The View from Here....

So this is what I was looking at earlier this afternoon when I was taking a break. Well...this is what I would see if my eyes were open but I nodded off. Perfect day for the hammock....you recall that sci-fi looking contraption I got last summer. Worth every penny!!!!

It has been a busy few months and I seem to be falling into this posting once per month pattern. Work gets in the way of all my free time and the warm weather lures me out of doors. I also spent some quality time hoeing today. Actually swoe-ing is a better description. This is the "swoe" from Lee Valley and it is this most wonderful gardening tool EVER. My Dad would have loved it!! One can either pull or push with it since the blade has a bevelled edge all around. I have actually been looking forward to tidying the church flower beds this season, since it takes no work at all with the right equipment. Again...worth every penny!

Lots of new and exciting things are happening in our household these days. A few months ago I was nominated to stand for election to the school Board of Trustees and have since been elected by the membership and attended my first board meeting last night. Really neat! Before the meeting we were asked to assess our skill set and interests so that we could take on committee duties that suited us. I took on the interesting task of Strathroy board rep for the high school and will sit on the high school board as well. I have done a lot of praying about this and really felt that both these steps were directions that God was leading me to go. It is totally overwhelming of course, but I am confident that as I head into this, one step at a time, that God will give me exactly what I stand in need of. So there is a lot of peace to go with that overwhelming....

This morning I finished my work at church fairly early since I got so much done yesterday....and you know how some days you are WAY more productive than other days....so i was able to go home, get a few things done, and pack Kevin's first load! Kevin's mom asked me to send his winter things home and the things he no longer needs or wears. Kevin's parents and little brother are coming to Canada to pick Kevin up after school is finished at the end of June. They will be in Strathroy for one day and then they'll be on their way to tour the rest of the country, including the Rockies!! Kevin will only have to lug one suitcase with summer clothes around, with room for souvenirs of course!! :) I cleaned out his cupboard full of little boys things too, you know the things they pick up and collect here and there, little surprises, little fast food toys, hockey cards, prizes, and toys.... Lots of fun...but a little sad...because it also marks the end of a season for us. It is interesting because at the same time a new season already seems to have begun. Things begin and end all the time, whether we are ready for them or not. In the end it all depends what things you will remember and dwell on. You have a choice, you MAKE a choice. It is not a passive thing, it is something that you are involved in. You can dwell on the negative things or the positive things....and that is a key to finding joy and contentment in life.

That and a hammock.....

A whole month...almost

I can't believe that it has been almost a whole month since I last posted!! I have falled off the face of the cyberworld for a while. I shall be honest to say that it was a good thing. I haven't made cards or anything, but I did continue to make melon muffins! Finally made those fruit explosion ones with the berries, but they weren't quite as tasty as the melon ones:):)

We are heading into sports season for which all the lads are VERY enthusiastic. Craig has soccer and Joe and Kev have baseball. I am off to yoga tonight, which I've been going to for all of April and will continue to the end of May. It's soooooo good, my whole body feels good and I have much less pain. I don't have a LOT of pain for the most part, but my back can act up once in a while. The gentle toning and strengthening from yoga helps SOOOO much. Ray is paddling in Algoquin right now, surely getting a work out of his own!

So that's what we're up to....oh yeah...and the boys are planting a garden. Nothing of that nature is easy. They have been working at turning the soil, which is great, but what do you do with the sod once you have filled all the dead patches in the lawn? We don't have a shed to hide a giant compost pile behind and the composter is already full. Can you believe that we have to take it to the dump???? They have a brush pile there. Or else we have to put it in a garbage bag by the road.....I just can't send grass to landfill. Once the sod is turned you have to add some good earth, which someone dropped off out of the goodness of their heart. But....we are not alone in this neighbourhood. Many cute little herbivorous bunnies live here too. And they like gardens....a lot! So we need a bunny fence. I bought chicken wire and "step-in-posts" with hooks made just for wire. (I'd whip some up in my welding shop but ....you know...) $100 later..... Well, the boys are going to be able to do it all by themselves. (I'll be sitting on the deck with a coffee and a muffin!) And...this week in the paper they advertised a kids' garden contest put on by the Horticulture Society. They supply the seeds and you get to go to a meeting every month with a little field trip attached. Sounds like fun to me.

I'd take a picture but my camera is in a water proof case in the bush. The thousand words will have to do.....


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