Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Sorticulture 2016

Festival season has begun! Sorticulture is one that I always enjoy. My family is less enthusiastic. They dropped me off and picked me up since parking is tricky.

This festival is free to enter. The theme is garden art but they are also plants for sale and there is fair food like kettle corn and funnel cakes. The weather was pretty iffy. It was threatening rain and quite cool.

It was fun to hear Ciscoe Morris's talk. He is always entertaining and I learn something more about gardening. He is my gardening "guru."
I bought a metal flower,
a wind chime made from antique silverware,
and some succulents (photo at the top). Last year I got this robot man which sits in one of my outdoor planters.




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Tuesday, June 07, 2016

We survived the heat and the sleepover!

Seven of C's friends joined us for his birthday party on June 5th. They started out on the trampoline. There was record-breaking heat (it got up to 91!) so there was lots of water involved. The sprinkler was placed underneath the trampoline and boys brought water guns. Here's a fun photo of my older son jumping high on the trampoline.

We did presents.
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One very sweet present that C received is an R2D2 (robot from Star Wars) teapot. So perfect for C since he loves his tea! He has lots of things with R2D2 on them including slippers, a sign in his room, a hoodie, and a stuffie.

We had pizza. We ordered 3 large pizzas. We could've had 4. We went to the field (a local high school). We had ice cream cake from Dairy Queen which has become a tradition.

They played DJ with You Tube and wireless speakers. Temmy Flakes (a strange fake commercial) was a favourite with the boys.
They played Murder in the Dark. They watched a movie. Karate Kid. Two boys didn't sleep over.

In the morning, they woke up way too early. All the boys were up by 7 am. We made them bacon and scrambled eggs. some had tea with C. I was surprised by that.

Then, we waited and waited for the parents to come and pick them up!! :)

J and I were worn out and wonder if we'll do this ever again!


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