Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge – Busy

Posted on May 15, 2023 by Mama Cormier

…thanks to Sue W and GC for hosting Weekly Prompts https://weeklyprompts.com/2023/05/13/weekly-prompts-weekend-challenge-busy/

The last two weeks have been very busy for me, mostly with my art show. Preparing the art itself over the last two months has been a busy time but hanging the show, preparing for the opening, driving to the gallery six times to meet with friends, and then taking the show down and packing it up has taken up hours of time. Now I have to deliver the pieces that were sold. I’m exhausted but in a good way.

Of course life goes on in between trips to the gallery. I started baking again at the Inn, I played Bridge with a group of friends, attended a Zoom meeting for the Exhibition Committee at WAAC, paid bills and for three days in a row I helped prepare the lawn bowling rink to get ready for the opening of our season. Things that didn’t get done were housework, laundry and gardening. This morning I started to clean up the back garden and filled up one bag of yard waste. It’s a start.

49-A0-B553-1-F78-4-BF9-8624-D246-DA165797-1-201-a — *Curating the show from home before hanging with Andrea*

2-A404-E8-C-8-A85-4-A14-ABB6-85793-D1-B26-D4-1-201-a — *Visiting Max Cameron’s show at Bau-Xi Gallery the first week my show was up*

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6-E1-FAD70-25-BB-4-A7-A-98-F7-26-DCF7-C561-E2 — *Getting the lawn bowling greens ready for playing*

7-E9240-F2-54-BE-44-B2-8-F09-325-EB0509101-1-201-a — *Baking at the Inn*

8-BB65-BFB-D87-E-412-A-A3-E2-E165-B180-CE7-B — *Made two new pieces after the show was hung*

35-C5-F1-B8-6-D00-43-E2-9-D39-B5685-AF31-A65 — *Weaving one more rock before the end of the show*

Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge – Enliven

Posted on April 29, 2023 by Mama Cormier

…thanks to Sue W and GC for hosting weekly promptshttps://weeklyprompts.com/2023/04/29/weekly-prompts-weekend-challenge-enliven/

I feel enlivened with all the new growth after winter and even with the rain because I know that with it comes more growth and lush greens and colours. Walking also enlivens me, rain or shine.

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Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge – Frolic

Posted on April 22, 2023 by Mama Cormier

…thanks to Sue W and GC for hosting Weekly Prompts https://weeklyprompts.com/2023/04/22/weekly-prompts-weekend-challenge-frolic/

Nothing says frolic more that young children and dogs playing.

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Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge – Partners

Posted on April 15, 2023 by Mama Cormier

…thanks to Sue W and GC for hosting Weekly Prompts https://weeklyprompts.com/2023/04/15/weekly-prompts-weekend-challenge-partners/

Partners can me a number of things. I immediately thought of my husband and all the married couples that we know but partners can also be things that go well together, like wine and cheese, eggs and bacon, Batman and Robin, fork and knife, socks, twins, etc..

1-B81-F939-88-BE-4318-8-A50-56656-ADE7038 — *Partners for Life*

E35167-E7-2-C6-F-4129-B640-9636-D868-B8-B2-1-201-a — *Swans partner for life as well*

5-B97-A1-C2-D9-BA-4-ED6-A77-A-5-D4223-A22-F36 — *Birthday cake and candles*

6-C8-C0-D49-B6-D0-4024-8-ED5-0-CC9-EFFF2583 — *Father and Son*

F916-A6-B7-0906-4-BC0-A66-F-F3737-DDEE76-E-1-201-a — *Tea and Biscuits*

D3-CB3652-4-FA5-48-A2-B9-D7-563-C663-F5102 — *Couple*

9-AAD1-C84-F5-EF-4-BD3-B611-441648-C474-B4 — *Best friends*

Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge – GAP

Posted on April 8, 2023 by Mama Cormier

…thanks to Sue W and GC for hosting Weekly Prompts https://weeklyprompts.com/2023/04/08/weekly-prompts-weekend-challenge-gap/

Some gaps are manmade, like the gap created by beams on the underside of the observation deck overlooking Fundy Bay in New Brunswick but for me the ones made by nature are the most interesting. The following photos are from Hopewell Rocks, NB and the last one was taken on Prince Edward Island. That one is pretty far off in the distance but I included it because after a second wind storm, shortly after I left, took it down.

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AB7-A953-A-E544-41-A4-9301-7-A67-E256672-A — *North Shore, PEI – November 1, 2022*

Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge – Two

Posted on March 25, 2023 by Mama Cormier

…thanks to Sue W and GC for hosting Weekly Prompts https://weeklyprompts.com/2023/03/25/weekly-prompts-weekend-challenge-two/

I’m always so focused on finding trios for my Thursday Trios Challenge that I had to really search my archives to find ‘twos’.

