A picture perfect place to be

My brother has been at my parents mowing and made reference to the back yard. It is a beautiful place, and everytime we go home we always take pictures of their beach sunsets and their backyard. Enjoy!

The heat is on

Well, the heat is on here.

We had two weeks of on and off rain, and it made the lawns go crazy and grow grow grow, so we had to mow mow mow. Finally on the weekend it became nice enough that we could actually plant some of our veggies and start digging out the new flower beds that we (actually I) want. So in went tomatoes, spinach, onions, garlic, beets and snow peas. Sometime mid week, last week, I planted 2 blueberry bushes that I got for Mother's Day (yes, I really wanted them), and I planted another strawberry bush in out little patch. It looks like this year our strawberries are going to produce more than the one we got last year. Our biggest challenge before harvesting time is to try and keep the bunnies away from the sweet goodness.

Next up is to try and get the flower beds in shape. The area where we live in, you either belong to two camps, the camp that is fanatical about gardening and how dare a dandelion think to grow on your property, or the camp that just does not give a hoot, and let everything go wild. The wild bunch are few and far between, and we live on a street with flower power people. Top that off, our neighbour believes in cutting his lawn twice a week, so ours ALWAYS looks long no matter what we do. So it boils down to us just doing what we can when we can, so maybe I will go pull a few weeds ....

Thought for the day
June is around the corner and II can almost taste the warm from the garden strawberries.......

Happy Mother's day

Happy Mother's day to all the mom's out there!

A fun get together

We had a get together this past weekend of people that used to work with hubby 16 years ago. It was fun and interesting in many different ways.

The first being, how has everyone changed in appearance. Some of these people we have seen on and off over the years, but some we have not seen in quite some time. Everyone looks pretty much the same, maybe a little heavier and greyer, but still the same.

The second, is most of us have families. We are all in different stages of child rearing, and it is interesting to watch different styles of parenting. Our children's ages ranged from teenage years, to the age of 18 months. Most of us with the older children are long past the years of chasing your kids around to make sure that they are not into everything. As I watched the mom chase her littlest one around, I could not help but remember that time and am awfully thankful that I am past it.

The third and maybe the thing that shows the new economy is this, of the seven people who worked at this big high tech company, hubby is the only one who has worked there for the past 16 years. Two guys are unemployed and have not found jobs, two are back at school, one went somewhere else, got laid off and is back working at the big company again, and one has totally given up looking. Yep, new economy. The two guys who went to school again are studying in a different field altogether. Interesting eh (okay, I am showing my Canadian roots). We are just a small sampling of the 40 k that was laid off.

All in all we had fun catching up and plan to do it again soon, maybe a pool party. Hopefully by then, more of our group will be employed.