This year and this summer really needs to slow down. Time is going by so quickly. And I swear I can see Ella growing these days. That makes times like this even more special.
Ella and I enjoyed a lovely tea party yesterday for ‘coffee break’. We had apple cake and drinks. I was nursing a headache so I was having a ‘medicinal’ coke. Ella was being a princess, so ate her cake with a knife and fork and took tiny, tiny bites.
I am so frustrated with Wal-Mart. I am making some chokecherry jelly and needed some cheesecloth. Silly me, I expected to find some at Wal-Mart in the canning department. But guess what, they don’t have any because ‘canning season is over’. Funny, I thought it was just starting. For my Canadian readers, if you need canning supplies go to Canadian Tire. They are just starting to get the canning supplies out.
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What a lovely tea party you and Ella had.
I know what you mean about Wal-Mart! Here, they pull all the seeds off the shelves on June 1st because planting season is over! I guess they need to make room for the Christmas decorations! LOL!!
They’ve had back to school out since the second week of July. It’s crazy.
Sorry to hear your head was bothering you. Hope it is better now!
How crazy is that about canning season being over? Umm.. what?? We’re still in the middle of our growing season here! Silly Wal-Mart.
Paula,
Love your little Tea Party with your daughter… so cute! You’ll still be having them when she’s older!
have a great ” canning ” weekend!
Deb
What’s really making me sad is, I was looking at some pictures from last June and can’t believe how much older Ella looks this summer. Last year she still had a ‘baby’ face, this year she’s all ‘girl’. Makes me sad. Doesn’t help that she’s chest high (on me).
You knew rain was on the way. What a downpour today!
Home Hardware always has canning supplies. My favourite store next to fabric stores, wool shops, quilting stores, antique shops, book stores………………..
I wish we had got a downpour today. We are really needed it (well a gentle one any way). We got about 10 drops of rain this morning while I hung out the sheets. I don’t shop at the Cobden HH much. They rarely have what we are looking for and are SO over priced. I know they are local and all, but I still have a limited budget.
I just finished sending the response and the heaven’s opened up and we had a t-storm and a good downpour.
Hi Paula, love the tea party.
What IS giving us these headaches????? I’ve been laid up for a couple of days with a wicked one. Today is the first day I’ve felt reasonably human this week. Last week wasn’t much better.
We had to go into Pembroke today to look for more canning supplies. It sure was frustrating. Go to one store for this, another for that. We ran out of fresh dill and couldn’t find a stalk anywhere in the stores or at the market gardens. We thought about our neighbours on the way out of town and popped by. Not only did we have a very enjoyable visit, we got a tour of their marvelous market garden and came home with SO MUCH DILL we will be freezing it for winter use. (Mike makes a” to die” for dill sauce for fish)
Hope you have a great day at market tomorrow, stay cool
Karen
Oh Karen, I am so tired of my head hurting. It’s not migraine pain, just enough to make me cranky (on top of the heat). I’m not a good Momma when my head aches for days. Colin thinks I don’t drink enough. Probably right, but don’t tell him I said so -ha ha.
Dill has sold quite well this year. Guess people are getting back into pickles. I don’t actually make pickles for us because I’m the only one who eats them. I do make them to sell at the market. It’s easy and has good mark-up (unlike meat). Glad you were able to find some dill. I find Pembroke frustrating for almost anything. I’m glad that Renfrew is just about as close and has nearly all the same stores.
I’m finding the same issue Paula….mine hurts as much as a migraine, but it’s not a migraine.
We stopped by the “farm store” today and cleaned out your Mother- in-laws supply of ground pork. And we got some sausage and bacon. oh my goodness I LOVE that bacon. I was very disappointed there weren’t any eggs. Colin’s Mum was telling us the hens aren’t being very good girls lately. (And we heard about her trip north. NICE!)
I’m not a pickle person at all, but Mike loves them, well the whole family loves them (his and mine!) We call him the Pickle King around here.
I’m heading down to Peterborough next week so I’m trying to keep a running list of things I can probably get there but wouldn’t have a hope of seeing here. That’s if my family will give me time to go out and do some shopping.
It’s amazing that stores can be getting out the Halloween candy, but they don’t have out the canning stuff. Really…
You are doing the most important thing–spending time with your little daughter. She looks adorable!
I had the silly idea cheese cloth would be in the canning dept. at Wal-Mart too! My hubby suggested looking in the hunting dept., but nope. Then we stopped by their fabric dept. and there it was hanging on their display! It would just make too much sense to put it in the canning dept. wouldn’t it?
Gee, your Wal-mart still has fabric?? The took them out of our Wal-Mart’s a while ago. We looked in canning, in crafts, hardware and even pharmacy.
Wal-Mart truly is a corporation run from the top down (so is Superstore come to think of it). Here on the west coast we faithfully get winter boots and winter coats with snow pants in September. Not a rain coat or rubber boot to be found after spring. Odds are we will never need the snow stuff but we do need the rain stuff all year round!
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