I have landed

Hi

I came back yesterday from Regina - good to sleep in my "sealy posturpedic"!

it was a very sucessful time in Regina and then Calgary, Choices Seminar my final weekend!

I am just going to share some photos....

Choices friends..this is Ursula we all loved her, she had a great laugh

more Choices friends, Caroline and Brittany, wonderful young ladies

having breakfast at Smitty's in Regina with my niece and my sister; my niece skipped high school that morning to see me as it has been a year since we saw each other in person, she is so sweet

and my mom (she is 82 years old) probably would not like me mentioning her age....

my dad (82 years)

it was five nights away and I stayed with my brother's family two nights,

two nights at the Radisson Hotel, Calgary

one night at hubby's business condo

Nucca appt Monday

then flew back to Regina

drove home Tuesday

back at work today!

enjoy each day this week everyone!

leaving on a jet plane..

i am flying to Calgary on Friday, to finish up a Choices Seminar session and then pop in to see my neck doctor.  It is cold out so I am glad I decided to fly with my air miles this time  and free up the travel time.  I am nervous and excited!

see ya when I return!

Big Island, Quotes and January 15

here are some photos of one year ago, the Big Island of Hawaii,

yes, will go back to this island some day

{sigh) tommorrow is January 15,

for those who know of my loss

understand that grief never ends;

it is just the beginning of more beautiful things to happen

"you are the last dream of my soul"

{Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities}

photo taken by my son Tommy

"We love: That's why life is full of so many wonderful gifts"

Rumi

photo taken by my son Tommy

"to be, or not to be, that is the question"

{Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 1}

"be occupied, then, with what you really value and let the thief take something else"

Rumi

"Hang in there, it is astonishing how short a time it can take for wonderful things to happen"

{Frances Hodgson Burnett}

to my heroes, Tommy, my son

Brian, my husband

Graham, who I have lost,

my wise companion and guide has told me this:

my spirit and my love for Graham is for me to keep forever

Graham has work to do, and he is doing it!

so be kind to my spirit, left life in more, sing about it! He and all of us will hear it then!

new in the kitchen...

my Christmas gifts were interesting this year and I haven't even used this one yet (Kitchen Aid Mixer) in the background of this photo, but my hubby sure has; that is why I still keep him around. He does not mind cooking/baking and their is alot this mixer can do! 
My new coffee press from my brother is cool and I am getting good at making an excellent pressed cup of coffee

 
French Coffee Press

(one tablespoon of course ground coffee (suitable for presses) for each cup of coffee you want place into glass pot. Note for stronger tasting coffee simply use more grounds.Pour hot water (not boiling) into pot. Leave a 25 mm (1 inch) minimum space at top of pot. Place the press into the coffee pot (do not press down yet) and let the coffee brew for at least four minutes. Now, slowly press on the top of unit until you have touched the bottom of the coffee pot. voila!  it is now ready to pour.)

On New Years Day we had some kitchen helpers; my kitchen is open to anyone who wants to bake or help with meals. It seems that my family Tom, Brian like to cook and bake and our nieces are taking an interest too.

{love the long blue feather in her hair}

making "grainola bars" a new Loonyspoons recipe by Greta and Janet

Our New Years Eve celebration was watching the timeless classic movie "The Princess Bride" {love}

now for hopefully more of this fabulous WARM winter weather!

Winter Wednesday

I went back to work yesterday and then my Wed off was today, so here is what I did with my day off.  I was at the hairdressers for a cut and colour this afternoon. I was playing around with my new iphone 4, while my colour was saturating my hair. It is so amazing and easy to use, i can google, check e-mails, take pictures, check weather updates, use google maps, telephone, text message, facebook, but I do not blog on it, (yet). I am liking this new "toy"!

 Mantracker attempted some photos with the iphone so it is a bit faraway, but that is me riding Ben, in both photos.

 Yes, Summer is still with us and is doing quite well, he doesn't come into the house anymore because the steps are a problem for his hip, even tho we made the new deck steps with him in mind, so we now have a heat lamp set up over his bed in the barn to help with his hip pain along with the vet medicine he takes twice a week.

we rode an easy 4 miles today and Ben still does not like that little click over his head that my iphone makes so he is blurry in this picture.  It was such a nice warm January day.

true spirits

babe, it is cold and windy out here on New Years Eve, but no matter, they ride anyway

our nieces' celebrated the end of 2011 at Kirkville

"i love the spirit of Christmas" character who drove up to Kirkville in this on Dec 23rd..... just having fun!

i have a new "word" this year that is going to keep my true spirit strong and

that is 'power'.  This word is not to encourage my power over others; but to keep

my spirit fearless while pursuing my passions and joys in 2012.    

Happy New Year to all!

blogging away...

hey?

you have noticed I am putting up blog posts again, as I did retire this practice back in July 2010 with a final post; this was because I was feeling lots of competition to make this website more appealing and to write more interesting and fun posts; and you know what?  it got to me and I felt I really didn't know what to say....  that is silly of course because we all have something to say, I just slipped into some 'old tapes" about myself and they were rewinding in my head back to "I am not enough" to do this anymore. 

I slowly slipped in a couple of posts here and there just for myself after July 2010 and thinking no one was checking this blog anymore and the pressure was off and then I just went at it again.

This is alot of fun taking pictures and writing short little entries of "nothing much".

...it is the day to day living, not the spectacular amazing heroic and award winning events

that I like to read about, it is a person's feelings, thoughts, opinions and funny perceptions of getting through 'the days of our lives' that intrigues me.