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Gail
Ontario, Canada
wife, sister, aunt and great aunt
Interests: scrapbooking, reading, knitting, gardening, travel and of course spending time with my husband John
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Lovely to have found you again - my reader for some reason deleted all my blogs and I've been floundering trying to remember names of blogs. I'm so sorry to have seen that your Dad passed away. My sympathies to you and the family. Hugs.
Commented Jan 17, 2018 on Starting again ... at trimmingthesails
Starting again ...
with an hello and welcome! as the New Year gently unfolds and we begin to find a new way forward here. Using previous design ideas for our This is Life 2018 book is as much as I can manage at present ... ... but it did at least get me started. Himself very kindly ventured the thought that ...
What a great grouping and my he is magnificent!
Commented Apr 21, 2016 on SNAP: The Lions of Longbeach at random reflections
SNAP: The Lions of Longbeach
Helena's meme, SNAP, causes me to be on the lookout for opportunities to make photographic connections. Here's this week's edition, and you can find others right here. There was a small shopping plaza a little over a mile from our condo on Longboat Key, and I walked down there several times to m...
Oh how lovely Alexa, what a tribute to your Mum.
Commented Apr 21, 2016 on Memorandum Monday 21 March 16 at trimmingthesails
Memorandum Monday 21 March 16
The gusting wind swept across the seedheads by the path, tossing tiny withered clusters into the chilly air. "Oh, they've kept really well!" she exclaimed. And so they had, the little pot of hyacinth bulbs she had left at Christmas, last time she was with us. Gently easing the tulips out of thei...
Have always loved seeing his Bellagio ceiling display in Las Vegas and the piece in the V & A in London. Sorry the display was smaller than you would have liked.
Commented Feb 13, 2016 on SNAP: Week 2 at random reflections
SNAP: Week 2
Here's another photographic peek into our road trip from Rochester to Florida. We always make a stop in St. Petersburg to have lunch at The Red Mesa Catina---one of my favorite Mexican restaurants. I once had a special posole there that I've managed to replicate with some success at home, and th...
Blue is my favourite but I must say I like the odd pop of red. Nice collection. I'm making use of getting unlimited internet on the ship so watch out for comments on other posts. Lol
Commented Feb 10, 2016 on SNAP: RED at random reflections
SNAP: RED
In honor of Valentine's Day this coming weekend, I thought I'd do a collection of red items. The cyclamen is sitting on our coffee table, and the red throw and pillow are on the red chair in my studio. The other red flowers were photos taken earlier. Red is my favorite color, and as I sit and ...
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Thanks Julie. I was disappointed something Ive been wanting for a long time evidently is not possible. Both of them said that so Now we wait for their plans and estimates and see if we can choose one or find someone else. J I plan on doing before, during and after updates on the blog once it gets going hopefully in April.Belated Happy New Year.Gail
Commented Jan 12, 2016 on Memorandum Monday at Odds and Ends
Memorandum Monday
Waving hi to Sian at From High in the Sky and those who are participating in this meme. Our new experience wasn't quite over the weekend but instead this morning and this afternoon - we decided last year that we are going to renovate to gut the 29 year old kitchen and today was the day that we f...
So glad to hear you are safe. I can not believe what is going on. Prayers for all.
Commented Nov 14, 2015 on We Are Safe... at French la Vie
We Are Safe...
Ruth and I are in Paris, we had dinner three minutes away from the attacks. As we left the restaurant we heard ambulances, the area seemed electrified, we had no idea what was happening until we got home and our husbands were calling us in panic. Chelsea is not in Paris as she left this evening ...
They look wonderful Alexa - and no I'm not counting down till Christmas. I can't believe it's almost November - the year seems like it was stolen away this year.
Commented Oct 29, 2015 on Catching up on October .. at trimmingthesails
Catching up on October ..
There are just some days, weeks and circumstances - aren't there? - where life tosses you around, and getting near a scrapbook page seems impossible. But the winds and choppy waves are dying down a little, and the sailing is a little calmer, so I've been able to spend time this weekend catching ...
So nice how the colours have stayed so vibrant! I'm from a railroad (real not model) family so these really touched me.
