OOPS.... I think I lost a comment!

Canadian Saver left two very nice comments on the previous post but I somehow lost the second one. I'm very sorry and I hope this was just a rookie blogger mistake. I appreciated the thoughts, though.

(edit) I found the second comment, it was on a different post than I expected. Like I said, it was a rookie mistake.

It's Almost Fall Here On Witch's Island

You can almost smell fall just around the corner, can't you? It makes a girl just want to go out and hug a sunflower or a pumpkin or something!

I didn't have much to say right now but I did want to thank An Ostrich Named Sam for adding me to her web links. I was amazed to see my site linked there. It was a first for me!

My vacation has finally arrived and I am so looking forward to all the things that I have planned. I'm sure you will hear all about it later, but for now I'm just going to leave you with a few pictures. The first one is the note that greeted me when I got home from work on Friday. The rest are just happy pictures. I hope you enjoy them!


Holiday Greeting

Sunflowers

1st Year Anniversary

It's hard to believe that it has already been a year since The Witch's Island went public. With all the stuff that was happening to me and all the things that I have experienced since this time last year I am glad to have had the ability to vent to you, my dedicated reader. Thank you.

Tonight, I am just going to think about what the past year has meant to me. No real blogging, sorry. Instead, I will leave you with some new pictures.

Talk to you all later, my pretties!!


Janice's Hot Curry Relish




Harvest Time




First Pumpkin of the Season!

It's been a great Summer

I know it has been quite awhile since I last posted but I've been having such a great summer that I really didn't feel like wasting any of those beautiful days inside at the computer. The BEACH was way more important! And wine at the beach was even better in the shade under my new umbrella.


Our gardens have all done beautifully and we received a lot of complements towards all our hard work. Hurricane Bill did do some damage but not as bad as it could have been. It tipped over some obelisks and the pea fence but they were easily straightened. The only victims were some pole beans and a few tomato branches.







I guess summer is starting to wind down and now that my sunflowers are starting to all open in full bloom, and the Pumpkins are bright orange I feel a tinge of fall in the air. Hopefully not too much of a tinge because we haven't started our vacation yet and I'm really getting excited. We are renting a cottage for three hopefully sunny days right near the beach. We are planning to do some canoeing, hiking, biking, swimming,and lots of eating and drinking. Maybe not in all that order. The place I have booked looks beautiful and has lots of views of the ocean and river. I can smell the ocean now and hear the waves crashing on the rocks. Let's hope that the rain keeps away!

That's it for now. I've posted some pictures of our gardens and hope you enjoy them.

Hubby Goes Racing at the Dragstrip!

Hubby's ride along was in a '66 Valient drag car. Speed at the end of the quarter mile was 109 MPH. We didn't get the E.T. but he was running in the low 13 second range earlier in the day.

Burnout...


Waiting for the lights...


Back from the run...


Here's our first video post. Two of the racers launching...

Happy Canada Day

It's Canada's birthday today and I'm very proud to be living in Canada. I also really love the fact that it's a holiday and that I'm taking a few extra days off, as well. Ya hooo for me!

We purchased a new flag and Hubby raised it up even higher so now when you drive over the crest of the hill it is the first thing you see of our property. Hanging proud!!! There are lots of celebrations going on today all over and I'm not sure what we will be doing because the weather is very overcast and looking like rain. It has been great for our garden, though. When we finally get some sun I'm sure the garden will just pop.

Saying the word pop has again made me think of Michael Jackson the King of Pop. He will be sadly missed by me but I will always treasure the time I saw the Jackson Five in concert at the EX. To me "Thriller" has to be the best video of all time and one of my favorite older songs is "Ben". He may have had a wacky life but he had great talent that I feel will be hard to replace. This I thank him for, may he rest in peace.


I think Hubby and I may be planning a day trip which may include our favorite Chinese food restaurant. We live such simple lives that I'm happy just to be able to get away together.

Enjoy the pictures
Happy Canada Day Everyone!

New painting and other stuff...

I know it's been too long since the last time I blogged, but like I said before, I didn't sign a contract so you'll just have be brave and try to understand.
Hubby and I had a great lunch at a local Inn in the Big City. I want to go back again SO soon. God maybe we just haven't been out for so long but a simple soup and sandwich meal turned out to be almost a gourmet treat. The soup was some odd strange sounding brew of broccoli, peas and mint but it was very tasty! The sandwich was ham, tomato and lettuce on grilled homemade rye bread, mmmmm.We managed to spend lots of cash on Saturday.

I recently came into a small amount of money. A distant relative passed away last year and I received a small part of his estate. I didn’t know him and in fact I had only heard of him once or twice from my dad. The estate consisted mainly of his savings accounts which were divided amongst his nieces and nephews and their children. He really should have enjoyed the money himself but instead it went to people he didn't even know. I am curious now about what he was like. I've asked the lawyers for some pictures and information and I hope that they will be able to supply that for me. I feel so sad actually to have received the money under these circumstances so I wanted to do something meaningful with it. Hubby reminded me about a painting that we had looked at back in February. We were thinking of buying it when I received my Christmas bonus but we let it drop for other reasons. I guess we never really put that painting out of our minds. We bought it on Saturday and it now sits beautifully above the new couch. I feel I will remember Eric every time we look at this painting because honestly we probably would never have bought it, otherwise. So, I thank you, Eric.

We have enclosed pictures of some reasons why I haven't had time to blog lately. Gardening, gardening and more gardening. Plus, I got a new promotion at work and I have been in training for the past several weeks. I will be off in two days for a short holiday and I can hardly wait. Canada Day cannot come fast enough for me!