Monthly Archives: November 2008

Christmas… still in November!

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We’re are just about finished our Christmas shopping. It seems early, but it all has to be shipped back home to Ontario so we had to be on the ball today!

Jeff seems really eager to get a Christmas tree up, although I could swear we had trouble keeping needles on our trees when we got them the week before Christmas – so hopefully we can hold off another week.. or two!

Yesterday we made it to our neighbour Christmas craft show, and the farmer’s market. There were hundreds of people stuffed into the local berry farm’s store all ready to Christmas shop. There was even a long line when it opened to get in! We had to park on the highway! The trays of Christmas baking seemed to be their first target. I can’t tell you what we purchased because it might be in your stocking!!

Here is the real, fresh, Christmas wreath we bought! (it smells soooo good!) I don’t remember ever seeing a real wreath in Ontario, but here it is a necessity. There are Christmas tree farms everywhere, and I suspect a lot of people make the majority of their annual salaries by assembling Christmas wreaths, swags, and pine cone decorations.

Last night we went to a dinner theatre in Sherbrooke. Last year’s theme was Christmas in the Klondike, and this year it was a murder mystery! In between courses of our turkey dinners we were treated to an ongoing play and got to take notes in our sleuth pads to see if we could solve the crime and won the prize!! I guessed the butler, but was wrong :( We sat with some of Jeff’s coworkers and their spouses and friends. It was so much fun – I hope we get to go every year!

Tonight we turned on our Christmas lights! Yes it is still November (Happy Birthday Uncle Ed!), and there isn’t a speck of snow to be seen, but we’re ready for the Christmas season! We’re not sure we’re so crazy about the LED lights we bought for the eavestrough. They just aren’t that bright. Here’s some photos:

Our Christmas Decorations

Our Christmas Decorations

Our Christmas Decorations

I know you wanted to see more kitten photos

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The kittens are getting huge! Here are some photos from the other night when we were playing with the fishy-on-the-stick cat toy on the bed.

Steve French: (Know where we got that name from? Ever watch Trailer Park Boys? And the episode with the cougar that was a addicted to pot? And Bubbles caught him and wanted to keep him as his pet kitty? ok then… never mind…)
Kittens playing on the bed

Sally: When they were wild and living under the porch, I thought this one had an eye infection because her right eye is so dark and looks runny. Actually it is just a dark patch of hair there!
Kittens playing on the bed

Sally was really crazy about the green light that comes on to focus the camera. Yesterday I let the kittens out to play while I took a nap. I woke up when something was touch my nose. I opened my eyes to see it was Sally’s nose touching my nose!! Her eyes were this big when I opened my eyes :D
Kittens playing on the bed

Steve French & Sally:
Kittens playing on the bed

Sally:
Kittens playing on the bed

I’m pretty sure Aunt Cecilia said she wanted to adopt them. Anyone want to come and pick them up? ;D

Missed the snow again!

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Nova Scotia is in the news again for its 2nd snow storm in a week, but rest assured that we are safe and sound :D We got 4 inches or so on Friday night but much of it melted in a heat wave on Saturday morning. Only it left our laneway a little icy. I’m so not ready for the icy driveway season again. Parking down by the highway. Hiking up here to the house. Who’s dumb idea was it to build a house up here on the side of a valley anyway.

Anyway… I had no idea that I married Clark Griswold, but I like it! Jeff just strung Christmas lights across the front of our house. He picked out these lighted window displays for each window, and we bought stockings! He is already talking about the big Santa display he wants to put on the roof next year! (was he kidding? I’m not so sure!)

Here are some photos I promised you of the ocean last Sunday when it was mild and very windy (leading to last Sunday evening’s extended power outage!)

Liscomb shore:
Liscomb shore in November

Someone had a wild party
Liscomb shore in November

Jeff’s truck:
Liscomb shore in November

Weird seaweed on the shore – it was like big thick lasagna noodles:
Liscomb shore in November

Some mussel or something – still alive and stuck to the rocks:
Liscomb shore in November

Jeff’s feet:
Liscomb shore in November

Waves:
Liscomb shore in November

A bunch of live thingies stuck to the rocks:
Liscomb shore in November

Ocean shoreline:
Liscomb shore in November

Shoreline trees have such character – even when they are dead:
Liscomb shore in November

Liscomb shore in November

Snow!?!?! Nah, not here.

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I know. I’m way behind in updating this blog. That is because I play with the kittens every night for a couple of hours now rather than sitting on my computer. Their names are Sally and Steve French, by the way, and no, they aren’t staying, I just haven’t found a home for them yet. Everyone is interested in Sally, but I can’t part with her and not Steve French.

Anyway, you will no doubt hear about the massive snow storm in Nova Scotia trapping people in their cars for 15 hours. It wasn’t here. We have a small sciff of snow, but none on the roads. Sounds like Halifax has more than we do.

Blue beauty, our car, is at Chrysler today getting it’s winter studded tires put on. The drive in was slippery this morning so I can’t put it off any longer!

The wood stove is working well. I like that I can stoke it up and start a fire without relighting it HOURS after we last put wood into it. We can put the last couple logs in it at 10pm and the next night at 7:30pm I can still uncover red coals. I just open the damper all the way to get the air flowing, add a couple pieces of newspaper, and before I get more than a couple pieces of kindling in I have fire! Love it.

More later. Including photos from the ocean on Sunday. It was +18 and very very windy so we went to the ocean for pictures, but it wasn’t so windy on the coast. I’ll put a few up later anyway though.

Christmas over night, Hallowe’en, Kittens (of course), and Smurfs!

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All the stores seemed to have morphed into Christmas over night! And we fell for it and bought lights for our first Christmas tree we’ll have in December.

Hallowe’en was last night. We didn’t have any trick-or-treaters, which is fine by us – I always hate trying to keep all our animals secure in the house while giving candy out to children of strangers. Our house is at the top of a scary, steep, dark laneway so we weren’t expecting anyone either.

I let the kittens out to play loose upstairs by putting a baby gate at the top of the stairs to keep the curious dogs back. Zeus has really taken to the male kitten and they chase each other all over and then play hide and seek on each other and pounce. It’s really cute. I’ve never seen Zeus play with another cat so it’s neat to see. Zeus is about 9 years old, maybe more (he was from the pound) and he’s at least twice the size of the kittens. They are growing really fast now though – they are probably half their adult size now already. When cornered, they’ll let me pick them up, and they never try to bite or scratch me, and purr lots, but they don’t come to me when they are loose – well, unless I have an open can of cat food in my hand. They’ll come to me for a stinky can of cat food!

Gorgeous chilly fall day here today. Jeff was up early hunting deer with his bow and arrow. A young buck has been teasing him mercilessly. Jeff is hoping for a bigger buck so he might just continue to enjoy his hunting for the next 5 weeks of the season.

Last night I was flipping channels while Zeus and the male kitten where racing back and forth upstairs and I saw a show I haven’t seen since I was a little kid. THE SMURFS!! What a great cartoon! Check out Teletoon Retro if you get that channel. It has lots of the old time cartoons of my youth.