THE DAY AFTER

Poster that appeared the day after Harold Campings false prophecy:

Judgement Day May 21, 2011

How I found out about this was a friend gave me a world band receiver and one night around 2 months ago hooked into Harold Camping who said the world was in judgement day on May 21, 2011. I googled and researched Mr. Camping and the most common agreement is that at that time years ago Harold got kicked out of the church that he was giving wrong doctrines - At that moment in time - Harold went off. But not off enough to get a whole cult gathering that has posted his end of world signs all around the world. Unfortunately, the people who have done this are mostly the vulnerable. Nothing has been said about this until today when various medias posted - CNN etc. Poor old Harold Camping - in his late 80's is a misguided soul. Oh, and this was not the first time that he predicted the end of the world - Lord have mercy on all those that have followed him and believed his angry theology. Albeit, all things work for good and maybe some will consider the days we are in. Yet woe to those that have believed his lie and what will they do when it does not end tomorrow.

Mom's Life DVD

Met yesterday with the gentleman that is doing my Mom's Life story on DVD. We got thru my 10 page questionnaire and he brought a pic that mom had loaned him. It is a pic of dad and mom taken in September 1943. Mom would have just been preggers with my bro albeit she may not have known yet

"CHECKIN HIS EYELIDS OUT FOR HOLES"

Just got this pic of my dear friend out west who always used that expression.

OH WELL!!!

Was hoping to get the gardening done so as to have a relaxing long weekend yet to no avail. The clouds came in on Friday night and have brought with them bursts of rain. It does not appear that they will be leaving until the weekend which looks much more promising. I had to wear my winter coat today as it was so chilly even in my local coffee shop where the heat appears to be broken. I think I will put on my rubber boots and do something outside anyway. I saw that Victoria is getting sun soon yet colder than usual. Whitehorse is on a roll with fabulous warmer temps. Have fun gardening D.C. and CLR.

Busy time of year

We have had a bummer Spring. Alot of rain and cold but the weather has been changing and today got out and started to clean up our beautiful backyard. Each year in our back garden sanctuary, I change things up and acquire new things to make it new and interesting. Everything is coming up that I had planted years ago. I went around our garden and purged the ugly things that try to immitate others. Ever noticed that - that there are other plants that do that? They actually grow stronger and more stouter than the others. Yet, they are so easy to elliminate. Some were growing inside my Iris's - some were growing beneath the side of our flowering bushes, some just showed up in open areas - yet they were so easy to get rid of.

In saying that, there are also things that invade your life that are really easy to elliminate. Just pluck them up so that the things that are growing positively around you are nourished.

What a weekend!

Royal Wedding - beautiful --- Osama - out ---- Canadian election - amazing changes!!!!

Election Canada

Just watching the election. Conservatives are in the lead but will they get a majority - Have to wait another 14 minutes to see when the polls close in B.C.

MAKE MONEY ON GOOGLE!

A friend of mind just emailed me and told me that they left their day job to make money for google (for a small fee) - I thought - mmmmmmmmmmmm - lets research this - What I found is that people can make money by clicking on ADs google on different sites but now their are a bunch of people out their that will help you do this and - well - that costs too - DON'T LEAVE YOUR DAY JOB! - Anyone got a heads up on this?

What are those dots???

(Taken in northern Italy at the Cingino Dam)
























































They are ALPINE IBEX (ancient biblical name AZELIM/AZELAH)


Note - two different forms of shofar (horn) were used in the Temple in Jerusalem: one made of Ibex horn and sounded at New Year's and during Yovel Days (Jubilee/50 years); and one made of ram's horn, and sounded on fast days.

Here is a pic of an Ibex Shofar I found online and then under that the one I got for $5.00 at a Sally Ann antique auction.

ITS SO QUIET ON TDOTBLOGGER!

....because Playlist will no longer allow us Cdns. to have legit rights to the songs. The special songs I made for CLR are gone now but there are other lists out there - like Mixpod, Hypster or Grooveshark - Yet, for now I am enjoying the silence.

