The Island and Beach I miss

In August I posted a picture of hubbie and I at the beach on the island. It was a Wordless Wednesday Titled What I miss...

This was July/August. And now?

Borrowed from a FB group.. this was Christmas Day...

The Force of Nature is Great and Grand. It will take a lot to save this beach. I'm so very glad we had the chance to get there this past summer. We almost didn't have the time. We made the time and it was well worth it.

Random Tuesday Thoughts, Summer is still here

Happy Tuesday Everyone. It's me again, yes I know you were all kinds of surprised to see a post yesterday, well BAM! here comes another. It's Tuesday, YES! I remembered Garbage DAy, No, no dentist appointments. Get yourself over to Keely's grab a Badge and link up. (whisper) did you hear she's HUGE in the UK!

Hey so what's up here? Beach we got our butts in gear when the sun came back Sunday and took off or the Provincial Park. The water was a bit cooler, but refreshing and not like Northern Ocean cold, but River cool.

I have 1 boy in Day camp this week. Yep it's like daycare but I don't work, so off to daycamp he goes. We Signed him up in June. I'm hoping he likes it and sees some friends because playing with your brothers? Weeks on end? BORING!

Boy#2 is playing computer games this week with less interruption and Boy#3? heehhe he's cheering on Boy #2 without being accused of having Favourites.  Next week this will all be reversed, but Boy#3 will stay in his position as cheerer.

Having lunch now, must eat food. Can't believe how hungry I was at like 9pm lastnight wandering through the grocery store. That place is scary when  you are hungry. I managed to escape with 3 packages of Strawberries.

You know I'm totally boring today, I'm searching my brain for the Random. I think I told them all to my walking partner.

Twitter still not being friendly. I opened my tweets for a bit yesterday and that got me some followers to connect but it's frustrating. I don't need everyone on Twitter knowing when I pee, just the ones I pick, or pick me and agree!

I'm going to have to resort to pictures at this rate... let me see.. Random picture dump?  nothing... must find camera and cards, maybe something new taken by another family member?


(searching mass piles of stuff...) I wonder if I should clean this house? it's still summer though right, vacationish. Cue the Heat Bugs (cicadas)
We call them heat bugs cause you know it's hot out when you hear that BUZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZzzz


Have you ever had a conversation with someone and had to do so much "back story" that you lost the plot?

Critter Count, nothing in the back yard or front lately. Hubbie did tell me one night when I got back from walking "did you see the deer on the road infront of you?"
"uh no... I was looking behind me for the bear!" No sightings. YAY!
Raspberries and black berries are ripe now so I suspect he'll be back.

Farmer MJ is having a great year with his "candy tomatoes" That we did get a picture of.

He's harvested 37 tomatoes since they started to turn read in mid July! I'll definitely encourage this next year. That's almost 1 container I didn't have to buy and when they ripen up slowly, he doesn't eat the whole container in 1 sitting. He really loves tomatoes.

Ok since I'm rambling and totally out of random, I'll send you all over to Keely's link up, hop around the other Linked blogs and have a great Tuesday.

Things I'm doing

We went to a Car show, saw about 1500 cars or so, here are some....







Then we had a Birthday.

We also went to the beach but as per the Altar of truth the past 2wks, I am up 2.2lbstotal, so we'll just wait on those pictures... until the 5th of never....

We saw this at the Car show too, definitely a genius idea, talk about eating on the go...

I also had to bite the bullet and actually cook a meal. This went ontop of rice, but it was just premade Meatballs, can of dice Tomatoes, and a can of Sweet Kernal corn, all heated in the same pan.  I used Spanish Rice for those that chose to have some. (insert eye roll) Some had the rice on a seperate plate. Please!

Also we did some of this... Pool boys in Training.

And finally there has been progress in the Tomato Plant department.

Now since it's HOT today we're off to the River to swim again. Anyone want to come with?

RTT August and summer and only 28days left

RTT, yep that's today Random Tuesday Thoughts, I'm sure you've seen if all over the blogosphere cause well it's popular, have you seen that list!! Keely's site?
So go on over there pick up a badge, start randomizing and then when your don't, slap your link onto her comments/ linky thingy and finally read some other random thoughts. Tuesdays aren't Tuesday's without some random. Cool she's got naked in there this week... wait it's Casey that's naked and running to the potty? great now I know where my child get his "can't go to a different potty" from; he's been reading my blogs?



you know it's great to see when someone goes on vacation and asks someone else to fill in that they DO it! Remember that Hubbie Random Tuesday that didn't? I'm still wondering what exactly he'd say.


Well the beach was great and warm but when the beach is warm everyone and the parasites want to swim too, ick! so they are advising you to towel off quick as you get out. PASS! This maybe why Aj has a bit of a spot on him, he had a cut, put a sticky bandagey thing on it and I guess the water got stuck in there because the spot where the sticky was is now red, I'm treating with neosporin for now. The cut part healed, the sticky trapped water part didn't. ugh!

