My Day-To-Day Photos

After March gave us a little Spring teaser, April showed up with cold winds and snow. Typical, but unwelcomed nonetheless. Spending time indoors means extra cleaning, cooking, and getting creative. I'm all caught up with the trim work and am waiting on Todd to get more up so I can continue my patch and paint routine. Hauling grain (which is great!) has been keeping him busy all these past days though. Kaitlynn has been working a lot. This week, she'll put in 36 hours. She's not really happy unless she's working, so it is a good thing even though it's risky with this virus floating around. Jared is doing well with the schedule I drew up for him and is keeping up with the assignments being posted in all of his classes. I am (as usual) doing all sorts of things. All sorts of farm housewifey things. Cooking, cleaning, starting seeds, reading, baking, blogging, budgeting, and crafting. Most of the crafting has gone well, but there is that one critter...I don't know ...

We've been out enjoying the warm patch of weather before it cools back down again in a couple of days. Bear is especially appreciative of having access to water everywhere we go. Our two temporary ponds have connected enough that I can't walk between them with my everyday winter boots anymore. We don't have much snow, so unless we get some serious rain, the water will disappear quickly.

Talk about Hell Week. Root canal on Saturday, Mark gets sent back to Calgary from Regina on Monday morning due to Covid-19, school gets cancelled Monday afternoon, and then Crushy really starts to fall ill and dies on Friday morning (March20th). It can only go up from here, right?  But anyway, what to say about this kitty that showed up in our yard the summer we moved in? Well, first of all, having been raised by his mother outside well into the winter, he was about the fluffiest little thing you can imagine. Good God! - he was a cutie. I tried to get him into the house by grabbing him off the deck one day. We had a heated house for the cats on the deck. Crush, his Mama and an old Tom we called Goliath used it. We assume Goliath was Daddy. Well, like most cats, things have to happen on their own terms, and when I grabbed him, he bit down very hard on my thumb. So hard, that I dropped him and he ran off. I kept feeding them and keeping an eye on them, and then one day, close to...

My mouth had been giving me trouble, and all the pain killers were kind of messing with me, so when my dentist offered to do an emergency root canal on Saturday, March 14 - the night before Mr. Handsome's birthday, I went for it. It was bad. It took forever and it hurt, but it was done. I wasn't in great shape the next day either, but I somehow pulled through. I managed to bake a cake and put together a pretty decent meal. Thankfully, Todd wanted to stay home that day to prepare the shop for Mark's upcoming visit, so I could take my time.

Today was an important day for me. For months I've wanted to visit my cousin Todd in the Canora care home, and, long story short, I was finally able to make arrangements. I feel like a huge weight has been lifted off my shoulders. It bothers me to think of how lonely he is in there. So that was huge. After leaving Canora, Todd and I went to lunch at Brown's where I had the tuna salad I've been waiting for. Sweet Wanderers provided a lovely dessert. That dream donut came with a lovely jar candle, card and a honey crueller from Todd and Gloria. Yes, I ate them both, just not all at once. Todd and Kaitlynn prepared a wonderful supper and they all spoiled me with lovely gifts. The weather even co-operated and I was able to take a long, leisurely walk with Bear. He even got to enjoy water in the ditch - definitely one of his all time favourite things.  Let's not talk about the haircut until I figure out how to work with it. Oy. ...

It was snowing and blowing out bushels of fun when I woke up this morning. Bear doesn't have the good sense to go into his house to stay dry. It is very likely he was too warm as he is now sporting a full winter coat.  I shovelled the driveway this morning, but Jared went out again mid-afternoon to clean up what had blown back on.  Winds are at 60km/hr today. Blech!

Jared went out to help his Dad clean up around the rings and he found two little mousies having a great time feasting on the leftover wheat. They must not be gluten intolerant. But anyway, the pair were in the way and he didn't want them to get hurt, so he rescued the wee critters and had a great time doing it. I love my caring young man.