When I woke up on Victoria Day
Monday, May 22 I was not surprised that it was another dull one. Nor was I surprised that I’d slept in until 8 am after the night I had. I didn’t get up
but woke several times coughing and turning to find a comfy position. I feel a
little better this morning so that is a good thing. Maybe the mullein tea
helped after all.
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| Cleaning up around some plants |
Bill was up within 30 minutes but his
excuse is his late bedtime yet again. What crazy hours he keeps! He dozes in
the evening which enables him to stay up into the wee hours of the morning.
When I’m tired, I go to bed, preferring to wake up by 7. At least, retired, we
can sleep or rise whenever we want.
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| I knew I'd planted some corabelle up here on the hill |
The Weather Network says only 30%
rain today and a teensy peek at sunshine (where? The sky is completely gray).
The winds are still going to be the issue, around 20 mph with 30 mph gusts but
I should still be able to get my flowers potted today. Is this spring or fall?
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| The rain from yesterday has almost flooded the turtle log |
We had our morning coffee and tea and
when I had a coughing fit while reading blogs, Bill suggested a teaspoon of
Benylin Cough Syrup. I don’t usually like taking this stuff, not having much
faith in them but it seemed to do the trick. Instantly! We each had a bowl of
oatmeal for breakfast around 10 and were encouraged to get outside since it
wasn’t raining.
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| Adding some colour to The Ridge |
Bill is working on putting plexiglass
in the screen window of the bunky door. He wants to be able to slide it shut so the outside doors don’t have to be closed if someone chooses to
leave them open. The two other windows in there have screens and windows that
open as well.
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| the entrance to the corral |
While he did that, I potted my
plants. Since my pots were large ones, I planted a red geranium, a white
geranium and a yellow daisy-like flower in each pot. The name on it says Yellow Evol but
upon searching that flower, it is non-existent. Weird. It closes up overnight
which is kind of human.
I had one red geranium left and knew
exactly where it would find a bed. I had pulled a stump out of the wood pile
after Gerry had a big tree cut down. The tree was at the edge of the Y of the laneway just where we needed to make the turn with our Suite. Because we’d noticed it
was a dead tree in the first place and secondly it was on a scary lean. Just
enough for us to be concerned about it scraping the fiver.
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| The Y up our lane |
This stump appealed to me because it
had a hole in the centre of one end and I wanted to either sit a small pot in
there or plant right in the hole. This is what I did and placed it at the V of
the corral to welcome guests. Without even planning to I have prepared for
Canada’s 150th with the red and white. I chose the yellow flower
because it was as close to a sunflower as I could find. For Daddy.
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| Ellie May and Clemson do the dance |
Clemson and I took our daily walk
down the lane and into the front field. He still is intrigued by the open gate
to the road so I needed to constantly watch him. We raced around a bit and then
back up the lane to see Bill. Even though I had put my gardening gloves away, I
found myself bending over the garden pulling weeds.
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| Close up of the ole gal |
I hate doing that but was too
distracted to go get them again. I checked my fingernails and they were already
gathering dirt so carried on for another 45 min before walking away. I sprayed
the dandelions and other weeds popping up in the gravel parking area with my
vinegar solution. Some pulled out easily with the rain. I was done pulling and came in for my shower.
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| Chocolate Chip Cookies |
Bill joined me inside for some lunch. He had a sandwich and I nibbled on cheese and yogourt. Time to bake! My two boys
slept in the chair and I made 3 dozen chocolate chip cookies from a recipe
Donna gave me for convection ovens. So far, I hadn’t had much luck baking this
cookie in here.
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| Apple Crisp |
They turned out quite nice actually,
I just had to turn the baking sheet half way through cooking since the turntable had to be turned off. For some reason, one side cooks faster than the other. Bill and
Clemson taste-tested them and I got a passing grade. 👍
My favourite dessert, besides
cheesecake, is Apple Crisp so with a frozen pack of the apples I picked here last fall,
I made a pan of that and before putting stuff away, made a pan of Oatmeal
Butter Squares, an old 4H recipe I enjoy. While the butter squares were baking,
I made a cup of mullein tea and sat down to catch up here.
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| A 4H recipe from wayyyy back Oatmeal Butter Squares |
Bill and I sat and watched some tv together,
we enjoy American Pickers and before I realized, the day was passing
and it was time to get supper. I fried up 2 pork chops in bacon fat and made us
each a salad. Our dessert was apple crisp and ice cream. Yummy.
The sun has made an appearance a few
times but it wasn’t until 6 o’clock that the sky turned blue and the sun took
over. By 7 our temperature actually reached 16C. Briefly. I’m surprised to see
our flag hanging straight down with barely a wave touching its folds.
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| Sunday night sunset |
I wanted to finish my post up before
8 because the finale of The Voice is on tonight and we have been
following it since it started. That didn't happen, it is on and I'm watching it from in front of my laptop. I thought that instead of waiting for today’s sunset, I would leave you with last night’s shot.
However, when I looked outside, I knew I had to capture tonight's as well. Enjoy!
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| Goodnight Victoria Day weekend from the Ridge |
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