Keativ Blogger Award

Thank you Suzanne for the award. It is an honour to be presented with this award. I will now nominate other bloggers for this award.

The rules are as follows:
1. Copy the Kreativ Blogger Award on your blog.
2. Create a link to the blogger who has nominated you.
3. Nominate 8 other bloggers.
4. Create a link to these bloggers on your blog.
5. Leave a comment on their blog advising them that you have sent them an award.

Here is a list of the bloggers that the award goes to:
Kathy
Marion
Alberta
Kate
Irene
Rachael
Karen
Tammy
Always enjoy reading these creative blogs. Once again, Suzanne, thank you for the honour.

Zoe

Happy St. Patrick's Day

Just a note to wish everyone Happy St. Patrick's Day. For a change this year, we did not have a storm on March 17th. In the past years, we have had really bad weather on this date.

Today, I housecleaned my stairway and downstairs hallway. I was not looking forward to it as the ceiling in the stairway is really high and I needed DH's help to hold the ladder so I could reach it. Yahoo, it is finally done!

I have decided that when I am finished my housecleaning, I am going to put my sampler quilt on the frames to do the quilting on it. I never did finish that particular quilt top. I seem to remember that I do have the backing for this one, so I will have to go looking and find it. Once on the frames, I will be able to quilt on it when I have a minute to spare.

I finally got my countertop on and I am really, really pleased with the look it creates. Yes, when it is totally finished in the kitchen, I will post a picture of it. Hopefully, it won't be long now.

As most of you know, DD has moved to Nova Scotia. Well, she has purchased unlimited calling in the Maritimes and DH and I have unlimited Skype calling so it has been really quite nice to be able to talk with her anytime it strikes us. I don't feel that she is so far away now.

Must get going, and do a couple of things before I sit down to watch TV.

Take care everyone!

I'm Back

Folks, sorry for the absence, but due to a number of things happening all at once, my computer just laid there unattended.

As most of you know, Cathey went to Regina last week to her husband's graduation. So, as all good grandparents, we took care of Brie, our granddog. She was spoiled a little as all she wanted to do was lay on my lap - no objections from me.

On top of that, we are still in the renovation mode but we are getting closer to the finish. Thank heavens. Our kitchen cabinets are all done except for the countertop which we were supposed to get last week, but due to the builder receiving the wrong top from the head company, we are having another delay. The countertop builder had ordered the right top but they sent him the wrong colour. Arghhhh!

While DH was doing the renovations, I started my housecleaning and that is going quite well. All I have left to do is my laundry room, the walls in my guest bedroom, the stairway with the hallways upstairs and downstairs. Then I will be done. I am quite proud of myself as I have cleaned out MOST of the unnecessary things in closets and dressers. We do tend to collect things.

On Tuesday, DH and I went to Moncton to visit his Mom in her new home. She is happier now but still says she would have loved to get back to her apartment. While in Moncton, DH visited his favorite place - Princess Auto, and Fabricville, my favorite place is next door, so that is where I went. However, Fabricville is closing that store at the end of April and they had everything 50% off. Having cleaned out and reorganized my fabrics in my quilt room, of course I had to buy more fabrics when it is 50% off. Love it when a plan comes together.

Also on Tuesday, DD and her hubby made their move to Nova Scotia. We are really happy for them. We will miss them but when they do get internet and a phone line, we will be able to get in touch with them. We do wish them all the luck and happiness in the world in their new adventure and to her hubby, really hope he enjoys his new job.

Well, I must get going as I still have a lot of work to do. Today, it is really beautiful and sunny out but a little cold. It is not cold enough to keep a couple of snowmobiles out on our lake right now.

Have a great day everyone.