Commented Oct 28, 2015 on Texture Pairs at random reflections
Texture Pairs
On our way from Rochester to Chicago we stopped in Elkhart, Indiana to visit the National New York Central Railroad Museum. Tracy and his best friend have spent many hours creating a model train layout in Pete's basement, and now Tracy has started a very small one at our house as well. There wer...
Mine always has reading stuff (iPad for me, Kindle for DH), iPhone, small camera, sunglasses & spare glasses & sunglasses to name just a few things.
Commented Oct 27, 2015 on Ten on Tuesday at random reflections
Ten on Tuesday
I found this the Ten on Tuesday meme through Honore's blog, but have only participated a couple of times. This week's prompt was so timely I decided to play along. 10 Things You Put In Your Travel Tote Bag We hit the road again yesterday, so I just finished packing the tote bag. There are def...
Yummm, haven't had a doughnut in awhile but just finished a jug of apple cider and am making apple crisp tonight. Tis the season!
Commented Oct 27, 2015 on Pairs of Fall Treats at random reflections
Pairs of Fall Treats
This morning Tracy needed to purchase treats for a committee meeting tonight, so we drove out to Schutt's Apple Farm for cider and donuts. They have the BEST cinnamon sugar fry cakes. In case sweets aren't your thing, Honey Crisp apples are my all time favorite. Matt introduced me to them seve...
Ahh, so you're taking it too! Your layout looks great. It's amazing isn't it what just a little change to type can do. I hadn't taken the class before but I got in with the discount she was offering. Like you I'm a big fan of clean & simple and Cathy. Now talking about all that I should go get on and get lesson #2 done. :)
Commented Oct 17, 2015 on C and S plus tips for type at trimmingthesails
C and S plus tips for type
It was a generous offer of Cathy Zielske's when she opened her new classes website - to give those who'd taken her 10 Tips for Type class over at Big Picture Scrapbooking the chance to do the revamped version for free. And you'll know that Clean and Simple is definitely my kind of scrapbooking! ...
Oh my what a wonderful collage of your weekend - definitely see some familiar looking faces there. I love your interpretation of Fay's page with top and bottom borders and the word Life in script.
Commented Oct 14, 2015 on Blogger's Weekend 2015 and Passing The Page at trimmingthesails
Blogger's Weekend 2015 and Passing The Page
Gosh, it's hard to believe it's been a week since I spent forty-eight hours in the company of these lovely scrapbookers and crafters (and the most beautiful baby) at our fourth Bloggers' Weekend ... And apologies to those of you whom I didn't manage to capture up close and personal ... As pa...
What a wonderful group of pictures - that bicycle one was really something!
Commented Oct 12, 2015 on Romping over the finishing line - just! (Summer Photography Scavenger Hunt Pt 3) at trimmingthesails
Romping over the finishing line - just! (Summer Photography Scavenger Hunt Pt 3)
Just squeezing into the last day of summer (though I fear the season actually finished a little while ago) and the final part of Rinda's super Summer Photography Scavenger Hunt, part 3. (Part 1 here, and Part 2 here.) First up, is number 15, a flagpole with three flags on it - or, rather, its su...
Boy they really want to make sure you see that light!
Commented Oct 8, 2015 on The Middle Stretch (Summertime Photography Scavenger Hunt Part 2) at trimmingthesails
The Middle Stretch (Summertime Photography Scavenger Hunt Part 2)
Bowling along nicely here in Rinda's enjoyable Summertime Photography Scavenger Hunt. And slipping reflectively into part 2, we have No.8, someone plugged into social media. Gosh, they start early these days ... It's a shame the Littlies weren't at the Science Fair for No. 9, because they'd h...
Oh what a delightful weekend that sounds. So happy you were able to meet up with Sian and here she's just like she seems on her blog.
Commented Oct 5, 2015 on Me on Monday (24 Aug) at trimmingthesails
Me on Monday (24 Aug)
... though it has slid (bother, work!) into Tuesday. As I sip my morning tea in the late summer sun, I am still mentally miles away 'across the water', after three wonderfully full days over the weekend in the land of my birth. It was a flight-taking, car-hiring, map-reading, rolling west over ...
Oh dear! I wonder what changes will happen next door to us as that house just sold. Hopefully nothing that will disturb our views or hearing.
