First rhubarb.......

Picked my first rhubarb of the season on Monday.

Had some strawberries, so stewed them with the rhubarb, added some sweetener.

Stewed rhubarb and strawberries............

Perfect with plain yogurt or sugar free pudding...........

Also perfect start to the Summer season.........

New type of puzzle for me.........

 I was given this puzzle for Mother's Day:

It's not something I have done before.............

As you can see by the photo below it does not look like the picture on the box.

I would describe it as putting a puzzle together without a picture.  I approached it by putting like colours together and going from there.  It took nearly a week to complete this.  I will say I did enjoy doing it, it was just different............

Written by Belgian's, sung in English by a Swedish lady, about Spain.......

Very cosmopolitan........I was listening to the rewind on the radio and they were featuring this year........1974.....it was in the UK charts for over 6 months.........

If only...........

I had 1.2 million pounds and was 20 years younger...........

Click on the link to view what I would love.......Harbour Island.

There was even an article about it featured on the Daily Mail UK, here.

If only............right!

Interesting video for me........

When we first moved to Canada, we moved to Brampton, Ontario.  That was back in 1989.  We live over an hour away, north of Brampton now.  The city has multiplied in size at an alarming rate.  What was farmland back then, is now subdivisions.  The crime rate has shot up.  What made us move out of the area, was they moved a lot of people from the "poorer" area's of Toronto to Brampton and that included a lot of gang members, albeit, younger people in their teens.  The crime rate shot up and we just didn't feel as safe.  We had an attempted break in at our house, and multiple people had their homes broken into...........and nine times out of ten, it was people in their teens.

Now we still have our family doctor in Brampton, so have to come down every now and then to see him.  Thankfully we can also do telephone appointments with him now also.  But the Brampton we moved to in 1989, has long gone.  We loved living in Brampton back in the day, but now, no thank you!

Happy Mail..............

A while back I got an email from Bath and Bodyworks and they were advertising a collab between themselves and Vera Bradley.  For those of you outside of North America, Vera Bradley is a brand that sells gorgeous quilted fabric bags, amongst other things.  I have loved Vera Bradley products for years and have had numerous bags from the brand.  So of course I was interested in what Bath and Bodyworks was selling.

I got another email I think a week or so ago and saw a couple of things that I thought I would buy, including a gift pack in a Vera Bradley tote bag they were selling.  So of course I ordered it, as I am not sure when we will be back in the States, and I can't get Vera Bradley here in Canada.

On Wednesday afternoon Purolator delivered this box:

Lots of fun info on the box.......great way to get their info out there.

And here it is the Vera Bradly tote bag, what a fun print.

Inside was this box.......I know what peach smells like, not sure what nectar smells like though?

Inside the box was body wash, body spray, foaming hand soap, body lotion and a three wick candle.  If you enjoy a fruity smell you will love this set.  You can see it here.

While browsing through the site, they also had a "picnic basket" gift set, which has since sold out and is no longer on the site.  The box was so cute.

Inside was a bumble bee wall flower holder, a fresh cut lilacs wallflower insert, a fresh cut lilacs 3 wick candle.  A fresh cut lilacs hand sanitizer, a picnic basket hand sanitizer holder, which is as cute as a button.  A gorgeous gingham body cream and body spray.  

I was so happy with it all and all are very useful items............

If you do a search on my blog, you will see numerous posts with Vera Bradley bags!

Question for you................

If I broke into your home and stole what was on top of your fridge what would I get to take home?

(other than jail time for breaking and entering!!!)

By the way, if you did it at our house, you would take away dust.....and I would thank you!!!😉

(top of my fridge)