The Ridge
On
Monday, May 11th, 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!
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Have a good night! |
Thank you
for stopping around!