Days 125 & 126 – The weekend. It was lovely. Warm. Hot, really. My leg was feeling much better and I managed to do a bit of yard work. My grandkids came for a sleepover. We took them frogging. Didn’t catch a one, didn’t see nary a one, either. Because, like all little children, they’re much too noisy to catch frogs. Good thing for the frogs. But, we went out armed with buckets and twigs and cans and rubber boots and sloshed through the sodden fields and then over to the slough. They had a grand time. And so did Grandpa and me.
Sunday, I went to my brother and sister-in-law’s for supper. He made beer-butt chicken. Delicious! However, the dessert was to die for: vanilla bean ice-cream with fresh strawberries and blackberries with — get this — chocolate infused balsamic vinegar — drizzled on top. Seriously, it was amazing.
Good morning! Here are a few shots of the slough, er, pond in Bon Accord. It’s at the corner of my street and I love walking by it in the morning. The red-winged blackbirds are busy nesting and making all kinds of trilling sounds as they flit from branch to bull-rush. They go into survivor mode the instant they spot an intruder. Tons of fun to watch. Right now we’ve got some very healthy looking duck families swimming about. They’ve got their nests in the reeds and at the sound of anyone approaching they all start swimming out into the middle of the water. The one semi-close up I got is blurry on enlargement, so I’ll have to try again when I can get out with the tripod. Anyway, the pond looked beautiful this morning so I thought I’d share.
The Pond — May 6, 2011
Along the shore everything is still brown — soon, hopefully, there will be green
Duck families
pussy willows
On a totally different note. . .
WAY TO GO CANUCKS! I don’t want to jinx anything by saying anything too positive, but they’re up in the series 3 games to 1. They’re on home ice Saturday and Nashville will be looking for some major pay-back, so it’s bound to be a nail-biter. I think I’ll make a crock-pot lasagna (thank you Jenn — it is very good), grab a couple of cold beers and settle in for some good entertainment on Saturday. I’m lookin’ forward to the weekend!
Well, it’s that time again — time to get ready for work. TGIF
Oh, but I wanted to share this too, from my garden:
It started out fine. I was happy, joyful even, to be at work. And then. . .
. . . well, we just won’t go there.
Suffice it to say I was glad, glad, glad to be finished work today.
Highlight of my day, though, was ‘interviewing’ Ms. Austin’s class. A bunch of Grade 5-er’s who were inspired enough by a video about the evils of bottled water to ban the stuff from their classroom. So, I thought, this will make a good human interest story for our CUPE newsletter, I’ll just do that.
They were delightful! There were some serious kids in that class, and I can only hope that they stick to their pledge to drink tap water from now on. We had a great little chat about other ways to save water and I shared some of my tips and tricks. They seemed kind of amazed that I was that serious about saving water.
In a country like ours, there is absolutely no good reason for people to be drinking bottled water, unless of course you live in some polluted wasteland of a reserve or next to an abandoned mining pit. Yes, these places exist in Canada. But, for the rest of us, we have access to clean, abundant supplies of fresh drinking water. It drives me crazy when I see people buying bottled water.
I take a stainless water bottle with me wherever I go (I have several). And if it gets empty I find a tap and I fill it up. Simple. Inexpensive. Smart. Nothing to throw away, no petro-chemicals burned needlessly. Hopefully, I’m keeping my carbon footprint as small as possible.
Personally, I’d like to see all major cities ban the import of bottled water — but, of course, that will never happen. Somebody’s rights would be violated for sure. Never mind about mine, and my desire to live in a world not cluttered up with millions of tossed water bottles.
I won’t go into this too much, because it is such a BIG issue — how all that plastic is creating havoc with our planet — the oceans, the ground, the air, the animals, birds and insects — just search the web, you’ll find all the horror stories you could care to read.
I’m grumpy tonight — didn’t intend to go on like that.
My walk this morning was very nice. Got some pics of a magpie in the top of a tree, and a different view of ‘lake’ Bon Accord. Hope you enjoy them.
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