THANKFUL FOR THE LITTLE THINGS IN LIFE

…like my beautiful 3 month old grand twins Charles and Montgomery.  Happy Birthday Boys!!

HANGIN' BY THE POOL

It's still very very hot in Abu Dhabi and Jodie and Dave take the kids to the pool to cool down some evenings.  Here they are just checking things out.

They will be 3 months old on the 27th of November.  14.4 and 14.8 pounds.  Happy,  and apparently very healthy.

What a life!!

BLUE JAY PROOF BIRD FEEDER

We feed the birds in the winter and for the past few years we have had a flock of Blue Jays that just take over one of the feeders.  They can clean out a larger feeder in a few hours and scare all the smaller birds away - including my woodpeckers.  So Rejean decided that he would build a Blue Jay proof bird feeder and here it is.  There are 14 perches for the smaller birds that fly back and forth from the bird feeder to the trees all day long and there is no tray in the bottom that the Jays used to hang onto and get at the seeds.    I will not put out the suet for the woodpecker until the Jays have given up and moved on to another area.  Which I hope will far far away from here.

I'M RESPONSIBLE I GUESS

I got a new Stone that just says it all "Just Say Snow" and since I got it home that is all it had done, except for yesterday when it started to rain.  But it is supposed to get colder so I am sure we will be seeing the white stuff again.  All winter long…

WINDSOR'S BIG STORM 1965

This is a picture of my old neighbourhood on Windermere Road in Windsor Ontario after the big snow storm we had in 1965 - nothing compared to what is going on in Buffalo but we thought it was pretty bad.  Our neighbour across the street owned a bakery and his car was full of bread so they shared it with the neighbours.  We still walked to school but were sent home because not all the teachers could make it in.  I remember one teacher smashing his pointer down on a desk because they were sending everyone home.  It took a few days to dig out but what fun the kids had in all that snow.

Great memories of this neighbourhood...

YOU ARE NEVER TOO YOUNG...

Even Charlie and Monty are in on it - are you?

PICTURES OF EVERYONE