Hope you are all having a great day...
We had a wonderful day with our Miss V yesterday...♥️
She particularly loved blowing the Dandelion fluffs....made her giggle!
She collected a small bouquet for her Mom...
And remembered them...by the front door... as she was leaving...♥️
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We are on our way to the cottage for a few days...
Supposed to be a glorious weekend....
Must get my baskets planted up...and...
Soak up the lakeside... :o)
See you all later....
Cheers! :o)
linda
Hope you are all having a great day...
Miss V asleep in the other room.....♥️♥️♥️
Going out for dinner....yay!!!
Cheers! :o)
linda
Friday nights have been very important around here....
For a very long time...
Time to eat by candlelight...in the dining room...
Listen to music...eat something special!
We have been doing this since our kids were little...
Mom and Dad's time...catching up with the week...discussing plans...
You get the picture!
Even since all of our kids have moved out...
We still reserve Friday nights for....US...time to relax...enjoy...chat...
And....last Friday night was no exception...although we would have rather been at the Cottage!
We had homemade Pizza...well...almost homemade...I bought the crust!
It is from ACE bakeries...lovely and chewy, with herbs and olive oil...
The perfect setting to build one of our custom order Pizzas!
Ingredients are prety darn simple...
Olive oil on the bottom and top of the crust...
Sliced tomatoes...sauteed mushrooms,peppers,onion and some sausage I ahd bbq'd the night before...
Chopped black and green olives...
Sprinkle of Parmesan cheese...
lots of goats cheese...
and
smoked salmon on my boyfriends half...
No Mozzarella for us...{boyfriend has cholesterol issues}
Into the oven on a preheated pizza stone...
Maybe 20 minutes...
Perfecto!!!
Drizzle some more olive oil....
Tear some fresh basil...
Slice and enjoy!!
This time...and this was the first time...
I poured a wee bit of Parmesan yogurt dessing over top...
YUMMO!!!!!
I served this with a grape tomato and avacado salad...forgot to take a pic of that!!
SO...this is for Ivy over at The Happy Whisk...she is a smartie...she makes her own crust!!! great little blog!!
I will leave you with a slice of Blueberry Buttermilk Breakfast cake...
Smothered in fresh berries and fat free yogurt....
Scrumptuous!!!!
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Hope you all had a great day....
Hot...Humid and Sunny here....got the A/C on!!! first time this year....
On the menu this hot, humid sunny Tuesday...
Well....I spent most of the day in the kitchen...
{ even when my friend Devon came for a catch up, chit chat and a cuppa tea...
also had some cake and berries....tee hee hee}
Homemade Potato Salad...homemade Pasta salad...homemade 3 bean salad...
And an assortment of cold meat...namely Ham, Turkey and Roast beef
Enjoy the rest of your day and evening....
Cheers! :o)
linda
Hope you all had a great weekend....
Ours was awesome....once it got going!
We went on Saturday, and came back this afternoon....
Don't you just love that wind sock my daughter Lissa gave me ♥️
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On the menu this fine hot sunny Monday....
BBQ Pork Tenderloin shish-ka-bobs...assorted veggies...over rice...
AND.....
Our first meal el fresco this summer!
Poolside....with a few curious buzzing bees! ♥
Enjoy your evening.....
Cheers! :o)
linda
Here are a few pictures...
Of my week at home....
So excited...
One of my Pussywillow branches...that I put in my planter....has leaves!!!
that means...
It has roots!!!
YAY!!!
Success!!
I will leave it for a while...
Transplant into a pot...
Plant in the Fall at the cottage!!
So happy about this!
A few more Tulips opened up at the front...
These were from my front planter last year!
So happy they made it!
GOSH...I am sounding really happy...
But...to tell you the truth...not so happy...
Only because I am still at home...
And not at the cottage..due to crappy weather...
Oh well...
We will go tomorrow...
Ok...back to the week that was!!
Front Ferns and Hostas looking good...
Lots more Hostas to come....and Lily Of The Valley...
Perhaps next week....
Ok....back to being happy...I thought my Forget-me-nots forgot to come up!!!
Found a small patch at the front....seems to have some pink in there as well...
Happy...happy....happy!
Did a little bit more clean-up...lots of needles from the big old Pine tree...
OK....my boyfriend and I got the pool cover off....water looks pretty scuzzy eh???
After some sweeping,vacuuming, more sweeping...chlorine...and a day later...
TA DA!! Looks a 1000 times better! {that is just me folding laundry...2 more loads to go}
Tomatoes and avacadoes sunning themselves...amde them into a Greek salad that night...
Very juicy!
The backyard yielded a small patch of forget-me-nots as well...
These were a deeper blue than at the front...
Wonder if there are any at the cottage....{will have to wait to see}
Kalanchoe out for the summer...tiny Hens and Chicks looking a bit grim...
Hopefullly they will pick up...
While digging out a few stray bamboo shoots...
I discovered this lovely yellow Tulip...completely hidden....lovely!
And...the ants...are loving the Peonies!!!
Earlier in the week...
I mentioned some sweet cantaloupe...
Well...
Not to disappoint...
Here are a few pics!
You can see how juicy it was...
I bought another one...
It is cut and ready to go to the
cottage....
supposed to be warmer this weekend...
.fingers crossed...
Hope you all had a great day...
Had a real downpour earlier....while I was out...of course!!
Picked up 2 gigantic ferns at Walmart....$9.88 each!!! Fantastic....
They are for the cottage...so I will get a pic this weekend!!
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On the menu this Friday....
Home made Pizza...with sliced tomatoes,black olives,sauteed mushrooms,goats cheese...
And....of course.....smoked salmon on my boyfriends portion...:o)
I think Ceasar Salad with the rest of those juicy grape tomatoes...
Enjoy your weekend...
Cheers! :o)
linda
