Polar Vortex

This will not be a post where I will whine about the cold and the snow

and the freezing rain

but I will talk about it just a smidge...

last Wednesday we had a blizzard ~ the visibility was zero

nada nothing

since it was doing nothing in the morning

I went into work

they came around ~ around the noon hour saying that whenever you feel like

you want to leave, just let us know and go home

well it came hard and fast right around 1 ~ I stayed a little but longer

and then hit the road

we left at a good time because it just got progressively worse as the day went on

by the time it was all said and done we had received 41 cm of snow

and in some places here in the Maritimes the winds were equal to

a category 2 hurricane ~ that my friends is windy!

this picture is taken out my front window looking towards my neighbours house

yup ~ nasty stuff

so we all got over that ~ it was back to work on Thursday

had mild temps and rain on Friday so any effort to get out to get some "snow pics"

were gone as the rain beat it down by half or so

not that I am complaining about that ~ really!

so Saturday it is gorgeous ~ temps above zero ~ the sun in shining

feels like Spring really is coming 

I bought a bouquet of tulips and daffodils from the Cancer Society

then Sunday we get this

stop shaking the snow globe!!

do you have the Timpehop app on your phone?  If you take pictures and post

to instagram, facebook or twitter ~ it will pull your history for that same day

how ever many years you have been using that social media site

last year this time my crocuses were up and there was hardly any snow

I know this because this morning as freezing rain was pelting on my window

it showed me these pictures from a year ago today

so today we have had freezing rain which turned to snow this evening

mass power outages all over the place

so that's enough of the northeast weather!

Good news is I am on vacation this week

and although I wish I could have jetted off to somewhere warm

I chose to stay home and get some things done around the house

and spend some time to just relax

I have a stack of People magazines I have been binge reading

most of the house is cleaned

dinner plans tomorrow night with my cousin with shopping

an afternoon planned with my Mama on Thursday

and Friday I am getting together with my girlies ~ it's home made pizza

and the Hunger Games kinda night

I love the idea of just doing things at my own pace this week

have been spending some time in the kitchen

and taking time in the afternoon to have a latte and a piece of cinnamon bread

Happy Monday!

Quote of the Day

“Is it so small a thing

To have enjoyed the sun,

To have lived light in the spring,

To have loved, to have thought, to have done?”

Matthew Arnold

Daffodil Days

I love flowers
anyone that knows me
knows this...

Spring is also my favorite season

watching everything wake up

poking their little heads out of the soil

seeing if the coast is clear

the splash of yellow

that daffodils bring

are like rays of sunshine

or happy little faces

rising up to greet the day

loving these ones

simply gorgeous

yummy!

they also mean

a time to give

The History of Daffodil Days

The Canadian Cancer Society's Daffodil Days began in Toronto in the 1950s.

A group of Canadian Cancer Society volunteers organized a fund-raising tea and decided to decorate the tables with daffodils. The bright, cheerful flowers created an atmosphere that seemed to radiate hope and faith that cancer could be beaten.

Soon these gatherings came to be known as Daffodil Teas.

Jackie Brockie, a volunteer who also worked at Eaton's, supported the idea of Daffodil Teas and arranged for Lady Eaton to host a Tea in the store. Seven hundred women attended.

Another volunteer, Lane Knight, arranged for restaurants to give part of their receipts to the Society on the opening day of the residential canvass in 1956. Canadian Cancer Society volunteers were on hand at local restaurants to give patrons a daffodil when they paid for their meals as a token of appreciation. The sight of so many daffodils being carried around the city created interest. When some recipients tried to pay for the flowers or make donations, the Society quickly realized that the sale of daffodils would generate additional revenue.

Canadian Cancer Society volunteer Fran Shannon headed the team that planned the sale of daffodils on the streets of Toronto the following year. An anonymous donor paid for 5,000 blooms to be flown from British Columbia where the growing season starts earlier than in Ontario.

The daffodils were an instant success, raising more than $1,200 the first year. The idea was adopted by other provinces across Canada as well as the American Cancer Society.

Today the Canadian Cancer Society is the world's largest purchaser of daffodils and the growers in British Columbia must arrange their plantings to accommodate the Society's spring demand for live blooms.

In late March and early April, Canadian Cancer Society volunteers are busy delivering and selling bright, yellow daffodils to help raise money in support of the fight against cancer.

The daffodil is the Canadian Cancer Society's symbol of hope. The bright, cheerful blooms are sold every year and mark the beginning of Daffodil Month.

This years Daffodil Days run from

April 12th - 18th

Get out and support this cause

xo