Less is More - Aqua (1)

Happy Birthday to the Less is More Challenge Blog... they have reached 1 year old.  The challenge this week is:

For our first Anniversary we are back to a repeat of our inaugural challenge which for the first Saturday of the month is colour... and this time we have chosen 

AQUA

After going through my card storage I was able to find a couple of bits of card that you could say were Aqua in colour. 

I had a couple of attempts to create a card, here is the first...

I used a stamp in the shape of a flower but the word Thanks is included in the flower.

Mr Frosty & Stuff

I was planning on giving you an update on Mr Frosty when I got home from work... but things did not go according to plan today.

At about 11.20am I got a phone call from one of DH work colleagues, he had been taken to A&E with kidney pains again.  This time all of the pain was in the left side (the last 3 stones have been in the right kidney).

I have never seen A&E so busy!!! To say it was manic was an understatement.  DH is now back on the Surgical Emergency Admissions Unit & due to have a scan tomorrow morning to confirm if another kidney stone is the cause of the pain! 

Seeing DH in so much pain was upsetting (he scored it at 10 out of 10!) I really don't know which is worse; being in pain or watching your loved one in pain knowing that there is nothing you can do to stop it!

The good news is that the pain has stopped and DH has settled down for the night.  I just sent him a text to say that I was home safe & sound and to wish him a good night sleep and to 'Mind the Bed Bugs don't Bite'... and his reply - "No bugs in hospital they are not allowed - the government said so!"  I guess this is proof that he is feeling a bit better.

Mr Frosty the 2nd

Now, onto my real reason for this post... Mr Frosty.  He is now 1 1/2 days old, unfortunately he is also having a few health problems:

• Frost bite (or lack of frost) has caused his nose to fall off;
• One of his eyes has fallen out of its socket;
• He has lost the use of his arms (they are now hanging limp by his side)

He has already lived longer than the original Mr Frosty - he survived approx 15 hours. 

I will update you on the progress of both DH & Mr Frosty tomorrow.

All my own work

With all of the snow overnight we decided to each clear different areas of snow.

DH did the front & cars, while I did the path to the Kids aviaries.

While clearing the snow I was thinking and realised the this was the first time that I could remember ever clearing a path of snow before.

In addition I just had to make a snowman (well 2, but only one got finished!)...   So Mr Frosty the 2nd was born (today - 05/02/12 at 11:30), I will try and keep you up to date on his progress :)

Mr Frosty the 2nd

It Snowed!!!

When we went to bed last night we had a small amount of snow settling on the ground.

This morning we have just got up to find enough snow to make a whole family of snow men...

Here are a couple of pictures showing our back garden this morning.

Library Visit

Once again we have been out with the Owls. Today was another library visit, the first since losing Ufo.

Delta & Jumanji both behaved very well. And Delta had a nice hug with his daddy.

The Library staff were pleased as they had approx 170 people through the door (double the normal Saturday visitors!)

Here are a few pics...



Jumanji - Looking Grumpy as usual



DH getting a Hug from Delta

The table containing our Stock to help fund raise

Blog Candy Winner

Good Morning All

Many thanks to all those who asked to be in the draw for my box of Blog Candy.  I forgot to do the draw last night so as I don't have a Random Number thingy, I decided to ask DH to select a number between 1 & 16...

The reply I got was that he asked his cleaner at work to choose :-)

So the winner is.....




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Fatmonica

Please drop me an email (owl.helen@gmail.com) with your address & I will send you the box of Blog Candy.

Post Number 200

This is a Sticky Post and will remain at the top of my Blog until 5pm on 1st February 2012.  Please scroll down to view my newer posts.

I can't believe that I have reached my 200th Post...

My first post was back on 23 June 2011 and since then I have continued to regularly add posts each week.  I have found that I am now addicted to Blogging and get withdrawal symptoms when not able to view the Blogs I follow or post to my own Blog.

Thank you to all of those who Follow my blog and add comments, they really mean a lot and I enjoy reading them.

As a celebration of my 200th Post I have decided to give away some Blog Candy.  Included in the box shown below are: Stamps; Embossing Powers; Embellishments; Flowers; Blank Cards & More... and I nearly forgot - Chocolate!!

If you would like to win this Blog Candy you will need to Follow My Blog & Add a Comment to this Post.

 (due to the cost of postage this Candy can only be sent to UK, or BFPO addresses)

I will pick a winner at random on 02 February 2012

Everything is packed into this A4 Craft Box as it will be easy to post.

Once I knew that everything would fit in the box I unpacked it to give you an idea of the contents.