HAPPY BIRTHDAY ANNE - May 23/10

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GO MONTREAL CANADIANS!

The playoffs are under way and I am into the Montreal Canadians. Not nice - is the riots in Montreal after the last game with Pittsburgh! Anyway, a few years ago I got a Lion that roars and children can sit on it at a church sale to put in my friends window for Christmas. It sits lonely under the stairs. Last week, I got a Maple Leaf Player for a buck! This just has to go to my nephews place. A die hard Maple Leaf fan - JUST FOR LORNE! - Hope to hear from him soon!

WHAT A FIND!

When I lived with CLR in the HOBBIT HOLE, we used to wear peasant blouses from Hungary (CLR being from Hungary - I borrowed them to wear) Anyway, I always wanted one in these days and went to a church sale and got a mint vest and peasant blouse IN MY SIZE. When I sent the pic to CLR she said I just had to wear this to see her mom one day and that Aunt Liz would call me HER CHILD! LOL! I showed it to my next door Hungarian neighbours and she quoted me a price that this would cost today. WOW! Did I ever get a score for just 4 bucks!

PLANT GARAGE SALE!

I went to a plant garage sale at 8 a.m. - This lady is a real green thumb and had tons of stuff all neatly organized and pictured. Here is what I acquired :

At the front of the table - 2 large ($3.00 each) and 4 small ($1.00 each) Purple Echinecea for right and left side of our south garden; 2 variagated Hosta ($3.00 each) for the front of the house and at the back 2 Bridal Veil Spirea ($3.00 each).


3 Pots of Raspberries with 3 plants in each pot ($6.00 each) (bloom in July and then again in September). I used to have a Raspberry patch in the Vegie garden and am looking forward to another one. I am sure happy with todays inexpensive purchase. I need one more perennial though- tall Shasta daisy - 2 more and she only had the dwarf ones.

GARDEN STUFF!

Got the Secret Place set up with Adams new Pull-Up bar (which looks crooked but just the way I took the pic). A friend made me laugh out loud! - They thought when I said a pull-up bar that we were putting in a bar with chairs for drinks. The rather large wooden thing to the right is a vintage on wheels outdoor easel that someone was throwing out. Just had to have it albeit rather large. Its a conversation piece and I am already thinking of what I would like to draw back there.


The Forget-Me-Nots in the Vegie garden showed up profusely all on their own. Albeit some will have to be moved at the front as that is where the pumpkin is going. We also got around 75% more Lily-of-The Valley beside the shed. The white and pink Bleeding Heart warm the cockles of my heart.

TWENTY-ONE

A.T. reading cards that he got. Thanks, Mom, Cam, Rick and Carol. He sure can use the $. Thanks again to all for the phone calls on our message machine and emails. A.T. went out Friday night to a "KEGGER" ---Saturday morning he had a massive headache - He ate pickles and drank some of the juice to relieve the pain - I never knew that - we always had a RED EYE to relieve the pain in the older days (beer and tomatoe juice) - Draft will do that. On Saturday him and his GNOMIES went down to the Air Canada Centre for the Lacrosse playoffs. Toronto ROCKS was losing at 6 and then came up to win the game. He said it was a most amazing night!



































We went to Islington Golf Club today for dinner with Mom, J.T., A.T. and Moi. The food was amazing. Adam wanted at first to go to the Red Lobster but Nana encouraged him to come to the Club. Today they had for the first time ever Surf and Turf. A.T. and I had Surf and Turf (Filet Mignon and Lobster) , J.T. had the soup of the day (Split Pea and Ham) which he said was amazing and Steak and Mom had Salmon. Islington has a new Chef and all we can say is "WOW"! The food was excellent.

















Happy 21st A.T. J.T. and Moi's card said - "SON - TIME PASSES, THINGS CHANGE, BUT WE'LL ALWAYS BE FAMILY (and then inside it said) ......AND WE'LL ALWAYS LAUGH AT THE SAME IMMATURE STUFF. These pics say it all!!!


































Went back to Mom's and she gave us her rendition of working out:




















Jim looked over her balcony and saw that someone had designed two hearts as one:

Zinnia's

Last week got 3 flats of Zinnia's planted for under the grow lights. The 6" multicoloured Thumbelina, 3' Canary Yellow, 12" Lilliput are all coming up. Next to get the 200 lb. pumpkin, Autumn Splendour Sunflowers, Merlot Mix Cosmos and Moon Flower (like morning glories only they have a 6" spread white flower that comes out in the evening and stays until the morning and is ultra fragrant).

Out Front

Our front maple tree starts off burgundy and then turns green.







Last year I put in 60 tulips, 45 came up on either side of the front door. This is the left side. They have a hard time growing out front as it faces north and the big tree and the roots mean that our tulips come out later than most others. Albeit still pretty. This fall will plant another 60.

AT's Pull-Up Bar

On Friday, the boyz got A.T.'s Pull-Up bar into the entrance to the Secret Place. Note - A.T. is not a labourer but a supervisor - LOL! Will you look at J.T.'s white hair.