Depressing News.

I received an email from Mr LC's cousin today with some disturbing news.  She and her hubby are staying at a Chateau. In France. For cheapsies.

Here's a night view:

Yesssssss.

 I don't know how they stand it.

There are three couples and they have the place all to themselves.  I know!  Poor things.

Extreme Couponing, Loyalist Cottage Edition.

I've noticed lately that some of my bloggy friends are getting into couponing in a big way.  You know, clipping coupons, watching the store flyers for sales and cashing in on some great deals.  As I've told you before, I'm a follower so I decided to check this out.  It turns out that couponing could be a full time job.  I poured over web sites and downloaded coupons for what seemed like hours.

Coupons in hand I dragged invited Mr LC along for the expedition.  I was so excited as I trolled through the store looking for my bargains.  I told Mr LC he was going to have to build some shelves to hold all of the stash we were going to collect.  This would be great now that we are destitute pensioners.

I can't wait to show you my stash.  Wait for it.......

What, do I hear laughter at my one and only stash item!?  People, behave.

Time Travel.

This is my great grandmother:

She used to hang in our dining room.  It's a very large picture. Mr LC and the girls begged me to remove her because they said she kept staring at them and they couldn't eat dinner.  So I moved her.  I do what I'm told.  She got relegated to the upstairs hall behind an old dresser.  Sad, but true.

This is a tea set that belonged to my great grandmother.  She died when my grandmother (her daughter) was just a young girl.  My great grandfather remarried and my grandmother always said she thought her step mother wasn't very careful with this tea set and things got broken.

The cups are so thin you can practically see through them.  My grandmother never used these dishes and I only use them on birthdays.  I think if she knew I used them she would roll over in her grave.

My great grandmother made these quilt blocks.  Grandmother's half sister gave them to me many years ago and my mum made them up into this quilt for me.
So, is it time to put Great Grandmother back up on the wall?  Unfortunately, nothing discourages my appetite.

Star Date September 8th 2011

Beam me up, Scotty.

Retirement 2.1

A few weeks ago Mr LC ordered some new business cards.  Since he retired his old ones weren't much good anymore.  I couldn't understand why he even needed business cards now and when I asked him about it I just got some sort of mumbled reply.




The new cards came the other day.  I've blurred out all the incriminating evidence but just give the rest of it a study.

Yupper.

Old Mother Hubbard.

I don't think Mother Hubbard had a refrigerator but if she did it would have looked like mine after nearly three days without power.

A wonderful opportunity for a good scrubbing.

We won't starve though.  Mr LC brought these in just before supper:

One of the perks of living in the wilds of Canada.  Blackberries.

It's Been a Long Week.

It's been a pretty quiet week here at the LC.  Tropical storm Irene knocked out our power around two o'clock in the early hours of Monday morning.  We just got our power back today around noon.  No electricity  means no water, no refrigeration and worst of all, no internet.  It's been a long week folks. 

Here's some of my Brown Eyed Susans to cheer you up.