I am getting there

I thought I left my favorite place cards in FLORIDA when all of a sudden , just before printing I accidently found them!! What luck, now the sorting is on the move! Now one would have thought I was all done, when it happened. I checked my list twice sorting through names and place cards and the seating plan when it hit!!! The seating plan and the master lists of guests did not match!! Names were shortened from Stephen to Steve, Jessica to Jessie. For me that would not be a problem but for someone who had to sit next to the place card they might not like it so much! I quick call to the party and we decided to go with formal names. There is a reason my folks named me Jane- It can't be shortened any more! WHEW crisis averted and thank goodness for extras!

Programs (check) Menu Cards (check) Rings (check) Fancy Duds (check) Shoes (check) Crystal (check) garter (check) cake knife (check) Candy Bar--------OOPS on tomorrow's list Table seating cards - work in progress Yep I am all organized for next weekend. I THINK!

Here they are the deer have found most of my tulips but not all of them! I thought I was planting daffodils somebody labeled the store package wrong Oh well now I am feeding the local wildlife.............. At least the bears haven't appeared yet!!

From tulips I did not plant to Sedums, daffodils, roses, peony and strawberry plants spring has arrived and well on it's way despite the on and off again weather

Knobby knees

I managed to have a sore right knee and visited my local rachet guy.
In order to perform the correct treatment I was in for an evaluation.
Now my physio is a nice person with a warped sense of humor.
He had me twist and turn my leg, squat and all sorts of movements that would bring one to tears. But not until I laid on my stomach and he tried to push the lower leg down to bend my knee. NOTICE that I told him on admission that I was incapable of bending my knee to any extent. Of course I yelped, help back on all profanities..
yep we know that I am alive!

After some pulling and prodding he decided to perform his physical therapy techniques on my knee. Rittled with arthritis ( what is new!) and a pulled tendon he gave me some homework of two exercises,one resistance training and the other squeezing a pillow between two knees. To settled the swelling he decided to attach me to 4 suction cups all surrounding the inflamed knee, turned on the juice until my toes tingled and then let it rip., After 14 minutes the tingling in my foot stopped and the knee felt sort of relaxed. Not to get too comfy yet he applied some Ultra sound massage.

My knee is still a little wonky, probably due to old age. The training sessions will take place a little longer. But I can tell you one thing there will be no marathon running for me.

Time for MOM to get organized

  I am working away and it is so hard to guess how it will turn out so I had to print up a sample. Soon I will have to print up the real thing after I do a little tweeking.

Well rested and raring to go!

Today I took a gift to me out of the box. Sounds ominous u have no idea!
I purchased a pontoon boat cover in the USA for 1/4 of what it is in Ontario
I have now customized it to our boat. In order to do so I needed to slash along
each side to provide an opening to skirt around the roof supports as this cover was made to drape over the boat, Thus we have a custom cover. We draped it on and it fit like a glove. Tomorrow Ben has the job of fitting through the cording that I had to displace to do my handy work. Upon further study Ben decided he wants to anchor the cover to the deck rather than the strapping provided, which makes sense. Who wants to try to lash a cover onto a boat that is bobbing in the wind as you try to thread the webbing around the pontoons.

SO the question is while he does that what will I get into???

That is it !!

Holiday is over back to work

I am clearing out a room of all clutter or at least trading it for another
Boxes of rubbermaid filled with kiddie toys for a kiddy that will be soon pushing thirty. They now sit in the middle of the floor waiting to go to the garage and be placed into storage up top in the rafters where they will have a new resting spot.

A horse blanket holder is packaged and waiting for me to place a shipping label on it on Monday when it will make it's way to it's western destination.

Quilts on the frame waiting to be embellished, and wedding attire and trinkets packed in an orderly fashion to be taken to Toronto in a few short weeks.

Finally after all that fuss I may once again see the floor of the room!

The lawn is calling me, after Ben spent many hours racking the leaves and blowing out gardens, praying for rain in the next little while so I can fertilize, but only after I pick up sticks and sort through gardens to see what I may plant for annuals this season

Oh did I mention I need to print up wedding, menu cards, programs, seating cards.. Hmm sound a tad busy??? Welcome to the life of JANE

More folliage in Victoria

The streets are impregnated with colorful blossoms from the cherry and apple trees to the pink/lavender magnolia

Victoria walking tour by Jane

Spring has spung in Victoria. As I walked along Denman St on my way back and forth from the hospital these were some sights I saw. I was impressed by the very old poppy and the size of it's leaf and old stock not to mention the seed pocket( In the photo's above)