Help!!!

Missing.  Hobbes.  An elderly lady kitty ...  still in fine shape... but, she needs meds twice a day... please call me if you have seen her.

Isn't she pretty?

Panicking a bit over here.  It's not even my own cat.  I don't have one.

I am looking after her for my neighbour for the week...and all has gone well for the past few days...but, this morning...I can't find her.  She needs meds twice a day.  She is not supposed to go outside...but....

There is somebody staying in the house this week, ... and the door to the downstairs is open...but, I wouldn't feel right going down there ...and Ms Kitty is deaf...so calling to her doesn't work.  I'm watching the driveway to see when the boarder leaves....I'll sprint over straight away and see if I can find her.  And, then...I'm putting a note on the door to ask that it be kept closed at all times.  And, I sure hope nobody let her outside ...oh, help@!  there are huge owls and also hawks around our area .... I don't want anything bad happening on my watch!!


Another beautiful snow photo for you...

looking out the neighbour's window....

What a difference a day makes!

....  or a few days .... although, the past few have been as beautiful as the last posting.

But, this morning, as forecast..... this is what we see outside our windows...

There isn't any frost on my pumpkins...I don't have any...but, I do have snow on the Hawthorne berries and leaves....

It's accumulating in the slats of the patio privacy screen....

The small crabapples on the flowering crabapple look like frozen maraschino cherries...

The snow is being driven sideways at almost a 45 degree angle by a stiff breeze from the north...and, I'm thinking .....baking ....baking....baking....hmmmm....what shall I bake? .........

Yo- yo season..

..and I don't mean playing with them because it is spring.  I mean it is the season when the weather yo-yos....  long before it is time to be out there playing at all.

This is actually a time when we can get a lot of snow...

Two days ago it soared up to +15C; snow melting like crazy and little rivers running down the alleyways as thick ice was melting there too... sunny and warm and easily warm enough for a great golf day if the ground wasn't frozen and covered with snow and ice....

Yesterday?     it plummeted once again and today it is -12C and snowing ....  it's a winter wonderland once again outside .......  sigh......and, so......we wait.... for real yo-yo weather.

Meantime.... seeing as I am out of flour....I know... "GASP" !!  how can that be?  My second hobby is baking and I ran out of THE staple....flour.   Sigh....I am so fired.

Okay then.... I'll play with my feet instead.   My goose feet that is.  They have been sitting around ...getting moved from hobby room to coffee table..to kitchen table over the past few weeks.  Once I actually worked on them.
Yesterday I added some Apoxy Sculpt and got them about the right size and shape that I was trying for.
And, may I just remind everybody that Apoxy Sculpt can adhere to just about anything, so don't forget to put it back onto the tin foil while letting it dry.  Here I moved the feet to a place mat for a photo and forgot them for quite a while ... later I picked one up and the placement lifted off the table attached to it.  Luckily it had not finished setting or Ms Goosie might be permanently attached to a placemat.
If ever you try glue on something and it does't work?.... buy a couple little pots of Apoxy Sculpt.

The next thing I knew, little Ms Goosie was examining things herself and wondering if they would eventually be the right size and shape for her body type.

Soon, I will have to poke some holes in her undercarriage and decide exactly where to position them so she will be balanced enough to stand on her own.

Maybe later today ....seeing as no baking will be happening... actually it could happen right after breakfast... my neighbour is out there snow blowing our sidewalk for some unknown reason...so I got lucky and don't have to shovel...wheeee....... thanks TOM! you crazy old guy......

Here was our Sunday...

It was howling winds and blowing snow for several hours.... and now we have a new 7 inches of the stuff ....

Not that the yard doesn't look lovely.... because it does.  The mess the landscapers left when they got caught unaware with a big dump of snow very early in our season... is covered once again...and I much prefer looking outside to this than piles of dirt, exposed irrigation pipes and big stumps that still need grinding...

At one point the driving snow was so thick you could hardly see across the street....

the wind caused it to swirl in all directions...it landed on each and every single window of the house...
 as you can see, it filled the pots once again too..

beautiful..... I love it.

A perfect day to stay inside; warm and toasty; baking.

It's a marshmallow world..

...in the winter......

and, especially today.

Look what happened overnight.

Temperatures dropped....and it snowed plenty of the fluffy white stuff!

Today there will also be shovelling for exercise along with 'treadmilling'...


I've got Tuscan Peasant Bread on the go....and now...I'm gonna bake an apple coffeecake.....a perfect day for that.

