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I kinda failed on my April Photo-A-Day challenge.
In my blogging defense it was my first and I got over halfway there but once I got so far behind I gave up the fight. Not to mention being without a schedule and often staying home for long periods of time the muse would often escape me. Now that I am part timely employed and out of the house more often the muse may come and find me and I shall photograph for your enjoyment. Both here and on my stupid Facebookery.
Source: FatMumSlim
Day One: Peace
Peace…of mind. Nothing like a little Seuss to calm and remind you that you should hug life daily.
Day Two: Skyline
Not a building in sight, isn’t that grand?!? The brown dot, kind of behind the tree, is my Sugarbaby have a little afternoon snooze. I went over to him and gave him a little hug and he was all groggy and yawned. Thousand pound pets are such cuties.
You + Me + Tortoises = Zen
Source: Oddity Central
Brendon Grimshaw isn’t going to be around forever and that’s a tortoise sized shame indeed. I secretly want to pack up the cats and my crafting supplies and show up on this island and see if I can get in to the Tortoise club. What a noble man who has so selflessly spent his life in paradise reintroducing a species that mankind crudely banished from this part of the world. This looks like zen to me, I could easily live this life.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-17857239
In saying that however I would need to kidnap many of you so you too could keep me and the Torti company. Wanna go? Do we call ahead?
Stinakat Love
I have a fondness for searching Youtube for unlikely acoustic song covers. There is something to be said for just a guitar or piano and a great voice. I think secretly I also adore this because the lyrics of some of these songs are hilarious and when set in an acoustic environment are far more entertaining without a beat.
So one day a little while ago I found Stinakat in my journey that is online Youtubery, great voice and interesting song choices always. I listen at least once a day, she keeps me company when I vaccuum and clean horse stalls so I thought I would share it with you too. Here is my favourite of hers…
Weekending
TGIF just doesn’t have the same ring to it when you’ve been home all week. But the weekend is nice to have nonetheless. Especially when it looks like this;
It helps when you have seven beautiful horses greet you with nays and brays as well.
Mikey dragged me everywhere to get at grass to graze on. It’s a thirty second walk to his paddock but because he’s 1200 pounds and I’m significantly less than that he won that battle. It was really a one sided conversation though, once I sat down in the grass and let him graze he didn’t really say much between mouthfuls.
Big afternoon planned…
Fascinator, wish bracelets, trying to keep glue out of Marty’s fur. I also need to catch up on my photo a day challenge. I have taken the pictures but they needs some editing and then posting. My little plants needs to be transplanted too in to their jiffy pots. I swear just after I posted the other day my entire tray of second seeds bloomed in to a bunch of wonderfulness. I adore growing things, I do possess some sort of nurturing qualities. It just only applies to plants and cats.
What are you doing today pumpkinfaces?
Caramel Coma
Coyote and I did a little Bed, Bath and Beyond on Sunday.
That man has lived without a proper laundry hamper long enough. There was much discussion about the true need of the newest acquisition but I won, the floor is no place for dirty laundry. The Knob Hill box just isn’t cutting it anymore sweetheart so man up and choose. We went to Markville Mall, they have an excellent Winners and Homesense there. Unfortunately none of the hampers there were acceptable.
After making the mall rounds we were starving so after more discussion (so tired of chain restaurants lately, bore bore bore) we went to The Pickle Barrel. Coyote went for the burger, fries and side Caesar and I went for the all day breakfast. I would have taken a picture of it but I inhaled that like it was my last supper. So much food and exactly what I felt like, the latkes are perfection as is the coleslaw. I could just order a heaping platter of those two and be a very satisfied girl.
And because we are gluttons for food punishment…
This is blatantly a want vs. need occasion. And possibly one of the best decisions of my life. I want to take this piece of Caramel crunch torte behind the middle school and get it pregnant. I don’t know if it was the whipped cheesecake-y ness of the layers or the gooey-ness of the caramel or the crunchiness of the crumbly almond crust but wow. Just. Incredible. I would have to rate this greatest piece of cake that I have eaten.
And as far as cake (and amongst other things are concerned) I’ve been around the block.
But what you should not do friends, is take half of this home and on an empty stomach at 10 p.m. eat the remainder of this cake, take two Tylenol for a migraine and drink a huge vat of iced tea because then not only is it difficult to sleep it’s very uncomfortable. Seemingly my choice of cake was my last and best decision of last Sunday.
