For the first time since 2020, I'm sending out a few Christmas cards. (I planned to last year, but Canada Post was on strike!)
My grandson is in full Christmas-fever mode! I spent a PD day with them... The kids made an indoor slide using a foam mattress.
Elves are out...
Decorating for Christmas is in...
For kids, there's nothing more exciting than counting down to Christmas... and decorating the Christmas tree!
I finally completed my phenology calendar for November 2025.
As I coloured in the month's daily temperatures, I realized that they didn't fluctuate all that much, hovering around the freezing mark, sometimes a few degrees above, sometimes a few degrees below.
Fewer, if any, animal sightings are noted.
There were fewer sunny days in November than in October. It was a cloudy grey month.
Looking back at my first phenology calendar, January, 2025, I was astounded by the many colours that jumped out at me!
Did I have more enthusiasm back then?! I wonder! Or did I just use more colourful pens and crayons?
I noticed a dark BLOB on the backyard fence...
Moved closer. It was a squirrel - motionless - head falling forward... Was the squirrel okay?!
After staring at it for a few moments, I concluded that it had been basking in the sun... and had simply fallen asleep!
Hope he doesn't fall off!!
I tried to grow aloe vera for years - before I found one that does well for me...
Now I have so many!
Time to give some away!
Terry and I rarely eat the breakfast together ... but recently we were both at the table with our respective (quick) breakfasts - bowls of cereal.
I was eating the one with raisins (which I had accidentally bought, thinking it was another with similar packaging). Terry was eating his favourite, which I jokingly refer to as "cardboard."
I wonder how much fiber they each contain, I commented, (fiber being the main reason I buy "bran" cereals.) So I put on my reading glasses and looked...
I can't believe it! Your "cardboard" has more fiber than my "bran" cereal! Yours has 6 grams of fiber per cup. Mine only has 5!
And when it comes to sugar, your "cardboard" has only 9 grams - while mine has 20!
Time to start pulling out my reading glasses - to check nutritional information - BEFORE I buy anything!
