Two Daughter’s Birthdays! No Snow Day!

The Ridge

On Monday, May 11^th, we were playing the sleep-in card. When you’re dealt a hand like what we’ve been dealt with, why not play the game? I peeked out and saw heavy gray clouds, I heard the wind howling and yet was rejoiced that we had NO SNOW! We must have done something right because we were hearing that people all around us were getting white stuff that sticks to the ground. 😊 Sorry!

The never-ending cross-stitch

For the last 3 days, we have had snow in some form or another so forgive me for being a bit happy that it has moved on elsewhere. Share the wealth, you know and I want you all to be happy too with your spring. It is very cold though, 1C/34F and I quickly deduced that it was not a walking day. The winds were gusting between 7 and 19 mph making those temperatures feel at least 4 degrees colder.

Not only are there a lot of geese gathered here
(aunts & uncles, I think)
there is no snow!

Bill took the garbage bag and recycle bin down to the road first thing then we had our morning brews together and caught up on our friends’ blog postings. Today, it is the birthday of two of our daughters. Isn’t that wild? My oldest offspring and Bill’s youngest are celebrating. Fourteen years exactly between them. They get along really well too, although they don’t see a lot of each other. Just the way it is with step-sisters sometimes.

Happy Birthday, beautiful Jessica

Since we’d just seen Jess yesterday, I texted her 'Happy Happy' wishes and I called Bridgette. She started back to work today, actually going in to her office so we knew she’d be up and weren't surprised that she was in already at 8:30. 

One of my favourite pictures of Bridgette and I

She was the first to tell us that she drove on snow-covered highways and had a white ground at her business. It is always nice to hear her voice and laughter. Sometimes, I miss her so much, our one on ones, that my heart pangs. She's all 'growed' up.

Happy Birthday, Beautiful Bridgette

When we finished wishing the girls a great day, I got my cross stitch out and Bill took the small bathroom heater down to the Hangar. He planned on being down there most of the day so I suggested he take it with him. I love that he is so keen on the plane he’s working on; it makes him happy and as long as he is warm, he can work away at his own pace and I'm happy too.

the daffodils are incredibly hardy, even through the snow

Inside, it doesn’t seem like I’m making much progress on the cross stitch but I know I am. Plus, it is keeping me busy at something other than reading. At noon, I started breakfast, er, lunch. I wasn’t going to wait so long but Bill was in the middle of gluing and needed not to have the interruption in the middle. We had our bacon and eggs with toast and after dishes, we parted ways again. I’m lucky as I can stay inside where it is warm.

My lamium plants are starting to flower
Newly planted on the Ridge last summer/fall

Around 2:30, I pushed myself to bundle up and go fill the 3 bird feeders, check the mail and bring the recycle bin back up. Gol’ darn! It is bitter cold out there and I was very happy to get back inside. I made myself a cup of tea around 3:30 and carried on stitching away. For supper, it will be a surprise as I haven’t planned anything. It seems whatever I think to make, I’m missing an ingredient or two. After all that shopping! LOL

A picture, just because I love the view from up here

The rest of the afternoon slipped by and before we knew it, the sun was out in full force. It didn’t mean things warmed up much though. It didn’t reach 5C/40F at all today, maybe 3C/37F but still quite windy. 

These winds never let up today

When Bill came up, I was watching an hour long program of Little House on the Prairie, which I haven’t seen in forever, so he went upstairs for a short snooze until it was over. We watched NCIS until it was time to make supper.

Supper was easy and tasted quite yummy

That consisted of macaroni and cheese with mini sausages and it took no time at all to get it ready. After dishes, we had room for dessert so had some Chapman’s Caramel Praline. I had half a banana with mine and it was delicious. We haven’t had ice cream for a while. We watched some Counts Kustoms and then The Voice while recording the finale of 9-1-1. It was a good day and after this very very cold  -6C/25F night, we are looking forward the second coming of spring.

Have a good night!

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