Want to name 5 Simple Pleasures....

Hello there sweet friends..

A simply beautiful day here in Eastern Canada ..

The sun shone and the temps were just right..

A wonderful Monday to begin the week..

I thought that I would share 5 simple pleasures of my day with you.. OK?

  Checking the bird feeders and watching the early morning visitors would be number one..

We had a small flock of these first thing this morning..

Another simple country pleasure today was this new notebook..

A lovely gift from a dear friend... Imagine 400 pages...smile...

Number 3 simple pleasure has to be this little guy..

Sammi... unconditional love... every day.. smile..

Number 4... Just a simple garden salad for lunch..

I can eat salad almost every day.. So long as there is a simple homemade dressing..

Basil, garlic,  oil, lemon juice, salt and pepper is today's house dressing..smile..

What is your favorite salad dressing?

And last but not least... Number 5 which is this new book...

A SLICE OF ORGANIC LIFE..

I enjoyed going through it.. It has a lot of good green ideas in it..

Here is a floor washing recipe for you...

FLOOR CLEANER RECIPE..

Into a bucket of warm water mix together...

1/4 cup of liquid soap

1/2 - 1 cup of white vinegar..

To enhance the fragrance you can add a few drops of essential oils of choice (lavender, orange) along with a few drops of tee-tree oil if desired..

Well, my dears that is all for tonight..

 Would you like to leave me a list of  5 of your simple pleasures..

Or more if you like.. smile...

Thank you so much for your visit and a welcome to the dear new followers of the blog.. So happy you have joined the site.. 

I am really looking forward to hearing from you all.. 

May the Lord richly bless you this week.. 

Hugs...

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An Olde Cottage Supper....

Hello everyone.. How are you all? 

I thought perhaps that I would share my late afternoon with you..

It's suppertime here in this little coastal village and the late afternoon sun is shining in the olde cottage kitchen windows..

Beautiful out there isn't it? 

There is a lovely breeze off the bay and this old kitchen feels like it probably did 100 years ago...

Except it is just me here... No little feet running around..

Oh... yes there is Sammi... smile..

The little sneak..

I put him in the front of the house and closed the gate so he wouldn't be under my feet.. smile..

He has discovered since the grandsons were here that he can go up the front stairs and go through to the back of the house and come down the back stairs and stare at me through the French door... What a brat... smile ... Worse than a kid as my Mom would say... giggle.. Oh, yes... I let him out...

Anyway... I am trying to think what I should have for supper..

It's Summer so I guess I will make salad.. eh?

Here's  a recipe in my favorite Lebanese book..

I bought some beets at the market yesterday.. They were only 79 cents... I told the girls that I wanted to make a salad..

Salad??? .... they said.. grin.. Yup...

Anyway...

The beets are on cooking..

Forgive my fancy pot... grin..

This is only a camp as my hubby likes to say..

Through that door on the left is the kitchen pantry..

No cupboards in this old place so forgive all the hanging stuff..

Here is where I keep some of my salad fixins..

I have kind of a copper thing going on here...

Old copper pots hanging which I am working away at cleaning..

I can't seem to get them all done.. Probably by the time we leave for home in September they will get finished..

smile..

Oh well...

There is the back door to the left there..

Such an old place... no counter top, either..

I use my table and hutch a lot and then as you can see I have that old fifties drop leaf under the window that comes in handy if I need more working space...

I think I will make a pasta salad, too..

It only takes a few minutes...

Slice up some cukes, tomato chunks, red onion slices and lots of garlic and basil...

Add some cooked pasta and a lemon juice and oil salad dressing..I just make my own.. 1 part lemon juice to 2 parts oil..

I use basil salt and freshly ground pepper..

I also put a wee dish of lemon slices on with these salads..

Looks like summer, eh?

Oh, I changed the beet salad recipe...

I changed the white onion to red onion.

And added lots of fresh purple basil and basil salt and pepper ...Oh and  I used lemon juice instead of vinegar this time..

It is really tasty and so summer pretty...

I think so anyway..

Only one more pic for you all..

Just one of the shop..

I sold 2 cupboards last week and so had to replace them and turn stuff around..

Lots of old prim candle holders to buy ..

This is an old music box cupboard..

I almost sold it too to some folks from Ontario..

Oh well, someone will want it..

Hope you are all enjoying this beautiful season of the year..

We Canadians try to get every ounce of Summer that we can..

God will bless us with lots of cooler temps soon..

I was just thinking...

Isn't the Lord precious?   Isn't it wonderful just to feel His presence when you are all alone in an old kitchen someplace..

Just looking out the window and feeling  so thankful that one day He called you out of this old sinful world..

I will never be able to repay but He paid the debt He did not owe...

Now today in this old place it doesn't matter what comes or goes because I am in the palm of His hand and all is well..

God Bless you dear girls where ever you are on this lovely Summer's Eve...

Thanks for visiting...

Looking forward to hearing from you all..

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Old Flowers around an Old Cottage...and a question...

Hello everyone...

Hope you are all well and settling in for summer vacations, etc..

I have already noticed a slight increase in traffic today.. It was a most beautiful day, though... Thank you dear Lord..

Just quickly posting some pics of flowers just around the old cottage here...

I am just now getting to doing my pots and such.. They had a clearance sale and so we were blessed to get all we needed for a third of the price...

Such blessings...

I will post more when they get growing and in their pots..

This is the old barn windows... There are two and Terry made me a couple of sills to put some pots on...

A rhododendron...

Comfrey has grown huge this year..

I use this for my salves...

Lots of roses around here too...

Love them...

Just starting on this spot.. Only one tub of lavender ...

More tomorrow, Lord willing..

I love this bush but forget the name...

Gorgeous...

Snowball tree...

Mauve....

Yes, Sammi we can go in now... smile..

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Well tonight girls I am so tuckered out.. Please forgive the boring post, etc...

Will try to do better next time...

Thank you for visiting and welcome to you all..

I do have a quick question for you who do read this blog....

Some of you have been mentioning my music...

I cannot hear a thing and have not since the play list group said that it is illegal to play some of the music here..

So... you who can hear lives where?

US or elsewhere..

And does anyone in Canada hear it?

I would like to change the songs around so you don't hear the same ones all the time but I can't even log in...

Perhaps I should just remove the thing..

It is at the very bottom of the blog..

Looking forward to hearing who hears it and who doesn't...

Bless you all...