Happy Valentine’s Day Everyone!

I meet my DH 12 years ago this past friday, and I remember that Valentine’s day came, and no wishes were sent my way..and I thought hmmm, well it has only been a couple days and I asked him his thoughts on Valentine’s Day and I will always remember his response..

“I would like to think that any women that I am with will know that she is loved every single day she is with me, she won’t need one day of the year for me to tell her”

I remember thinking, is he just cheap or does he really mean this? Well, he did mean it and a dozen years later and I can honestly say, I would not trade him letting me know that I am loved and treasured daily for a once a year big day event.

So I fell this past weekend, was hauling something and pull it while walking backwards, in a bit of a good snowstorm, but we wanted to get it done, and I tripped on a block of ice* and fell, landing between two blocks of ice. I now have bruises coming on my neck, shoulder, arm, hip, and a huge one on my leg, my left side is sore.

*We use big 80 liter tote’s for water in the winter, it means that most of the time we try and give as much drinking water as needed twice a day, because otherwise, it freeze’s solid, but it also will slowly build up, and when that happens, hubby turns the bucket over, and we pour warm water over and it will just pop out but it can be a very large heavy block of ice.

So I do morning chores, and as I was getting ready to start the day, the gasps coming from me trying to bend over told me that I was in trouble when it came to hauling water today.. love the hubby, he hustled to get everyone’s water done before he headed to work, I can’t say how grateful I was that he did this, I will still do the rest of the chores but they won’t be near as heavy in weight.

Got to see the most strange event this morning, was driving back from dropping DH off at the bus and I am driving a back road though bush, and I can see a dark shape comng up on the right hand side of the road, I am a good ways away but start slowing down. Then this mass of “something” comes tumbling out onto the snowy white packed road, I see color and tail with butt outline and I see coyote (not one of our ontario Coy-wolves) but the smaller normal size coyote, but its not alone, there is a blackish blog attached to it? And this mass is flipping and rolling around on itself.

Then my eye catch’s a 3rd blackish critter that is just coming to the edge of the road, I’m getting closer now, and to my amazement (darn camera was at home), here is a coyote in full battle with a raccoon, and that coyote is not letting go, and that coon is fight’n for its life and the 3rd critter is another big raccoon, that is following the fight and its pissed.

So the Coyote still dragging the coon with him, off the side of the left side of the road and the 2nd coon decides that enough is enough and tucked tail and went back to the woods on the right hand side of the road.. it was a WOW moment..

Really wish I had my camera with me..