Old Fashion Taffy :)

If you are over 40, do you remember having these treats.
Yummy Taffy. It has the three flavours to it. Hubby and I went out and he saw this and remembered that I had mentioned that I loved it as a little girl.
What a sweetie eh.

I don't remember it sticking so much to my teeth though. I was scared that I would pull out a filling, LOL. Remember if it got cold it would crack apart. Oh the memories.

I was going to say that today was a lay low day, but now that I think of it, it wasn't. I was going to take my dad to get his blood work done but he was so sore.

So I got ready to get on with my day.

Ashley got a call to go for some testing on a job she applied for.

The funny thing about this job is that the lady phoned her when we were in the drive thru at McDonald's. It was so loud as the speaker was loud and there was a diesel truck behind us. But anyway, the lady told her to come for the testing/interview Monday to Friday between 9 and 5. I was like WHAT?!? Usually they give a more specific time, like Monday at 10:30 LOL

Well anyway it went well. Ashley goes back on Wednesday for a walk through.

Heather also applied for the job (they were hiring more than 1 person) she got a call to come in this week.

Well I waited for Ashley today (we knew it was going to be for about 1 1/2 hours) I took some crocheting and a book. Well I read 1/2 of a 537 page book. I guess I will finish it tomorrow during Heather's test/interview.

Hubby and I ran to Canadian Tire and Home Depot to pick up a few things and some baseboards for the girls bedrooms up at our camp/cottage.

Well a new Obsessed and Intervention is on soon. So I will be on my way.

Hope you all enjoyed your Monday.

Tracy

Bloopers anyone.

I woke up to the robin banging on my window again.
It was raining out, so we just got ready and came home.
I missed Kristy. She stayed at her friend Brianna's house as she had a birthday party sleepover. Brianna wanted her to stay the whole weekend.
Here is a bloopers video I put together. If you thought I sounded dippy in my video's you should watch the bloopers, or maybe you shouldn't LOL.


Nothing else happened today. During our drive to and from camp I did a bit of crochet.
Hubby and I ran out to do a bit of errands and I found some beautiful burgundy crochet thread, so pretty.
Hubby and I are just planning on watching some movies tonight, and I am going to catch up on some of my book work.

Hope your Sunday was a crafty one.

Tracy

Pulling up the old.

First off I will share a book with you that I read. I got this book from my daughter Heather. She enjoys books about teens with mental health issues.
This book was OK. I didn't really love the main character. I thought she was spoiled and thought a little to highly of herself. But things are explained at the end of the book. I don't want to give it away. I would give this book a 5 out of 10.

Here is the carpet we installed this weekend. Just kidding, scared you didn't I? LOL. Actually this is Kristy and Ashley's room at camp/cottage. We removed these tiles of carpet.

Here is Heather's room. Gross, that stain is from a case of pop that my BIL forgot under the bed and it exploded during the winter. Heather's room had 2 layers of carpeting and an underlay.

We took out the carpeting and put in the nice new one. But now that there is only one carpet (instead of 2) the baseboards don't cover all of the unpainted part of the wall. So before we can install the baseboards we have to paint the wall further down.

Here is the hallway. More nice carpet tile, NOT. This used to be in the living room, until my in laws (whom owned it before hubby and I) changed it to click lock hardwood flooring.
This carpet tile is from swatches of carpet samples glued, yes I said GLUED down to the floor. Can you believe I didn't take any after photos!!! Here is our newest baby. Out of the robin's eggs only 1 baby bird. Awwww, what an ugly little thing isn't he.We love to feed the chipmunks that come to visit. We wondered why we didn't them that much, well here is why. They don't come out when the squirrels are around. We don't have many squirrels. This guy was chatting up a storm with me. Guess he wanted some peanuts instead of the sunflower seeds teehee.We bought hubby a weather center for Father's Day. He wanted to put it up at camp/cottage. It was a little sketchy working on the ladder. So he got his dad to hoist him up in his mini loader to install it on the garage.I also cleaned out an old flower bed. It was overgrown with grass and sod. I had to use a pick axe to get all the overgrowth out. In the middle of the flower bed was an old stump. The underneath of it was rotten, but the top of the stump was hard. So my FIL brought over his mini loader and pulled out the stump. So now I just need some topsoil to fill it in and get to planting.
Between pulling up that carpeting and cutting through the sod I am going to be sore tomorrow.
It was a beautiful day today, hubby even went swimming.

