Sunrise, Sunset, Sunrise, Sunset...

Uh... summer?

The summer has been... well, a summer. It started out with a trip to NS, and a beautiful wedding: Then on July 6th, we brought a couple of newbies into our home.

I've been spending my time taking pictures of flowers and messing in the garden:

We've been to the beach:

and it's been pretty nice.

Not everything's been wonderful. Last week, I had surgery that basically confirmed that having babies is not in the cards for me:

(I will write about that on my regular blog, when I'm ready).

I have about three weeks left of summer. I hope to make the most of it.

Oh guess what it's raining!

Every morning, I go for a walk. I'm hideously out of shape, so I started out with 15-minute walks, and have been adding 5 minutes every week. I'm up to 40 minutes now, and it's getting to be a habit. I go out around 6 am, so there's no one around watching me drag my sorry ass around (I walk really slowly. I mean, I'm walking as fast as I can, but I have short legs for such a tall person, and generally I can't keep up with fast-walkers). Plus it's cool listening to the birds and looking at peoples' flowers without them thinking I'm a crazy lady on the street in front of their house. I usually take with me my watch, my DS thing to measure my activity level, and the cellphone, in case mentalists jump out at me. If a mentalist ever jumps out at me, I can call the mentalist wrangler hotline to come and take him away.

The cellphone also has a camera on it, so I take some photos sometimes. This is from about 6:15 this morning:

and now we're received about 45 mm of rain, with another 10-20 to come before tomorrow morning.
... as my husband says "Well, at least it's not snow."

What's it been, nearly a month?

That sounds about right. Here's a picture of my new hair. I like it. Don't love my face, but whatever.

So, it's been awhile. The reason being that my little laptop is being a bit of a dink, and although I've been taking plenty of photos, I haven't been able to get them from the SD card onto the computer. And am too lazy to go into the other room and use the desktop (which is, really, my husband's domain).
Luckily he isn't too lazy to help me out and the other day put a bunch of pictures onto Picnik for me. Which I now can put on here. And you can look at them, if you're interested. Which you might not be.

I went out in the garden over the weekend. Remember my previous post with a picture of a sunflower? These are the remains of my sunflower patch:

(as always, click to embiggen).

Yeah, I left them out all winter, poor darlings, to be buried in snow and to feed the birds. I ruthlessly tore them down after taking these pictures, though. Time to get ready for a new planting season.

I am just really excited that summer seems to be on its way. Of course we had snow in May last year so I might be wrong, but I'm just holding on tightly to the fact that we had sun today. 

 This is an older photo, from August of 2008.

I tried making it "new" by doing this to it: 

Okay, back to basking in my backyard.


(edit 9:45 pm - I just discovered this in my drafts... it was supposed to post this morning. Oh well. In case you're wondering, there was basking. Oh yes, yes there was).

One of my students origami'd me this flower. He's the sweetest guy. "Madame, I just invented this for you!"
Tiny Happy Turtle loves the flower, too. It's just his size.

Sometimes I give an assignment and I give two weeks to get it done, with clear instructions, and all my expectations laid out... and I receive something back that looks like this (that is a random search I did for "really bad homework", it's not an actual assignment that anyone I have ever taught has handed in - close, but not quite).  

Then there are days when you can tell they put so much effort into their work, and I am extremely proud of them.  Today is one of those days.

Radio Gaga

I have been trying to photograph the black and purple bruise that is currently residing on my knuckles (I have no idea what I did - I do tend to talk with my hands so it's likely that I smacked it somewhere in my travels) but they all just came out blurry. 

I'm sure you're relieved that instead, I am posting this overly Picnik'd photo of our stereo system. CD, radio, LP, baby. That's how we roll.

At some point in the very near future, scraping the car windows will no longer be a part of my daily routine.  That's what I think, anyway.

Second verse, same as the first (million).

Easter storm.


URRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Oh glory glory

It's been very, very grey around here lately. No snow, but rain, or just cloudy. It was glorious to see the sun yesterday morning. Photos taken in the parking lot at work (I know I post a lot of pics I take either at work, or on the way to/from there... that's life). You'll have to click the pics to see the full version - blogger is only showing about 1/2.

Sunshine go away today

Last week at this time, we had two days' worth of snowstorms. Today, it was 10C, which is melting the six feet of snow faster than you could say Jack Robinson. FASTER THAN THAT! There's still ice on the harbour, so the warm weather is making plenty of fog.

Tiny Happy Turtle lives on my desk. Tiny Happy Turtle likes to lend a helping hand (flipper? foot? fin?). Try not to notice the filthy keyboard. Clearly I need to bring a can of compressed air to work at some point.

Palm Sunday

I'm not sure if going to church because you're super excited about being able to do crafts afterward is appropriate.

Work stuff

... because I only ever seem to be at work.




The kids love it when we have to talk about seals.

2 for 1

You get a little extra photo action today. Uninspired, but what can you expect at this hour of the day?

Woke up early. About 5:20, 5:30. Don't know why. Decided since I couldn't get back to sleep I'd mark some papers. After awhile, decided that this was going to be my photoblog post o the day. Aren't you lucky?

Uh, hi.

Okay so 2+ years without posting doesn't really qualify for EVERY damn day, but hey, I might as well try again.
Above is me, with my goofiest smile and weird armless pose. Do you look thinner without arms? I think it could be a new trend.

Okay that was completely insensitive to my armless brethren. Um. Sorry.