crashed. I was horrified, and sad, and all those emotions.
I didn't know them well, but we had Butter Tarts at lunch, and the guy that was a diabetic said they were the best Butter Tarts he had ever had!
I had a lot of fun that year!
We did crafts (of course we did), and the Forestry guys in town said it was the first year they weren't busy going to court for their crews!
I was into painting cement stepping stones that year, and we had classes!
It was a lot of fun!

OK, Vanessa's here!
One of her friends is getting married this weekend!
Here's the birthday card I made for her! Her birthday was yesterday!

Another Iris Folded card!

She loves dragonflies (and the color blue), and I think her comment was,

and I quote, "That's one kick ass card!"

The little tiny purse is an inside joke.

I buy purses, and they end up under my bed.

Hey....I wear mine out!

She's forever digging under my bed for a purse when she comes home!

That little purse charm even opens; Vanessa laughed when she seen it!

Hope you're all well, and the weather's tolerable!

We have a province wide fire ban, which sure puts a kybosh into TGIF, drinking beer by the fire pit!

Oh well, I don't want to be the one starting a forest fire in my neighborhood!

The potatoes are planted, all 42 unhills (raised beds), and the peas Ray bought!

I planted some pots of wave petunias tonight, and will get everything else planted this weekend, and the grass cut etc.!

The mosquitos are horrible this year, so might need to figure out how to carry around my mosquito coils! Ha!

I hate the sticky, smelly Bug Spray!

Have a great long weekend!

Talk to you again!

Ta ta for now!