I can be totally random at times.

It actually fits quite well with our lifestyle though.

I shall show you what I mean. A few snippets from last weekend.

Friday

While I was here chit chatting with some of you on facebook, and keeping track of the stocking going live, my husband was out escorting a charity bike ride. He works as an RCMP auxiliary (volunteer) and this is one of the types of things he does. He called me at one point to let me know they’d be coming by where our area meets the highway, so if the kids and I wanted to see, they’d be by in about 20 minutes. So we loaded up and headed out.

Unfortunately, the riders were quite split up at this point because some had broken down before hand, but it was still neat to see.

Then we came home and Shaylah wanted to show me Shivers, her duck.

She loves Shivers.

Friday night while hubby was out escorting yet another ‘parade’, this time of antique cars for a show, I took all five kids to the ‘city’. Alesia was treating the girls and I to Chinese food at the food court (believe it or not, it’s the best around here! Yum!) and then we were picking up her new bike which she’s now been riding to work more often then not (yay, less driving for dh and I!)

While there, the three girls and I picked out some gifts for Graydon for Father’s Day. Some loose tea from his favorite tea shop, some homemade maple fudge, some with, some without nuts, and a dvd. We figured that would make the perfect day for him. Sweet treats, good drink, and a good movie.

We’re easy to please around here.

Saturday

It was time to figure out a new ‘home’ for our two Khaki ducks. These are the two who Shaylah is hoping to have some ducklings by.

Shivers & Coco.

At first we thought all may be ok with leaving all the ducks and chickens together, but then one of the Muscovy ducks began getting nasty with Coco, and seemingly jealous of her eggs! So a new plan needed to take place.

We decided to clean out one of our rabbit hutches, and turn it into the duck “couple’s retreat”.

Look at silly Levi. He’s trying to catch, or attack, the water. He does this EVERY TIME someone turns on a hose, or obviously, the pressure washer. Silly dog!

Teagan and I stood watch.

We both like to be as helpful as possible.

Now the cage was all clean, and ready to be moved into the chicken coop. We used the cage to ‘fence in’ one part of the chicken yard, just for the ducks and soon to be ducklings.

I even put on my pink & yellow polka dotted rubber boots for that occasion! Can you tell we’ve had a lot of rain around here this spring?

This is how they all greet me when I come bearing kitchen scraps.

Then I checked on the ‘garden’, my teeny tiny little garden of salad.

I didn’t snap a photo of the other garden box because all three sunflowers died, they seem to have been attacked by some sort of blight. The tomatoes & pepper plants are fine though, thank goodness! The one good thing, now I can figure out what’s best to replace the sunflowers in that little garden bed. What would go best in my salad that’s small enough to fit in a small raised bed?

My Calla Lilies are looking pretty as ever.

Then it was time to get back to work, and back to my sewing studio.

While working away, Shaylah came to the door to ask if I could come see her latest find.

A teeny, tiny, baby snake.

There’s always so much to discover in this life of ours!

The rest of Saturday was spent pretty much in the studio.

Working on Dundies for the stocking we had yesterday. Twenty Six pair. The most time consuming part of it all? Ironing. Ironing the bands and body before sewing them all together, then ironing the whole thing after they’re all done.

Lots of ironing.

I’m not sure how many people get the privilege in this life to iron underwear. I sure don’t spend my time ironing any other underwear! Heck, I have a hard time pulling out the iron for ANYTHING I wear. lol

Did you know bamboo velour yoga pants NEVER need ironing? Neither do bamboo jersey shirts.

Sunday

We got up early, gave hubby his gifts before church and headed out.

After church we dropped Alesia off at work, then met up with friends for a small bite to eat. While there, we decided to cook dinner together that evening. So we went home, I did some more work in the Dundies, and then our friends came by at 4:30 and we got cooking!

What a FANTASTIC way to make dinner! Four adults in one kitchen! I learned so much.

The husband is a chef, and between the two of them they taught us how to make their fried, then oven roasted, chicken.

I showed them how we put breadcrumbs mixed with melted butter on top of our homemade mac & cheese.


*(this is what my husband does when I snap photos. Isn’t it AWFUL? He sticks his tongue out! I told him he’s darn lucky I snapped two photos, and the second one did NOT have his tongue in it! Ah… what photographers have to put up with (and wives too…)

And we all had lots of fun and decided next time they’ll teach us how to make DUMPLINGS!

After we all had dinner together, we headed outside for a marshmallow roast around the firepit.

It had been a good day.

Did you know, real men enjoy holding Chihuahuas.

And that was our totally random, yet totally typical, weekend.