109/365 Flour

Jesse turned the mixmaster on high right after adding flour. It went everywhere and was pretty funny.

 108/365 Finished

We gave Lucy this lego set for Christmas. Every time she comes over she works on it a bit....then Emma takes a bit of it apart and Lucy works on it some more. Today it is officially finished and Lucy is feeling pretty good about that. It will now take its place on the large window ledge in the basement with her other lego sets adding to her village - playground, candy store and now hospital with an elevator and helicopter with landing pad. 

I love lego! So good for the mind. 

107/365 Pease Lily (Spathiphyllum)

I was about 15 years old (almost 55 years ago) when my sister Tanis, who was very, very sick with cancer, asked me to buy a Christmas present for Mom. My Mom was her 24/7 caregiver for a few years thru her treatments and it was a very difficult time. Tanis wanted to have something special for Mom for Christmas but she was pretty much bedridden. She handed me some cash and I headed down to The Bay to find something and all I could really find in budget was this small Peace Lily.  Tanis was happy and my Mom very touched Christmas morning. Mom nurtured that plant and it grew to be a beautiful large plant that faithfully bloomed and I suppose served as a memory of the daughter she lost. That plant moved with Mom across Canada to Victoria and over the next 50 years, each of us surviving 6 siblings enjoyed pieces of it from time to time. I could never keep mine alive but I sure admired Mom's when visiting her in Victoria. 

This fall my brother arrived at our new home here in Oakbank with another piece of the original plant. This is probably a piece of a piece if a piece of the original bought in the basement of The Bay. I was nervous at first because I have killed a couple of these. However, I am no longer homeschooling 4 kids or working and I have time. Time to water it with filtered water and to carefully feed it. Time to figure out I need to keep it away from the heating vent or the cold window and protect it from my penchant to overwater. I am trying. 

And this week it bloomed! 

 106/365 Oreo Cookies

How do you eat your Oreo cookies??

 105/365 New Planter

Excited to get this new planter filled with tomatoes, herbs and a few other vegetables. 

 104/365  How can this be?

Yesterday I was back there in a sweater raking up leaves and cleaning out flower pots. This too shall pass.  

 103/365 Artist in the Making

 102/365 French Toast

Jesse made french toast for the gang for supper tonight. He said he felt like breakfast for supper so french toast it was. He cracked open 7 eggs and not one shell got in there. He was so proud! Me too! 

 101/365 Superfood

I am making home made yogurt with superfood probiotic L Gasseri today (and other probiotics to help it along). It will percolate in the cooker on "proof" ~ 100 F for 36 hours. It needs that long to really grow and do its thing. 

 100/365 Bowling

While the rest of the fam are watching the Artemis crew return to Earth! 

And here we are on the 100th day of 2026.