These girls are participating in a student exchange. The girl on the left is from Kamloops, B.C. and the girl on the right is from Russell, Ont.

Hope they enjoy the exchange and learn a lot of things about the two different provinces.

Justice

Here is Justice and her mom with May May. They have that great shoe store on Bank Street, Obsession. It's been almost a year since I first met Justice and I was happy to see that she is keeping her style the same, mismatched socks! Love them. She really is going to be an artist when she grows up.

Introducing Kiernan!!!!

Look at the sweetheart we met today on the Sparks Street Mall. What a happy baby! His dad was getting him to walk down the mall but he was ever so slow. After he talked to May May for a bit I led May May ahead for Kiernan to catch up. He looked awfully wobbly but was amazingly steady on his feet. The whole time he was chasing May May he would be giggling and blubbering entertaining the whole mall. I told his dad we should have a bucket to accept donations because we would have made a bundle everyone enjoyed him so much. I am sure he has the same mandate as May May and me - see how many smiles you can make on people in a day. If we charged a quarter for every smile we would be very rich. Kiernan tell you dad to leave me a note in the comment section next time you go to the mall and May May will meet you there. He reminds me so much of Alexander at that age. Take care sweety.

Happy Easter Everyone

May May wishes everyone a Happy Easter! It is so cold out and it was snowing today, feels more like winter is coming instead of spring. Let's just hope the warm weather gets here soon because May May wants to stay out longer. Going to go and lie down and get warm and read my book. I am reading an excellent book it's called "The Girls" and it is a novel about conjoined twins. Just excellent. The author also wrote another book which is just as good it is called "Rushmore Road".

Maggie is in her new bed and is looking strangely at May May with her bunny ears, she just can't figure out why May May would be wearing them.

I got a new flat screen monitor last week and this morning Maggie came running at high speed and forgetting that this screen doesn't have the landing pad like the old one she knocked it over and knocked a glass of water off the desk. This was too much to take first thing in the morning so I went back to bed. She came right along with me for a cuddle.

This artist was painting out in the cold as well. I think their teacher had a great idea and hopes he does it on a regular basis when the nice weather gets here. Nice work!

While coming home from a restaurant in the market area last Thursday I ran across a bunch of artist's who were painting outside but as you can see it was very cold, so much so he had to paint with his gloves on. Nice work!

FRIENDSHIP

Now this is how a friendship works. Seen these two girls across the street from me playing, they only had one pair of skate blades so they shared! Each of them wore one skate and played that way. Hope they keep this friendship for a long time and now May May is included in it. Have fun girls!

These two boys were selling these bags on Bank Street today. I believe it was the boy on the right who did the art work for it. Even though I needed another bag like a hole in the head and I could afford it even less I bought one for $10 from them. They will be donating the profits from the sales to the Institute of Environmental Science at Carleton University and will be planting a tree at Greenbank Middle School if they have extra money. If you think you would like one of these bags which are very well made you can call 613-828-8975. Tell them May May sent you.

Close up of the "Earth Friendly Bag" which I purchased today. One of the students designed the drawing. Out of the devil it says: "Come on, man. FLOOD EM!!! They're using all of your natural resources! FLOOD EM!!!" Out of the angel it says: "NO! DON"T listen to him!! They deserve another chance!"

These two girls were just standing on the Sparks Street Mall enjoying the sunshine and their cigarette break when May May marched over and demanded a pet. She has been doing that the last couple of days and gets really upset when people don't understand what she wants. Every one is so good to her though.

Finally getting caught up on all my pictures since I couldn't get the blog to work and from when I wasn't feeling well. May May is looking good as a witch for Halloween. When we went trick or treating with Sindy around the neighbourhood I had put a small flashing pumpkin on her black hat, she looked so adorable!

Ah May May looks so shy in her costume, but it suits her so well.

May May was a witch with orange hair last Halloween. Doesn't that colour suit her?

A better view of the locks where the ducks were sitting.

Ducks at the locks at the Chateau Laurier, this too was taken during the warm spell at Christmas.

This is Anne who rents out the luxury furnished apartments on Sparks Street. May May and I stop and chat with her every few days especially when its cold and we nip in to get warm. She used to work in Manhatten and said she has met Brad Pitt and Angelina! Must be kinda dull in Ottawa compared to Manhatten. The cheapest apartment there rents for $1,750 and its really tiny. Much prefer my cheapo digs.

I had put my light on the bed to look at something closely and then went out to the kitchen, Maggie took this opportunity to begin her suntanning session. She looked so darn comfortable that I left it there until she felt she was finished.

I took this picture during one of those extremely mild days right after Christmas. The birds looked so peaceful up there and I was about to take another picture when a bunch of boys came along and scared them off. Kids!!!!!!!!!!!

May May is getting a chiropractic treatment from Dr. Dan. Her hip has been bothering her quite a bit, she has fallen a few times off of the wheelchair and her gait has been very slow. After the treatment we walked up to Tim Horton's and she was moving at a great clip, for weeks now I have been telling her to hurry up and stop being a slow poke. Dr. Dan does great work on humans and animals, I will miss him dearly when he retires. The nice young man in the picture is the chiropractor who will probably be taking over the practice. He is from Kirkland Lake well actually Swastika so he can't help but be nice. Lot of memories in Swastika, took the train from there every two years to go to Toronto to have surgery, so some of the memories are painful. I remember when I was 14 they did five surgeries at once and I was in a body cast from just below my breasts covering both my hips and then completely down one leg to the tip of my toe. When I came home from that surgery they had to hold me upright and my poor body was just used to laying down. All the blood would rush to my head, the cast would slip down and put extreme pressure on my body, and I was afraid that they would drop me. Not nice. But other good memories of Swastika were at the dance hall at Culver Park we would go there as teenagers and have a great time. Hope it is warmer tomorrow so I can take May May for a long walk.