Hope your Saturday was a nice one.

Tracy

Quick post with a video

I have just not stopped today.
It all started with Kristy coming into my room asking me "Is my hair appointment at 10:00"? I look at the clock. 9:45. Oh sh1t.
Well believe it or not we made it.
Then came back home took a shower.
Went to price out some flooring.
Came back home to get the truck.
Picked up the flooring.
Figured that we should go to camp tonight.
Ran and picked up some groceries.
Picked up some soil and flowers (for camp).
Ran to mail some of my tags out (sorry Pea, just got them in the mail today).
Came back home to pack for camp.
Did a business call.
Doing this quick post.

Because this is a quick post (as I am quickly making supper and trying to pack up before hubby comes home, he doesn't know that we are going to camp tonight teehee)
I will leave you with a video I did on some crafty goodies I have been working on.


Friday pet peeves
1 Mean nasty people
2 Having a rushed day
3 Internet that keeps going down
4 Cheeky teens
5 My procrastination.

Hope you all have a nice weekend.

Tracy

More Tags.

I got to sleep in this morning, Yeah. Well I was up late last night, so I needed it.
Kristy is finished school so our summer is officially ON!!!!!

Here is a video I did on some more tags that I made.



Today the girls and I went to Centennial Park. Ashley wanted to do a photo shoot. Kristy's friend Brianna came too. The girls wandered around taking photo's and I sat under a tree and read a book. Today was a Goldilocks day. Not to hot and not to cool, just right :)

Tomorrow I have a lot of running around to do. Plus it is suppose to rain.
Hope I can dodge the rain drops.

Thankful Thursday.
1. Beautiful day
2. Time to just sit and relax under a tree and read.
3 No Drama
4. Hearing my girls laughter
5. Ice cream :)

Hope your Thursday was a crafty one.

Tracy

Tags, tags and more tags.

I have taped some of the projects I have been working on. I need to make an outtake video. OMG I sound like an idiot, LOL.
I was hoping to get my tags on one video, but of course that didn't work. With YouTube only taking 10 minutes video's I had to make it into 2 parts. I guess I just gab to much. teehee.
So I taped the video's edited them, then realized I cut out to many times, so re-edited them. Then uploaded them to YouTube, only for YouTube to tell me I had the wrong format or something.
So redid them. I have only uploaded one as it is late 1:59am, (I change the date on my blog. I want to journal/blog everyday, Yah I know I'm only fooling myself, but that's okay, I am easy to fool).
So here is my first video of 3 that I did today.



Well Kristy had her exam today and she thinks she did really good on it. She had over 90 in that class so nothing to worry about anyway.
Ashley, Heather and I went out to look for flooring for the camp/cottage bedrooms. We found some, not liking the price of it though. It is a camp after all, I don't want to pay an arm and a leg for flooring.

I was going to make chicken breasts for supper tonight. I buy chicken breasts in those big boxes. Well when I went to take them out of the downstairs freezer, I noticed that they were a bit thawed out. Someone left the freezer door open a tad. I am not going to mention names, but I think I know who it was. Ya my blueberries got it too. I think that is even worse.
Needless to say we will be eating a lot of chicken breast for supper for the next few days. Hey anyone have an easy, delicious recipe for chicken.

It poured here today. We needed some rain. It is pretty dry here, and the rain should cool things down a bit.
There was an earthquake in Ontario and Quebec today. We weren't affected by it at all. You can read about it here http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2010/06/23/14490291.html#/news/canada/2010/06/23/pf-14488506.html
Mother Nature is pissed and I don't blame her.

Today was a pretty boring day here.
How was your Wednesday, hope it was a crafty one.

