Love Message in the Snow

When I opened the bedroom window curtains this morning, I saw this heart in the neighbour's back yard.  She's a single Mom who lives next door with her adult daughter.  Maybe her boyfriend did this for her...don't know...can't wait to ask her, but in the meantime it looks so sweet!!!  The temperature is climbing...it got up to 9*C already, so glad I took the picture when I did...it'll soon be gone.

 

More Snow

It had snowed really tiny flakes all day yesterday and didn't accumulate very much...just barely covered the ground.  Today was a different story.  It snowed and snowed.

Our church put together a "Guess Who's Coming for Coffee" social slated for tonight.  You either signed up to attend or to be a host.  We signed up to host so a few days ago we got an email giving us the names of two couples who would be coming at 7pm Friday.  I'd phoned them late this afternoon to see if they were comfortable coming out in the snow...they were, so B got out the snow blower and cleared the driveway...the snow covered the driveway.  It didn't take long for the driveway to get covered again but at least it wasn't as deep as it would have been.  Had a great visit and got to know the two couples a lot better than just saying "Hi" on Sundays!

We got up this morning to about 2 feet of snow in the driveway...will winter ever end???  I want to go camping!!!  B was just going out to get the snow blower and shovels going when the fellow across the street came over with his tractor and cleared the driveway for us, then B just did a few touch-ups with the shovel.  The neighbour then proceeded to clear several driveways in the neighbourhood.  He's done this in the past and we're so grateful but he refuses to take anything for his services.

Pests

The snow finally all melted and my tulips and daffodils are coming up nicely....but this morning we noticed that some little varmint got into my planters and pulled the daffodils up and ate the bulbs and left the little stems!  They'd already dug up the daffodils and tulips I'd planted by the shed BUT did they have to crawl up into the pots and eat those ones too...greedy little beggars and even though they're God's creatures, at this point I'm feeling too much love for them!!!!

Valentine's Day 2018

This year Valentine's Day and Ash Wednesday are on the same day... Easter Sunday is going to be on April Fool's Day....maybe that's why we woke up to a winter wonderland this morning...might as well mix things up good and proper!!

Even though we don't usually buy each other things for Valentine's Day, this year my husband bought me this lovely plant arrangement.  

A couple of years ago friends bought us an orchid.  It had one bloom on it then another one.  Since then it hasn't had any more blooms but added 4 new leaves.  I'm usually the one who doesn't have a green thumb and have killed so many plants but this little one must be really hardy and it seems to LOVE it's home on the kitchen island....I'm not taking any chances on moving it to another location...I only hope this new plant will allow me to move it and not die on me....it's getting so I won't have any room on the island to do any cooking or baking...and we CAN'T have that, can we???

Hope everyone had a HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!!!