My Day-To-Day Photos

The nice weather had us doing a bit of early yard clean-up day before yesterday.  There is a lot of gravel in the ditch along the road where we usually mow, so there's Todd raking it into piles which will be gathered up later with the tractor.   Jared took a wee walk about the yard with me and we had some fun.   I met Ang and Amy at Sweet Wanderings for a belated birthday lunch on the 31st. It was a nice treat.   An afternoon walk showed us that the geese are back in all their impressive numbers.    And last but not least, last night we finally watched Forest Gump as a family. "Beautiful and life changing," said KK.  Jared- "That was just great!" It was wonderful to be able to share this old favourite of ours with our kids.  

All the house cleaning and purging finally lead me to recover the cushions on the couches downstairs. Well, actually we got rid of the hideous ones that came with the trio and I redecorated with some much better quality ones.  Todd helped picked out the fabrics, actually he mostly did it himself, and they work very nicely. Mostly though, Todd has been working to get his shop organized. We were also given a very old plaid wool blanket that belonged to Great Grandma Ostapovitch.  Todd was reminded of Uncle's house, so although it was very worn, I was able to find a decent section large enough to create a man-sized pillow for him. Somehow, I'm the one leaning on it this evening though. Jared used the scraps to make matching scarves for himself and Georgia.       While Kaitlynn had a very busy day of homework and volunteer hours to fill, Jared had a very relaxing day. Playing "Geometry Dash", w...