Company's Coming....again!
Well I shouldn't say company. Let me rephrase that. We're having house guests this weekend. Company is when somebody is coming to spend time with you. House guests is when somebody uses your house instead of a hotel! Either way, schedule is out the window for a couple of days.

I've had a real busy week with work and volunteer stuff. Tomorrow I'll be Cindrella for a while. (You know the story of Cindrella! She was left home to do the housework, while everybody else went out to enjoy themselves.) I'd just as soon be left alone to putter.

We're promised the sun and temperatures in the 20's again tomorrow. What a beautiful week we've had. "Shine on me sunshine, walk with me world, it's a ....zip da doo de day.....I'm the haaap-p-iest girl in the whole USA." Well it's a fine thing you can't really hear that - but you get the drift!

Have a good weekend everybody!

Company for Supper

While we ate supper this evening, this perky little bird and some friends kept us company just outside the window. This was the only one brave enough to face the camera:

The Sun

I listened to CBC radio as I got ready for work this morning. They played the Beatles song “Here Comes the Sun….it’ll be alright!” Most times when we think about the sun it gives us warm, positive feelings. The images that come to mind may be a day at the beach laying in the sand, cruising down the highway with the air-conditioning on, puttering in solitude of your garden, reading a book while lying in your chair on the patio, a family barbecue….. Not often do we hear people say, “OnNo! It’s going to be sunny today!!”

Sometimes we say, “It’s your day in the sun!” In other words, “the spotlight is on you,” or “it’s your special day.” It’s a day when the outlook is bright, things are going your way, you’re warmed by what’s going on around you (the atmosphere), and you have great opportunity for growth.

Look up. Here comes the sun…it’ll be alright! May this be your Day in the Sun!

The Weather Again!
What wind and rain we've been having! I don't think we've had so much rain since the flood! Of course there's a benefit to that too. I don't have to water my garden these days, the berries will blossom nicely again when the sun comes out, and it gives me time to get things done in the house.

I love sleeping when it's stormy outside - or curled up in a comfortable spot reading a good book - or spending time on my computers. It's a wonderful time to catch up on all the projects I've saved for a rainy day.

When we say "saving for a rainy day" we think of saving money, don't we? And that's good too. But there are other things that need our management besides money. One of them is time. These days aren't we just sooo busy. I know I am. However, I'm learning to say "no" more now to things that are going to overtax me. I'm setting a priority with what I want to do and what needs to be done. For instance, housework has moved far to the bottom of the list. It will be there long after I'm gone - nobody seems to notice when it's done anyway. When I'm no longer here, what will people remember about me...a clean house?....a story I wrote?....my smile? ...how friendly I was or wasn't? or the time I spent with them? The days go by so fast and once they are gone, they are gone. Tomorrow for us may never come. We have only today to work with. What can we do to make a difference in the lives of those we love today?

Often when people are not sure what to talk about, they talk about the weather and stay away from subjects like politics and religion (that’ll come later!). So to begin my blog I will do just that – talk about the weather.

God has blessed us with a wonderful summer. In May, long before the first official day of summer in June, we had temperatures reaching 30 degrees Celsius. The hot dry days have balanced out the warm wet days enough to keep the forest fires in check and the berries growing. However, just as summer was early, so comes the fall. This week we had a good shower of hailstones. The sun comes up later and the evenings are closing in fast. A walk around my garden after supper confirms this when I feel the cool damp air, smell the earth in the evening dew and the hint of wood smoke in the air.

A few days ago before I went to work I took another walk around my garden to admire its fast fading beauty. Too soon the frost will stiffen and wilt the remaining stems and they will be covered in a blanket of snow. I caught a few of the images in megapixels to help me remember and prolong their beauty.

I think there may be an old wives tale or folklore that talks about when the squirrels gather food and hoard it away during the summer; it will be a hard long winter. Well this little fellow that I found eating from my bird feeder on the back patio wasn’t hoarding any food away – he was living for the moment! When he heard me, he turned around and posed for the camera.




You may have noticed that I mentioned God, yet planned to stay away from politics and religion today. Well, I kept my promise. God is part of everything. We cannot go anywhere that he is not. Religion on the other hand… ok...ok. Maybe another time!