Well I have been contemplating all day what to blog. I wanted to write something profound and reflective and I might do that in the next post but right now I'm just going to share some pictures of my garden. The woman whose house I live in (who now lives in a care home in Thunder Bay) was an avid gardener and so I am blessed to have a garden full of flowers. I have also continued the tradition and planted a vegetable garden which has just begun to sprout.
Spring here was a long time in coming so all the plants are late this year. It has also been rather wet. The last picture is of my beaver pond in my backyard. The grass line in the middle of the picture is where the water is supposed to end and if you look closely you can see the concrete lid to my well completely submerged. The beavers have once again been successful at blocking the culvert and so the water is at road level yet again.
It has been cold and rainy here and so days of sunshine like this one are most welcome. We're supposed to have thunderstorms with more rain tonight and possibly rain all weekend so I am enjoying the bright light in the sky this afternoon!

A Day in the Life

Way back when I wrote a bit about a day in the life when I transported two chickens around the community after a few power outages. Well I thought I would blog about today, no power outages but a busy day!
I agreed to take someone from the community into town (Thunder Bay) today because she doesn't have a car and needed to pick up some cedar mulch for her garden among other things. So I picked her up at 10:30 this morning and we began our trek into town. We had a great lunch at a new Chinese buffet in town first and then began our errands, Home depot for mulch which we loaded into my car in the middle of a rain downpour, Dollarama for other items, Canadian tire for a few items, clothing store to get my dress for my sister's wedding, Superstore for groceries, Shell for gas, Value Village for books and then to a little store in a neighbourhood I'd never been in to pick up marzipan and other items. Are you tired yet?
We then headed back to Pass Lake and on our way to drop off cornstarch at someone else's house we passed a car in the ditch. We stopped checked in with two other Pass Lakers who had stopped and were helping the driver (she was ok). They were just waiting with her for the cops and tow truck to arrive. We dropped off the cornstarch and headed back to drop off my passenger, passing again the accident scene. We got to my passenger's house unloaded her 8 bags of cedar mulch, groceries and other purchases, then I picked some rhubarb because she had lots and doesn't eat it, got some chives and a basil plant. On my way home I stopped at the church and made some iced tea and got some water and stopped at the accident scene to give some beverages because by this point it was hot and sunny and I'm sure they had been there for at least an hour. When I got there the tow truck had just pulled up as well. I stayed with them until the car was hooked up and pulled out of the ditch and the driver was heading back to town with her now totaled car.
Got home about 6:30 to start my sermon for tomorrow (I usually write on Fridays but that's another story)! Finished my sermon about an hour ago (going to be a short one tomorrow) and started chopping rhubarb. I now have a big pot of rhubarb on the stove stewing and a large and small crisp baking in the oven.
I think I'll sleep well tonight!
Tomorrow it's supposed to rain all day which is too bad because the fire team is hosting a father's day golf tournament (with a 10AM tee time, arggh). Anyone who shows up for church will be invited to head across the parking lot for lunch at the post golf bbq at the fire hall instead of coffee in the church hall to show support for the fire hall and all their work.
Things are always interesting here in Pass Lake!

I've been tagged!

6 Things.

I've been tagged by Murrayville Mom's Mom who used to be the church secretary at my home congregation but is now retired and living life to the full.

The idea is to share six unimportant things about myself and then to tag six other people to do the same thing.

Here are the rules:
1. Link back to the person who tagged you.
2. Post these rules on your blog.
3. Share six unimportant things about yourself.
4. Tag six random people at the end of your entry

So...Here are 6 things you probably did not need to know about me.

1) I am addicted to Facebook. I'm always checking what everyone is up to, joining new groups and most of all playing games on it.

2) I lived in two houses from when I was born until I was 29 since then (almost 2 years) I've lived in 3 houses in 24 months and the moving will continue. I hope in a year from now I'll be in somewhere a little more permanent but before then I have at least 2 more moves to make!


3) I have two goldfish, Spike & Buffy. I started this fall with 3 but one escaped on the way from my house to the church when I turned the corner and the bowl fell over. After that rather disastrous 3 km ride I will not be taking them with me across two provinces to Saskatoon in August.


4) I'm allergic to ridiculously silly things like raw carrots, celery, peaches, pears, apricots and almonds, all foods I enjoy a lot so I am always on the prowl for new ways to cook them so I can eat them.

5) In the joy of moving so often (see #2) I now have items stored in 3 different provinces. I have books and other miscellaneous stuff in BC at my parents' house, kitchen stuff and a bike in Saskatoon and most of my stuff here with me in Pass Lake. I look forward to the day I can have all my stuff in one province and hopefully one house!

6) I have an amazing group of friends from many different areas of my life high school, university, camp, work, VST, girl guides, LTS and others. I always have fun bringing them all together for BBQ's and gingerbread house making nights because they are all so different and yet so wonderful. I also very much enjoy spending time with each of them individually and hope that maybe soon I'll be living closer to many of them!

Here are my 6 people: Celia, Demara, Kristin, Nicole,
Mick, and Erik

Prayers for a Broken World

Well this week has been a bit overwhelming. It seems like news, mostly bad has been pouring in in the last week or so. I did have a bit of good news (Congrats Jason & Erin) but it seems like there has been a lot of brokenness in the lives of people who are near and dear to me. I can't go into details but just ask that you keep them (and me) in your prayers. It's times like these that being 4 provinces away is very difficult even though I know there's not much I can do even if I were there.
To end on a high note we had a beautiful confirmation service this morning with 3 young men being confirmed. It was a beautiful service. I'm off to the confirmation celebration BBQ because spring has finally come to Pass Lake, at least for a day!