Wordless Wednesday... crashed

Wordless Wednesday... where's my boy?

A little garden mischief...

I'm getting really ticked off with the cat, he's lying on top of my newly planted stuff, don't know what is attracting him to this spot, but it's annoying.  I've removed all my overbloomed tulips, Martha says we should treat them as annuals and dig them up every year.  I've decided to try, since my backyard tulips were very inexpensive, It will be my little Martha experiment.  I think I might plant a moth ball with them next fall to defeat the squirrels. So now to remove the cat... 

This week, I finished reading 2 Charles Todd books, The Impartial Witness, and The Confession, review to follow.  Up next Prayers for Sale.  Another busy week, with my sisters gone off sunning themselves, my visits with my mom are more frequent.  And then the other stuff is still there to do as well, pray for strength and a good nights sleep.  I've lost a couple of old roses this past winter, so I'll need to think of filling that gap, and my husband has been out in the pond this p.m. so I'm sure I'll need to replace a tree or two.  Handy Andy just doesn't know how to tip toe through the tulips.  Our paint for a cure painting adventure raised $1,850 for breast cancer research.  I was so nervous about the time, I think I may have caught the last bus home.  I had a very courteous bus driver, he waited while I caught my connection, just in case.  Most unusual. 

Have a great week, I may be a little absent over the next bit.

Sunday Salon... Pet pride.

Don't you wish you had the life of a cat?  Well maybe you could be my youngest, who's off school for a month, and has a similar lifestyle.  Sunday Salon finds me in the laundry room.  I went to mass yesterday, since I was too exhausted from being a kitchen maid for my guys.  Saturday does that to me.  All of a sudden they're hungry all day long.  So by the time everyone left for afternoon shifts I was beat.  Thought I'd spend some quiet time with our Lord.  It worked.  So today I must pay the piper, and do laundry.  I'll spend the day down there, since that is my studio as well.  I really need to go through some supplies and books,  and clear my table.  Next week my little grand-niece is going to be 2 and I've still to give her,her growth chart.  So that's on my list this week.  FINISH IT!  I'm happy to say that, that has been the story of the week, a number of my projects are coming to the Finish line, I'm mostly watching varnish dry.  I finished reading The House at Tyneford,  you'll have to wait for the read a long to end at the end of the month to see if I liked it. Still have not found a suitable frame for a very tiny silhouette piece I have.  Apparently custom is not doing little.  I may have to do it myself.  Oh I was so hoping I could just buy one.   I'm not sure I'm up for another creative adventure.  I'll be reading The Hunger Games this week.  Am I the only one in the world who hasn't read this and The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.  And if that wonderful rain stops some time soon, I'll be going out to mark my tulips. I have a few that are almost done blooming and I want to move them to their own area for next year, and I need to remember what colour and height they were.  My tulips at the front of the house were savagely removed by Squirrels, if I were not a creature loving person, boy oh boy would those rodents be in for a battle.  Out of 100 bulbs, I maybe have 6 still there.  I cannot put traps down, that's just inhumane.  What are you up to in your Salon today?

I'm linking my sleeping beauty in to Pet Pride today, and Sunday Salon hosted by Alyce.

Sunday Salon...

watching the tulips grow

Sunday morning usually finds me making omelettes and bacon and toast and stuff, it's the weekend breakfast-catch up with your kid morning, but this morning with losing an hour of  sleep we just had toaster strudel. I can't believe it's spring already, I'd just put away Christmas.  TODAY I must write Easter greetings to send off to Europe, and a few birthday greetings, and condolence cards I've forgotten about.  I usually have my painting projects grouped seasonally, but his year I'm reeeeallly behind.  I'll be continuing my reading of The Yellow House, after our deep discussion on Owen Sheridan and Eileen, I turned the page, and it was as if someone had smacked me up side the head. So now I NEED to know.  Roast Beef for dinner and the usual gigantic pot of soup for the weeks adventures.  It's March break here in Canada, so I'll be off for the week with friendship adventures.  I need a spring coat, so I'm hoping to get my sister to do a proper fitting on me, so I can continue, I think I may have grown since I last tried it on, it's been in the works for awhile, and my sewing group just don't know how to do it.  It's March so that also means I'll be continuing to read Irish Authors and since I still can't buy any books TBR challenge, I'll be reading all the Maeve Binchy novels I haven't read yet.  I'm helping to plan a mammoth book sale so once they've been read off the shelf they go.  I figure if I have more than one empty shelf, that will justify my purchase of a Kobo.  (which my Valentine didn't surprise me with).