Stormy Weather.....

 

We went later on Friday to the Lake, as the weather reports were horrendous...

Actually late friday afternoon and evening, were very nice...very nice indeed...

The ridiculous wind from last weekend, showed up again during the night...

We awoke to this....
Blowing...raining...lousy..

So we had  delicious peameal bacon sandwiches...showered... and headed into Port....Pt Colborne, that is...visited the thrift shops...even walked along the canal, where the specialty shops are...nothing caught our eyes this day... 

 

Until we saw this....

And we had to have some...

Not raining at this point...

But...just around the corner...

It was waiting for us...

So....we kept driving...

Ended up in Welland...

On the way back to the cottage...it
had stopped raining for a bit...

So we [I mean my boyfriend]...
purchased some fresh corn...

To have with our ribs and rice...


And ....it did not disappoint...

Delicious.......  :o)

These were a few of the clouds on the way back to the cottage...

And...by the time we got there...guess what???

You are correct.....it was blowing like hell and raining...

 

 

The sunporch was soaked...

Got the corn schucked during a dry patch...

And then....for about 5 minutes...the sun came out...too short-lived tho...

I came downstairs for a
"pee" around 6:30am..

And this is what I saw..

So...I...took a picture, what else?

Pretty glorious morning, eh??

I got a chance to clean up a few more garden beds...

Why do day lilies have to get so yucky after blooming???

What a mess....made about 7 trips to the bonfire with all the dead foliage...

Nothing really in bloom this week...

Waiting for the obedient plants...

                                                                    The Mr even got to read a bit...while I showered...he had to sit up near the shed, as the darn ***** wind picked up again!!!

And got humid again...  
We left around 2:30...and ran into more rain!!

 

 


          We had clouds all the way to my son's place, where we stopped
               for a cup of tea...and a visit...

                         Hope you all had a drier weekend...Lots of interesting cloud formations this summer, eh???   More than usual, or am I just noticing more??

 
                        Vivian did not need her sunglasses this weekend!
                               how precious is that??

                                        Cheers!        :o)
                                    linda

Thrifty Thursday......

When I first decided to do "Thrifty Thursday"...I thought perhaps once a month I would share my thrift shopping with you...

But.......

Last week was SO fabulous, I had to do another one this week...

Picked up 3 eyelet bedskirts...
2 twins and 1 double...$5 for all 3!!!

Can you believe that????

I couldn't wait to get to the cottage...and put them into use...

The twin beds look soooo much better with the skirts...really softens the look...The quilts have a good story...One of them is from my daughters room, when she was in a twin bed...the other I found at Bi-Way [remember bi-way!!!] after we bought the cottage...such a stroke of luck...
This room also houses most of my paint-by-number finds over the years... don't you just love paint-by-numbers??  I remember doing them when I was a kid...gosh....wish they were still around...  We also had this window put into this room, as it is not on the water side, and needed some more light...as it faces west, it added lots of sunshine and warmth...  :o)

The iron bed came with the cottage, and when we purchased new twin mattresses, I simply put the footboard as the 2nd headboard...

The double bed, is the other guest room..

On the water side, it gets plenty of light and breezes from the lake..


The bed skirt really finishes this up, as well...more cosy and inviting...

The side pink and green table is the original paint color, from the previous owners...the head board looks like wood, but is actually made of Tin...
I removed the footboard, when we purchased the new mattress and box...

I really like this room...  :o)

The wooden carving above the bed was another thrifty buy for $1... I have actually found 3 that are similar...kind of a wooden inlay design...the others are downstairs in the living room...

The 2 praying girls also came with the cottage...

This is our bedroom....

Got us some new Tommy Hilfiger sheets,so after making the bed up....I took a picture....

They are really nice cotton....

Had a great sleep on them last weekend...

The dresser came with the cottage...

My daughter painted it yellow for me...

The bedrooms were all dark brown panelling...they have all been painted...

One yellow...
One blue...
One pale green...

All Martha Stewart colors...love them!!

Picked up this cute cream and sugar for $1...

I love the 3 square legs,
and the circles at the top..

Nice chunky handle, as well..

This pair of pillowcases was my last purchase that day...

After washing and ironing, I realized they were actually crocheted with cotton yarn on the edges...

A row of crochet....white rick-rack...
A row of pale pink, dark pink, and white cotton yarn after the rick-rack...

Beautiful!!!!!

$1.......

         So.......What do you think????  I spent a grand total of $7.50...

                     I think I got some really good thrifty buys...

                         Who knows what this week will bring...

           Hope you all had a good day....


                               Cheers!         :o)
                                     linda

Five Things I Did Today.......Well...Maybe Four...

 Started the day with a very
long telephone chat with my sister-in-law Sharron....

Finally got off the phone and headed to the grocery store, as I had not been food shopping since last Thursday!!!

Picked up a fried egg sandwich for my daughter at a small diner beside my grocery store....my ulterior motive....to grab a short visit with Vivian...she looked really cute today...in a little blue flowered outfit...but I did not have my camera with me...  :o(

Couldn't stay long...as I was expecting my gal pal, for a tea party...on the back deck...Took one of my banana/blueberry/strawberry loaves out of the freezer.....added some fresh berries, and yogurt....our favorite tea time treat...
A little alliteration there...tee hee hee....  :o)

 Before she arrived...I made some "Over-Nite" pickles and onions...
Remember my "overnite oatmeal"??? Did any of you try that??? I have it every single morning...yummy..

Will see how they turn out..

If they are delicious, I will post the recipe...

Not really a recipe..

Very easy peasy...

At least they look good!!

Made my world famous chicken soup....

Supposed to be a cooler, rainy weekend..  :o(

Good time for some soup...


Well...anytime for me is good for soup...

For dinner. I made ceasar-radish-tomato salad, with fries and baked cajun tilapia, for dinner on the deck...

Gave the BBQ a rest tonight...

I have a pea-meal bacon roast in the oven...great for sandwiches, heated up...or just cold...darn delicious...

Went for our evening walk...

Had a nice refreshing swim...

Enjoy your evening... 

Hope you all had a busy day..


Vivian with a snappy hat!!!

Posing for the camera....  :o)

Hopefully get some more pics of her...very soon...











                              Cheers!   :o)
                                    linda

Calling All Veggies.....

Quite a haul from my tiny veggie
patch at the cottage this past weekend.

One of the yellow peppers had actually fallen off...not sure why...perhaps he was ready!!!

One big green zuchinni [not a goodyear blimp] but pretty good size...

A striped zuchinni...don't really remember planting that!!!!
But very cute...  :o)

And a large batch of cherry tomatoes...
but....actually a bit larger than others..
And very juicy....


Made a great Greek salad tonight with them       :o)

Vivian stopped in today for a visit...

Seems a lot of the pictures I take of her are kinda blurry...took this one yesterday while babysitting...

All swaddled up again....

But....this one....I love...

Blurry....but...that smile is there again....I wonder what she is dreaming about????

Here she is with her Auntie Lissa...my other daughter....sound asleep...only  
                                   5 days old here....  :o)



Hope you all had a great day...

                                Cheers!   :o)
                                          linda