NO NO NO!

No new pictures this week. Just haven't taken time to take any.
No funny incidents to tell anyone about.
No motivation to write on the blog.

Just thought that I'd let you all know why there is nothing new here.

Treasures

" Lay up treasure in heaven where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt nor thieves break through and steal."

My husband was cleaning up this week and found five of these old coins. The 1886 one is the oldest and the youngest is a 1918. In the top picture you see the face and the rear of the coin.
In the second picture you see the coins compared to a modern Canadian $1 and a penny.

The old coins are Pennies. On one side it says ONE PENNY and the date; on the other side it says "VICTORIA DEI GRA BRITT REGINA FID DEF IND IMP
Does anyone have an idea what country these belong to?
H. doesn't know how he got them unless he found them in an old piece of furniture that he recovered.

Global Warming - What A Laugh

People often don't believe we go out in this cold weather. Here is how I get ready to go.
First layer - nylon stockings and longjohns.


Layer 2- cotton socks and sweat pants.










Layer 3 - wool socks and nylon wind pants.












Up top; layer 1- t-shirt (not visible)
layer 2 - heavy hooded sweat shirt.
This attempt at a self portrate is a little fuzzy.













Final layer - hooded parka, boots, mitts & hand warmers ( the green blobs in the cuffs of the mitts). If the wind is really bad I can tighten up the parka hood until it is fairly snug around my face.










Last picture is how I looked after being out on foot for some errands. I was gone about 40 minutes. The temp. was about -28c with some NW wind blowing. I don't know what the wind chill temp. registered at.

Christmas 2007

A few views of from Christmas day. Opening gifts in the afternoon and playing with T.'s racing set in the evening. No pictures of the food - it was the ordinary Christmas menu - turkey, mashed potatoes & gravy, veggie (I can't even remember which ones now) cranberry sauce, dressing, and dessert - vanilla ice cream, raspberries & cookies.

I think we could have done better with the pictures - we need to practice.

More Folks I Know

At the top we have T. eating the finished product ( except the photographer didn't aim well). then a view of the Ultimate Chippers. Third is T. helping R. make cookies.

The two little girls in the bottom two pictures helped to entertain us at our breakfast date in NE.

Some Folks I Know

When we were last in NE we stayed with Some Folks I Know --does anyone out there know them? Ha!

Thank you Sarah & Matt. These are early morning shots of the kids playing with U. H. & R. and one of the kids getting breakfast. U. H., R & J went to another place for breakfast.

Helper

This is Oma's helper. Vacuuming is hard work you know. Inspecting the slot in the tubing where it is so nice to stick the dirt in and see it get sucked up. After doing that in the hall way we went to the living room where he found dead blooms from the house plants to stick in the slot to be sucked up.