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Why, hello.


I'm not the only one watching.

... posted several days late because at the end of the weekend I decided to rearrange my desk and it took way longer than I expected to get back to some sort of order.

This weekend (the one that just pasted) was our first summery weekend of the year. Saturday was sunny with just a touch of wind and 13 degrees. It doesn't sound all that warm but after the winter it feel quite balmy and we ventured outside without coats or hats. It felt so liberating to be just wearing a sweater and some shoes (no boots needed). We went to Canadian Tire and got a bird feeder and some birdseed.


We let Abby out to run around the yard off-leash while we set up the feeder and checked around our emerging lawn. She was pretty good at staying near where we were but did run across the street to meet a new person and next door to try our neighbour's garden remains once. More practice is required (getting a fence up will help too). It was a lot of fun to watch her explore the back yard. It's full of fun things likes sticks and water right now. She particularly enjoyed the snow that remains on our back deck and in the yard. Running all over and then laying on it belly down to cool off. She gleefully found and ate most of the birdseed we'd dropped on the snow while trying to close the feeder (she also really likes peas).


The most exciting part of the day was to be found hiding in the front lawn. Yep, there is grass growing in there. The snow wasn't even completely gone but I could already catch a hint of that grassy summer smell. So good.


We had such a lazy Sunday morning. Zeke slept on the bed. Abby slept on the couch. We ate pancakes right out of the pan. Eventually I got around to the stack of fabric I'd picked out last week and made myself a chair cushion but I'll save the details for another post.


Our kitchen table is currently decorated with the first vase of goodness from our very own yard. A bunch of pussy willows in all their woody, fuzzy beauty.

An image of the parking lot at work from a few months ago, before the snow arrived.
Autumn's leaves and puddles captured by glassy ice.
An image of calm in contrast to the seething mass of puppy-cat rolling around on the floor.