Tracy

Walk in my Garden pt 3

This is going to conclude the Walk in My Garden posts.
Here is our full side yard. I showed pictures yesterday, but wanted to give the full view of this part of the yard. As we use our side door as opposed to the front door, I see this part of the yard many times a day.
I love these hanging baskets and my angel display. That little girl on the left used to sit on that bench. Well when I took her out of storage her legs were broken off. I didn't want to get rid of her so I made her look like she was sitting in the grass instead teehee.
My sister surprised me with the angel for my birthday one year. She even brought the log for her to sit on.
This here is a bench that has seen better days. The structure of it was fine, but the wood slats were looking pretty worn. At first I painted it white. It was so bright it hurt your eyes, LOL. Seriously you couldn't look at it. So I gave it a coat of green, I think it turned out just fine. There is another angel sitting on a stump. All of these tree stumps I had got from various places. None of them are from actual trees that were in our yard. When we bought this house it was brand new. The yard wasn't landscaped, it didn't even have grass. We brought in many, many, many truck loads of topsoil to raise the yard (we raised the backyard about 7 feet). Good thing Hubby owns a gravel business, I wouldn't have wanted to pay that bill.
Hubby brought this rock home from work. He was loading a truck and this rock just rolled down the pile. So he thought I would like it (as it is shaped like a heart) and brought it home to me. What a sweetie. I wonder what his brothers thought. Now that is literally bringing you work home with you teehee. I painted the Welcome on it.My brother in law, Jim is a welder. I asked him if he could make me a shepard's hook to hold my flower basket. And he did. My sister in law, Sharon (Jim's wife) is still waiting for hers, teehee. I love to sit on my swing and reading a book, or take a little nap during the day. I haven't had a chance to do this yet this year, but am looking forward to it. My girls will bring the laptop out here and swing and converse when the weather is nice.
I am reworking the back corner flower bed. Hubby and I put the rock border up around it, years ago. Some of the rocks need to be cemented in again. See that bird bath poking out from between the bushes. Hubby and I made it. He welded the base and we made the bird bath bowl out of cement. I remember this day well, because we also poured cement in shallow trays and the girls put there hand prints in the cement and decorated them with marbles. We then put their plaque on the ground under their swing set. The swing set has long been removed and the cement plaques are still in the ground covered with grass. I should look for them and dig them up.This is my back flower bed. I just planted this weekend, so it looks pretty sparse. I haven't planted my tomato plants here yet. I wonder if it is to late?

Her are some more of my little fairies or angels hiding amongst the flowers. More interesting rocks hubby and I found at the gravel pit.
There is another fairy hiding.
This here is my work shop. I do wood working. It used to be in my basement. Talk about dust, what a mess that was. So a couple years ago I hired this company to come and build me my workshop. I told the owner what I wanted. Which was a big door and two windows on either side. They had this built in a day and a half. I plan on building little flower boxes under each of the windows and maybe some shutters.

Ya that is the clothesline running in the center if the picture. It is retractable but I forgot to put it away until I saw these pictures, Oh well.

Our Gazebo. Oh I love this. I sit under here and enjoy my lunch almost every day. I need to weed in between the patio tiles. Hubby and I put down those tiles about the 3rd year we lived here, we have lived here for 16 yrs. Good thing Hubby is strong, as I couldn't pick one of these up if my life depended on it.
Lastly the "Dreaded Shed". This is the name I gave this shed after Kristy sliced her wrist on it as hubby was putting it together.
That huge bush is a bleeding heart. It has finished blooming for the year. On either side of the door I have tiny flower beds. In them I had climbing clematis'. But they haven't come up again this year. I mentioned this to Hubby and he said he may have accidentally sprayed week killer on them. Guess that would do it.

So that is my whole yard. I am so glad I did this. It has made me appreciate my yard and to realize all the work Hubby and I have done through the years. It has also made me think of all our friends and family who have contributed to making our yard a place where my family and I love to spend our time together.

So what have you done today to make you feel proud?

1. Walked everyday this week. I know its only Tuesday teehee.

2. I didn't yell at the B1tch lady when she phoned to give me a fake apology. (which she only did because my other boss (BIL) phoned her to tell her she can't talk to our office staff like that) (I was so surprised and appreciative that he did that). Oh ya she was got mad again when I told her that I still wouldn't change my way of billing. Ya she freaked again.

3. Did 2 video's on my projects that I have been working on. Haven't edited them yet though.

Hope your Tuesday was a creative one.

Tracy