This is autism to me!

A friend shared this video yesterday and I don't think autism could be explained better. So I want to share with everyone.  The way she explains autism I relate 100% being autistic myself!

Pin-Wheel Dragonfly windchime

It's been some time since I last bought a dragonfly windchime. I saw this one at Walmart yesterday and I had to take it home!

Fears are really telling

This is a Margaret Atwood quote I read recently.

Men are afraid that women will laugh at them.

Women are afraid that men will kill them.

New dresses from 2018

McCalls M6883 - front made from a vintage cotton print from in my mom's stash. Finished May 2018

 McCalls M6883 - back -  made from a vintage cotton print from in my mom's stash.  started 2014-15?

Simplicity 1801 - made in flowy turquoise tie-dye challis - finished in April 2018

New clothes made in 2018

Simplicity 1800 - with a starry batik print. Notice pockets

Simplicity 8126 - 1970's dress in a leopard print

Simplicity 2248 project runway - front of dress - Absolutely love this one

Simplicity 2248 project runway - back of dress

Simplicity 1356 - Jiffy reversible wrap around dress - 2 colour of rayons

Simplicity 3833 - Retro 1960's mod dress in a batik dragonfly coton

Simplicity 1799 - Project runway dress in a lovely print but horrible texture. This was a test dress

Butterick  B5351

McCalls 7526 - skirt made from cotton, with added pockets

Butterick B5317 made from cotton sateen. Started that one over 5 years ago.

Scary fire in neighbors tree

At 10:04 Friday night May 4rth, with gusts of wind going as high as 100Km per hour, a neighbours tree fell on the hydro lines. That caused the transformer at the end of my property to go kaboom and emit an explosion of electricity that set the conifer behind it on fire. Lucky half of the tree fell in another neighbours yard, as the wind was sending all the flaming pieces of tree towards my house and roof.

Thankfully, it had rained torrentially a few hours earlier and my roof was still wet enough so that non of the flaming debris caught my house on fire. But we found some of the pieces of burnt tree in my yard. When Terry told me there was a tree on fire, I ran outside the front (I am horribly afraid of electricity) so I could view most of my house and roof from a safe distance from the exploding transformer. While I was outside the power went off and on about 4 times and each time the transformer went boom and I screamed.

 The firefighters showed up to check out the fire in the tree, and left 30 minutes later confident that the flames were not going to spread to the houses and put a yellow tape around the tree on the lines, and called HYDRO to turn off our grid, which apparently affected 440 customers. My buddy Pat is a firefighter at Pierrefonds and he was able to tell me that the firemen assessed the tree and called Hydro to turn off grid.

For the next 24 hours different Hydro Quebec trucks came to assess situation. THey start by stopping in front of my house, go look and then leave and park on Arragon and assess it from there. They came with chainsaws at 3AM Sunday morning, and by 5AM Sunday power was restored to us 440 customers. It's not the first time this transformer blows, but this time it scared the living daylights out of me because it kept going KABOOM.

This was the same week-end last year that my basement GOT FLOODED. Like what the fuck is with early May???? As for the water, it's a bit high right now but it's within seasonal levels. Last year the water was 1 meter higher!

Tree that's really angled fell on the power lines in neighbours yard on Arragon. You can see yellow tape preventing them from going to the end of their yard. Danger with power lines.

The big bucket looking thing blew multiple times and set the conifer in the background on fire

From the pole with bucket, see the line going towards ground? That's where tree fell

All 4 cats

It's amazing how fast Buddy is growing. He's almost as big as Toby.