Welcome to my post for the month of all things I like and for which I am grateful. You can find links to more posts like this one at LeeAnna's blog, Not Afraid of Color. Glimmers are the little things that give me a frisson if you will, of joy or happiness or excitement or all three.
When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.
--Willie Nelson
1. I like this post Nine Things That Sewists do That No One Understands at Melly Sews written by her husband from the perspective of someone who doesn’t sew, but lives with a sewist. Numbers 8 and 9 I can especially relate to!
2. I know I've said it before, but I do love how Bella joins me every single morning for yoga.
I also like Rufus's winter boots because they protect his paws from the stupid salt they put down in over-abundance despite our local environmental society constantly asking them to cut back, but I also like these boots because of how he walks when he first has them on. He looks like a moose or a Tennessee walking horse!
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Yes, that is my SAHRR project beside which she's sitting |
5. This post is animal glimmers heavy but I'm okay with that. Whenever we've been out and left Rufus alone, when we come home we ask him, "Were you a good boy?" and more often than not, he comes towards us with his head down a bit, showing his teeth in a sheepish smile sort of way. It's hilarious. I think it's his emotions that he has trouble with, not sure how to express, "Well I really tried but I just had to bark at the dog that walked by with its person."
7. I got the best glimmer today, Wednesday, the day I'm finishing up this post when Brady sent a group text to our family thread with a photo of a cup of tea and this was his text:
'Thought I would make afternoon tea around the time nana would be having hers."
He is the best person ever. I can't wait until we can have tea in person when he comes again this summer. We'd both read our books and have our tea, and on alternate days he'd have a Mountain Dew with Grampa on the deck while they were both on their iPads.Time with loved ones is the most precious gift.
8. I subscribed to Britbox in January and I am wondering why I waited so long. Well, tbh a ton of British TV is on CBC Gem as well as our Detroit PBS station, so that is partly why. I also can get DVDs out of the library which is how I'd been watching Shetland, recommended by a friend. It is so very good. Our library only has the first five series, so I'm now in series 6 thanks to Britbox. I've also been able to start Vera, and Sister Boniface Mysteries. CBC has some exclusive new shows and I am quite liking two, Saint Pierre and North of North. The former is a detective series set on the French island of Saint Pierre which is actually in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and a place I've long wanted to visit. I like that both Canadian and French actors are in it. As for the latter, it's my favourite of the two, filmed in Iqaluit, Nunavut, written by two Inuk women with a cast of several Inuk actors. The scenery is stunning, and it's true to the typical way of life in the high Arctic (no they don't live in igloos), and although the dialogue is mainly in English, a lot of Inuktitut is spoken as well.
9. Books. So far I've finished two books this month, and will have another finished in the next day or two. All three are and have been excellent. Half Life by Jill Cantor was about the life of Marie Curie, but in alternate chapters it was about the 'what if' life she might have had, had she and the man she first loved, in Poland, gone against his mother's orders (he was from a well-to-do family, she was not) not to marry. The Lake House by Kate Morton was really good. Right now I'm in the fourth Jenny Cooper book, The Flight by Matthew Hall, and it is gripping as per usual. And yesterday I picked up (yay! I was something like 34th in line) The Grey Wolf by Louise Penny at the library so I'll be reading that next until I can get Glorious Exploits by Ferdia Lennon which is our current book in my University of Alberta Alumni book club! So many books, and the more I read, the more I find TO read!
10. I like Canada Reads, and have followed it and read the top five contenders each year for several years. It's a great way to expand my reading interests. They've announced the five short-listed contenders with debates starting in March.
#6 - wouldn't make a good painting - too perfect as the photograph it is...
ReplyDelete#7 - aren't we grateful for video calling and group chats...
BritBox! I love it. If you need a good laugh, try "Would I lie to you?".
ReplyDeleteYou may post as many pet pictures as you like. I love to see them.
Books are such a treat, aren't they? Which reminds me, I just finished a book and we are going camping this weekend so it's time to check out another book at the library. Animals are so good for glimmers. I got to pet a friendly local orange and white cat on my afternoon walk yesterday, which made me very happy. :)
ReplyDeleteThose posts from Melly Sews with her husband writing had me laughing out loud! I love seeing your animals - share them any time. They bring lots of joy, even to those of us who don't have them. (Our pets are the birds we feed!) We have gone back and forth between BritBox and Acorn - like the shows on both. And thanks for the book recommendations, too. I just finished The Grey Wolf - so good!
ReplyDeletePretty Bella. I never realised that salt on the roads would damage dogs paws. Good idea for those boots, does he try and take them off? But then, we don't have snow on the ground down here, thank goodness. Just wind and rain.
ReplyDeleteI'm surprised Rufus lets you put boots on his paws. They make sense, of course. And we know Bella would never tolerate boots, so it's a good thing she doesn't go outside. I just finished Grey Wolf. It was excellent, one of the best of a great series.
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I enjoyed all the candid shots of your fur babies. We are pet-less currently. Mr Busy is starting to make “ I need a puppy” noises. The skies here have been gorgeous too. I don’t have the lovely view you have though. Houses, apartments and light poles obstruct a decent photo. The Grey Wolf is in my audible library. I’m a Louise Penny fan since reading her collaboration with Hillary Rodman Clinton
ReplyDeleteI love the animal photos...especially Bella with her tongue half hanging out. My favorite thing is Brady "having tea with you". What a sweet young man!
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