Thursday 13-07-2017 – It's Barbershop Music Appreciation Day!

Good afternoon all, it is a stormy and bitterly cold day here with snow falling about a 40 minute drive away. That doesn’t often. HRH and I are tucked up inside with the fire going. The rest of the country is being buffeted seriously by a nasty Winter storm with road closures because of snow everywhere, flooding in Jcats area of the country. Airy has so many clothes on she can barely move and her housemate is going to meet her at the station to drive her home so she doesn’t have to swim home, uphill. The winds are horrendous and she was almost hit by falling lines as she stepped off the bus(not power lines). The city has trampolines flying all around taking out power lines and roofs, they are the only things flying as airplane flights are cancelled. Somehow this nasty category 3 equivalent storm is missing where I live, we’re just getting the associated icy breath. Oh and we are having pie for dinner, mince pie.
LG(lagatta) I almost drooled when I saw all the glorious seasonal fruits in your link. They make me feel like it’s Summer as long as I don’t look out the window.
JK, you temptress, those maple pecan bars look amazing and crispy crunchy. I am bookmarking that recipe. Beautiful lily and wow magical glowing daisies.
Dell a sauna sounds perfect to me with the freezing temps we are getting at the moment. The cold is playing havoc with my osteoarthritis in my knees. Oh the poor calico to be abandoned like that, someone must have known you are a cat angel. Bless you for looking after her.

Moonshadow, remember that up here where KJ and I live, I don’t think we’ve EVER had a winter without snow. On average winters here are considerably shorter, milder and less snowy than 30 or 40 years ago, but there is still nasty winter weather for months. Chantal Hébert, a well-known journalist here who works in both French and English, says that winters here are like what winters were in the milder zone Toronto area back then (and I tend to agree, as I did study in Toronto for a while and their winter was a joke to us). But the jagged weather also means more ice from melting and re-freezing, and more potholes in streets and roads.

Climate change does expose you to the wild changes in the Antarctic and surrounding waters and winds. You must have seen the HUGE iceberg breaking off!

Yes, we have lovely summer berries. The blueberries do best in boggy soil which is not good for much else (as found in more northerly parts of Québec, New-Brunswick, Maine…) We also have very good tomatoes.

Yesterday evening I made a little salad with fresh, small strawberries, desalted goat’s feta cheese, basil from my balcony, good olive oil and balsamic vinegar. That is all I ate; I haven’t been very hungry since my back and hip aches – good thing, as I’m not doing the level of exercise I usually do and don’t want to put on any weight.

And we need the Stray Cat Strut!

Paw up waves…lalalalala…sweet Adeline…lalalala

Don’t worry …I’ll stop…mmm…coffee instead of singing!

Hee hee….Throwback Thurs Retro Quartet Fashions:

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https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=sweet+adeline+videos&view=detail&mid=F82D733BBB46A02F5951F82D733BBB46A02F5951&FORM=VIRE
Lalalalala…not sure what they’re singing don’t have my volume on at this place! 😀
https://youtu.be/_P_MQUjPYtg
OK…too much fun for one post…later/hopeful!