Saturday, October 9, 2010

This, That and Two Birthdays

This is my favourite weekend of the year, the Thanksgiving long weekend.  It's also known in our house as Darlene-a-palooza as my birthday falls around the same time.

Fall fairs, pumpkin pie, gorgeous colours, people making merry and somehow, like magic, the weather usually cooperates making for the best country drives.

My blog is two years old today and I am another year older as well.  Later this afternoon, R and I will be joining a group of friends to tour a couple of wineries in the Niagara region.  We're really looking forward to sampling a variety of wines while nibbling on cheese and crackers and having a laugh.  And of course there will be cake!

My Hawthorne scarf is finished, just in time to wear to the Balls Falls Fall Fair tomorrow.  In J Peterman catalogue-speak, the crisp autumnal air entwined with the reddish and golden hues of fall foliage will create the perfect atmosphere for this accessory.  This project was so much fun and I was so pleased with the result that I've started another one in blue!
            
The Heiress has come home for the weekend full of excitement and anxiety that there are so many plans to be made for next year in regards to her MA.

And last but not least, I've finally managed to finish The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins.  This wasn't the most stellar of reading experiences for me, I much preferred No Name.  There was one line though that for some reason I found utterly captivating by Mrs Catherick 'The dress of Virtue, in our parts, was cotton print.  I had silk.'  How dramatic and yet it says so much doesn't it.  This book was definitely a roller coaster ride in that when it was good it was great but then it would get tedious in description or tangents and I would glaze over.  This book, for me, would rank as one of those which I expected to love and was disappointed by but I am most definitely not put off by Collins!

Time to put on some lipstick, grab my purse and set off for wine country.  Enjoy your day wherever you are!

15 comments:

  1. Happy birthday and happy Thanksgiving. So sorry that you were disappointed by The Woman in White ... but never mind, lots more Wilkie Collins that are even better!

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  2. Happy Birthday and enjoy the Niagara regional wines...
    Happy Thanksgiving!

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  3. Happy, happy birthday, Darlene! I hope you have a wonderful day. I hope we get to see the scarf tomorrow. And you did a beautiful job with the description (topping Elaine anyday:)

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  4. p.s. Duh moment for me...happy blog birthday too:)

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  5. Happy birthday and happy birthday again, Darlene! Have a lovely day.

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  6. Happy birthday and happy blog birthday! And I'd be especially happy with a piece of that cake :) K x

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  7. I wish you and your blog a happy birthday, and many more of them.

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  8. Happy Birthday and Blog Anniversary!

    Enjoy your celebrations!

    carol

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  9. Have a lovely weekend--it sounds like you're going to have all sorts of celebrations and I hope they are wonderful! And I hope the cake you eat is as yummy looking as the one in the photo!

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  10. Happy birthday and happy blog-birthday, Darlene! I hope you're having a splendid day and are being royally spoiled.

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  11. Happy Two Birthday Weekend. Sounds such fun how you're celebrating it.

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  12. Grr - I thought I said happy birthday on this post but it doesn't seem to have work - boo. Happy birthday belatedly.

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  13. Happy happy birthday Darlene and happy blogoversary too! How exciting for the Heiress! You'll have to update me on her plans!

    I was underwhelmed by The Woman in White too - I thought the mystery would be far less obvious. No Name is my favourite Wilkie - when there's no 'mystery' to solve, he does a better job, I think. It's like The Moonstone - if you haven't figured out the culprit by the end of chapter one, you're in trouble.

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  14. Happy birthday and blogaversary too!!! :o)

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  15. Happy Belated Birthday and Blog Birthday too!

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