C34-E2182-F2-DC-4-A13-B236-86-AFB22468-A1 — *From our recent trip to College Royal – when we got to the barns it was feeding time*

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9449929-F-3-F53-490-C-A90-A-E6487-FD98-F22 — *Cabybaras at High Park Zoo*

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Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge – Content

Posted on March 18, 2023 by Mama Cormier

…thanks to Sue W and GC for hosting Weekly Prompts https://weeklyprompts.com/2023/03/18/weekly-prompts-weekend-challenge-content/

When I thought of the word ‘content’ my mind went immediately to the meaning, ‘a state of pleasure or being satisfied’. Of course it also means ‘subject matter’. Which do you think I chose to represent?

Today we attended College Royal at the University of Guelph. In the Food Science building the students made milkshakes. This has always been a popular event but we have not seen it since 2019 because of COVID-19. Clearly people were happy to see it come back. The line-up was huge. We heard that the students were prepared to sell 4000 shakes.

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Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge – Winter is Definitely Not Done With Us

Posted on March 11, 2023 by Mama Cormier

….thanks to Sue W and GC for this week’s prompt ‘chill’ https://weeklyprompts.com/2023/03/11/weekly-prompts-weekend-challenge-chill/

I knew it was too good to be true. We’ve had such a mild winter and very little snow and then all of a sudden we’ve had three major storms in the last three weeks. The second blast of winter melted away almost completely over the next two days because it was warm and sunny but yesterday’s snow will probably hang around for awhile.

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Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge – Treasure

Posted on February 19, 2023 by Mama Cormier

…thanks to Sue W and GC for hosting the Weekly Prompts https://weeklyprompts.com/2023/02/18/weekly-prompts-weekend-challenge-treasure/

Treasure for me is not my jewellery or furnishing or even my house. I learned a long time ago that ‘things’ don’t bring happiness, certainly not for a sustained period of time. My treasures are more life experiences that I’ve had and the memories that they evoke. My wedding day, giving birth and watching my children grow up are my greatest treasures. Now I can also add my grandchildren to that list.

If I started to post all my favourite memories I would be posting dozens of pictures. Instead I’ve decided to post some of my favourite ‘treasured’ photos from the past. I love these old photos.

D9977-C15-2-B74-4-F17-BF27-148-CD2-FC3059 — *My father, his sister and my grandparents in the 1930s*

6-AE0-EACB-8-F07-44-E8-8424-8-CC34498-B23-A — *My mother and me when I was 1 year old*

AB7-F53-B4-F7-D5-481-B-9569-962514-BD0012 — *Our wedding day, August 16, 1975*

Weekly Prompts Weekend Challenge – Old

Posted on February 11, 2023 by Mama Cormier

….thanks to Sue W and GC for hosting Weekly Prompts https://weeklyprompts.com/2023/02/11/weekly-prompts-weekend-challenge-old/

Getting old is not just a number but it’s a state of mind and declining physical abilities. We need to work at staying in shape and it becomes harder as we get older but the benefits outweigh the aches and pains that may come with it. Not caring how you look is not embracing old age or aging gracefully. Even though my husband is suffering with pain and discomfort he would never think about going out, even to a doctor’s appointment without showering first and putting on clean clothes.

26-EE9-D4-D-A763-4360-93-AC-1348-B59-E14-A3 — *Knight’s Armour*

DC82-E5-E5-E399-41-AA-93-C2-24845-EE5908-E — *Kevin’s 70th birthday*

670-D8-CF4-6-D18-4-A99-9538-CD6-DCA435753 — *My 70th birthday with friends and our grandkids*

As plants get older they wither and dry up. Our pets get grey around the muzzle and they slow down and sleep more. My grandmother was very wrinkled but she stayed active right up to her last three years of her life. She walked everywhere, rode her bike and travelled. My father was the same. He was less wrinkled but he walked every day, worked on his crosswords and at 90 he made one last trip overseas to visit his younger brother. He wasn’t without his faults and as he got older he said things that could be hurtful but in his mind he was just being ‘honest’. He passed at 94.

4-E333769-1-A98-491-C-9337-A494-D4-D8-F7-D3 — *Frances at 14 1/2 years old*

C1514090-F200-488-A-96-C8-E05312-A2-DF98 — *Dad doing this civic duty right to the end*

DEB25152-F04-C-4-D4-F-A865-945-F8969-C222 — *Dad on his 93rd birthday*

Furniture and paintings fade as they get older if they aren’t properly cared for. Books and papers yellow and can get musty and brittle. Old things in museums are stored in carefully crafted atmospheres to slow down the aging process and skilled hands can bring masterpieces back to life for future generations to experience and enjoy.