CHEESEDUCKS IN THE SUNSHINE

AFTER SOME GROCERY SHOPPING, MAMA AND THE FRITH HUNG AROUND FOR A WHILE IN THE SUNSHINE..

SHARING A BOX OF ORGANIC CHEESEDUCKS.

BLACK-EYED MAMA

PERHAPS IT IS A LITTLE DIFFICULT TO DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN THE ORDINARY BAGS UNDER MAMA'S EYES AND THE FRITH-HEAD-BUTT-INDUCED BLACKNESS. BUT MAMA GOT A BLACK EYE LAST NIGHT. AND THIS ATTRACTIVE PHOTOGRAPH IS INTENDED TO PROVE IT.

CRAYONS AND TOILET TOYS

IT WAS BOUND TO HAPPEN EVENTUALLY. MAMA WAS IN THE LIVING ROOM AND HEARD A MYSTERIOUS SPLASHING SOUND COMING FROM THE BATHROOM. UPON INVESTIGATION, FRITH WAS FOUND TO BE GIVING MR FOOTBALL A BATH IN THE TOILET. MR FOOTBALL IS THE FIRST - BUT LIKELY NOT THE LAST - OF THE PROCESSION OF THINGS DESTINED TO WIND UP IN THE TOILET OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF YEARS.

TO TAKE THE FRITH'S MIND OFF POOR SOGGY MR FOOTBALL, MAMA BROUGHT OUT THE BIG GUNS - THE CRAYONS.

ALTHOUGH FRITH HAS A NASTY COLD, THE CRAYONS DID THEIR MAGIC WORK AS USUAL, AND MADE EVERYTHING BETTER.

MAMA THINKS SHE HAS GIVEN BIRTH TO AN IMPRESSIONIST. EITHER THAT, OR A GREETING CARD DESIGNER.

FRITH THE TEMP

ON MONDAY OMI HAD TO WORK AND PAPA WAS SICK, SO FRITH CAME TO THE OFFICE WITH MAMA AT EIGHT O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING, TO GET A QUICK BIT OF WORK DONE BEFORE NAP TIME. SHE WAS EXTREMELY HELPFUL, AND CHARMED THE SOCKS OFF ALL THE POOP ENGINEERS.

A PARROT AND A TRIP TO THE LIBRARY

SATURDAY MORNING, AS USUAL, FRITH AND MAMA HIKED OVER TO THE DUNDAS LIBRARY TO HANG OUT. ABOVE, A SUN-BLASTED PHOTO OF MAMA WITH THE FRITH-PAPOOSE STRAPPED TO HER BACK.

LATER, FRITH DROPPED HER LITTLE WOODEN PARROT INTO THE EMPTY 5 GALLON WATER JUG. FRUSTRATED BEYOND MEASURE, SHE HAS BEEN TRYING EVERYTHING TO GET IT OUT AGAIN, COMING BACK TO THE PROBLEM FOUR OR FIVE TIMES A DAY. I'LL LET YOU KNOW WHEN SHE FIGURES IT OUT.

IT REMINDS ME OF THAT OLD ENGINEERING PROBLEM WHERE THEY ASKED A FIRST-YEAR CLASS OF ENGINEERS TO GET A BALL OUT OF A TALL JAR WITHOUT TOUCHING THE BALL OR THE JAR. PROPOSALS INVOLVING GUM ON A STRING, MAGNETS AND WIND MACHINES WERE ALL TABLED. BUT IN THE END, THE ANSWER WAS SIMPLE - FILL THE JAR WITH WATER AND THE BALL FLOATS TO THE TOP. NOT ONE OF THE STUDENTS GOT IT.

I BET FRITH WILL. IF SHE DROOLS ENOUGH. WHICH SEEMS LIKELY.

THE MELT

SNOWCAT HAS NOT FARED WELL DURING THE RECENT MELT.

HERE WE WE HAVE FRITH AND MAMA FIGHTING FOR THE CAMERA, AT THE DOOR BEFORE WE HEAD OVER TO OMI'S FOR SHABBAT DINNER.

APPARENTLY OMI AND THE FRITH SPENT THE MORNING TOGETHER CHOPPING ONIONS AND GARLIC FOR DINNER. WHICH EXPLAINED WHY FRITH SMELLED LIKE SHE'D BEEN WARDING OFF VAMPIRES WHEN MAMA GOT HOME.

FRITH HELPED OMI POUR MAMA'S TEA.

SHABBAT DINNER ENDED WITH THE FRITH AND OMI PLAYING LIERUM LARUM LOFFEL SPIELE MANY MANY TIMES. MEANWHILE, AH-PAPA TOPPED UP HIS AND MAMA'S WINE GLASSES.

