Garden Treats

My friends have been good to me this week. Pam dropped by Tuesday with cookies and a 'Lottie Lime' travel mug which I will enjoy using next week at the workshop I am attending. Cyndy called me this morning and took me to the Bacon Basket Ltd. annual warehouse sale. Cookies and shopping are two things that can brighten even the darkest of days. In keeping with my word of the year - luscious - I came home with garden art. How can fat birds, dancing cranes, and colour glass not help, even a little bit???

Our Hershey is gone

We were unable to bring him home this morning. He was unable to rally overnight. He gave me a look that told me he knew it was time. I am devastated. We have lost both our loved 'D' to natural causes in three months. What will we do?

Bad news in our family

Hershey woke up not well yesterday. THinking that it was his hips again, we medicated him for minor pain. When he didn't improve we took him to our vet, who x-rayed and found a very large mass on his spleen. It is very large and moving everything else around so they can't do what they need to do for him, and due to his age there is little to do except love him to bits and spoil him while we still can. It's 4 in the morning and I can't sleep. He is spending the night in the hospital receiving fluids and hopefully we can bring him home in the morning.

My heart is broken. I never thought we would lose him like this. We only lost Bonny in February. Hershey is such a luvbug. Our family will never be the same.

I bought cupcakes - big surprise

I made the trip to Kitchener/Waterloo the The Cakebox/Sweet Indulgence this morning and ordered the cake for Luke and Katie's wedding. It will be everything we hoped it would be, but I am unable to share details as of course it needs to be a surprise for the guests. Stay tuned. But, while I was there, and in the interest of quality control, and sharing important information I purchased a small selection of their cupcakes - just to reassure myself that the wedding cake would be as yummy as I know it will be.

In the centre we have a lemon/blueberry cupcake. At 12 o'clock a vanilla with strawberry buttercream. Three o'clock is a carrot with cream cheese cupcake. Six o'clock is a chocolate mint. 7 o'clock is vanilla with white chocolate raspberry buttercream. Lastly, chocolate with a peanut butter butter cream. I really don't know why I needed to buy six as we will be heading down there again next month for a tasting and to select the three flavours for the three different tiers, but well, I was caught up in the moment, and well will you just look at them!!! I left six other flavours and they had cakepops in the coolest colours and flavours and everything and lets not even get into the decorated cookies ....... I'll let you know which one(s) where best (hahahha)

Late Saturday afternoon - Perfect Food Weekend - Day 2

I rode my bike, power walked the trails, and met with friends at the farmers market. I worked in the garden, got a pedicure with hot red polish, enjoyed a toasted St. Urban bagel with cream cheese then not one (but two) President's Choice vanilla ice cream cookie sandwiches. Lastly, I made my hubby and I electric blue martinis (blue creme to cacaco, vodka, and white cranberry and grape cocktail). I think I need a nap before dinner.

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Perfect Food Weekend - Day One

Got to the market and felt a wee bit peckish so I treated myself to a chocolate cherry muffin from the french bakery. Oh yes, you know it was good. Once I returned home with all my yummy purchases I enjoyed a toasted St. Urban sesame see bagel with their cream cheese. Dinner though, was the BEST. Pre-dinner snacks of Wilshire cheese with mango and ginger while dinner was grilled fish kabobs (salmon, tuna and sea bass) with fresh Ontario asparagus grilled with olive oil and kosher salt. Dessert ... a Delish Cupcakes macaroon cupcake. I can't wait for tomorrow.

Soon to be a perfect food weekend

It's a long weekend up here. In my effort to embrace lusciousness and happiness ( I am reading the Happiness Project) I am heading to the St. Lawrence Market to buy delectable delights to be consumed this weekend. I will post later today to share with you my yummy treats.