Magical Mondays - Boathouse

For Carol's Magical Mondays, I'm sharing this photo of Stephen Leacock's boathouse that I saw in the weekend paper. I looked at it and went 'omg!' when I saw the pure reflection of the boathouse in the water. Truly a magical image!

I trudged through the freshly fallen snow to church yesterday, it was cold and sunny. Church was busy as they were enrolling the new batch of First Communion (grade 2 kids). There didn't seem to be a lot of them this year. We sang 'This little light of mine' as their welcome song. There was a lady there conducting the music very energetically to a full choir. Every so often she would turn to face the congregation and conduct us too. Everyone looked tired and seemed to be barely paying attention to her. I noticed there was an organist there, usually it's a lady on piano. At the end of the mass the priest told us we could go collect our tax receipts as they were ready. Yes, it's that time of year!

Magical Mondays - New Kitchen Roses and Barbecued Ribs

Hello everyone.  It's Magical Mondays, and I thought I would share my new kitchen roses with you!  The one in my header photo had just about had it after so many years.  They are miniature and I love the light pink colour.  Hopefully it will last for many years as the old one did!

We were going to a dinner party on the weekend and I decided to buy some red ones for the hostess. It was perfect for the season too. Then I noticed these pink ones and decided to get them to replace the old ones.  The dinner party was lovely.  Everyone is in their fifties now. We are dealing with miscellaneous health problems, and thinking about retirement.  Our kids are growing up so fast as I keep saying.   In fact, K drove himself to his tennis lesson as usual that evening while we went out.  And he just told me he wants to give a rose to a girl at school on Valentine's Day.  Nothing serious, he just said he wasn't ready for that last year but that this year he is!

L and her friends at school barbecued delicious ribs for their dinner on the weekend.  Her friend googled a recipe!  So they wrapped the plain ribs in foil and baked them at 325F for 1 1/2 hours.  Then they slathered lots of barbecue sauce on top and barbecued them!  I will have to try this method.

A New Friend?

I've ended up with a duplicate post playing around with backlinks but don't want to lose your lovely comments, so sorry about that!

Happy Chinese New Year to those who celebrate!

Sharing a sweet email for Carol's Magical Mondays:

Hope this starts your week with a BIG SMILE!!!

Could you imagine coming home from work to find this tiny creature napping on your couch with your dog? Guess who came home for dinner? It followed this beagle home, right through the doggy door. This happened in Maryland recently. The owner came home to find the visitor had made himself right at home...This hit the 6 o'clock news big time.

A New Friend?

Happy Chinese New Year to those who celebrate!


Sharing a sweet email for Carol's Magical Mondays:

Hope this starts your week with a BIG SMILE!!!

Could you imagine coming home from work to find this tiny creature napping on your couch with your dog? Guess who came home for dinner? It followed this beagle home, right through the doggy door. This happened in Maryland recently. The owner came home to find the visitor had made himself right at home...This hit the 6 o'clock news big time.

Magical Mondays - 3D without glasses

Here's a beautiful video for you to watch for Magical Mondays!

And here are a few photos of the sunset from our hotel room on our recent Cuba vacation:

Veradero Beach

Veradero Beach

Veradero Beach

Magical Mondays - Christmas 2012

Linking to Carol's Magical Mondays!

I loved this video Christmas 2012 on Youtube. It's really about how we use technology today. 

Carolyn at A Colourful Journey has the most fabulous Christmas Trees. You simply have to go take a look. She even has an upside down tree!

In keeping with the season, how do you like my fruit plate? I found some delicious kiwis at Costco the other day. I heard kiwis are good for your blood pressure.

Magical Mondays - Kwiat Diamond Waterdrop Bracelet

Welcome to Carol's Magical Mondays!

I noticed this beautiful bracelet in a news article. It's a Kwiat Diamond Waterdrop Bracelet and all the profits go to Charity Water. It's about $100.  I love it, isn't it gorgeous?  Here is the Kwiat website.

Here is the $11,000 one

And here is another link to the site.

My sister says it's too simple for her taste as she likes gaudy jewellery with lots of bling.

We went out to a Greek restaurant with friends last night as Xmas celebrations begin.  We exchanged gifts and enjoyed the food and conversation.  It was raining and the weather was mild.  We skyped with L afterwards.  I was happy to hear they played board games instead of the usual drinking parties on the weekend.  Exams are coming up and it's easier to study the next morning apparently if you are not hung over.

Magical Mondays - Miraculous Wheelchair Recovery

It's time for Carol's Magical Monday Blog Hop! Please join in the fun!

I love this story I read in the weekend newspaper, so inspiring and indeed magical:


Former Paralympian makes miraculous recovery to become pro cyclist


“I’ve had many bad situations in my life and it’s not fun, but every time you learn from it and you get stronger because you have to make the decision to fight to get out of it,” she said. “There’s always an end as long as you keep fighting. You get stronger from the things you learned in life. And I learned the hard way.”

And in other news, my Xmas decorations including the tree are all up!  I was inspired by Diana Evans.