Picasa Made Me Do It.....

 Picasa made me do it...

Apparently I have used up my whole 1GB [whatever that means] of photo storage...

I either have to BUY more storage...

NOT...

Or delete some of my photos...

So....

I spent about 1 hour deleting photos...

My problem is...I download TOO many..and I don't use them all in that particular post...

It is difficult to delete....as they all look nearly the same!!!!  

SO...........I have done what I can do....

BUt......it takes 24 hours to readjust itself...[give me back some of my storage]...so I will have to wait until the morning...

And.......Hope for the best...

In the meantime.......I have chosen a few of my pics...already in Picasa...

For your viewing pleasure this evening...

A few pics of my fabulous Micanthus Grasses at the cottage...and a few from home...

You may have already seen a few of these....but twice is the charm!!

Keep your fingers crossed....that my deletions give me some more space...

   

And some ribbon grass in my "travelling garden"...

Believe it or not...this was taken New Years Eve..2 years ago..

This was before we added the beach deck...

My boyfriend reading...surrounded by the grasses...in the late day Sun...

Hope that wasn't too many pictures for
you all...

Let's hear a big HOORAH for the
Miscanthus...... 


SHHHHHH...

Vivian is asleep...

Don't want to wake her up  :o) 

Well....

I do!!!!






















    Hope you all had a great day...

           A wee bit sunnier today...

             Enjoy your evening...

                                   Cheers!   :o)
                                       linda

These Boots Are Made For Walking....

Do any of you remember...

When you would be changing one of your kids...

And you pulled the shirt over their heads...

And it got stuck...

And then when they were older... 

They would pretend that they had long hair???

Well....

That is what this reminded me of...

Kinda cute , eh???

Well....you betcha!!!

                    Hope you all had a great day...

                        Clouds still hanging on...

                            Pretty darn cold today...



                           CHeers!   :o)
                              linda   

Safe From Sandy....Sadly Soaped!!...

 Took a drive on Saturday....

Almost there...cloudy skies...

When we arrived...everything OK...

Just a few twigs...just like normal...

Did a walk about...   

But something felt strange... 

Lots of leaves...

Found a Duck Decoy on the Beach...

Then we figured it out...

We had been soaped on Halloween!!!

There are no "kids" that live near the cottage...

SO...our guess is...those dreaded "teenagers"...

The scary part is....they actually opened our latched driveway gate...

And went onto the sunporch  [we had left the shutters off]...

And even soaped my big mirror on the sunporch wall...as well as the
windows looking out from the kitchen...

Our neighbour came to the rescue...lent my boyfriend a razor paint scraper..

So he  [and I] got to work....

Darn those pesky "teenagers"....

One year we got egged...that was really messy...as the egg had dried by the time we found it...

I guess.......when you live rurally.....you gotta make your own fun!!!

Too darn bad......it was at our expense....  :o(

  

                    
             BY the way......

                The sandy beach is gone....:o(

                      But our little cottage is fine...free from Sandy...:o)


                           Hope you all had a great weekend...

                              Enjoy your day...cloudy again...


                               Cheers!   :o)
                                  linda  

I Would Rather Be......

Sitting here...

Looking at these...

Dreaming of this Sunset....

Gazing thru the Grasses....

Wondering if the Chickadees  or the tiny Wrens will move in...

Admiring our amazing retreat, that we are so lucky to have...

Thinking of whether they will turn Pink this year...

Happy that the Daturas self-seeded in a large planter...

Moving around my "travelling garden" to a better spot

Getting down and dirty with some fabulous annuals..

Thinking of my Mom, when I cut the peonies which came from her garden, every June...

Going for a swing in the hammock...and look up into the branches...

Enjoy an awesome rainbow after a rain...

Stare in wonder at another glorious sunset..

In awe of my fabulous fresh ferns...

Enjoying the scent of fresh flowering shrubs...

Building my baskets with lovely fresh plants...

Taking pictures of my flipflopped feet with a giant plant...

Standing on a newly unearthed rock on the beach...

Sitting here having dinner...with my boyfriend, family and friends...

Sitting under the umbrella in a fresh sundress...

Feeding the seagulls...

Taking pictures of my summer feet...with the Lake as a backdrop..

Watching the water fun...from my chair on the beach deck...

Admiring my pedicure....

Deciding to make a weekend vase arrangement using these Pink beauties..

On this....yet another...gloomy,rainy day...

What would you rather be doing??.....

Cheers!  :o)

linda

  

Afghan.......

A few weeks ago...I stumbled onto
a blog...

She had a picture of an afghan that
she had crocheted...

I commented, and she was nice enough to share her pattern with me...

The blog is whiteweatheredhutch.blogspot.com...

Her name is Linda..such a lovely name..it means beautiful, you know...hahaha...

I changed her pattern a bit...

And came up with this...

HDC in the back loop...[for you non-crocheters...half-double-crochet]

Looks like knitting...yes???  

I still have a lot to do...but...I just started this on Monday night...and it is coming along fantastically...I love the look, feel and weight...

A big thanks to Linda...you should visit her blog...very nice  :o)

It gets finished up with a fringed edge....

Will be looking forward to posting the finished product...

Not sure how long it will take...

I have already got plans for a couple of crocheted cowls for my daughters...

Fabulous pattern...and they are FREE on the internet...  

Will share that when I get started.... 

 

Here I am this afternoon with Vivian...

           No comments about the double chin...or triple...whatever..

                 For those of you who don't know me REAL WELL...

                        I am VERY vain...don't much like the notion of
                                  getting OLD...  

                    Oh well.........Vivian likes me...

                                  Just the way I am!!!!

                                                       And I LOVE LOVE LOVE her....



                 Hope you all had a great day...

                             Still crappy and rainy...damp...dark...YUCK...

                             Cheers!   :o)
                                  linda