The Royal Wedding

We got up at 6 a.m. to watch the wedding which I really enjoyed. I always have liked the song Jerusalem (which was played at the wedding) albeit my fav version was Emerson, Lake and Palmer whom CLR and I saw sing in the early 70's. (Are we over yet, the fact that someone patted us on our heads like we were dogs? - LOL!) My neice asked us to make up a name for the wedding using first a name of a grandparent, then the name of your first pet and lastly the name of the street that you were born on - My name is Lady Amy Shaughnessy of Glenlake. Hubby's is Lord Louis Tuffy of Evelyn and AT's is Lord Lorne Bubbah of Stephens. Great fun. Comment me on your name.
Time for a cuppa! Ta! Ta! for now!

Easter Blooms

Happy Birthday S.

You have got to see this!!!

Amazing camouflage! albeit Photoshopped! I liked it anyway!

Feelin Groovy

Milk (etc) trick. Reminds me of the place at the EX where you would make psychedelic art.

AURORAS

On April 2nd and 3rd, Northern Lights spilled across the Canadian border into the United States. To the naked eye, the auroras were mostly pale-white, but exposures of 10 or more seconds with off-the-shelf digital cameras revealed spectacular color. - Pembine, Wisconsin

Anna Olson's Sour Cream Coffee Cake Recipe

Thank you Allen from Sweden for letting me know that you view the blog. ---- I have a couple of tubs of sour cream to use up and found this great recipe from Anna Olsen who is one of the best dessert makers out there.

Light or low-fat sour cream, while ideal for topping things, is not ideal in baking recipes. Use regular sour cream in all your baked goods.

Yield: 12
Ingredients- Cake
1/2 cup unsalted butter, room temperature
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup sour cream
2 cups all purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt

---Topping
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 tablespoon all purpose flour
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 cup walnut pieces
1 tablespoon unsalted butter, melted

Directions To Assemble
Preheat oven to 350° F. Cream butter and sugar until smooth. Add eggs one at a time, stirring well after each addition. Add vanilla and stir in sour cream. In a separate bowl, combine dry ingredients and stir into wet ingredients until just incorporated. In another bowl, combine all ingredients for topping. Scrape half of the coffee cake batter into a greased 8-inch square cake pan and level. Sprinkle half of the topping over cake and cover with remaining batter. Finish with topping and bake for 35 to 40 minutes, until a tester inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean.
Serve warm or at room temperature. Yield: 1 8-inch square cake.

The Wedding Ring Finger

I was wondering - again today - about the interesting position of the Wedding Ring. I have heard that it is the only finger that has a vein that goes to our heart and thus is a symbol of love. Albeit - there is alot whom contest this. Different cultures do not do this. For example In a traditional Jewish wedding ceremony, the groom places the ring on the bride's index finger, and not the ring finger; today the ring usually is moved to the ring finger after the ceremony and most Jewish grooms have adopted wearing a wedding ring. This tradition is because in Ancient Israel, at the time of the Talmud, the Jews believed the index finger was the most prominent of fingers. Ha - the one that points. Anyway, you can do your own googling of this tradition but today was just pondering it again!

Japan - Still in my Heart and Prayers

Love this pic of a Panda holding onto policemans leg in Japan. The title of the pic is Japanese panda afraid of tsunami - Also am posting youtube of piano solo called The Rainbow Connection from a muppet movie for Japan today. Please turn off music player at bottom of blog whose first song is also about rainbows.

Aurora Borealis

Please turn off music player to view at bottom of blog. Shot in and around Kirkenes and Pas National Park bordering Russia, at 70 degree north and 30 degrees east. Temperatures around -25 Celsius.

The Aurora from Terje Sorgjerd on Vimeo.

This is not what they predicted!!!

They said 5-10 cm but if this keeps up it will be more like 20 cm. And to think that just yesterday it was green everywhere. I got the leaves off the tulips on the weekend and raked elsewhere. Ah well, hope the tulips don't mind one last snowfall. Today is the first debris pick-up and it was weird watching them pick that up in the snow.