We have snow ... and mistletoe.. and,,, la la la...

.................oh....it's not mistletoe? .... alright then....it's Hawthorn berries..... but we do have snow!

... and blue skies and brilliant sunshine..... what a glorious day....

looking out the kitchen window yesterday...

my arm is still not up to shoveling...so I just took pics..... hey....this is not so bad.....it's usually me on the end of that shovel.  I may be able to get used to this.....NOT !!.... I love shoveling!

Pink Ribbon Grass.. in winter turns a soft golden shade.  I never cut it back til spring because I think gardens can still be pretty to see in the snowy yard.

The neighbour's Mountain Ash.  The birds seem to save these berries til last... well, I think they do anyway.

AND....for a day that is snowy and cold....what better thing to do than.... make soup.  Oh, of course and all the Christmas baking etc...but, what really matters is something tasty for supper, right?  Check my other blog for this soup...

Just some pretty photos....

I was going to do Wordless Wednesday a day late, but changed my mind.... and am giving you some pretty snowy photos instead..

I love how the snow piles up into little cone hats on the dried flowers that I left standing.  I always think perhaps the birds who are seed eaters might be able to get something from them if the weather is really bad and there is not much else around..
















Somewhere under this...is my birdie bath.... honest...

And.... under here..... my little 5 foot spruce...which was supposed to be a globe spruce..but appears to be a full size guy that I am trying to keep pruned to a manageable height.   I think I will have to excavate it soon and give it to somebody with a bigger yard.

Time to start some of this in here...

it piles up so high and then leans precariously...and then...just falls off....

The piles are getting deeper where I have to toss it off the sidewalks....

I love the deep purples and blues as the light fades in the evening....

This was a few days ago.... at the moment...it has jumped up from -24C to a lovely balmy +7C...and the roads are clearing and melty... more cooler weather forecast for next week...but, not nearly as bad as last week.  Wheeeee.......

uhm,... no words necessary.......... ???....

Hilarious.

Mother Nature must have heard me mention the possibility of lots more snow at this time of year. I have a mental image of her looking a lot like Mrs. Claus... she hears you when you're sleeping...she knows if you're awake... you know, ... like that. She knows everything. And, she aims to please....

It was snowflaking when we went to bed and this accumulated by morning.... about 5 or so new inches.... heavy and wet. An hour shoveling with all the city sidewalk that wraps around our corner lot.











It was heavy and wet... there was a trail of clothing behind me .... coat, gloves...sweater... finally I had on just my t-shirt and cords... must have barely been cold enough to make it snow instead of rain. The rest of the week will be about the same... -3C and snow flurries several of the days...

Today it is lovely and sunny...with the very usual blue sky in winter that I love. So the opposite of where my sister lives...she never sees the sun through cloud and fog...til about .... oh, well, soon I guess. They are usually socked in from October til March in most of B.C.











Snapped this an hour ago. It is pretty mild out there...yesterday's snow melted off and now... the birds have a rustic skating rink. Frozen solid ...ice even overflowing the edges. I can hear the birdies chirping away...they sound happy enough....even the robins are joining the chorus of finches, chickadees and sparrows. I have no idea what the poor robins manage to find to eat 'til the snow goes and the ground thaws. I imagine them hopping around behind a sparrow trying to figure out what it is they find...and trying to do the same...probably looking slightly confused at the slim pickin's.

There you have it girls.... my photo a day.... make that photos a day....have a good one. Off to work on my dolly a bit now..... oh, and second java in the sunshine streaming in through the kitchen window. Craft room be darned.... no sun on that side of the house .... hahahha..... I've always thought that a lovely, sunny room covering the whole of the large double garage would have been the perfect place to build a hobby area..... hmmm... NO! what am I saying!? We have been renovating this place for 23 years now.... I better not even think it out loud or somebody will be drawing plans on paper napkins or graph paper...getting ready to tear things apart. He's a bit like Mother Nature in that respect; aims to please. No, mum's the word....definitely. That's it,.... totally mum. The laundry room still has no sink...arrgghhhhh! soon though...soon, we can reorganize the garage, park the van outside and get the hole cut in the arborite for that...and do some plumbing...yaaaaay! It will be the most beautiful and functional laundry room ever, and at the risk of bragging... (please don't hate me)... the most storage ever. I still have empty cupboards and drawers... lol... . Still looking for a beautiful mirror for the room...it is a beautiful room..it deserves the best....