In order to fully appreciate the delights of today, i had to reread my post from last week Wednesday when i sat at my computer and was fair freezin' my little fingers off cause of the cold drafts wafting in through my window. Today the thermometer in my little Prunelope reached an amazing 9 degrees! How great is that! Although old man Winter is once again gesticulating and threatening to cover the land with ice and snow in the coming 24 hours, today was definitely a wonderful respite. My dear friend Helen and I met up for a much-delayed and welcome dagje uit to Oakville. We were delighted not to have to wear our heavy winter coats everywhere but instead could enjoy the warm weather with only vests to keep the mild chill away. I always find it a bit funny to think that in the fall, when we are anticipating the winter, 10 degrees seems so cold and chilly whilst in the late winter/early spring, 10 degrees seems like a wonderful balmy day! How relative all things are.
Enjoyable things for the day were:
- a delicious grilled veggie panini
- poking around little shops
- exploring all the great flower shops on the Oakville waterfront
- spending time together for a whole morning/arvo and just not having any firm deadlines to be anywhere.
- spying out all the cool furniture with which to furnish our dream houses, if and when they ever decide to materialize out of the blue; maybe that will happen about the same time that Helen and my's Prince Charmings find their way out of the Antarctic winds where they have been wandering aimlessly for the last how many years?- talking with an old and dear friend
- buying little trinkets here and there just because
- finding a cool, cool new plant in the "hoya?" family, also called Hindu Rope. It looks so fascinating. Come on over sometime and visit it. It likes visitors (as does its mistress)
- finding a new cd which is great to listen to - Pauline Scanlon - a cool Irish songstress - nice mellow sound
- Oakville/Lakeshore area - feels a little touch European, which makes me think of Holland and long to be there
- perusing all the cool kid's clothing in the high-end shops, where people would be willing to pay $80 for a sleeper and $145 for a diaper bag - how posh do diapers get in Oakville? Seems to me i could think of better things to spend that much money on!
I'm quite happy!!
3 comments:
your plant is very visually appealing! :) enjoy it! glad you had a good day and hope you enjoyed your crepes. :)
Sounds like a very fun day!
Funny how a week later it's bloody cold out and they were called for a HIGH of minus 10 degrees today.
CANADA.
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