C'est Moi

Last week got together with friends at a local Pizza joint. The joke with me is that I am a city girl. On the way home a friend took this pic of me by the Green Acres Motel. Green Acres was a sitcom in the 60's and Zsa Zsa would always say, "DAHLING I LOVE YOU BUT GIVE ME PARK AVENUE". Today, a bunch of us girls are getting together for a dinner at a friends house. I have made Bashmati/Wild Rice with Quinoa and Mushrooms, Scallion and Snow Peas. I always look forward to the dinners and all the interesting food that people bring. Retirement is good! On another note - the snow is kaput and the tulips are starting to pop up. Now the work begins out front and back dethatching the grass and more raking eventually as the twirly-gigs come down in a few weeks. I love Spring.

Today March 19th

My last post was about Libya. Today, the French, British and the U.S.A. are bombing Libya.

GAS!

All the nations around Israel are fed up with their dictatorships. Egypt just won! Libya will be another story as DAFFY GADAFFI has threatened the world about blowing up oil. Today, in TDOT, the gas prices soared - We joined Costco and get a 7 cent discount but you have to line up. Yesterday, we went and the gasline was over 40 cars going all around to the Queensway with 4 stations. YIKES. Who knows - make sure your cars are filled up to the brim these days.

I do watch the news and am so sad to hear about the devastation that just hit CHRISTCHURCH - New Zealand. They had - had an earthquake in September 2010 that was small compared to this one. Tonight these people have tents set up in their city. We sure do live in interesting times.

Getting Ready For Spring

It may be winter in TDOT.............






















.......yet, I am getting ready to redo furniture covers for the deck. Here is a sample of a cover for an Adirondack which I thought was fabulous:







The first fabric below is for a cushion for the rocking chair on the deck. The next fabric is for the swing on the deck - The floral brown is for the seat and the striped is for a pillow.

Hurray, The Sun Is Finally Shining Over TDOT

Truly, we have had a very grey month. It does affect my mood. I hear that taking more vitamin D helps. Did you know that the 3rd Monday in January is called Blue Monday the most depressing day of the year. This year it is January 17th/11. I am choosing not to buy into it and do things that make me happy. A tip that a friend once told me is to be grateful. ......and take more Vitamin D - Joy to you all from TDOT!

January Screen Saver

I love opening up my little Mac and having this angelic screen saver to look at. Anyway, am sending requests for you all for angelic intervention for whatever your need may be!

Just a few pics to share

I have been busy around here putting all the Christmas stuff away but have a few pics to post:

This is the cake that I made for my neice for her birthday which is on Dec. 26th - She loved it! Truly this is the best cake recipe out their!





















Christmas eve - Nephew with the 3 kids and our son playing Hockey Poker with hockey cards.












Introducing Veronica Bhatia.

Canada vs. Russia Game

........was a complete disappointment. Get a new coach will ya- my mom has been saying that for the past 2 years!!!!!

WAHOOO

Canada just won the hockey game with U.S.A. - 4-1 - Now to play with the Ruskies!

Sweden won in a SHOOT OUT!

Hey Allen and Tanja - Happy New Years - you just won the New Years eve Canada/Sweden hockey game in a shoot out - Just listening to the Swedish National Anthem and celebrating at home with my hubby!

HAPPY NEW YEARS SWEDISH RELATIVES!

Beautiful - Rhema Marvanne

Please go to the bottom of the blog and turn off the music player by clicking on the two lines and then listen to this new lovely 7 year old singing. Her name is Rhema Marvanne. She lost her mom to ovarian cancer in 2008. The word Rhema means AN UTTERANCE and in biblical jargon means one that is SPOKEN BY GOD! This is so beautiful and hope you all enjoy it!

Cousins Christmas Get Together 2010

I made the Christmas apron with a picture of our grandparents on the bib.

