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a good day

kath gave you a look at her week, here is my friday.

books in boxes

 coffee to go

a patient dog

lunch on a bench

with a good friend

beautiful shutters

a photo to shop

a happy dog

a new necklace

xo margie

A very good week.

I received a gift of chocolates from a client, bought some pretty carrots, worked on my knitting and my journal, treated myself to some funky glasses, took some photos, had a co-worker leave a bag of fresh-picked apples on my desk as a thank you and am busy reading a new magazine.   

An impromptu mid-week dinner date with Barry, a brisk walk in the bright sun over my lunch hour, some work related jobs well done, homemade soup, chats with my sister(s!), bread baking that turned into brick making, watching the grapes in the vineyard get picked with only the headlights of the tractors shining as they harvested at night to beat the frost, cozying into bed early to get a good night's sleep, awakening to a glittering frosty landscape this morning and smiling because the grapes were picked just in the nick of time, a sock monkey that makes me laugh as I find him posed in our bed reading a New Yorker magazine, knitting tips arriving via email from Granny, the crisp fall air and a plan for a trip home at Christmas have all made this a very good week indeed.

xo

Kath

 

love thursday

 

the park, in november.

sometimes we need a little help 

to hold each other up.

happy love thursday.

xo margie

November 11

We remember and are grateful.

margie & Kath

avoiding and provocation

kath told me that barry asked her why we weren't speaking. she explained that we weren't not talking just that we are avoiding. the funny thing is that we are avoiding all the inevitable discussions we would have if we were talking. we are definitely not avoiding each other. are you still with me? 

 

we are like these two weeds.  same field, just not looking at each other, in case of talking.

i do not want to talk to kath:

• she will tell me to get off my butt and start packing, we move in a few weeks.

the reason i am not packing:

• i am paralyzed by the thought of it. completely overwhelmed;
• november is not a good month for me emotionally;
• i am worrying way too much about everything and everyone and of course that takes up a lot of my time;
• i miss the babies but who wouldn't;
• i am fishing for reasons, such as missing the babies which i admit is lame;
• because MY SISTER is not here to help me!!!
• haha, kath is making me tell you that i am even exercising to avoid my life, how sick is that??

now ten hours after i wrote this post i am still avoiding.  i have wandered over to shutter sisters to see what's up and was provoked into searching through my archives to see where i was on this day a year ago.  this is my image for november 10, 2008.

 

it was obviously a gentler, sweeter time.

a good memory for me today.

and just for good measure

the babies

 

xo margie

Just Beachy Macro Monday

Actually, it's not the beach, but the colours of the beach.

 

I finished two projects, a hat & sweater for a friend's baby.

I'm very proud.

More macros at Lisa's Chaos!

xo

Kath

sunny

 

it's too late to be indian summer but man is it gorgeous here today.  

there won't be too much work going on inside this house.  

it is an outside day.  a walk in the dog park, a visit with granny.

a yard cleanup.

have a great day everyone.

xo margie

Home Day

I'm staying home today.  I just came off 12 days of work and I want to be in my house.  I'm going to make butternut squash and caramelized onion gallette from Smitten Kitchen.  I'm going to knit, play with photos, do some laundry, read and maybe even have a glass of wine in the afternoon.

Oh shoot, the recipe calls for fontina cheese and sage so I guess I'll be taking a run to the grocery, maybe I'll walk it's such a beautiful fall day.  I know it's nice out because I already ventured outside to take some pics for you.

The roses in the vineyard are still blooming and I've two red ones in my own rose bed that I will be cutting and bringing in today.  Red roses from the garden in November make me so happy.

 

They haven't picked the grapes in the vineyard across the street yet.  There's a lot of picking going on by hand and by machine.  It's a busy month in wine country.

And check out this bit of whimsy I spotted at the end of my neighbour's driveway.

 

Cute!

Have a happy day!

xo

Kath

P.S. to our mom:  Thanks for making pastry and leaving it in the freezer, I'm going to use it for the recipe.   If you want to read the recipe, just click on the blue words and it will take you to the site. xo 

let's do lunch

my presence here has been sketchy and i have been flying below the radar lately.  shutter sisters is looking for photos of how we do lunch.  

so how about it, should we do lunch?  

 

let's meet at einstein bros. bagels.

 

or if you would rather, we can go to schwartz's

for smoked meat.

 

or we can stay home and make something here.

 

or there is the ever popular liquid lunch.

 

if the weather was nicer we could do the bbq on the dock.

what is your pleasure?

xo margie

Show your love!

How do you show your love?  

Do you buy your love a cookie?

 

Do you knit something?

 

Or do you finally mail a box to your sister?

 Margie, no one would believe that we haven't talked in a week or emailed in days.  
 How are you?  I miss you.  Is it weird being empty nesters?  
Oh and I love the new header. 

Happy Love Thursday.

xo

Love Kath