Wasted Week

Well I have been poorly the last week. I had Tonsillitis which by itself has been painful and difficult to swallow. But I had a really high temperature, chills and headaches to go with them, thankfully I am well on the road to recovery now. At the beginning of the week it felt like we slipped back into Winter. We had a fair amt of snow on Tuesday and I had to call out the Cavalry to come take Lewie to school. I am really grateful having such supports around when I need them, others are not so lucky. I have had one of those weeks where everything I usually do in a day off has taken all week, because I have had low energy. So imagine my surprise on Friday when I checked on the seeds I sowed. Quick side note. I planted a few seeds a couple of weeks back to try and give them a head start. They are the ones that always are so small and seem to take a long time to grow. Lobelia, Candy Tuft, Stocks, some dried flowers. The package always makes me chuckle as it says sow in early March when ground is warm. There is no way these seeds are talking about where we live. We still have snow, lots of it and the ground is frozen. The seeds are growing. I think they are doing better because I have ignored them rather then pay attention to them. Not sure exactly what that says about my gardening skills!!!

Early Signs of Spring

Well as everyone know we put our clocks forward 3 weeks earlier then normal. I am not sure if it has made much of a difference and saved us any money. The First day of spring was a few days ago. I don't know what it is like where you are but it really doesn't feel like Spring here. It has been cold and we've had several snow showers. Not at all my idea of Spring growing up in Southern England. So... I went outside into our garden and put up a new bird feeder. I know you are asking yourselves what is the connection. Well I thought to myself if it is now spring and the birds are returning from down South they should have something to return home for! There are a few juncos feeding at it most days now. Hopefully they will stick around and use the nesting box we have in the tree. The return of the birds makes me think that spring is really just around the corner. While out in the garden putting up this new feeder I discovered poking out of the ground(Well der well else would they be poking out of) some Crocuses and Tulip that we planted last Autumn. It amazes me that they can survive the Winter. It helps me think that shopping for and sowing seeds when there is so much snow around is not nuts after all and that warmer days are truly just around the corner.

Project Torture

It has been a while since I was last blogging. It got kind of busy there the last few weeks. Tom went away to Northern Quebec for work, so I am a single Parent for a bit. I really admire how single Mum's do it all the time. Lewie had his 2nd report card and various school projects. The School projects have been all consuming the last few weeks. Side note. He did really well in his report card A's in all subjects. Only negative ish comment was that he needs to become more organised in his work and desk. OK back on topic. Lewie has to do a Heritage project about something historical to do with Newfoundland and the theme this year was "Where they Once stood" . He decided to do a Project on Fort Townsend. Fortunately his Uncle Had A LOT of info on it. But....... As you know there is always a BUT. We were not sure how much of the info we were "officially" allowed to use. So we went to the CNS at MUN and got a lot of the same info from there. Lewie decided he wanted to do a model of the fort, a poster, and a topographic map of the area where the fort once was. Sounds good easy really. We started the project early but.... Like I said before there is always a BUT. Tom (the Creative, Handy one) went away and most of the project was left for Lewie to do with some help. An awful lot of work later the project is nearly finished. It is due on Wednesday so a few finishing touches and it should be ready. Thank Goodness, I really don't remember doing anything so elaborate when I was in Grade 5..........