Thank You for the Wishes

Since Pumpkin, aka Cathey, my DD, set me up with a blog, she knows my password and has once or twice posted things on my blog. As most of you have seen on the latest blog posted, she posted a Happy Birthday announcement to me on it. As a result, I have received birthday wishes from several of you and I do thank you for those wishes, even if, at my age, I am trying to forget that I am getting older. LOL

We are still very busy working on the renovations. DH has all the painting done except for the trim around the windows which has yet to be put in. Our cabinet doors are presently on order as is the counter top. We have decided on a shaker style door for the cabinets, and have bought glass shelves for the china cabinet with internal lighting. Can't wait to see it finished. I am pleased with the colour we picked for the kitchen walls and with the white cabinets, it looks great.

DD slipped and fell on the ice on Tuesday night and hurt her elbow. As a result, we talked her into coming to stay with us for a couple of days, so Mom can look after her. Since she is moving to Nova Scotia in March, this also gives us a chance to spend some time together before she and her hubby leaves.

My MIL is settling in very nicely in the Special Care Home that she ended up in. We are so pleased to see her taking part in the activities, and she sounds great on the phone when we call her.

Must go as I am now the chosen one to have Brie on my knees for a while and it does make it more difficult to blog.

Thank you again for all the good wishes and everyone have a great week!

A Very Special Day!

I hope you had a great day Mom. Love you :o)

IT HAS BEEN A VERY BUSY WEEK

We are still in a building mode. I now have most of the kitchen cabinets up in place (no doors yet) and DH is in the process of putting in my new kitchen zinc and hooking up my new dishwasher. WooHoo!! The Guy doing the crack filling has been here and is coming this afternoon to do the final sanding. Once that is done, I can start my housecleaning. Boy, will I ever be happy to get that done. We have ordered my new counter top yesterday. We have the paint for the walls so DH will be in the painting mode next week.

Last weekend, DD and Brie did come to visit and we had a lovely visit with them. Simba's masters picked him up on that day as well. Brie was not happy with him being here but when he left to go home, Brie turned into a perfect little dog.

Yesterday, we had to go to Town to go to DH's dental appointment. He broke a tooth before Christmas and was finally able to get it looked at this past week. It is so hard to get appointments in decent time.

This past week, we did get a fair amount of snow, about 8 inches. The snowbanks are starting to be high now. It was on the radio the other day that Fredericton is having a lot of accidents because of the snowbanks heights. I don't know where all that water will go when it melts. We probably will get flooding again this Spring, especially in the Fredericton area. Fortunately, where we live on the lake, flooding is not an issue. The only problem here is when the ice breaks up in the lake, if the winds are on our shore, the ice builds up on the shore and it can and has in the past done serious damage where it lands.

Must go as I'm being called to get DH's lunch.

Have a Great Day and a Great Weekend everyone!

Finally Getting Rid of Cold

Today, I am finally getting better with this cold. It has been the longest cold I have ever had. I guess it likes me too much. LOL

We are awaiting a visit by DD and our granddog, Brie. DD just called to say they were on their way, so this should be interesting as we still have Simba here too. Brie does not like any other animals paying attention to me or DH, so we may have to leave Simba in another room. He probably would prefer that anyway especially with Brie here.

We are having a sunny day today but it is also very windy. It is a bit warmer as well. When we got up, it was -2C but it is starting to get colder as the day goes by. Our weather forecaster says that it will get colder for the next few days - so back to the deep freeze. Yak!

DH has started to install my new kitchen cabinets. It sure is going to change the look of our home. It will give me a lot more storage but I'm sure it will be filled in no time. We are now awaiting the crack filler guy to do the kitchen walls. I think he may be available sometime in the coming week - I hope so. Once that mess is done, then I can start filling up the cabinets. The materials for the counter top has been ordered but have not heard if it has arrived yet. We also have to order the doors for these cabinets. Hopefully, they won't be too long coming.

DH is presently out cleaning up the driveways of snow. We did get about another inch of snow during the night. He has a John Deere tractor and he loves to play with it. He should be done fairly soon.

Have a great day everyone!