Good day sunshine!

We actually saw a bit of sun and clear weather interspersed with all the rain this past weekend, so we were able to get the back yard mostly finished up.

Got the beds planted (that's purple cabbage I'm planting there. Decorative edible border!) This year for our munchable garden we're trying a variety of chard, only one tomato plant, cilantro, chammomile, more rosemary, and cucumbers to climb up the trellis netting [in addition to the existing strawberries, chives, rosemary and lavender and the same kind of red cabbage that we planted last year.])

Even got everything mulched...

Had a couple of cute little helpers...

 ... accompanied by a resident garden gargoyle...

Poor Bug girl was sick, though... decorated my bed and the upstairs hallway & bathroom the evening before, and really wasn't herself all weekend. Not even an impromptu visit to the Gloucester Fair could perk her up. (However, never having before witnessed the amazing cesspit of humanity that I'm now told routinely collects at said Fair I don't blame her, and we will not bother returning to that particular venue again... never mind having to pay $7 each for Hubby and I just to enter the grounds!) Ended the weekend with a joint birthday party for Aunts Terri, Amy and Rachel over at Nana and Grampa David's house, so that capped things off nicely (though Bug still didn't feel great, and is only about 85% back to normal today.) Coconut boy coughed all night and was a bit low this morning as well, as am I, so we're not out of it yet.

Of additional note this weekend - we met another Cohen (shockingly! Another little boy at the Fair was named Cohen! That was a first - and probably a last - for us!) and then Bug and I met another Laurel at the Farmers' Market on Sunday morning!

Now I need a nap. ☺

Some keep the Sabbath going to church. I keep it staying home, with a bobolink for a chorister and an orchard for a dome.

~ Emily Dickinson ~

A messy house ☺

That's what I have after this long weekend!

Despite the weather warnings that called for rain for the majority of the weekend, we had great weather, spend-the-day-outside weather (not doing cleaning and crafts inside weather) and took full advantage.

Saturday was walk our legs off around downtown Ottawa day... brought the kids' bikes with us, parked near the Archives, and walked along the river all the way to the Market, wandered around Majors Hill Park a bit so the kids could get balloon animals, ate hotdogs in front of the tv station building, then walked back to the car. We were all happily exhausted after that!

Sunday was gardening day (and the muscles at the back of my legs are still yelling at me.) Raised up the stone border around the front bed, cleaned it up, planted, then mulched, and planted flowers in the neighbour's bed. Back yard will get done after work during the week.

Since the weather was still holding out, Monday turned into a road trip to Montreal. We parked in the Eaton Center, wandered around it, the Les Ailes mall and the tunnel level some (although none of that is shopping to my 'taste' - I couldn't care less about outrageously overpriced - and largely ugly - clothing and shoes.) Decided to take the kids for their first ever subway ride:

We went off to the Olympic Stadium, wandered around there a bit, then took the subway back up to Atwater and strolled up Catherine St. W. to look around. All that walking sure tired the kidlets out!

So yeah... very messy house... but fun family weekend!



Hooray for long weekends!!

The countdown is on... only 5 hours until the long weekend begins! Hopefully the weather will behave (at least a little) and we can get some outside fun worked in over the next three days. Some romps in the woods, strolls around the downtown market / what's left of the tulips, or other such ramblings.

The hubby will certainly want to spend some time working on his course as well, so I've planned some fun craft stuff to do to keep the kids busy when Daddy needs to be left alone. Have all the supplies to make Window Stars, and everything printed out to make a Victorian Toy Theatre.

Of course we can always play outside in the garden (weather permitting,) cleaning up the last of last year's debris and this Spring's weeds, and maybe planting a few things to boot.

I also hope to get my and hubby's bikes fixed up and road-ready so that we can do some family touring!

Might even throw in a bit of housework time, too. Maybe.

Family

Here are a few relatively recent pics of the kidlets, who I'm sure will be a major focal point of this blog.

Comic loving Girlie...

 

 Coconut Boy...

 

And here's the Daddy:

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