soeurs du jour

woo hoo

yo, kath, here i come.  on the road, see you tonight.

last night andy and i had dinner at my dear friend sandra z.

i snuck around the house taking photos.

i love these buddahs, laughing it up 

just like kath and i will tonight.

this fish hangs from the dining room light fixture.

and this bird as well.

i love going to her home.  it's full of treasures. 

my makeup is on and i am ready to go.

gotta run, the car is packed, charley is waiting by the door.

see you in niagara on the lake.

xo margie

Winner Love

Margie answered an email that I had sent her with the news that I had not gone to work with, "we're such losers".   Yes, sometimes we are.   I was sick, headache, upset stomach, just feeling awful and she had a dreadful cold last week. We try, heaven knows we try to be healthy and not catch every little bug going.  I can't imagine what our lives would be like if we didn't keep kicking at that can, turning rocks over and looking for things that keep us as healthy as we are taking our vitamins, seeing the doctors, doing the this and that to bolster our immune systems.  

I know we're not losers.   

Sister gets it and shows her love by making me laugh.

Last weekend Barry and I went to a carnival in the village up the road.  The local Lion's Club hosts it as one of their big fund raisers.  The hamburgers were rumoured to be outstanding and they were, homemade with lots of grilled onions, yum!

I had never seen a grocery wheel before.

So Barry bought us a couple of tickets and we won a bushel of groceries.

I was so excited.  It was such a charming thing.   

To share the love we donated the groceries to the food bank.

How else am I a winner this week?  HMMMMMMMMMMM let me see.

Margie is coming for a sleepover tomorrow night.  

One night only.  

I can't wait to see her, and Andy, and Charley too.

Happy Love Thursday friends.  There is more at Karen's.

xo

Kath

so smart, my charley, so smart

charley looks you right in the eye.  straight on.

she never breaks the stare first.

we are moving into a condo and a few weeks ago i said to charley, 

"it's enough.  no more pooing in the backyard, we are trying to sell the house."

i swear, since that day, nothing.  

charley holds her busy busy until someone finally agrees to walk her.  

kath says she is training us for when a 

walk from the condo is an absolute necessity.  

she is so smart.

happy pet parade, thanks to planet m and elk.

xo margie

dear friend

imagine you forgot a very dear friend's special occasion.  

a birthday, an anniversary, an achievement. 

imagine you never even knew it was her birthday. 

i have a very dear friend and yet we have never met.  

we are a generation apart, we are a country apart, we are a culture apart.  

i took this photo in jamaica a few years ago.

it is a photo of my friend and i, together.

my culture surrounding her culture.

i and i

our dear friend, se'lah.

xo, margie

kath, too.

Macro Pumpkin Pie Monday

It rained (again!)

And as quickly as it started, it stopped.

So I went out to the garden to check on my pumpkins.

Looks to me like October is going to bring us some yummy pumpkins.

Lisa hosts Macro Monday over at Chaos.

Join us in looking at things closely through rain coloured glasses.

xo

Kath

saturday morning on a sunday

sharing my saturday morning with you on a sunday morning. 

 

down a country road.

to the farmer's market.

flowers galore.  this next bunch came home with me.

little feet.

little paws.  it was the first time this burmese mountain pup had

left his house.  oh, he was a cutie.

and best of all, the sun shone.  it has rained so much here

that people are worried about their ducks drowning.

xo margie

How French!

This is one corner of my bathroom counter. 
  I love the vintage post-card from France, it makes me feel so French, appropriate for a soeur, non?

But the real excitement is over on the other side of the sink.   There's something else that's made me very happy.

 

Chanel!

Thank you, my lovely sister, 
 it is without a doubt the most perfect birthday present ever. 

je t'aime

xo

Kath

OKAY. I'M BACK.

I had the post done.  I'm at my desk tidying up and I picked up the birthday card Margie sent me, it has words on it, I know, birthday cards have words, but this had a page from a dictionary in the background so I was looking at it closely.   And I got weirded right the heck out.  Goose bumps on my neck kind of weird.   Freaky weird. Sister synchronicity weird.

Check out the beautiful birthday card.  Nice, eh?  But see the postage stamp?

 

Now look at a crop of the post card photo.  

Without a word of a lie.  Same stamp.  

Too freakin' weird.

xo

Kath

baby steps

please sit on this bench with us a moment, 

while we tell you about a plan, well, not a plan, but, oh heck, just sit down ...

kath and i were having yet another one of our endless talks about ourselves.  we bounce back and forth between each other all the time, needy and needier.  this last conversation, i was needier.  problem is, we are both not so good at taking our own advice. hopefully you are not nodding your head because you understand all too well what i mean by that!! 

years ago i found this little smurf on the road in front of a starbucks.  he hung from a chain of paperclips on my desk lamp way back when kath and i worked together.  i left that job and kath kept him on her desk.  she left that job and years later found him in a box and gave my smurf back to me and he sits again on my desk.

our conversation took place during kath's lunch hour yesterday, i phoned her at noon and we hung up at one, squeezing every second out of that rare time where we can be uninterrupted.  while she munched her salad in my ear, i bent hers about the state of the union.   when she was finished eating, we talked back and forth about how we feel, what we wish for, what we wish we could change and the whole conversation was peppered with, “i know!”  “me too!”   “i get like that and it makes me so disappointed in myself”  “i hate when that happens”  “i love you”. "i miss baby smurf."  and laughter, always with the laughter.  but you know us, we never really reached any conclusions, we didn’t actually come up with a plan, we just had a heck of a good talk.   so, no plan.

i almost cropped the photo, to take out the crystal shining ever so brightly in the face of the smurf.  but the more i looked at the photo the more i felt it was like the light at the end of the tunnel.  and then i had an idea, not a plan, but an idea, i would be like my little smurf taking baby steps towards the light at the end of the tunnel.

baby steps, indeed, one tiny thing at a time.

that's where i am right now.  

have a great weekend all you smurfs and smurfettes.

xo margie

Practice Love Thursday

Last night I went for a walk in my quiet neighbourhood which I discovered is only quiet if you're not listening.   People were sitting on porches chatting, the lawn mower engines whined and sputtered, trash cans clanked, cats meowed and puppies growled. I walked along keeping my mind quiet and my ears open to the sounds around me.   I overheard someone say, "Well, when people practice love...." and I didn't listen to the rest because that snippet said it all, the possibilities are endless when people practice love.

Happy Love Thursday.

xo 

Kath

As always there are more lovely love thursday stories at Chookooloonks.

flight of the soeurs

some of you must think kath and i are a bit flighty.  well, truth be told, we are.  there isn't a band wagon that kath and i aren't ready to jump on, check out and jump off quicker than you can say oprah. we make lists, we turn over leafs, we exercise, we lose weight, we eat, drink, get merry and put on weight. get overtired and end up sick in bed. oh yeah, we're flighty.  

but not any more.

we've teamed up with dr oz and oprah we are taking vitamins and flossing.

we are sleeping, eating, exercising, and lovin it.  it's day half.

i wish i could say day one, but it isn't quite.

kath and i took our "real age tests". we are a little older than we thought

 and we looked at each other across the internet and said "crap"

let's get on this case.

blueberries, that's the ticket!

come on, jump on, we'll be young in no time.

xo margie

Haha, stay tuned for the unfolding saga of the Curious Case of Margie and Kath Button ....we'll be getting younger before your very eyes!

Margie go buy the book, I looked at it again last night and I think it's easier to follow than on-line.  "You Staying Young."

And I love how you say turning over new "Leafs" - your Inner Canadian Hockey Fan is showing.  ;-)

xo

Kath