Day 2, December 30, 2009

Cleaning Day

Christmas vacation, 12 days of being home, not having to get up at 6:30am and get ready for work.
this afternoon the 'cleaning girls' came over. we didn't want to be in their way so tim took his sandwich and box of kleenex down to his dad's house and i took a drive to the beach. cold and windy it was. greenish blue water. white snow. cloudy sky with a hint of pink showing through.
came home to a crock pot full of cheesy scalloped potatoes and ham. yummy! he had campbells chicken noodle soup. his comfort food. :)

A Photo A Day ~
I am embarking on a journey today, to take a photo a day and post it on here.

Day 1.  December 29, 2009       SUNRISE

INTRODUCTION

Piping down the valleys wild,
   Piping songs of pleasant glee,
On a cloud I saw a child,
   And he laughing said to me:

'Pipe a song about a Lamb!'
   So I piped with merry cheer.
'Piper, pipe that song again.'
   So I piped: he wept to hear.

'Drop thy pipe, thy happy pipe;
   Sing thy songs of happy cheer!'
So I sung the same again,
   While he wept with joy to hear.

'Piper, sit thee down and write
   In a book, that all may read.'
So he vanished from my sight;
   And I plucked a hollow reed,

And I made a rural pen,
   And I stained the water clear,
And I wrote my happy songs
   Every child may joy to hear.

(poetry by William Blake)

The kids came for Sunday brunch today.  M and N and S and T and C and V.  Mr. Squirrel enjoyed a piece of bread that i threw out for him. 


A basket of Cocoa? Yup. He wanted to join in. What a silly lovable cat he is!


S. enjoyed the round table full of family, 8 of us in total. We had brunch, and it was lovely.
No time nor room for many photos today but...
Newsflash... S. will be a big sister in Mid June!


Isn't she getting big? A real cutie!
I love my family. forever.

Dimpled knees and rolly chins and wider than wide smiles and Fred Flintstone toes and cheeky dimples and baby smells and nanna cuddles...

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Ah bliss

In honor of St. Patrick's day, I offer a bit-O-Green

S.

Little Miss "Milkface"

Made by My Cool Signs

R. turns 45 on June 25th but got a surprise party on Saturday June 21st.

The big blow (luckily there are only a few candles)

K. plates the cake while R. and T. discuss world issues

Relay for Life Survivor Lap
Orillia 2008

"I have all the energy to accomplish everything I put my attention to.

I know that even difficult lessons are opportunities for positive change.

Everything is working out for my highest good"

Above are affirmations from a cancer survivor

The Stanton Team 2008
Back row:Susan (team Captain), Cathy, Sarah, Steve, Christine
Front row: Bill, May, Bruce, Brooke

Bruce and Zena

Steve, Susan and Sarah

http://www.flickr.com/photos/clickit07/sets/72157594485760376/

Of all animals, the cat alone attains to the comtemplative life. He regards the wheel of existence from without, like the Buddha. - Andrew Lang

" WELCOME N.!"

It's not just the weather that is cooler in Canada!

Canada signed the Kyoto global warming treaty, lets 19-year-olds drink, has more of its population living in urban areas and accepts more immigrants per capita than the United States.
Canadians seem more adult — more secure. They aren’t afraid of foreigners. They aren’t afraid of homosexuality. Most of all, they’re not afraid of each other.“

"Be happy so long as breath is in you" (Yogi Tea)

Shar frolics in the green green grass in her first week in Ontario last August.

This morning I mentioned to my friend and house guest, Q, how I was almost always late for work. This is what she quoted:

"A wizard is never late, Frodo Baggins. Nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to!"

I put down my book, The Meaning of Zen, and see my cat smiling delicately into her fur, combing it with her rough pink tongue. "Cat, I would lend you this book to study but it appears you have already read it." She looks up and gives me her full gaze: "Don't be ridiculous, she purrs. I wrote it".