a happy st paddys day to you and yours ...

Another pretty sweet day I must admit ... easy time in town .. checking out stuff not spending money (my kind of town trip) then off to visit a Lake House -lots of fun

then a quick stop for lunch

then off to the farm for more path clearing and a long long wonderous walk through the woods

then home to read about another giveaway - look at this! http://clayhillfarm.blogspot.com/2009/03/farmers-market-tote-giveaway.html

The things I could put in a tote - oh MY! It could be a tote of awesome like EVERYDAY!

how wicked cool eh?

no freakin' box of awesome for me

(a little awesome nest at the edge of our pond!)

but that's ok cause I have LOTS of my own awesome around here - and I am inspired to gift other people boxes of awesome



so I guess without having to put something together for me - or send it to Canada the brainiac who came up with the idea did her job for me anyhow. Nice to be thinking, in a positive way, about other folks!

finding balance ...

something very restorative in taking a few days off and being outside all day - at least for hubby and me

had a lovely lunch picnic at Point Petre - had the whole are to ourselves- just heavenly ..

stopped at Vareharri to check out the fallen down barns (that have collapsed a LOT this winter)

meeting the planner on Thursday afternoon to discuss options .. very exciting!

a lovely lovely day

hard to believe that this time last March we couldn't see our fences for snow drifts - today we were out ALL DAY.

• pulling thatched grass
• poking garlic cloves back under the soil
• raking up old apples and tossing them into compost
• clearing the pond path some more
  
  
• sitting by the pond
• finding old bird nests
  
  
• throwing sticks for Sally and Hank
• cutting the last of the long logs from firewooding expeditions in the fall
• filling the indoor wood pile
• clipping Brody (very badly)
  

what a lovely way to spend the first day of a week of holidays...

90 comments +

how the heck does she do it?
she offers to give away a box of awesome...
what an awesome idea

I could use a box of awesome round about now I tell you

if you want to see how many comments she has by the time you read this you can check out her blog at http://decourseyproject.blogspot.com/2009/03/first-giveaway-come-on-who-doesnt-like.html


on an unrealted note- Brody still has his drain in ... Hank is watching him sadly and carefully - he's obviously worried about his little buddy and wants him well again - heart breaking eh?

A Box of AWESOME

what a fantastic idea

who doesn't need a box of awesome

a box of awesome could be any size, any shape, pretty much anything ...
all I would want my box of awesome to do right now is make me smile .. finding smiles is harder work than usual lately
if it could make my Mum and my husband smile all the better ...

I just think this is the best titled giveaway ever ...
for more info check out ....
http://decourseyproject.blogspot.com/2009/03/first-giveaway-come-on-who-doesnt-like.html

I love finding new blogs ;)

Are there are days, weeks, months...

when you just wish you didn't have to get up?

I'm a pretty positive person but my family and I have been whacked with some heavy stuff of late ..

this weekend dealing with dogs..


Brody is my heart...

Hank is Big T 's heart ...

and it looks like they really can't live together

so so so sad ... so unsure as to what resolution is best for us as a family and as individuals ...

worm farming

Yup meet the worms ...

I have officially lost my mind - I had been thinking about getting worms to help with food waste for a long time and today stopped at the local variety store to get chocolate bars for a treat later. I saw the worms (on sale even) and thought - hey I'll get me a tub or two . So for five bucks the Vareharri No Hair Worm Casting Production Team is in business.

Somehow I think this won't be as easy as it seems ;)

let sleeping dogs lie?

Dear Hank - after how long of leaping up every time I touched my camera or phone finally had to give in and try the bed. It must have been comfy as he actually slept through the photo shoot! Then he stretched out - right across both beds ... too cute. Apparently chewing the stick (see crumbs on bed) was much harder work than he anticipated!



The Queen of catching a nap - curled up on her coat here and wearing her tee shirt .. and I don't dress dogs I swear to it ... but Thea is currently wearing a tee when the weather is below zero - she didn't get much chance to grow a coat this fall and shivers wildly when nude!



Sally sleeping in the chihuahua bed :)



Dozing ... usually as restful as she gets



Brody sleeping in the bed he kicked Sally out of ...

I guess I'll let them lie with it being Sunday and all ... Lord knows I could sleep a month if I could turn my brain off for a bit...lucky dogs

More typical farm dogs maybe...

hmm blogger doesn't want to cooperate... but we live with two more typical farm dogs too
Sally (pictured above) is a dog and a half, a never ending motion machine and a great source of joy. She came as a palliative foster case but simply refused to die. She has been healing and getting healthy and it's hard to imagine life without her. She drives me MAD at times ... she is intense, compulsive even and if I don't structure her life she tries to structure ours (um the border collie in her I'd have to say) but we love her to bits!
Hank is a Great Dane German Shepard mix - a working dog to the max he lives to please us. A little neurotic and very reactive on leash to strange dogs he is a beautiful dog with a heart of gold. There is NOTHING he won't do for you if he understands what you want though.

They are a fabulous pair to walk and play with - they also like to help me garden but tend to get playing through the little seedlings (then there is trouble - which Sally laughs off and Hank is devastated by!)