A Perfect Day...

...sometimes the most unplanned days can turn out to be perfect.  Today was one of them.  We woke early to a warm, sunny day and took our horses to the park for a ride before it got too hot.

We are lucky enough to live in south Langley where there are beautiful parks and countryside on our doorstep...

My horse Bud on the trails

Puppy anyone...

...today for the first time in weeks, the sun came out...

 

 

...I was finally able to trade in the wellies for sneakers and  shorts.  I have to admit I have not spent very much time in the garden in the last couple of rainy cold weeks, so today I went out to catch up on weeding and maintenance...

The "Klutz" Gene...

...My mother's side of the family all have it and I certainly inherited it.  Each morning the first thing I do when I get out of bed is go to the barn and feed the horses...

 

 

...in my pyjamas.  Winter or summer.  The weather right now is cold and rainy so this morning I was wearing my boots... 

The Potato Experiment

 

Every year I experiment with something new in my veggie garden with varying degrees of success.  This year it was my potato patch.

Snapped from the Bird Blind...

 

 

 

...okay so it's not really a bird blind (or hide) but rather the dilapidated hot tub gazebo we inherited with the house...

 

A new kitchen table...

...our kitchen lacks storage and we have limited counter space...

It's Spring...

...so my sister and I went on a spring mini-break to her husband's family cabin on an island they own off the coast of West Vancouver...

 

...this cabin was built by his great great uncle at the turn of the last century and was added onto by his grandfather...

 

...it's amazing this was all built by hand...

...so relaxing...no electricity no phones...

                                           Nellie enjoying the view

...100 years of history.  All these signs, afixed to the woodshed, washed up on the shore on the island...

...parts of the island are quite rocky and steep.  My sister using a rope to decend one of the paths...
 

...you'll guess by her clothing that the weather was not spring-like.  A storm blew in and it was very windy and sleety...

 

...Nellie didn't move from the kitchen fire...

 

 

...but it was still an amazing spring break with my sister.