Christmas Is Here Again!

My mom is 87 and we have decided that I will go out and get the presents and wrap them and decorate her home. My mom loves Christmas and has tons of stuff to decorate her little apartment. Next week I am going up to her place to get that all together on Friday and the next day she is having a Christmas celebration with her PEEPS on Saturday. Wahooah - You go MicroDOT - Anyway, I got Moms presents bought yesterday and Mom was not home when I brought all the stuff over. No Problem - Just ringed moms best friend and spent some time with her. We had a great time - chatting - had a few hoots and laughs:














Mom got home after visiting her dearest old friend. They had a choir playing at the old age home that Winnie is in. They served wine and cheese and Mom loved to be there. We looked out the window and the sun was going down. I grabbed my camera to get a pic of this. By the way, the weather here in TDOT has been so beautiful!












After I got home, me hubby went to get something and I just love this pic of our puppy waiting for me hubby to get back:

Friends

It was great to get together again after my friend had been on holidays.

HELP!

A guy who lives at Round Lake, Sask.(50 miles South of Yorkton) saw a ball bouncing around kind of strangely in the lake and went to investigate. It turned out to be a flathead catfish who had obviously tried to swallow a basketball which became stuck in its mouth!! The fish was totally exhausted from trying to dive, but unable to because the ball would always bring him back up to the surface. The guy tried numerous times to get the ball out,but was unsuccessful. He finally had his wife cut the ball in order to deflate it and release the hungry catfish. You probably wouldn't have believed this, if you hadn't seen the following pictures..





















THE MORAL OF THE STORY:

Be kinder than necessary. 'Cause everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle. Thanks Marj for this story.

STAINED GLASS FROM NAN-SEA

The work of these two stained glass pieces is MARVELOUS! KUDO'S Nan-sea (Please click on the pics to see bigger and all the details)

THE NEW LAPTOP COMPUTER FROM ISRAEL

My Mom's Best Friends 90th Birthday

We just got back from the celebration. It was a surprise party and there were 130 people there from moms friends family and friends.

Our House is a Very Very Very Fine House but Small!

This is a great idea for small homes. My friends husband could do this for us for sure. All we need is some 'moolah' to see the dream come true. We do not have a garage to store stuff (by the way - my dad always parked his car in the garage - nowadays none of the boomers do that cause the garage is filled with stuff) and the cupboard situation is limited as well - I have to be pretty savvy when it comes to organizing our little home. Another friend was telling me how she grew up in a home like ours just down the street with 6 other siblings. Stories like that make me grateful! We sure do live in a world of STUFF, nowadays. Theres a Steve Martin movie with Bernadette Peters called The Jerk. He comes from a poor black family (that in itself is hilarious) - He makes it big with Bernadette and then loses everything. I love the line from Bernadette:

"Its not about the money, its about the stuuuuuuuuuffffffffff!" LOL!

True for TDot

Had to go downtown this week and it took 1.5 hrs. to get back to our corner of the city from Casa Loma. While it only takes 15 minutes to get to the St. Lawrence Market. We manuevered thru all the side streets. Mom went to Niagara Falls to do a little gambling this week and it took her a ton of time to get back to the city due to the traffic. Anyway, would love to see this sign on one of our highways.

T.DOT INDIAN SUMMER & A WAKE!

We in T.Dot have been having the most wonderful weather. Walking out to my fav coffee shop in the early mornings with just a sweater is such a JOY! I even have been lax to completely purge the garden with this wonderful weather. The back deck is still open to the weather. Soon though we will have to get jiggy - watching the weather systems - to close off the deck, hug up the doors with insulation and I am still sooooooo slow to mound up the roses. I for one am grateful for the Toronto Indian Summer. On another note - had a WAKE for my Uncle on Friday. A few of us got together at Bloor and Prince Edward and then went to the Legion - and then Jim and I came home to continue the WAKE! It was a good day and a great remembrance for my Uncle. I had never been to a graveyard in years and this one was a so good in that we all put something into the box that my Uncle is resting in. A rose, a hockey puck, a poppy, a pin, praying hands. I had never seen this before - it is like a time capsule. Here are the pics of that day:

OUR NEW LIGHTHOUSE!

J.T. with his Birthday shirt and our new Lighthouse. We will keep it on the deck until next Spring and then put it out into the vegie garden with the scarecrow whom we will decorate as a sailor. WHOA!!!!!!

Fight Night at the Travis'

Once a month, the boyz all get together to watch the fight at our home. They all contribute. But this last one was a blast - 15 boyz showed up and I think we made money for the fight. The pics don't really show how it looked when me and J.T. went down to see WHAT UP! THE PLACE WAS PACKED! We love it though. Good times! Memories! - P.S. Somehow my cousin showed up and I am not sure how to delete - Guess he should have been there. Ah Well - Fun!

Finally - the Garden Purged - NOW TO SEW!

J.T. and I got the garden all cleaned up - Whoa - what alot of work. Looking forward to next years creations. J.T. got a pic of me in the brilliant red Burning Bush! I sure do love these. Hope to put more in the backyard next year.

God Bless Uncle Bruce!

CAMERON, Bruce Bennett - Passed away peacefully with his daughter Barbara by his side on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 in his 83rd year. Devoted husband, of 62 years, to Doris (Coyle). Proud father of Bruce, Pat (Rob Allen), Barbara (Roland Gatti) and Bill. Cherished Poppy to six grandchildren and one great- grandson. He will be sadly missed by his loving sisters Dorothy and Mary and their families. Bruce's careers started with playing hockey with the Oshawa Generals 'No. 4' then continued with the family's restaurant 'Cameron's Grill'. He then joined the York Fire Department from which he eventually retired as Captain in 1986. Friends will be received at the Ward Funeral Home, 2035 Weston Rd., (north of Lawrence) Weston on Saturday, October 24, 2009 from 1-3 p.m. A Funeral Service will follow in the chapel. Cremation. Donations to the Canadian Cancer Society would be appreciated by the family. A book of memories may be signed at www.wardfuneralhome.com

I am not able to define each pic - Its just too much darn work on blogger. Enjoy anyway. It was a true celebration of my Uncles life. Starting off with Frank Sinatra singing and then my fav Ramblin Rose and then another Sinatra song - Fly me to the moon. The minister was an Irish Baptist who got all involved in the service. i.e. The Lord is - WHAT - and we responded OUR SHEPHERD.

UNCLE BRUCE - YOU ARE TRULY MISSED TODAY - AND FOREVER! I PERSONALLY LOVED YOU TONS - AS DID MY HUBBY - XXX000 to a wonderful Uncle and friend.

NEW QUILT

I am finally making a new quilt - Have not made one in 5 years - I went downtown to MACFAB to get a fabric with MATRYUSKAS. These are Russian dolls that have a bunch of dolls inside them that go down in size INSIDE the original Matryuska. The Matryuska is a grandma . I will be taking this fabric and cutting out the Matryuskas and putting them in diverse places on the quilt with candlelight in the centre. I got 20 tulips in today - Tomorrow another 36 tulips and then down to the sewing room to get going on this quilt.

Teddy Bear Wig

I had alot of fun with da boyz. Got them to put on a teddy bear wig that I got at a garage sale. They went into hysterics as each one put it on.