Bead-y Eyed Fancies: Happy Birthday Canada!

I’m sitting on my deck, enjoying a delightful glass of wine in the late afternoon. It is July 1^st, Canada’s birthday and the temperature here sits at a balmy 26 degrees. One year ago today I was deep into the chaos of Moving into this new house – boxes everywhere, two intrepid moving men manhandling furniture out of the van and into the house in pretty intense heat, a phone that packed it up, an emergency visit to Telus to buy a new phone, and a mouse who somehow snuck into the house either during the former owner’s move out, or my move in. Jury is out on that. Somehow we made it all work – “where do you want this Lady?” making snap decisions about where furniture was to be placed. Three moves in the space of 5 years – too many. I swear this is the last move! I like it here.

I just went into the garden to pick a fresh onion and some snap peas to make a stir fry for supper. There is a nice breeze blowing through here keeping it comfortable.

The onion is quite spectacular and the result of a great experiment. In early spring I cut the root heads off some green onions I bought, soaked them for a while until the roots grew a bit, and them put them into the raised garden. I have been handsomely rewarded I’m pleased to say and am now eating fresh onions in the stir fries. Not too shabby The beans are all in flower and the snap peas are ready for the picking …some of them at any rate. There were some potatoes going to seed in the frig too that I just planted a couple of weeks ago – not sure if they will make it or not – no loss if they don’t but it would be fun to have some. Lettuce should be coming but it is slow which is surprising. Well...I was late getting the seeds into the ground.

A monarch butterfly flutters by and two hummingbirds just put the run on a robin for some reason. Bird world is not without its danger I guess.

Actually the world is full of danger - I had a terrible fall 10 weeks ago today. Rushed to emergency, then into Surgery and the result is I have a new stainless Steel ball inserted into my hip. I have been relearning all sorts of things - how to walk, how to shower, how to drive. But things are coming along and I'm getting better. It's been a journey.

Knitting has been on hold but I do have a wonderful pair of socks to show off because what would life be without socks to knit.