Commented Oct 5, 2015 on One photo & twenty words (September 15) at trimmingthesails
One photo & twenty words (September 15)
Welcome! And today, I am joining in with the lovely Abi over at Creating Paper Dreams for her One Photo and Twenty Words. Do pop over to see some more moments of life. This is mine, a peek from an upstairs window ... Today we lose this beloved view. All of it. Young neighbours need a full-heig...
You got some really great ones there Alexa. Love that Dome one!
Commented Oct 3, 2015 on Off the starting blocks: Summer Photo-Scavenging at trimmingthesails
Off the starting blocks: Summer Photo-Scavenging
It seems no time since looking forward to Rinda's wonderful Summertime Photography Scavenger Hunt when the skies promised summer with glimpses of blue and shafts of sun; and suddenly it's time, as rain drips from the red-fringed maples, to look back and see how many photos have made it into the ...
Great columns Karen and what a great view of the bridge from another bridge! Congrats on getting so many so early. I must remember and make up my sign.
Commented Jun 30, 2015 on 2015 Summertime Scavenger Hunt June Link-up at random reflections
2015 Summertime Scavenger Hunt June Link-up
I always love Rinda's Summertime Scavenger Hunt, and it amazes me how quickly friends and family start looking for items on the list as we're traveling together. My niece's husband wanted to know what was on the list this year. He remembers the year I got a great photo of a train passing by as w...
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I knew it had gone down but was amazed when I compared those pictures to see just how much. Yes that is the blue yarn. This week has been great the best Ive felt hard to believe its taken 6 weeks though to feel this way. Mapping is Monday will let you know how that goes and when the radiation will start.Gail
Commented Jun 4, 2015 on I've Been Missing The Blogging World at Odds and Ends
I've Been Missing The Blogging World
A New Zealand sunset from February 2014 I've been both missing from the Blogging world - both in reading and posting while I've concentrated on healing, getting in shape for the next stage and taking my mind off of things by working on some scrapbooking projects. In September I signed up for C...
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Thanks so much Becky! Just getting ready to leave for the hospital have to be there in 1 hour even though surgery isnt till 12:20. Definitely nervous.Gail
Commented Apr 20, 2015 on The Results at Odds and Ends
The Results
First of all thank you everyone for all the wonderful comments to my last post about what had been going on lately with my health. I really appreciate the good wishes, thoughts and prayers. It's taken me awhile to figure out what to say on here but I guess the best way is to just get to it. Wel...
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Thanks so much Susanne. Will be leaving shortly and hopefully Ill be able to get on my iPad for bits of time after I get home tomorrow.Gail
Commented Apr 20, 2015 on The Results at Odds and Ends
The Results
First of all thank you everyone for all the wonderful comments to my last post about what had been going on lately with my health. I really appreciate the good wishes, thoughts and prayers. It's taken me awhile to figure out what to say on here but I guess the best way is to just get to it. Wel...
I do like the new look and that page is terrific although I'm glad it was you and not me.
Commented Mar 26, 2015 on The scariest thing. Ever. at trimmingthesails
The scariest thing. Ever.
Spring arrived today, wrapped in soft golden light. I sat outside on the veranda, tea in hand, listening to the see-saw of the great tits and watching the tawny nuthatch bobbing on the beech trees. If I don't get a move on with scrapbooking that magical winter adventure in Costa Rica, it'll soon...
What a wonderful post and like others I thought I was reading a Simply a Moment post to start. I love how you've done your month in numbers. I must get back to that.
Commented Mar 26, 2015 on Month in Numbers (Feb 15) at trimmingthesails
Month in Numbers (Feb 15)
I am at a loss as he opens the top two drawers in turn, peering in briefly and then closing each. I am not sure what he's looking for, though it seems to be connected in some way to something he was remembering aloud with me before it grew thin and trickled away. He opens the third a few inches ...
What a gorgeous waterfall picture of the 2 of you. I know what you mean about going through pictures like that distracting you from what you want to do. But what a nice distraction. I've decided not to do a December album/project this year as it is only the 2 of us. I must say I'm looking forward to the 21st when the days start getting longer again.
Commented Dec 2, 2014 on Time for Tea? (December) at trimmingthesails
Time for Tea? (December)
Hello! I'm so pleased you have time for a cup of tea ... And a little wistful that it's the last time the lovely Abi will be able to host this warmly companionable meme of hers, but you are all the more welcome for that :). Oh, don't worry about the damp leaves coming in with you on your shoes, ...
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