….I may be a little late with Cee’s call for Duck Duck Goose but yesterday’s walk gave me ample material for this week’s challenge
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Duck Duck Goose
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Share Your World 2016 – Week 47 (Grateful List)
….with American Thanksgiving coming up this week Cee has asked us to share what we’re grateful for
What are you grateful for in regard to:
Your home life?
….having a roof over my head and being mortgage free and having a wonderful place to go to in the summer
Your family?
…..that my children are all happily married and that my husband is on the mend
Your blogging community?
…..for my loyal followers who comment regularly
Your city or immediate area in which you live?
…..for being clean, vibrant and safe
The regional area in which you live?
…..that I live close to water that I can see every day and safely drink from
The country where you live?
….. for it’s diversity
You?
…..that I have a husband who loves me, three successful children and a beautiful granddaughter
Optional Bonus question: What are you grateful for from last week, and what are you looking forward to in the week coming up?
I’m grateful for an exceptionally beautiful week of warm and sunny weather; something that is very unusual for this time of year. I’m also grateful that I was able to get my snow tires on my car before the snow really begins to fall.
I’m looking forward to a three day camping trip with our grade five students. We’ll be travelling about 2 1/2 north of the city. Before you think I’m completely bonkers let me clarify that we aren’t sleeping in tents. We have cabins to sleep in.
I’m also looking forward to seeing my sister from Calgary on the weekend. She’s flying in with her husband to visit our Dad before this big move into the retirement home, spend some time with me, visit friends in Georgetown and visit her mother-in-law who lives in Ottawa. It will be a busy weekend for her.
WPC – Chaos
….this week’s WordPress Photo Challenge is Chaos
WPC – H2O
….next to trees I love photos of water
The Last Days of Summer
….normally we start to experience cooler temperatures before the onset of autumn
The first day of fall is only one day away, September 22. You would hardly know that by the clothes people wear to work and out on the street. Sandals, shorts and sleeveless tops and dresses are still the norm. Even the evenings are still pleasantly warm.
Today I witnessed sailboats out on the lake in the late afternoon hours and the swans, geese and ducks are in no hurry to fly south. There are signs, though, that autumn is close at hand. The leaves are starting to change colour, many flowers are starting to whither, plants are going to seed and bushes are ripe with red and purple berries.
Full Moon Over Lake Ontario – Sept. 16, 2016
….from the shores of Lake Ontario on the west side of Toronto we were blessed with a beautiful harvest moon.
WPC – Edge
…..this week’s challenge is to capture a scene with an ‘edge’
New Flower (June 20, 2016) – Wild Roses
….growing by the Lake
Full Moon Over the City
….actually the moon was to the right of the city tonight
When I was out earlier this evening the moon was a beautiful golden ball sitting just above the horizon line with a wispy cloud crossing in front of it. I didn’t have my camera with me and when I returned home dinner was on the table. A half hour later the moon was much higher in the sky and the colour had changed from amber yellow to silver.
Week One – Averaged Over 10,000 Steps a Day
….I’ve owned my Jawbone Up for almost a year
On August 29, 2014 I uploaded my new Jawbone Up to my iPhone and set a walking goal of 10 000 steps a day and 8 hours of sleep a night. I’ve struggled when trying to reach either of these goals throughout the year. I have reached both of them but never consistently and for some reason when I have a good walking day I don’t have a good sleep and visa versa. 
Last week when I started writing about my walking goals I started to achieve them. For five days I walked 10 000 steps or more and I averaged 10 500 steps a day. This is the best week I’ve had since getting my tracking device.
My husband came home from the hospital today. I got a phone call at 7:30 this morning from K asking me to pick him up because he was being released. I quickly got dressed and drove to the hospital only to find K still in his bed. He wasn’t even dressed. He was still waiting for the paperwork to be done so that he could be released.
I walked to the other end of the hospital to get myself a coffee and something to eat. When I returned K had decided to get dressed but we still had to wait for final instructions before we could go home.
By the time we left the hospital and picked up K’s pain medications from the drug store it was almost noon and the day had really started to heat up. The dog and I hadn’t been out for our walk but I knew that we wouldn’t get very far in this heat so I waited till this evening to go for our ‘long’ walk.
I’m glad I waited. I had managed to get in almost 5000 steps just watering the garden, doing laundry and going shopping. I knew that to reach 10 000 steps I would have to do the entire length of the park and back again. It was starting to get dark and I notice a sign warning about the coyotes that are in the park so I decided to stay on the walkways that were more frequently used by the public. It was nice changing up the route and seeing different parts of the park. When we finally got home I had added over 6000 more steps for a daily total of 11 100 steps.
Here are a few of the sights we saw on tonight’s walk.
Mama Cormier 