Thursday

We  woke up to RAIN...YEAY!!!

 And happy 21st anniversary chocolate :)

 And then coffee, in another one of my favourite cups.

 "Raindrops on roses..." well....red lillies from my MIL's old house.

 ...and on the Siberian iris....

 We have a bad habit.  We leave shoes by every door and stairway.   The downside is that it creates clutter (..of which I am not a fan!) but the upside?  there are always shoes by the door when you need to dash outside for a moment....when your hands are full with the laundry basket  or you just need a tomato from the garden...

 This is what the counter looks like when my teenagers cook their own lunch.    Upside?  Cooking for self is a life skill.  Next step?   Cleanup is part of "playing" and cooking!!

Below are photos of myself and my honey baby.    It was our anniversary yesterday and our eldest took a photo.  I actually love the photo of myself.  I can't say that very often and I know very few people who enjoy taking their own photo.    I had left my setting on continuous shooting and while the preceding 2 shots show me with my mouth in various talking poses...this is of me getting a kick out it.    And then my honey baby came out for a moment.    21 years and it still gets better everyday.    Good times.  

Wednesday

How can a person possibly eat oatmeal for breakfast when the first thing you smell is eggs!  Mmmmmm. With fresh ground pepper.
And coffee in a favourite mug.   Each time I drink from this mug I think about a fly-in canoe trip that I went on last summer. 

I ALWAYS listen to music at work. I think if I was going to be stranded on a planet on the outer edges of our known universe, that I would bring this Phillips, Craig & Dean CD!  Favourite track? Be The Praise of My Heart...
The praise of my heart
The worship I bring
The life that I live
Is the song that I sing
Let it be real
Each note that I play
Every moment of every day...
Be the praise of my heart

This afternoon we had to go to the dentist...The tv was tuned to HGTV :)  Little B was mesmerized by the aquarium.    Me tooo!

Our last stop was the library and Little B and I were looking for a book or three to take home.   I loved reading Dr Suess to the boys. I forgot how much fun we had reading the silly nonsense over and over and over again.  Just seeing the title brought back good times I hadn't thought of in a long time.  It  reminded me that doing WITL will help me remember today's stories...just by documenting them.  

Garlic and basil shrimp and new potatoes. I grow a few herbs in pots and love cooking with them. And if you can grow an African violet then you can grow herbs :)

End of the day.  This is the view from my seat at the kitchen table. I can see my gardens and the pots on my deck.  Strategically placed for my maximum enjoyment!!  The little things you might not otherwise notice. Joe's glove is still on the ledge and there is a cup of dogfood beside it. He was playing catch with Little B and they have to bribe Blixie, the other wise slumbering Springer Spaniel, with kibble to give up the ball. The patch on the door is courtesy of the pup too...but she has now figured out how to open it with her nose. She just....forgets to close it. The grass is blonde. In the spring it is green but after three weeks without rain growing on pure sand....it dries up.  When we walk on it...it just breaks off.  In the spring we cut it three times in one week and now we cut it one time in three weeks.

I wonder what tomorrow will bring....:)   First thing?  Orthodontist appointments. No aquarium.

Tuesday

I work at my church, Westmount, and really like being the caretaker...it was fun taking my camera to work for the first time and looking around through my lens.  Today was garbage day :) 

At 10ish we break for coffee with who ever happens to be in the building...my colleagues, service technicians...and landscape contractors.  Nice job on the mulch guys!

Our sanctuary...I work AND worship here :)  I think you can worship God with your gifts and abilities everywhere you work.  

 And then home for lunch.   Ham, egg, and cheese wraps and milk.  It was nice and cool so I ate out on the deck.  

The bounty of my garden. Every year I love my garden and every year it is different.   I love how it changes from year to year.  This is my first year growing Zucchini.  They're monsters!    Remember: August 8 is "Sneak Some Zucchini Onto Your Neighbour's Porch" Night!!!

This week I'm taking photos and sorting and posting my favourites.   Yesterday I took 62 photos and have put the ones I want to process into a separate folder for the end of the week.   

I find that I have large stretches of unaccounted time on my journal sheets. :)  This reflects my penchant for surfing and finding inspiration in other places, and the fact that I have a REALLY good book on the go!!