Maple Syrup Festival

Another stellar day, I have already been out for a long walk with G&G.

Tomorrow we head to Cumberland County for a Maple Syrup supper at the Westchester Fire Hall. Pancakes, baked beans, sausages, brown bread, sweets, tea coffee and of course the wonderful Maple syrup to crown it all. Check out the festival here.

Maple Syrup is the first agricultural crop in the NS growing season and the cold nights and warm days are helping to give the producers a banner year. Yummy! I can't wait to get some Maple Butter tomorrow.

There hasn't been much work done in the sewing room, but I did stitch together a Happy Birthday banner. It wasn't ready for Patti's but hopefully will be completed for the rash of birthdays coming up in the next few months.

 My Uncle Bob was featured in the Lives Lived column in today's Globe and Mail. It was wonderful to read the tribute that his son Shel wrote.
He was my Mother's older brother, by 17 months or so.
They had great telephone conversations every Sunday morning, discussing absolutely everything, but mostly the old neighbourhood around Spencer Street in St. John's. My mother is the last of a family of eight siblings, she has lived in Nova Scotia  since 1944 but she is still a Newfoundlander first and foremost.

March

Gee March has certainly been a pleasure so far, nice sunny days, lots of blue skies, no snow or rain, can it last? The temperature is not warm but 6C isn't bad for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere in March, and it isn't even spring yet!
George & Gracie and I have been walking long walks every day and they are loving it. There is a moral to the story though, if a large noisy truck is rumbling down the street don't try to use the crosswalk to get across at that particular time. They don't like it and will lie down in the middle of the street, and have to be coaxed back to walk.
They have been walking with an old glove in their mouths and look much like a pair of puppies leading me as they prance ahead and I follow, holding  the leashes. I feel like a teamster for dogs, instead of horses.

I am making progress on my Trapunto wall hanging, and enjoying it as well. I ran out of the water-soluble thread and have to make a dash to a store to get some. I knew I should have purchased two when I initially bought it.

Golden Canada

My goodness once they got over the "own the podium" hype they got down to business. 14 Gold medals. Not bad.

Our own NS son Sidney Crosby scored the winning goal in an OT hockey game against the US. I think everyone was glued or in close proximity to a television.
Good Job!

On a roll?

I wonder if the Canadian Olympic team is on their roll now. A gold last evening for Woman's hockey and a Bronze for Woman's figure skating.
There may have been more medals yesterday but I am not glued to watching the events.

This will be a sewing day it is raining buckets and any snow should be gone by the end of this storm.

I hope to finish a quilt top that has been in the works for a long time. I was ready to put the borders on last night but decided to change a block which was not in keeping with the rest of the top.
It would be a real plus to actually get the top sandwiched and basted, but I don't want to be too optimistic.

I have also made some little fabric boxes, I found  this tutorial on a blog and the embellishments were from Jenny of Elephantz, here.  She has lovely ideas.  I have used them to showcase FQ's. They look much better than plastic containers.

George and Gracie

Here is a photo of the two pups, this was shot last week just before Gracie had a facial and we discovered that she has two eyes. They are growing in leaps and bounds.

At the moment they are trying to figure out who the dogs are that are seen in the door of the stereo!

It is a conundrum for them that is for sure, but whoever those dogs are, they seem to be friendly.

Falling behind

I definitely am Not a good blogger, it has been months since I posted anything. What can I say?

Well in October we had a family wedding in Toronto and then another celebration here. That was lots of fun. We had visitors from NZ and Italy,and various Canadian provinces.

November we recovered from the wedding and celebrated year 42 of wedded bliss.
And I had to do something for Christmas, like buy gifts, send cards, wrap gifts. all that stuff that we put ourselves through.

December our poor old dog Jake was quite ill and he crossed the Rainbow Bridge the week before Christmas. My that was a hard time, his heart just gave up pumping. We certainly miss him.

January came and so did two new puppies George and Gracie. They are 12 week old Shih-Tzu mainly, but George appears to have some other breed in him. I guess there was hanky-panky in the porch 'cause both parents are Shih-Tzu.

February is training, and washing piddles off floors and training and washing floors. You get the picture.
When I remember how to post a photo I'll upload one.

Meantime I have been sewing and quilting and now I am taking a Trapunto Machine Quilting course. That is fun.

Hopefully I'll post again before another month.

Cassia Bud Pickles

I finally did it. I think I figured out how to put a button on this blog, or at least in the body of it.
Dorothy a Canadian designer is having a giveaway so go and pop in for a visit.

I am in the throes of making Cassia Bud pickles, two batches are underway. The first should be ready by Tuesday and the second about 10 days later. They take a while but worth it.

Tonight we are having corn on the cob for supper. It is from Newcombe's, they have the best corn around!
Wish Charlotte was here for a feed.

The weather is just glorious, another stellar day. I won't be sewing at any machine today, probably some Redwork on the deck.

Maybe I'll get another update before three months go by.