Meet Ms. Honey Bunny-Penny She will be drawn for on Monday March 28, 2005
AND THE WINNER IS HEATHER C FROM NB
(The bunny 'turds' will be cleaned out before she is shipped!)
March 10 Oops, just hit the abort
X not the save button so I guess I'll try this again! Also I guess
yesterday was the 9th not the 8th, missed the day we drove home from
Halifax! Gord has decided that he really needs to be nicer to
Duddley, or Duddley might shoot him! Gord heard on the news this
am that some guy had been shot by his cat! The man had left a 9mm
pistol (obviously loaded) on the counter and the cat had knocked it off
and shot his owner! Now Duddley would never do that as he doesn't
go on the counter! (More to the point we dont have a 9mm
pistol). Gord's comment was " I bet that cat doesn't get any
treats for quite awhile!"
New picture on the home page today, we have quite
enough snow here (any is too much for March in NB) so thought I
would post a picture that makes me think of
spring! Of course Orchids are native to New Brunswick, they must
be all the hardware stores sell them! The flowers on
the Phalaenopsis in bloom are about 4.25 inches across,
it's roots have gone down the side of the pot and are crawling accross
the table. The small orchid in the backgroun is my new blood red
orchid that I saw in Moncton on Tuesday, it just lept into my
arms and said save me from all the orchid murderers out
there! I usually manage to keep my orchids alive unless
Duddley sleeps on top of the leaves. Duddley did eat one of
my plants in the gallery while I was away, no doubt trying
to point out that he wasn't getting the appropriate amount of
attention!
Made a few beads today, but also managed to suffer
through about 2 hours in the dungeon, aka my stained glass
studio, aligator pit.... it was a toasty 44 F down there
today, I am beginning to believe that if I wait for the weather to warm
up this year I won't get anything done!
March 8 Well we arrived home just in time to
batten down the hatches, Duddley the cat was home and told me
that he had been ignored and wanted attention NOW, Stuart showed up
breifly to collect clean clothes and then was off to visit a freind
that was home from University on spring break. The winds picked
up about 9 pm and were really pounding the rain into the house, the
power went out about 11:30, Stuart felt obliged to phone and inform us
that they were toasty and warm in front of his freinds propane
stove, he was informed that I had been warm and toasty in bed
prior to his call! The power finally came back on just
before two pm this afternoon. We have both an oil stove and
a fireplace, which got lit this morning, but since it was -7 C/
22 F it would have been a bit cold in the house without
heat. Drove into St George for groceries and Coffee! The
roads were a bit of a mess. Considered making beads while
the power was out but since I would have had to batch anneal the
beads decided to sort out some of my new stock in front of the fire
instead! Back to Halifax, a lot of the small boutique type
stores are closed on both Sunday & Monday in Halifax,
went out for dinner at my favorite Japanese restaurant and had a huge
platter of Sushi for two and then a dynamite shrimp tempura roll
for dessert, Gord isn't into Red Bean Ice cream, I actually thought it
was quite good the one time I had it! Picked up pottery
from two Halifax artists, one is going back to University to do a
masters in the fall so she can teach, and the other one is working at 6
part time jobs to pay the bills, doesn't say much for the future
of hand made clay products. I also discovered when we got home
that my business cards have the worng postal code on them, so if
you got one of the 60 that I handed out while I was in Alberta the
correct postal code is E5V IJ2!
March 6 From the Halifax Waverley Hotel,
(turns out they have free internet access in the lobby , so you don't
get a three day break!) this is a lovely old Inn just west of
downtown Halifax, it has been a Hotel/inn since 1876 and is full of
period antiques. Today was bright and sunny so we walked along
the waterfront to the Historic properties shopping area which is about
the only thing that is open on Sunday! I guess all tourists are
suppose to do on a Sunday is eat!! I have an appointment
with one of my gallery artsists later this afternoon to pick out
some more pottery for the gallery. Our flight back to the
Maritimes yesterday was quite uneventful, everything was even on
time... the only excitement was the plane (not mine) that was being
towed away from the terminal with five yellow firetrucks chasing after
it. ( I still think fire trucks should be RED!)