I haven’t posted for 8 days, and am sitting here wondering what I actually DID do for the past week; seems to me it was a lot of absolutely nothing! Not because there isn’t plenty to get done, mind you. It feels like I’ve slipped into a hibernation mode.
I did read a book. The title is ‘Sold on a Monday’ and it is by Kristina McMorris. I enjoyed it; well written, a gripping tale with some surprising twists. Any story about children seems to click with me, and this is really one of the better ones in my opinion.
My daughter and I usually chat on Messenger around 5 AM every morning. This time she had sad news. She and her SO received a phone call at 11 the night before to say that her MIL had died suddenly of a heart attack. Both were close to the smart, fun-loving lady, and were still in shock. After I consoled her as best I could, I returned to bed, having spent most of the night wide awake for no particular reason. I hadn’t been sleeping long when the beasts jumped up, barking that someone was here. I thought maybe it was the snow removal man, but after a moment their tone changed. They have a special bark for each of their visitors, and this sounded like a Karen-greeting. But she was still in Toronto…or was she? They were right, of course, and when I scrambled out from the blankets and stumbled into the hallway, there she stood! Finally home! It was great to see her again, and we had much catching up to do.
Other than that, we had snow, and more snow, and 24 hours of freezing rain that knocked out the hydro lines for a day. It’s snowing again as I write this. I know people are fed up and wishing for spring, but I could only gaze at the beauty of the winter scenes, and think again how grateful I am to be living in a country with the 4 seasons.
Both of my sons will be here later today, one of them with the snow blower to clear the front of the garage door so that Karen can get her car outside, and the other with Little Flea for his usual Sunday supper. I need to get busy and make bread and some kind of dessert – not sure what yet – and to do some light housekeeping. I did read some of the news with my morning coffee, but no use discussing it. For the moment I’ll stick to the great feeling that my HABS won again last night, that I’ll have family in, and that here in the bush oasis we can all SMILE.
Wishing you all a lovely Sunday, and sending you some of those SMILES.
LUV FROM THE BUSH IN QUEBEC
Tales from the Bush in Quebec 