Halloween Cross Stitch

I finally got this project finished.  I should have taken it on vacation with me, but I didn't.  Quite pleased with it.  Got it ironed and put away.  I will hunt it out next year and display it.

Thanks Durene Jones for the pattern.  

Did you know?

 

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I will say I didn't know half of these.  I found it hard to believe that bananas are a berry? So I looked it up:

Why Bananas Qualify as Berries

Botanically, a true berry is defined as a fleshy fruit that:

• Develops from one flower with one ovary
• Has a soft, fleshy pericarp (exocarp, mesocarp, endocarp)
• Contains one or more seeds embedded in the flesh

You learn something new everyday!

Remembrance Day..........

 

Benjamin Moore 2027 Colour Trends

 

I will say I don't hate it; however I don't love it either.  Webster Green has to be my favourite colour in the palette.  What are your thoughts?

Barbara these are for you...........

Barbara over at Should We Stay or Should We Go has just been on vacation and she mentioned on their cruise they called in at Jamaica.  I was saying on that particular day, I watched two cruise ships sail past  our hotel and took photos of them.  Here they are:

It was neat to watch them sail by and they were huge.  While we were in the pool that day I got talking to two couples who were on one of the ships.  They paid to come to our resort for the day.  They arrived at 8am and left at 3pm.  I think they paid around $150 US each or was it a couple (?) for the day and that included all meals and facilities.  Personally if it was each that was expensive, for a couple not as bad.

What was funny with these guys was they were from Tennessee and our talk turned to politics and they were saying how bad things were, but yes they voted for Trump????  They had also had an opportunity to hear him speak for 2 hours and he was a very funny guy?  Really nice folk and very interesting on what they had to say.

Another lady in the pool I was talking to asked where we were from and when I said "British born Canadians," she said "I am so sorry."  She was apologizing for the Orange one, which was funny!!!

There was a lot of British in the resort, as it was half term in the UK.  Along with Canadians and Americans.  There were a few from Eastern Europe as well, but mainly North Americans.

Thought I was going to start World War 3

The morning after we arrived in Jamaica it was a lovely morning and we thought we'd have a walk on the beach before breakfast.  There was a pier at one end of the beach so we headed for that.  Along the way we met a couple of people who it turned out were beach vendors.

Being the talkative person that I am, they said hello, and I said hello back and they proceeded to try and sell us stuff.  We got to the pier and one guy had got there before us and he was talking to another guy, his friend who was also a beach vendor.

This guy proceeded to ask us where we were from and I gave my usual answer:

"We're British born Canadians."

This guy then went on a rant about how he hated the British.  How it was their fault the Jamaican's had suffered through slavery and on, and on he went............

Hubby and I just stood there with our mouths open wondering what the heck was happening. 

Meanwhile, the other guy was telling him to shut up and they got into it.  A security guard was walking by and I was telling her what was going on, and she was shouting at this guy telling him he was crazy.

We walked off at this point, back up the beach to the hotel.

Fast forward to the next morning, we go for the same walk and meet the same guys, including the one that hates the British.  He says hello to me, and I tell him I'm not talking to him as he hates the British!

He then swears up and down that he loves the British and he never said he hated them..........

I walk off as I am done with this guy.  As I would discover later on, he was probably as high as a kite on drugs, which were in abundance and could be purchased on the beach from other beach vendors 😡

Suffice to say I wasn't impressed with these beach vendors.  They harassed you to no end when you were on the beach.  They didn't understand the word no!  Yes it's a way of making an income and I ended up buying a couple of bracelets off one to leave me alone.  I complained to security and the hotel about them, as there were big notices posted about no vendors on the beach???

We never encountered this problem in the Dominican, maybe we were lucky?

Photos from Ottawa......

These are odds and ends of photos from Ottawa, that I didn't include in any of my other posts.

We walked back and forth over this bridge to go the Canadian Museum of History.

I love me some Gingerbread on a house, the decorations that is.  This is a beautiful example of it.  

These butterflies were in the Museum of Nature, what wonderful colours they are.  This is called "Pinning,' when you mount them into frames like this.

These are jelly fish in a tank, also at the Museum of Nature.