And we got a hamper. At 9:30 thanks to Sprawlmart and we did not break up even though we had a big box store date.
Leaps and cake bounds kids!
The Power of Gratitude
As I have eluded to in several past posts I am currently reading and completing the 28 day The Magic course. It’s a book by the same author of The Secret and The Power, Rhonda Byrne. It’s mostly about the law of attraction but more importantly about love, joy and gratitude. The very first morning of the course you wake up and type or write a list of 10 things you are grateful for, and why you are grateful for such things.
There are no rules with this. It could be anything from the tiny most insignificant thing in your life that makes you smile to the biggest and all encompassing thing, like even being awake. There are people who didn’t wake up this morning, all over the world, of many ages, and each one of those had a family and friends. Sobering yes but true.
So I have been completing this assignment daily for about a week but thought I would share todays list. I felt like typing it and sharing it today but mostly I keep this quite personal.
1.) Sunshine. Today is summer-ish and yesterday I needed to go back to the house for a toque it was so chilly. But today, I wore a tshirt to clean the barn. Thank you sun for making everything so bright and beautiful out there in beautiful Northern Ontario.
2.) Not waking up at 6:30 and staying up until 1 a.m. last night to browse all sorts of marvellous inspiration on the interwebs. My body tells me what sleep I need and I get it. I don’t miss that rundown feeling where I was running on fumes from Wednesday to Friday. Thank you freedom!
3.) My late night inspiration! I have misplaced my darling Alien Penguin necklace and yesterday upon trying to find a replacement came across the blog of it’s creator, Emma Girard. Thank you Emma for all the inspiration from your beautiful projects you blog and share with us!
4.) Roger, Darren and Marilyn. Mom puts on the radio in the morning and we always listen to them. I adore these three, they always make me wake up laughing. Thank you morning team!
5.) My secret appointment at 3 p.m. today that I am very excited about for several reasons. I have spoken to Jennifer twice now and she seems lovely and to be surrounded by pretty things is but a dream of mine. I adore flowers and people and together what a lovely grouping. Thank you universe and Fran (awesome glasses lady) for the opportunity!!!
6.) Getting a break tonight from farm life and spending the night with Coyote. With seven horses, two dogs, three cats and 40 acres of property I have been going non-stop for a while with chores and it’s getting to me a bit. I love being out and meeting new people, seeing new things and bumping along the countryside but I am grateful Mother has a job where she can come in later and put out the horses and feed the animals before she leaves for work. I can’t be cooped up here chained to this place and it’s wonderful inhabitants constantly. So thank you universe for working it out that we can be farmers and women about town!
7.) Experimental smoothies, the liquid breakfast. Every morning I fill the blender with bananas, avacado, cinnamon, chia seeds, almond milk, almond butter, strawberries and whatever else I can get my paws on and happily sip my breakfast. Thank you Magic Bullet and Produce for making breakfast a little more wonderful.
8.) Hey thanks skin for finally clearing up and getting your act together. So happy and grateful this is working itself out because this affliction has made me very self conscious for the past few weeks. Thank you oil levels in epidermis for becoming somewhat more normal.
9.) Getting my shit together and writing out all my dreams today. It felt good and there are so many but I can capable of such things one at a time, getting them out of my delicious brain on to paper was a lovely task indeed. Thanks schedule for the time to do this.
10.) Time with brother this week. Although somewhat tumultous (screaming match of epic proportions) we smoothed things out and he stepped up and helped out a bit on the farm. We both have our faults but we both always laugh and at least I have one of out of three siblings who I can confirm has (sometimes) brain cells. Thank you Mom and Dad for deciding to have another.
I went in to great detail but you don’t need to…keep a little notebook handy and throughout the day start seeing the little happy things and jot those down! And then remember to say thanks for all the little things.
Big Things *Jazz Hands*
Of course as soon as I get my shit together enough to plant all my seeds ahead of time and now am stunned by the plethora of towering bean and pea shoots ahead of schedule the weather is too cold to plant outside. Jiffy pot, I thank your inventor.
Chili was a big help!
I can haz halp. (Oh, Lolcat. Facepalm of adorableness.)
All this PLUS PLUS PLUS.
