I can hardly believe that another month is almost over! There are so many things I had to do... have to do... want to do, LOL. So instead of doing most of them I'm having a DOWNTON ABBEY fest, trying to catch up on the past few seasons through Netflix...

But that DN mean that I have been idle. I somehow managed to end up on not one but TWO committees this year (sigh), and I've been typing up notes for a meeting on Friday while I've been watching - and of course now I'm working on my blog! But I really have to go to bed soon, as it's my day to work at the church tomorrow.

I also find it hard to write w/o talking about my work, as it's such a big part of my life... but I try to save all design talk for my newsletter, and keep this blog informal and a bit more personal.

But somehow I doubt you want to hear about the friends we've had to dinner, or the movies we've seen (GBG). Though we DID have a lovely Valentine's day. Since it fell on Sunday this year, after church my sister and her DH, our parents, Bill and I all went to a local brunch that is only held once a month. The food is all homemade (and quite good), and they have a wonderful selection! I believe it's a fund-raiser for the Legion. Anyway, one of the things they do is raffle off a delicious carrot cake (so yummy, with thick cream cheese frosting) - and you even get to keep the cake holder it comes in! The last time we went Bill bought the last 2 tickets, and he won... this time, my sister bought the last ticket - and SHE won! We said they won't let us come back next month, if we always leave with the cake, ROFLOL.

Everyone skipped dessert (mostly) and came back to our house, where we had carrot cake and tea/coffee, and spent the afternoon playing a domino game called Mexican Train, which my family really enjoys. It was quite a nice way to spend the day, surrounded by people we love, who love us. I hope everyone had the chance to do the same.

However, yesterday wasn't nearly as much fun - at least for poor Bill! He got a notice from Air Canada that his flight (today) would very possibly be delayed or cancelled because of the weather they were expecting. In the ten years he's been flying out to work this is the first time they've ever done that, so he took it quite seriously. He was considering changing his flight to Friday (since the bad weather was supposed to be Wed/Thurs), but he takes ANOTHER flight up to the mine site, and they don't fly on weekends, and he wasn't sure he could get in to Saskatoon in time to make the last flight to camp on Friday.

Anyway, I said "what if you left today", which set off a whole flurry of activity, LOL, as he hadn't thought of that. He checked for flights, and there was one in the early evening, but he had to leave almost immediately in order to get from here to Toronto on time. So I fed and walked the dog, while our DD grabbed some lunch and he went to pack... then I made him some sandwiches and apple slices to eat in the car on the way, and she drove him to the airport... in less than an hour I had an empty house again - it reminded me of the first time he went to this job, our girls both went to University just a few days before he left - and they even took the cat with them, LOL, so I went from a house full of people to just me - didn't even have Miss Mollee to keep me company then!

He called last night to let me know he made it safely to Saskatoon, and again today to let me know he was in camp, so all is well... and since he got in a day early, the extra day's pay more than covers the expense of changing his ticket, LOL, so we ended up coming out ahead of the game. Except that Tuesday is our date night, so we missed out on that - but we'd gone out to dinner on Saturday, and lunch on Sunday - then had friends in for dinner on Sunday - so that wasn't too too bad, LOL.

And it seems that for once the weatherman got it right, as first thing this morning it started snowing... then raining... then hailing... and then seemed to settle in to a sort of sleet / freezing rain combination. Miss Mollee insisted on an after dinner walk, but we only made it as far as Nana's house (my mom & dad's place just around the corner). I was dropping something off to mom, and Mollee decided she was staying there, so I turned around and came back home. In just that short time my boots were soaked right through about half way up! There was slushy, mushy, icy water EVERYWHERE. When Mo finally came home she was coated with ice and water, and very happy to stay in for the rest of the night!

I'm afraid I don't have anything more (or very exciting) to share this month, as I have been working almost non-stop (and into the wee hours of the morning) to get caught up on my designing, and not much has been happening with the house. I'm very pleased with some of the new ideas I've come up with, and can't wait to work on my newsletter, so I can share some of them with you (wink). And of course with year end, and now tax season approaching, Bill and Dree (our oldest DD who works for us) have been busy getting bookkeeping finished up and trying to get a jump on tax preparation.

I still haven't found the right color yellow for the library, but Bill has started planning out this years work on the house, so hopefully there will be more to tell you in the months to come... Talk to you soon - and HAPPY STITCHING!