Ahhhhhhhh ...

Well that was a wonderful Easter weekend. For me anyway - poor Joe has been (and still is) studying his heart out ...  we're both really looking forward to his exams being done on Friday! (I miss him. He's a funny 'roommate' sometimes - only wants to hang out with me if I'm willing to be a guinea practice pig).

yum. yum. yum.

A big shout out to my parents and my aunt Willa for a wonderful, and uber-delicious-as-always, time on the island. Twas great - lots of laughs and relaxing :) Pictured is this awesome frozen whipped cream / cointreau delight that Willa did up, yowsers. Frozen deserts are among my faaaaves.


On Friday I went out cycling around the neighbourhood before heading to Manitoulin and came across the cutest. thing. ever. Check it out:

I really hope they find their budgie (!?). If another sign goes up saying that all's well, I'll let you know...

friday night - me & the grape vines

We have grape vines in the backyard, and tonight I finished up trimming them. At least, I think so. Our Italian neighbour told me to trim them right back - but I'm nervous to, seeing as how I don't know what I'm doing. Any suggestions out there? All you secret grape growers? And here's some pics of the backyard, the arbour, and a bit of Spring.

Oh - and I'm thinking of putting a raised veggie bed to the left...

The arbour! (Needs some rebuilding...tba)

Yee haw - take that Harper ;)

Tonight I'm sure enjoying that this is going viral: http://shitharperdid.ca.nyud.net/

happiness makers

I've been home sick the past day and a half (terrible timing - I had my first meeting with the committee that oversees my work at the conservation authority yesterday, and had to leave about a half hour into it! awful...) and here are two things that are keeping my spirits up:

This movie has got it all - I laughed, I cried, I just might watch it again after another nap.



The second thing is how sometimes Joe sleeps with his jammies tucked into his socks :)

If this keeps up I'll be back at work tomorrow for sure.

Yummers!

Our happy hen club eggs - delicious. And pretty, oui?

non-con vote split woes

We've been thinking about adding a green party sign and a liberal party sign as well - an "Anyone But Conservative" approach :) Apparently the Sudbury riding is likely to be a close three way race ... I'm (K) going to volunteer for the NDP candidate (Glenn Thibeault), but really I'd just prefer for the three not-Conservative parties to join forces to stop the Cs. It is stressing me out that the non-conservative vote could get split, giving the C's the seat. Nothing like our 'first past the post' system to drive a girl mad.

On that note, what's wrong with coalitions anyway? Nada. A Liberal/NDP/Bloc coalition would represent far more Canadians than the Conservative party, and it just sorta seems like a more democratic approach than a minority government (I can't even bear to think about a C. majority. Stevie gives me the heebie jeebies).