Sunday.........

 

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Hubby's birthday today, celebrating with family, so a happy day for us.  Hope it's a lovely day for you!

Sorry for the lack of interaction this past week we have been away in Ottawa. Things will be back to normal on Tuesday.

New addition to our Front Porch......

For Father's Day, our son and family, bought him an "Adirondack" chair for the front porch.  As you can see it is a Football/Soccer themed one, in honour of the 2026 world cup.  It's made of a super heavy duty plastic and weighs a ton!!!  Which doesn't make me as worried to leave it on the front porch and someone walking away with it.

As we liked it, son suggested he would buy us a matching Canada one, as our Christmas gift.  We said yes and it arrived a couple of weeks ago.

I generally find these Adirondack/Muskoka chairs uncomfortable; however these ones are not as far back and the legs suit my shorter legs....LOL

They are Canadian made and very unique.

Wasp's nest............

 Can you see it?

There it is peeking in between the leaves.......

We go walking past this tree quite often and never noticed it until a couple of weeks ago.  There were plenty of wasps flying around.

I kept well back, as I am not a fan of wasps!

Handkerchief......

 Now that's a word you don't seen used very often nowadays, do you?

It used to be a standard gift for men at Christmas.  Remember getting your dad or grandad them with his initial on them?  My nana always had a cloth hankie up her sleeve or tucked into her waistband of her skirt.  She always used to spit on it, to wipe your face...icky I know!!! 🤣🤣  Now I use the dish cloth on my grand kids!!

The other day I was doing laundry and I pulled one out of the dryer.  Was surprised to see it, and it was one of hubby's.  He had tucked it into his pocket when golfing..........yes I know I didn't check his pockets before throwing his trousers in the wash!!

So as it is cloth, I had to iron it:

Honestly I didn't realize we still had cloth hankies in the house.

Is that something you use or have in your home?

Do you remember this?

 

Barry White popped up in my video's on Facebook and then I remembered about this.  Used to love Ally McBeal.  Did you enjoy the series?

Tim Horton's and the NHL Hockey season.............

I know why on earth am I talking about that!!!  I hate hockey; I'd rather watch paint dry, but when the NHL hockey season starts so does the Tim Horton's NHL Challenge.  I posted about it here before.

So the season starts on September 29th, and that's when you get a chance to guess who is going to score for teams that they list.  If you guess correctly you win points which add up to free product.  

If you look back at that last paragraph you will see the word "GUESS" twice, as honestly I don't have a clue who is who in the hockey world; but for some reason I am usually quite successful in getting points.  If you get get points every day for a week, then they give you free coffee for a week......I mean it's a win, win situation if you ask me.

I know some people study up on the players; okay if that's your thing.  My picks are generally on whose name I like the sound of that day.  It annoys the heck out of devoted hockey fans I know, but who cares, as long as I get points and free coffee!!

Have you seen the price of coffee recently it's so flipping expensive, so if I can get free coffee I am a happy camper, and believe me in Canada there is a Tim Hortons coffee shop just around most corners.  Within a five minute drive from our house I have the choice of a minimum of 3 Tim Hortons, and within a ten minute drive a further two more stores, oh and there is also a one at the gas station I forgot about that one!!

We Canadians love our coffee shops!!

Terrible progress with the Robin's

Back on the 18th of August, I posted about my newest cross stitch project here.  Here is what I have achieved........

I am not loving doing this for some reason.  I think it's too many colour changes that I am finding annoying?  Anyway, I will plough on with it.

I have however got everything hunted out for the Halloween sew along and am pleased to say that only consists of three colours, so should be simple enough:

Also super pleased I had everything on hand to start sewing without having to go out and buy things.  I know I have more black thread somewhere, just need to find it!