Bits and Pieces

Happy 4th of July to my American friends. Hope your weather is as beautiful as ours: sunny and with a high of 25 C. We usually get a nice ocean breeze, so even when it is hotter, it is bearable. We have not had a real sunny stretch for a while, so hopefully this is the start. My veggie and flower gardens have loved the rain though. As most of you know, we just had Canada Day on the 1st, so we just had a holiday long weekend. It didn't seem to different than any other weekend this year as we didn't go to the parade as it was the same time as church. We played badminton, baseball, had a bbq, etc. Through pics, I thought I would show you some of the happenings around here during the past few days...


Maybe I am biased, but I am so impressed with this mother and baby sculpture my 11 year old daughter made out of playdough! the mother is sitting, rocking her baby, just in case it is hard to make out at first.


This was a sad morning: Little M burnt and blistered up the ends of his fingers when he touched a hot stove burner. We kept his hand in cold water on and off all morning. His sister was ingenious- in this picture she has given him a little pile of chocolate chips to cheer him up!


Prawn season ended on Thursday, so we tailed a bunch up for the freezer.



Here is what caused the most excitement during the last few days- the arrival of our new kitty.


The kids made a list of names on the board:
Gretzky (after Wayne Gretzky)
Wayne (after the same)I vetoed these as it is a girl cat.
Mellow
Bonnie
Chipper
Blackie
Roberta (after Roberto I-don't Know-how-to-spell-his-last-name: Canuck goaltender. Kathleen will know who I mean.)
Chocolate Chip Cookie
Anyways, we put the names in a hat, and Chocolate Chip Cookie won. I don't think my hubby is too thrilled with calling that around the yard. Anyhoo, it has since been revised to Cookie Cat. I myself would have preferred a jazzier name, but it is not about me!