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Home Day

I'm staying home today.  I just came off 12 days of work and I want to be in my house.  I'm going to make butternut squash and caramelized onion gallette from Smitten Kitchen.  I'm going to knit, play with photos, do some laundry, read and maybe even have a glass of wine in the afternoon.

Oh shoot, the recipe calls for fontina cheese and sage so I guess I'll be taking a run to the grocery, maybe I'll walk it's such a beautiful fall day.  I know it's nice out because I already ventured outside to take some pics for you.

The roses in the vineyard are still blooming and I've two red ones in my own rose bed that I will be cutting and bringing in today.  Red roses from the garden in November make me so happy.

 

They haven't picked the grapes in the vineyard across the street yet.  There's a lot of picking going on by hand and by machine.  It's a busy month in wine country.

And check out this bit of whimsy I spotted at the end of my neighbour's driveway.

 

Cute!

Have a happy day!

xo

Kath

P.S. to our mom:  Thanks for making pastry and leaving it in the freezer, I'm going to use it for the recipe.   If you want to read the recipe, just click on the blue words and it will take you to the site. xo 

let's do lunch

my presence here has been sketchy and i have been flying below the radar lately.  shutter sisters is looking for photos of how we do lunch.  

so how about it, should we do lunch?  

 

let's meet at einstein bros. bagels.

 

or if you would rather, we can go to schwartz's

for smoked meat.

 

or we can stay home and make something here.

 

or there is the ever popular liquid lunch.

 

if the weather was nicer we could do the bbq on the dock.

what is your pleasure?

xo margie

Show your love!

How do you show your love?  

Do you buy your love a cookie?

 

Do you knit something?

 

Or do you finally mail a box to your sister?

 Margie, no one would believe that we haven't talked in a week or emailed in days.  
 How are you?  I miss you.  Is it weird being empty nesters?  
Oh and I love the new header. 

Happy Love Thursday.

xo

Love Kath

new home

today we get to see our condo.  that's right, we are putting on hard hats and having a tour of our actual apartment.  it may or may not have walls, that's okay though because it is the view we are looking forward to.

our unit is on the very top left.  the third window in is our new bedroom, the second window is a bedroom and the last window is the living room/dining room/kitchen/you name it room.   

we have empty rooms in our house now.  the decluttering, moving on has begun.  only andy, charley and i live here. my son has moved in to his new home, taking plenty of excess furniture with him.  it makes it so much easier to part with things when you know you they aren't actually leaving the family.  

i promise photos of the view!!

xo margie

Window Shopping

I'm trying not to buy anything.  We're hoping to downsize and it defeats the purpose to bring new things into the house.

 

So I've been window shopping.

Window shopping lets me pretend that I have all the money in the world and I could just say, "I'll have those and those and one of those".

 

Okay, maybe not either of those.
  But how about these?

Gorgeous, huh?

xoxo

Kath

october in retrospect

october simply overflows with character.  hands down she claims the crown for miss most colourful month.  no one else can hold a calendar candle to her.  she rocks several milestones; the fall colours, canadian thanksgiving, halloween, nfl football, the switch to daylight savings time.

we took charley to our new dog park on this beautiful day.  colours were everywhere, not just in the trees, every corner of this park called to me. people had randomly decorated and equipped the park with a plethora of odd items. broken lawn ornaments, dog statues, abandoned wicker chairs, toys, large and small.  i searched for a macro shot.

 

 

whimsical and eerie.

 

 

well used

october was breast cancer awareness month as well.

ending yesterday on october 31.

i learned today that my friend sarah 

lost her fight with breast cancer on that day.

sarah's daughter, a young mother herself,  

died 13 years ago,

after a failed kidney transplant.  

sarah i wish for you now, that you

should finally be able to see that your beloved daughter

 is okay.

 please remember that

cancer will remember us in any month.

xo margie

Using an Extra Hour

 

Spring ahead, Fall back.

We received the gift of an extra hour this morning. How did you use yours? Did you use it up last night partying?  Or did you stay in bed this morning sleepily snuggling? Or were you like me? I hit the ground running and used it to do some extra fluffing and folding on the house.  Flower arranging, shining and polishing, dusting (with my sleeve, I confess) and sweeping (with my sock, pushing the larger items under the furniture, I confess). We have another open house today.   

Actually, there was no running involved.  Yesterday I stubbed my toe on the leg of the bed.  A stubbing where I jammed my baby toe (toe jam haha) hard with a crack. I rolled onto the bed holding my foot screaming OW OW OW and using some other choice words.  It made me cry, the toe stubbing not the swearing, the swearing made me feel better.  It still hurts.  When I was going to bed last night, a magazine slipped off the bedside table and when I leaned over to pick it up, I hit my cheek on the sharp corner of the table. OW OW OW and some other choice words.  I laugh/cried about that one because it was an absurd way to end a day that had begun with a toe stubbing in that room.   Why does my bedroom set hate me when I love it so much?   At least I don't have a shiner this morning.

Cross your fingers for us today.  Turn your clocks back.  Enjoy yourself. Tell somebody you love them.  Give two kisses instead of one. Have a great day. Do what I tell you.

With much love from your bossy friend Kath.

xoxo

boo!

 

 

happy hallowe'en

xo

margie and kath

Friday Favourites

The sky was crazy the night we drove to Stratford last month.  I love a good sunset.

 

I'm loving all the cute tights and leggings I'm seeing everywhere.

 

 

I loved the clock in the lobby of the Royal York Hotel in Toronto.  It confirmed the feeling that time seems to be running twice fast these days and speeding by me.  Plus I love staying in a hotel.

Apparently there's a pumpkin shortage so I love that I grew my own, 

 even if it didn't really ripen.

 

One thing I hate, I hate wearing costumes and will not dress up, although I wouldn't mind having a different name for Hallowe'en.  How about you call me Ethel?*

Happy Hallowe'en Eve

xo

Kath (aka Ethel)

 

* Ethel is one my favourite stores.

what i loved

see the title, right there in the middle beside the pink book.

ha!!  what i loved, next to a pink book.

what a perfect combo for love thursday 

and  breast cancer awareness month.

the thing is, i don't always love a book. if i dare to put a book down before i finish, something i have really only felt comfortable doing in the last few years, i justify myself to death. i have always felt that it was a bit disrespectful to, as the kids would say, dis someone's labour of love.  i imagine that writing a book has to be a huge labour of love.  

this month i didn't finish my book club selection. the infidel. i didn't like it. i was sympathetic to the topic, to the author, i strongly believe that the issues facing this woman should be at the fore front of our political agenda, but i didn't like the book. i didn't like the way it was written, the detail, the style, we didn't click. and that's okay.  

there are a million books out there for me to bond with. in fact the book i picked up last night, the book thief, grabbed me immediately. it is very poetic, i am sure tragic, although i have not read nearly enough to know, but i suspect. it is a holocaust book, which i tend to stay away from, but this one is drawing me in.  

i looked at andy and said, mmm, page six of the preface and i am loving this book.  it is a good fit for me.  i thought about it often today, wishing i had time to sit down and read. the other book, and the two other half-read books sitting on my night stand, they don't call me during the day. 

just like i don't have to love every man i meet, or every meal i eat, or every movie i see, i don't have to love every book i read.  

it is okay to know what i love.

and what i don't.

happy love thursday everyone.

visit the beautiful poetic christina to show your support 

and share the love over at chookoolonks .

xo margie