Mother and I kinda went a little dirty hippie granola gardening crazy at Richters on Sunday. Somehow we ended up booking a table at the local farmers market and splicing a good five acres currently reserved for horse grazing to organic veggie gardening. And don’t think I am giving up the Alpaca and Chicken swooning either. That’s on the move too…cause that’s how we do. I am striving for a cornucopia of delightful and adverse lovliness. Get your party dresses ready.
In other news thanks to vehicle musical chairs I was without Bella today and haven’t left the house since Sunday and to be honest with you I could pee myself out of excitement to go out tomorrow. I have an opportunity to sort out, two actually, and then off to have a sleepover at Coyote’s. It may just be relationship reviving dinner (and booty call) but I am so looking forward to it. Taking a break from the usual; get up, feed horses, clean barn, busy self by purging yet another area of the farm. (I am tying chains to heavy machinery and then to large fallen trees and pulling them romantically from their falling place and listening to Skid Row loudly and hooting and holleringa at each accomplishment. Shaking my fist to the sky proclaiming my genius every ten minutes! Local farmers drive by and laugh.)
Not to mention Daisy the dog needing medication twice daily and having to wear the cone of shame because of a licking problem and a yeast infection on her leg. The vet said it’s when moisture stays in the fur and becomes trapped (Daisy is woolly like a sheep) and then yeast forms and irritates the area. Quite gross. And having to wash it I have more than once had to smile and coo to her as I secretly gag. Poor Daisy Lu! Poor Tinka!
Headquarters 2.0
I may have had to stop and have a three hour nap today. This Ikea shelving unit almost killed me, thank the universe I get to see the chiro tomorrow. And I get to pick up my new glasses too! Incorrect prescription no more!
Final tweaking is still required. As is my brother or Coyote coming by to hang the magnetic board and cork board and new picture that for now is atop my new high gloss gorgeousness….
My adorable Mother put Todd in there. Adorable, a Todd house.
Tomorrow is busy…chiro, house showing (fucky fuck fuck), new glasses pickup and then Coyote’s hockey banquet. Can’t wait for all the awkward conversation with other players wives/girlfriends. As soon as they start talking about kids I start talking about all my freedom. I’m happy for the breeders but Marty is enough of a handful for me sweet darlings. I’m planning on wearing something whimsically and fashionably stupid so I indeed become a spectacle. In my new spectacles.
Look at that face! Win!
Spring Purging
This is from one single room of headquarters, the office shared by Motherbomb and I…
One. Fucking. Room.
In her defense as she used to run a business out of this one crazy room therefore the vendor literature was plentiful. Ranging in dates from 2003 until the present, pool steel specifications as far as the hand can purge. The energy is the office is ten times better without having to step over files boxes filled with ghosts of invoices past. But today’s exercise does confirm we are going to need a garage sale of epic proportions.
There is just so much! So much stuff! Of every variety and use.
I have no need for this clutter any longer. Cluttered space cluttered mind and I am devoid of productivity without organization. Speaking of which, I lost my lucky adventurine. Dammit! I don’t know what the hell I did with it but promise myself wherever I put my little gem I indeed said to myself – do not forget you are putting this here. I want to say it was in a pocket of some article of my clothing but I have dug through all pockets without luck.
Then I forgot that whole moment.
Next is to obtain a proper bookshelf for the office and then sort and purge books, cookbooks, non-fiction. Then to arrange the electronic and household garbage dude for the giant and very dead big screen TV and the old cell phones and computers. Then to sort the paint cans. Then the workshop. The barn itself. Then the small barn. Then the old fleet of trucks mom still has. Then sort and put on tables and spend an entire three day long weekend haggling dollars and cents with little old local broads.
I am looking forward to it…you?
There goes any fun plan for May long weekend, so booked for hawking mine old wares. Allll weekend baby!
Pixie Dress
I bought this dress/skirt thingy last year at Winners but kind of forgot about the piece as it was somehow stored in Mother’s closet. It’s one of those convertible dresses that can be worn as a dress with the stretchy upper or just as a skirt by folding the stretchy upper down. Look at your multitasking new pink friend! I freed her yesterday and along with short combat boots, a sparkly cardigan and lace tank top wore it to my Uxbridge trip yesterday. I also loaded on the rose quartz jewellery as well. If you’re going to go out in public intending to look like a cupcake then you should really go full tilt, just might as well go full Pixie.
Maybe the Easter Bunny will send me on a winding trail of creme eggs only to find a full length freestanding mirror at the end of said trail? Wouldn’t that be nice?