May 2019 find you all healthier and happier, peaceful, content, satisfied and looking forward to fresh, revitalizing interests a variety of pleasures, interesting new people, material and personal successes to make 2019 the best one yet!
Have fun on the rest of your trip A.
Different border, but...... 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-jnpPHo_qw
Kimberly, no, not my Peanut, he's not spoiled at all :):):) (yes, yes he is, but not as much as he could be!LOL)
I'm telling you he has a ruff life 😉 (my shoes are off so I can make sure the floor board temp doesn't get too hot for him! Also I hate shoes!)
Wish me luck..having a yard sale tomorrow..been workin hiney off last few weeks lol
I`ll try & nab some pics of set-up..nothing close to my last big Dollarama Sale from about 7-8 years ago (which people are STILL talkin about !) 
But lots of nice stuff I hope to say bye bye to!
Sarah, that link leas to some fascinating places and stories -- thanks for sharing it! It's going to take a while to go through all those photos!
*sigh*sigh*sigh* Mama Bear is a little envious of young couple starting out their marriage with all life's possibilities ahead of them. *sigh*sigh*sigh*
Saturday's weather couldn't have been any nicer. We gathered at the house at 5 for cocktails and hors d'oeuvres til 6, and then we all walked two blocks to the beach where the ceremony was held in front of the gently lapping waves of Lake Superior. The sand was unbelievably deep and very difficult to navigate -- W and several others had to be more or less carried into place. I'd never been to a Buddhist wedding before, and the ceremony was really nice. After they were pronounced "married" we all trooped back up the street to the house. The photographer snagged family members, and photos were taken behind a neighbor friend's house -- took forever!
Instead or rice or paper flower petals, the wedding party threw some sort of seeds with silky fuzzy stuff that floated on the air onto everyone. Some of it is visible in one of the photos. Never seen that done before and it was interesting. I'm wondering what kind of seeds they used.
The dinner was excellent, featuring poached salmon, chicken in lemon & white wine sauce, mashed potatoes, mac & cheese w/white cheddar, carrots, a zucchini and yellow squash dish with asparagus and onion, (hmmm... what else?), a spicy Thai rice dish meant for their vegan friends -- I ate half a mouthful and the flames had to be extinguished with huge quantities of cold water. Probably leaving something out... There was wedding cake, and the rest of the desserts were pies, six varieties. (I hurt myself with pie... had to at least taste them all! 😉 ).
A lot of the flowers they used to decorate the back yard, tables and tents were gathered by friends and family from their own gardens. W, my sister and I decided to contribute a bunch of flowers to the cause, but we were having a little trouble finding a source late Friday afternoon. The groom's mom suggested a place near the house, so we went there Saturday morning on the way to the house. I had been expecting a market where we could get several big bouquets and then split them up. Instead, the "market" was actually a florist's shop, so my sister and I went into the cooler with the florist and picked out a collection of favorites and things that would bring a dramatic splash of color. We dropped them off at the house, and my daughter was over the moon about the extra flowers. She said she wanted to use some of them in her bouquet, and I figured a couple of the ones we gave her might show up. Turns out the flowers we gave her were all used in either her bouquet, the maids of honor's bouquets, or the groomsmen's lapels. I was really touched to see how she used the flowers we gave her.
It's getting late here so I'm going to post a couple of photos and then prepare for the next stage of our journey.
