It's St. Valentine's Day! You'll never guess what my valentine did for me the smorning! He brought me in a hairdryer from the water bowl. That's gotta be love. Or maybe he just knew that I really had to wash my hair and I'd be needing it. They cancelled the buses and closed all the schools yesterday.  It snowed. A lot. The last time they closed the schools was the ice storm of '98....I think. The buses were cancelled the day before yesterday too. There isn't much school going on. They are back today.  The girls are in a broomball tournament and there's a bbq.  They wer ..read more

The girls had 2 snowdays this week and Friday was a PD day....so they have been at home the last 5 days! It reminds me of my homeschooling days with the older kids...only there isn't any schoolwork being done!  Snowdays should be called 'eat all the food in the house days'. It hasn't been snowing...it's been freezing rain.  Our yard and the road are 'just like a bottle'. Also the high school kids should have finished exams last week and started the new semester this week but they are writing their last exam tomorrow and the new semester will start on Thursday. What a mix up. So ..read more

This was our January one second everyday.... The hairdryer situation is nuts.  I just bought one and I need another one.....actually I need a few because they are never in the house. I mentioned the other day in this post that my hairdryer blew out in the water bowl and I was using a hairdryer that actually had dried cow shit on the cord. Well the other morning I washed my hair and when I went to open the cupboard....yes....you guessed it....no hairdryer. By the time he brought me in one my hair was dry.  And the one he brought me actually didn't have a shitty cord.....yasss ..read more

Just some cakes that represent the Ottawa Valley... I've been cutting back on the amount of sugar that I eat. Only I'm surrounded by it..... Brenda ..read more

We managed to get some new family photos taken just before Christmas. The kids were actually wanting to have them done as they said that they had grown....Jack especially. So we went outside.... In other news, Lydia has told me that there are several sets of BUD LIGHT headphones at school.  She was telling me all the boys that have them.  Nicely played BUD LIGHT....do you realize that it's a whole lot of 9 year olds wearing your headphones? Brenda ..read more

It's been cold.  They had another snowday yesterday....only it wasn't because it snowed....it was because of extreme cold.  So I guess it really wasn't a snowday.  I don't know what to call it...it's all new.  This is the first winter that they have been cancelling buses because it's cold. We were low on food and snowdays mean eating days so first thing yesterday morning I headed to town by myself...the girls were still in bed!  On my way, my Mennonite neighbours were heading to school.  One girl was walking with a black scarf wrapped around her head.  All y ..read more

I took this picture in the henhouse last week.  She has 2 legs....I checked! We had an interesting meatbird this past summer.  We had had them for a few weeks before I noticed one that wasn't quite right.  I had went in to the barn to check on them and make sure they had lots of feed.  Most of them were resting and then I noticed this one that was smaller than the others. It went over to the feeder and then I knew why it was a little smaller. At first I wasn't sure if I was really seeing what I was seeing. And then I thought I was going to puke. Chickens have tongue ..read more

It's January.  I buy mangos in January.  Is it mango season?  I have no idea.  I think must be.  I don't live where mangos grow.  But I've always had good luck with getting good mangos in January.  I buy them and let them sit on the counter for a couple of days and then I make this. Mango Salsa 1 mango peeled and chopped some green or red peppers chopped some sweet or green onion 1 Tbsp vinegar 1 Tbsp olive oil splash of lime (if you have it) Mix together and then add some heat.... Epicure poco picante or some taco or fajita spice or chili spice Make i ..read more

We are on snowday number 3....that's 3 in a row I mean.  They haven't been to school this week.  It's Wednesday.  This time it snowed.  It's still snowing.  The extreme cold temperatures are gone. The girls are making brownies in mugs.  They are going to watch some Full House season 1.  They got it on DVD yesterday at Value Village. The kids got Terry a case of beer for Christmas.  Over the years, he would always say 'a case of beer' when they would ask what he wanted for Christmas or his birthday.  They could never buy it for him but now that th ..read more

Terry asked me to buy a thermometer last week.  And I did.  He wanted a big enough one that we could read inside but the thermometer is outside.  It is. He put it up right outside the door so when I come down the stairs in the morning I can see that it's winter temperature outside.  I already knew this but now it's staring in my face. He thinks it's great because we can see the actual temperature.  He's all about numbers and data.  I'm not so much.  And he remembers all numbers and data.  I don't. He will ask me what the outside temperature reading w ..read more