1 more week...

... until moving day!!

Oh thank God. I can't wait to get this over and done with, and life can get back to normal. Well ... as normal as it can be for me (I'm not sure if I can use the word normal).

Poor Milo has been sitting in a corner, begging me to finish him and my other drawings have been put on temporary hold until this much anticipated day has passed.

I really will miss this house though; the trees and garden out front, the grass, the paved driveway, the birds   I won't miss the rabbits - but I think Brandy will - in a more morbid sense than I will miss the garden. Plus she likes to eat what they leave behind if you know what I mean. I guess it's like little chocolate chips, but not so chocolatey.

Sigh - a lot of good memories here, but now it's time to move on to bigger and better things 5 minutes down the road.

In the mean time, some random Brandy with her new favorite toy just because she wanted her picture taken (she really did, and no, I'm not crazy - the camera excites her for what ever reason ... only dog I know who runs up, grabs a toy and poses when she hears it turn on - ham).

Abandoned Houses

Lately, in Halton, we seem to have more than our share of abandoned houses. My guess is that it probably has to do with all the major development taking place in all of our old farmers fields - developer buys the land, owner vacates, simple answer. Most of these are just on my way in to work...so you can imagine how many more there must be all over town.

So last weekend, this is how I spent part of my birthday, as well as having a fantastic dinner at the Harrop House Restaurant, courtesy of hubby.


A few of the houses had these pillars in front of them. If you look closely you can see that they mixed in glass pieces while constructing these - the blues and the reds are all shards of glass.


Happened to see these guys in one of the farmers ponds. A breeding pair of Buffleheads, which I have never before seen. Very striking contrast on the male. This picture has been cropped and zoomed - I had the long lens with me, but they were still too far away to get any good shots.