Probably wouldn't be a good idea to swim there naked, see I fit in now;got that done.

Maybe the ocean is called for, might be time to hit the ocean beach. Some nice salt water to stay a float on.

The boys got a tent for grading from my parents, we picked it up on the island, and now we're missing a pole I called and they can either send the pole with a guy that commutes a lot from there or not. I said don't worry about it, I'm not outdoorsy enough to go all silly about it, they wouldn't last out there by the crop circle for more then an hour tops! ha!

Sleepless nights, then again maybe it would get AJ to sleep earlier if I told him he couldn't have the tent night if he didn't go to bed in it? He's been getting up and dragging out bed time. He's that child that tries every single trick in the book to get things his way. It doesn't matter that I don't change my mind or that he doesn't get his way, he's still going to keep trying. Isn't that Kyoot? no!

We haven't seen any critters lately, nope no sign of them? Maybe they are busy bunking down for the winter? it is August? I'm noticing it's a tad cooler at night, the leaves on my first flowering tree of the year are 1/2 gone,Wahhhhh!

28days! (not that I'm counting) until the boys are back in school and I enter my last year of having a preschool kid home. ACK! I may have to solve this.

Abandon Chair was having a bit of a time out this week.


So when discussing cars with some of my commenters, Ashlee, clued me into this gem, her car? has a "anti-hit me shield". She had suggested this after the previous suggestion to put all the kids in the 3rd row of seats. I like this idea so much that now 3rd row of seats is a keeper feature. Maybe an invisibility cloak would be handy too?

Right now we have TJ back there in the 3rd row in my van, with his lovely puke bucket, paper towels, fridge and pillow for when the gravol kicks in. I wonder if the others would like to join him, and I'll stow all the stuff in the middle. Well we've also added a Journey to the list of "maybes?". We had a Magnum home but there is no 3rd row and the battery is in the back with the spare tire. I liked the spare tire inside the car, much better, no need to Beat the poop out of the car to get it to drop down when changing your tire at the side of an abandon road. For some reason I gravitate to dodge, I don't know why, I didn't grow up in a dodge home, I grew up in a GM home.

Ford didn't show up but I hear from the Headless mom's that they've done some work on their cars and their assembly. There is a huge ford Dealership here so I may take the boys for a drive. Field Trip?

When I was on the island I found it very useful for 2 adults and 4 kids to travel. TJ got to keep the youngest child company and was the most helpful for that. Maybe I should just add more kids so I have to have a bigger car?

It got quiet here? wow they all have their noses stuck in a book? Maybe they are all ready for school to start? hehe hhaha YAY~!


Today i'm removing tape from the painting that was done on the weekend. I love how well "let's paint" worked. I did 3/20 pieces of chair rail and 1 foot long of baseboard.


Words I'd like removed from my kids vocabulary... stupid, idiot, and moron!

oh and what kind of critter is this?



found this in google. This is not a daddy Long Legs, I'm still stumped!
http://www.washington.edu/burkemuseum/spidermyth/myths/daddylonglegs.html

Silly Cold Blooded Canadians...

warning, lots of photos. I just didn't know when to stop

This weekend is not a long weekend here in Canada. We did though make the most of the weekends. This is our plan for the whole summer. Get out and get some air and sun and fun because soon enough we have to resort to making sliding into snow banks fun!
We finally got out Sunday to the Beach Park and picked up our pass. I was mistaken in our $'s it was 54.00 last year and has climbed to 70.00. The reason for the increased cost we're told is for the price of upkeep right? so we would assume that because of this, we wont be stepping into land mines of Goose, Deer, or fox poo right? We'll see. While we were sitting and watching the kids argue play with their sand boys in a huge pile of sand


Mr Park worker came along and asked us to move our van out of the current parking spot and over to the further away one or up past the roped off barrier. OK that sounds good, they are going to clean up the park way and fill in the holes. Hubbie goes off to move van with Mr Park. So that's good news. I stay with the boys, and they play and I watch and they show me their arm men they found in the pile and they talk of mass death counts, and I just smile and say "yes dear"(inside me I'm trying to say, it's only a game). Hubbie comes back and says, while yes they are filling in the holes? yeah they aren't going to cover over the grass growing up through the parking lot and this was Mr Park's last day of work? He's leaving. A lot of the workers have been laid off and some are leaving for more secure jobs! I suspect the park's upkeep will be downkeep and I'll honestly be shocked if I see enough life guards in these chairs...


We did though enjoy the time at the beach, the temperature of the air was comfy, the boys had lots of fun playing in the sand. I took MJ for a walk down the beach and in typical 4yrold fashion he told me about everything he saw. I took pictures of his toes in the sand.


I went for a walk without the kids, Hubbie went for a walk without the kids. There were maybe 10 people on the beach all at once. Someone was there to either write or draw. Pad in hand she was working away at a picnic table. I laid in the sand and watched the clouds. It was a very good soak it up before it's all gone kind of day.