Flowers, Snakes, Grape Jelly…It’s a Friggin Zoo…
When I was last with you, it was Thursday and now it is Wednesday. Where did the week go? So our weather here in Canada is still hit and miss – it’s been colder and wetter than usual and we seem to only be averaging 2 days of sunshine per week and these days usually occur during the week when I happen to be working. Even with the poor weather, its lilac season here in the great white north. Lilacs are one of my favorite flowers and the bonus – they grow wild all over the place, which allows me to pick bunches and bunches of them. Unfortunately, they don’t last long but while they do, I enjoy every minute of their beautifulness. There is a garter snake living in my flower garden. I’m not enthused with this new resident, but I can’t seem to convince J to relocate him for me before he turns into a man eater. So now, I’m forced to stomp, clomp and swing my shovel around like a wild woman before ...