MÉMÉ AND PÉPÉ TAKE US TO THE PUB

A COUPLE OF BLURRY KAMERAFONE SHOTS OF MÉMÉ AND PÉPÉ AND OMI, WITH FRITH HIDING BEHIND A BOTTLE OF SURPRISINGLY EXCELLENT SHIRAZ. WE ALL SHARED AN EARLY DINNER AT THE WINCHESTER ARMS YESTERDAY.

AS USUAL, THE FRITH WAS MORE POPULAR THAN THE DAILY SPECIAL.

AND YET MORE SNOW

MORE SNOW WAS FALLING WHEN WE WOKE UP THIS MORNING, SO FRITH AND MAMA WENT OUT IN IT.

FRITH TOOK IT UPON HERSELF TO CLEAN ALL SNOW OFF MAMA'S CAR.

THEN, WE BUILT A SNOW CAT.

PLAYDOUGH

I ATE PLAYDOUGH MAMA. WAS THAT WRONG?

MORE KAMERAFONE PORTRAITS

FRITH AND MAMA GOT ARTSY TODAY, EXPERIMENTING WITH THE B&W SETTINGS ON THE KAMERAFONE..

THEN, FRITH SAT IN A SAUCER. MAMA HAD TO TAKE A PHOTO OF HER SMALL ROUND SELF.

FINALLY, JOY WAS HAD BY ALL.

FRITHBEAR

MAMA DISCOVERED THAT A SMALL BROWN BEAR HAD BEEN RIDING AROUND IN THE BACK SEAT.

THE WEEKEND

FRITH SPENT THE MORNING PERCHED ON THE PIANO..

WHILE EATING CHEESE DUCKS.

LATER, WE WENT FOR A VISIT WITH PEGGY AND MADDY AND TERI. FRITH TOOK AN IMMEDIATE LIKING TO MADDY'S BABY LUCY DOLL, WHICH CRIES AND GIGGLES AND BURBLES AND DRINKS..

MOSTLY, SHE TRIED TO FEED BABY LUCY BY JAMMING THE BOTTLE IN HER EYE. I PROMISE MAMA DID NOT TEACH HER THIS.

SNOW DAY!!!

AS PROMISED, TWO MORE FEET OF SNOW WHEN WE WOKE UP THIS MORNING.

SOME OF THE DRIFTS WERE CONSIDERABLY TALLER THAN THE FRITH.

HERE WE HAVE MAMA AND THE FRITH SITTING IN ONE.

PAPA CAME OVER FOR THE MORNING, AND WE ALL TOOK A WALK TO THE RIVER.

ONCE MORE, THE FRITH MADE TRACKS. VERY VERY CUTE TRACKS.

SOME MORE SNOW SHOTS (WITH MORE TO COME)

HERE WE HAVE THE FRITH, MAKING TRACKS IN THE FIRST TRUE CANADIAN SNOWFALL OF THE SEASON.

HANGING ON THE NEIGHBOURS' FRONT PORCH..

WITH THEIR EXTREMELY PHOTOGENIC ROCKING CHAIR.

IN THE DRIVEWAY..

(THIS WAS YESTERDAY - THERE HAVE BEEN AT LEAST TWO MORE FEET OF SNOW SINCE THEN, NO JOKE - PICTURES TO COME)

WITH OMI IN THE FRONT YARD

AND WADING THROUGH SOME OF THE WHITE STUFF ON HER OWN..

HAPPY SNOW!

FRITH IN THE SNOW..

VALENTINE'S DAY!

FRITH GOT A LOVELY VALENTINE'S DAY CARD AND PACKAGE OF YUMMIES FROM HER SWEETIE-ACROSS-THE-STREET, HOLDEN.

THE FRITH AND THE MAMA

FRITH AND I HAVE BEEN EXPERIMENTING WITH THE SELF-PORTRAIT OPTION OF THE CAMERAPHONE..

A VISIT WITH OPA AND MAMA BEAR

THE FRITH AND MAMA BEAR SHARING SOME COUCH TIME..

MAMA BEAR GETS TO HEAR ALL THE BEST SECRETS.

FRITH SAYING GOOD-BYE TO OPA (MAMA MUST TRY HARDER TO GET OPA INTO THE FRAME NEXT TIME)

MORE FRITH VIDEOS..

A SMILING FRITH..


THE FRITH AND THE BOX OF WIRES


THE FRITH AND HMS FORD

THE COOKIE PAPARAZZI

THE FRITH, ATTEMPTING TO PROTECT HER COOKIE-COVERED FACE FROM THE PAPARAZZI.

AND PLAYING WITH HMS FORD. WHILE INSIDE THE BASKET (THERE IS VIDEO FOOTAGE OF THIS TOO, SOMEWHERE. I'LL TRY TO POST IT LATER).