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Jan 29, 2008 | 6:24 AM PST
Very cold and windy but the snow got used up on it's journey! But I'm thankful for the snow cover that is keeping my stuff warm and snug. I need to be thinking about this winter interest stuff. Snow covers the hardscape and all the grasses and perennials look too much like all the dried stuff that lines the ditches and country roads. Wildness without so wildness within might be too much! Wish I had a little walled area but I have no idea where it could be.
Jan 24, 2008 | 5:51 AM PST
Winter is the time to do some weeding and hardscaping inside the house. This should happen before I get all involved in plans for the outside and the catalogues and ideas are already starting to accumulate. oops! Outside is mich easier. I have the ground colour already rolled out. I have walls that are fairly fixed in place and colour decisions are minimal wth texture offering the most options. The ceiling's biggest consideration is the degree of light and dark! Inside is a whole other landscaping challenge. The options are a bit mind boggling. I am set on green for the enterance, stairway, and hallways. Oohh, which green? And then which particular flower petal colour will go off from the main branch. Growing conditions? Hmm, overhanging shade is a problem to the right, a boggy area at the other end. Hot sun in the main area! A peaceful area up and back! Maybe I should just pull those catalogues out anyway! vbsigh
Jan 21, 2008 | 6:40 AM PST
My goodness, where has the time flown? It is almost time to be lifting the calendar page to see what February will be bringing. I hope it is warmer temperatures. COLD up here. I did see the geranium pots in the cold room. Perhaps I should clear a spot under the light fixture and pop the grow light in. I have one poor thing in a little six pack and it is still a bit green and has had total neglect! And to think I once didn't like geraniums! It was probably the smell as I don't mind the actual plant. New improved is wonderful and I can actually cut slips and get them going. That leaves more $$$ for all the other stuff I need/want/desire!
Jan 17, 2008 | 6:01 AM PST
Oh, dear! I've highlighted way too much stuff in the first one. Very satisfying but no reality to the plan at all! LOL There is a Little Girl series, Anne Magnolia. zone 3b gnash, gnash! Well. I hope I got some of the "I'll take that and that" out of my system. Now back to every day living. And the picture of the magnolia blossums shows the page curling because the draft from the window is confirming that we are living deep in the freezer! hmm, perhaps I could make a magnolia quilt!
Jan 15, 2008 | 5:43 AM PST
A Calgary Clipper just might make it all the way to central Canada. That is a chinook wind that never does any melting of snow like they experience out west but it does warm things up some what. Yesterday I read my thermometer. It was high! I don't use a guage. I use the frost build up on the front door and when an edge of frost is along the inside and reaches up as far as the door knob and the top hinge is frosted I know it is cold!
But my thoughts are all interior ones. I cleaned the playroom so it can snow fabric scraps again but I'll have found the pieces for this current quilt. The quilt group's challenge for this year is in earth colours. I shall google for some ideas. I suppose earth does come in a variety of colours and then there are all the leaves, trees and rocks that are on/in it.
I bathed my helpers and curled their hair. An annual event and then they get to wear their party clothes but this year partying didn't exactly happen. But we are back on track for the rest of 2008 and the girls are raring to help. I shall post a picture before I get them and me involved in a creative blizzard!
Jan 13, 2008 | 6:57 AM PST
and reflect on all my bright ideas! I've been dealing with the effects of a wind storm here in the playroom. I tried NOT to dust my gardening books as I've no time to derail the sewing plans. But Henry Kelsey might be someone to consider for the Canuck Cabin in the woods. The family historian is off to Jasper for a brief holiday and she'll be immersed in things that are mountain themed. People laugh at Manitoba's little mountain and in our particular locale we can barely come up with a hill! Well, we do have rock piles though. hmm, stockades, cabins, rocks. I'm beginning to get the vision!
Jan 11, 2008 | 5:38 AM PST
I hneed some help from DD#1. She is the history buff and Canadian and British history are her favorites. I need a good hero for a theme. Our Coeur de bois require rivers to portage and I don't think I'm up to that! They arrested the susquatch that was terrorizing the cottage crowd up in cabin country but I think I'd like a Canuck version of Johnny Appleseed as the as yet unborn grandson will be just a little sprout. Beaver Lodge??? Ah, that darn water issue again! Now Laura Secord (as in chocolates) was a heroine so if the babe was a girl I could run with that but, says she, with a slap up the side of her head, a girl would be playing in That Faerie Place! vbsigh
Jan 9, 2008 | 6:24 AM PST
This site has way too many options! LOL I have dial up internet service at home and it dawned on me that I should avail myself of this high speed service while I am house sitting. I shoulda started on the first day as I had no idea how large this site is! ohh. good ideas!
This morning I was thinking about the expected grandson. I rather doubt he'll be into faeries so I think I'll need another themed area. It'll have to be off the woodland walk, kind of a Robinson Crusoe/Daniel Boone type thing. Now I really will have to come up with a plan for poison ivy eradication! drat!
Jan 8, 2008 | 6:04 AM PST
The view from the window behind this computer is very different. We are house sitting and this farm is very isolated. The driveway is long and winds beside a small river. Trees line the banks. The farm has a menagerie of animals. Nice to look at but they have scratched, gnawed, and generally busted up much of the landscape. The trees need pruning, the flower beds reclaiming and the animals confined to the 'other' side of the fence I'd put up. But they are young, like I was once and perhaps when they catch up on all the other projects they will have the time and inclination to make their own mark on this lovely setting. I DO have some ideas but I shall try to keep them to myself. Perhaps it is a good thing that I can't get outside to prune, weed and generally straighten things up. Ah, the biggest lesson I've learned in gardening is that the Garden of Eden needed dressers and keepers. Too True!
Jan 7, 2008 | 6:11 AM PST
I didn't know that I was colour blind. I'm afraid that I'm not the exception but rather the norm! The 7 hour drive was uneventful. In fact except for the black ravens, I only saw one big timber wolf lope across the highway. Not even a tawny deer. It was just becoming dusk and the time for the moose to swing their shaggy heads about in the cars headlights. Probably better not to have seen one as they pretty much wreck cars when they decide to have be close up and unfriendly! The scenery was grey and quiet like. Snow covering everything, rocks, trees, lakes, and even the highway. I began to look for colour. The trees! But even they let me down. Evergreens are another shade of that noncolour- black. But beautiful! Restful. It stirs the soul in a way the more colourful seasons of the garden cannot. I had never seen the colour of winter before. Its colouring is the colour of calmness.
