Horse wearing sunglasses, a baby with a tattoo, what next?

Actually the horses are not wearing sunglasses, they are to keep the flies from their eyes, but they do look like sunglasses.  That is UTI by the way, looking well looked after and groomed now.

Our little Princess got her first tattoo on Saturday, so cute; they were attending a children's birthday party.  She also go her ears pierced this week as well.  She's wearing a Mothercare bib, I always loved that store when my two were babies.

The trees are in full bloom and so are my allergies!!!  Luckily I use the Life Brand ones from Shopper's Drug Mart so not as expensive.  Paid $20 for 48 days yesterday.  Ontario is a hot bed for allergies our doctor was saying. 

I have used up all my storage space with Photobucket.  Any ideas what other free photo storage is out there?

Recipe and other things......

Made Lentil Stew on Sunday for Monday's supper and put the leftovers in the freezer for another meal:

The recipe is here.  This is both suitable for Vegetarians and Vegans; so Jane when you come over guess what you'll be eating!!!


Mrs. January wrote an article over at Save A Loonie about "Why You Shouldn't Watch Extreme Couponing."  It is well worth the read especially for those of us in Canada, as there is no way we can walk out of a store with $1,000 worth of groceries and only pay $10 for it all.  Now feel free to correct me if you know someone that has done that, I would love to meet them!!!  I had heard about the fraudulent use of coupons by one person on the show, but it explains it step by step what she was supposed to have done.


We had a couple of larger animals wandering around close to the house on Saturday night. They were probably coyotes by the size of prints in the snow. They don't normally come as close as this though.


This photo is directly behind the house:

This photo is looking towards the raspberry patch:

Yes, the rows of dead looking twigs are 6 of the 8 rows of my raspberry patch.  It always amazes me how they come back to life each year.

Gone over my limit with photo bucket this month, so that's what's wrong with the photos on my blog; or should I say lack of them.  They should be up and running again in a couple of days.

Finally a really nice sunset on Sunday evening:

Photos...

I went over my limit this month on Photobucket and that is why there are no photos on my blog at the moment.  They should be back up and running on the 20th (tomorrow), I hope.  Meanwhile I opened a Flikr account and wanted to share some photos with you from a garden centre we went to last week.  The place is all set up for Christmas:

No snow on the ground where we are, but go another half an hour north and you'll find plenty!!  Going to help dh clean out the gutters this morning, need to wrap up well as it will be chilly!!

Advent Calendars and other stuff

One of the things my kids look forward to each year is receiving an Advent Calender from my mother in England.  Now granted they are nearly 27 and 25, but Christmas just wouldn't be the same without the Cadbury's Advent Calender.  They haven't arrived yet, but I am assured they are on their way. 

Now one year my mother thought she would pay a bit more for the calender's and buy the mixed chocolate one.  When dd started to open the windows out would pop these fruit and nut chocolates and the nut chocolates.  She was horrified as none of us like currents, sultanas and raisins.  She was even amazed when my mother told her that Cadbury's Fruit and Nut Chocolate was one of the best selling chocolate in Britain.  As dd said she couldn't even give way those chocolates.

So now my mother just sticks with the plain Cadbury's chocolate.  As I have told my mother, don't bother sending them, as it costs her more to mail them than it does to buy them, but she still insists and both my kids (the little stinkers) keep saying to her that Christmas wouldn't be the same without Nana sending over those Advent Calendars!!

Now the chocolates in these advent calendar's are so tiny it's crazy.  However when I was over at Shirley's blog she had come up with a novel advent calender for a chocolate lover like myself.  Pop over and have a look and you'll see why I thought it was just the best.

I spent a couple of hours on Tuesday morning catching up on people's blogs.  I think I got most people visited; but if I missed you would you yell at me!!

So I have figured out a way of uploading photos onto my blog again.  It's a bit of a pain, but not sure what else to do.  I am loading them onto Photobucket and going from there.

So in celebration of the fact I have figured out how to do this, here is a photo of Molly.  She has stinky ears again at the moment, so I am putting ear drops in her.  Must say stinky ears are a regular occurrence with her and she is not a fan of having drops put in her ears!!

Her stomach is also not happy with all the scratching.  I must remember to get some baby oil next time I am out to see if that will help.