Happy Blue Monday - Blue for Marc's Birthday

Happy Blue Monday to everyone.  Today I'm joining SmilingSally for Monday BLUES.  Be sure to click on the link to visit the other participants.

On Saturday, June 30th we celebrated Marc's birthday and of course we were at Rockledge cottage.

For his birthday breakfast I made crepes with blueberries and whipped cream along with sausages.  It was a lovely morning and the birds sang Happy Birthday with me.

I commissioned my younger son Richard to make him a lazy susan for the deck table.  Even with the hole it can be used indoors.

fits the table perfect...

Didn't he do a great job?  It is 20" diameter.

 

Now our condiments are only an arm's turn away.

With a new shirt and lantern for the deck.

In the evening Janet and Ryan, little ones and our friends Mickey and Molly came over for dinner.

I baked a cake with 3 colours of icing of which 2 of them were BLUE...

and also little French Macaroons.  It was the first time I'm made them...see the BLUE ones..

Marc and the little ones blew out the candles on the BLUE cake I had baked.

It was a humid day and my hair shows it for sure.

Mickey and Molly ride their golf cart over and took the kids out for a drive.  Jack helped drive.

Janet and Ryan.....

I know it was a fun day for Birthday Marc....because the rest of us had fun for sure.

Grandchildren - Out of the Mouths of Babes

Grandchildren add such wonderful moments to our lives don't they? Especially those wee little grandchildren with their innocence. Well it appears we add some wonder to their lives too and hence I wanted to share the follow tidbits that were in something forwarded to me. I've added some pictures of my own.

Madeline's 6th birthday

1. She was in the bathroom putting on her makeup, under the watchful eyes of her young granddaughter, as she'd done many times before. After applying her lipstick and starting to leave the little one said, "But Gramma, you forgot to kiss the toilet paper good-bye!". I will probably never put lipstick on again without thinking about kissing the toilet paper good bye.

2. My young grandson called the other day to wish me Happy Birthday. he asked me how old I was, and I told him, 62. My grandson was quiet for a moment, and then he asked, "Did you start at 1?"

Austin getting ready to blow out candles with Geoff.

3. A grandmother was telliing her little granddaughter what her own childhood was like: "We used to skate outside on a pod. I had a swing made from a tire, it hung from a tree in our front yard. We rode our pony. We picked wild raspberries in the woods". The little girl was wide-eyed, taking this all in. At last she said, "I sure wish I'd gotten to know you sooner!".

4. Grandpa is the smartest man on earth! He teaches me good good things, but I don't get to see him enough to get as smart as him!".

Jack is loving his new baby brother Reed.

I hope this post has put a smile on your face as it did to mine... Judi xoxo

Happy Hallowe'en

Happy Hallowe'en!

Did you have a lot of children come trick or treating at your house? Maybe you had children or grandchildren to get into costumes and take out. Did you get lots of candy? Our area doesn't have very many children so this is the first year our building is not handing out candies.

On Thursday when I had Geoff and family and Ronian the new granddoggy over we had Hallowe'en dinner. I set the table for dinner in Hallowe'en style...

This is a big ole spider my youngest son Richard made a few years ago....it found its way to the table.

The tablecloth was black and we had Hallowe'en napkins... We each had a little loot bag of goodies and a puzzle.... A gummy worm sat in front of each of the plates...there was a pumpkin gobblin in the centre of the table but it didn't make it into the picture.


shhhhhhh...have a peek at what was under the napkin on the salad bowls of the 2 little ones...

Austin is looking rather surprised to find a trantulla spider....


Madeline, being the older one..*s*...picked hers up...


and proceeded to explain to Geoff, her daddy that its not real, you know.....

I didn't seem to take anymore pictures.. I think we were hungry instead. It was a spaghetti night with apple crisp for dessert. I'm sure both Madeline and Austin are having a good trick or treating time right now as I type this..... fun...

We were at the cottage again for the weekend. There won't be many more weekends there this fall before Marc closes it for the winter. The wind was just howling last night but we were nice and warm with the fireplace on...almost all the colourful leaves have blown to the ground.

On Friday night Marc and I watched Hallowe'en II in honour of......

What did you do during the Hallowe'en weekend?...

Have a great start to the week... Judi xoxo