Weekend Finds!

Here in Canada we are still enjoying our weekend - today is a

civic holiday (BC Day!).  Mr. Biff and I are enjoying being a bit

lazy this weekend.  We did get out to some garage sales and

here's a little bit of what we found:

These cute little owl salt & pepper - I may paint these I think.

(25 cents)

More scrabble tiles and a couple of vintage folding rulers.

(50 cents for all three!)

Love, love, love this little jug - it's a pale green - hard to tell in

the photo but it's really beautiful!

($4)

Another little piece of Majolica style pottery to add to my collection!

I love this stuff!

($1)

And a metal holder - the woman I purchased (for 50 cents) from

said it was to hold glasses but I think I am going to shabby it up

and put some jars in it.....

And, God Bless the Queen.....another piece of royal

memorabilia for Mr. Biff!

($3)

And last, but not least.....some funky old knobs....

($2)

Not bad for a total of $11.25!

Another warm day here on our little Island paradise!  Hope

you have a great week!

Peggy

Go Jump in the Lake!

No, really, I mean it - it's so stinking hot here for our little

part of the world - who would have thought!  So today,

Mr. Biff and I did just that - we went and jumped in the lake!

We've lived in our little town for 3 years now and had not

yet found what I would consider to be a nice swimming spot.

Now there are many who would argue that the ocean is RIGHT

THERE (about 5 minutes to a nice beach on the sea) but alas

they probably don't know (or don't care) that I am freshwater

water baby!  I don't mind to dunk toes in the sea but

I don't fancy swimming in it.

Anyway, long story short (pun intended) we went to Long

Lake today - really close to our house and lo and behold we

discovered it's a really nice sandy clean, clear freshwater

swimming spot!  Yeah!  Right in our neighbourhood!

Check out those beautiful homes on the hill......what a

lovely view they must have!

My Island friends are laughing I am sure because most of

us drive by this lake weekly if not daily.  It's just one of those

things that's right under your nose.....

Anyway, too hot?  Go jump in the lake!

Peggy

Spam-a-lot and a Sneak Peek!

So I don't really mean "this" type of spam - I want to talk to you about

SPAM as in email/blogger comment spam.  It seems lately that I've

been getting an undue amount - never less than 20 or so comments

per day and sometimes over 100!  Am I doing something wrong?  The

comments don't get published - they do go into my unpublished spam

file so it doesn't really hurt anything - it's just annoying! 

Any tips or tricks would be appreciated....

And here's just a sneak peek of one of the several projects I have

planned for this long weekend (it's a civic holiday on Monday in Canada).

Off to garage sales in the morning!

Wednesday's Words of Wisdom

Ok, I am not all that deep, nor am I all that clever.  I have not

come up with many brilliant words of wisdom but I have been

wise enough to borrow them where appropriate!  I hope

when you are reading these Wednesday posts you know

that I am just having fun passing on some interesting,

thought-provoking or just plain silly quotes and not

fancying myself to be a sage or anything...I've just never

been able to stop myself from using colloquialisms

(and yes, I had to look up how to spell that!)

There's one phrase I use all the time at work and recently I

have heard others in my office use it......I love it when that

happens.......

So what is the word(s) to the wise?  Simple:

"Don't borrow trouble."

(usually followed by this under my breath:  it will always

find you soon enough on it's own....)

And then there's always this one...

"When you are in deep trouble,

say nothing, and try to

 look like you know what you're doing."

Have a happy week!

Peggy