Lunar Moon

Went onto my buds blog and found out about the Lunar Eclipse and when our son got home from a late birthday celebration he woke me and Jim up to come outside at 2:20 a.m. to see the stars out full and the eclipse - I had thought that their was cloud cover but when we went out it was amazing. We watched as the moon became a sliver and blood red! Awesome - Thanks son for getting us up to see this Solstice Phenomena! Fun!

Christmas Cookies

My friend up north makes the most beautiful Christmas Cookies. I wait to see the picture of them each year. Bravo CLR with this years exquisite baking plethora of delicious mouthwatering delights. Cheers!

9 Year Old Piano Solo

Scroll down to turn off the Player at the bottom on blog by clicking the arrow

2006 Budweiser Clydesdales Snowball Fight

I had not seen this before (2006). My neice has horses and one is a Clydesdale. I just sent this to her but she had seen it and rolled on the floor laughing of course when she first saw it but now she wants me to finally ride one of her horses - I am afraid of horses - Should be interesting when this takes place. Scroll down if you wish to turn off the music player at the bottom of the blog to hear the tune on this commercial

Swiss Chalet Gathering

Ok, I absolutely do not like pics of myself these days - I have a thyroid problem and hate pics of me - Yes, vain - Nevertheless, my friends had a great day having a Christmas lunch together and I got to wear my fabulous find from Kingsway Lampton United Church - for only 5 bucks in the Spring. I showed it to my Hungarian neighbour and she said that - that today would cost over a 100 dollars if not more - I went up to moms before getting together with my friends and she just loved it. This pic is for my bud from the Yukon. SZIA Carol.

ITS A DERAILMENT

We put the battery operated train around the Christmas tree this year and still keep having derailments. Here is a pic of Jim trying to fix it!

Christmas 2010 Update

Hope all who view here are well and resting and not crazy like alot of people out their shopping. I got all done this year mostly to help my 88 year old mom feel in the spirit of Christmas. We had got her a Poinsetta but it was not a good one and since I save my Christmas receipts took it back and got one 3 times as big. Took it up today and she was so pleased. We are done shopping and the rest of the Christmas presents are baking. I did a test run for Tourtielle - It turned out fab - Did a test run for the stocking Christmas cake - It too turned out fab. This week - I will get back down into the sewing room - looking forward to that. And the week before Christmas will cook! Looking forward to the pics of my buds christmas cookies from the Yukon - I always look forward to that! Anyway, will post this week as I finish my sewing creations.

When should the elderly stop driving

My mom got her license this year but has said this will be the last year of driving. It is a bit of a concern to our family as her short term memory is going. My Aunt sent this funny pic to me:

WERE BAAAAAAAK!

I did it - I got the homestead all set up for Christmas - LET THE SEWING BEGIN!

When you talk to me this is where I am sitting. I got the Santa chair cover at a garage sale for a few dollars and grumpy MAXINE keeps me company for when I need to KVETCH! I was so pleased at the Church of the Atonement in Alderwood to find the adorable ceramic Log Cabin that has a tea light inside as well for only 3 dollars. It makes you feel like you really are out in the wilderness. I pretend!!! LOL! Got the tree up yesterday and will still be making some popcorn cranberry garland and am baking some gingerbread men that I will decorate with Royal Icing to hang. The theme this year is A CHILDRENS CHRISTMAS. We bought the train around 15 years ago and only put it around the tree once - so this year I got it out and got 6 C batteries and VOILA - it worked - PTL. It goes forwards and backwards and toots. I got the childrens rocking chair for 5 dollars and brought out Linnea (the gardener) doll and Shlomo the cat to sit on it. Like I said - its a Childrens Christmas and still have a few more toys coming out. Got 4 of these vintage plastic placemats for the kitchen table for almost free. Went to the Islington United Church Fall Fair nearing the end and they told you to get a bag (which was quite large) and fill it up for only 2 dollars. Got this vintage stocking cake pan for 3 dollars at the Legion Christmas fair. Hopefully will make a cake for Christmas 2010 in this. Have to talk to the cakemaker Sharon when she gets back on Saturday about the best way to put the batter in and then make sure it comes out so as to decorate the Stocking Cake