Private David R. Greenslade Born in Saint John, New Brunswick. Died in Kandahar City, Afghanistan, aged 20, on Easter Sunday, 2007. www.veterans.gc.ca/en/remembran... The sacrifices given by David, his family, and the 130,000 NATO forces who served in Afghanistan and their families, MATTER.

Feels like -29 C. Wonderful. The bolts connecting the back deck to the house are popping every so often. We know it's cold AF when that starts occurring. #cold #winter #canada

January 20, 2026 American Crow Background Paint: Nicosia Raw Umber #watercolour #watercolor #painting #art #artYear #artSky #rollandpaint #OnlyBeautifulThings #BCBirds #birds #birdArt #americanCrow #crow

January 19, 2026 Common Goldeneye Background Paint: Ice Colour (gouache) #watercolour #watercolor #painting #art #artYear #artSky #rollandpaint #OnlyBeautifulThings #BCBirds #birds #birdArt #commonGoldeneye #goldeneye

14/1/26 - nocturn

January 9, 2026 Canada Goose Background Paint: Lemon Ocher #watercolour #watercolor #painting #art #artYear #artSky #rollandpaint #OnlyBeautifulThings #BCBirds #birds #birdArt #canadaGoose #goose #cobraChicken

🌸 📸 🌱 January Kalanchoe show. #kalanchoe #plant #flowerreport #bloomscrolling #homestead

🍃 🌱 📸 Mint collection day, and what a haul! Bringing her inside for the winter was the best choice this year. #mint #homesteading #plant

New cutting and butcher board from Ikea. An awesome Gift from a great pal. No more plastic.

🌹 📸 🌱 Sister got me a great gift of a flower thos holiday season. Its the best gift ever. #flower #amaryllis #holidays #pollen #photography

It’s the last day of #ArtAdventCalendar! Here’s a moody landscape I painted in September. #watercolour #landscape #watercolor

22/12/25 - nocturn

So, Lego DnD is going well.

20/12/25

🌱 🙏 📸 Excusing the wallpaper replacement that is in limbo, feast your eye sockets on this lovely Prayer Plant! Moved her to a new spot to let them leaves get access to more light, did a light pruning. #prayerplant #plants #photography

🐈 🎨 📸 Its time to come clean, I can't paint. Nibs, however, -totally- can. Fur sure. #cat #painting #art

December 11, 2025 Lesser Yellowlegs Background Paint: Cadmium Red (pale hue) #watercolour #watercolor #painting #art #artYear #artSky #rollandpaint #OnlyBeautifulThings #BCBirds #birdArt #lesserYellowlegs

🌱 📸 🍃 Our Parlour Maple is loving the winter sun on the kitchen table. She makes me happy to see each morning. #plant #parlourmaple

🍃 🌱 📸 👃 I took a small bit of Mint inside back in the early fall. Last year the mint died, so I wanted to keep it alive for 2026. It's, uh, thriving. And I love it. The room smells very softly of mint, now, and I get to trim mint to dry for tea almost every two weeks! Its insanely fun to braid.

🍃 🌱 📸 I finished harvesting ny first ever Cannabis plant. In Canada, we are allowed to grow up to four per household. The tiny crystals you see here is the THC, the reason to consume the plant. It may be cold outside, but it's warm inside my heart! ✌️ ☮️ #cannabis #homestead #chronicpain #pain

🌼 📸 🌱 Our Geranium continues to impress, and is working hard to block out the view of winters cold blue hues. ❤️ ❄️ 😃 #flowerreport #flowers #Geranium #plant #homestead #winter #photography

Sometimes I end up on the floor during or after a task due to the pain and nausea. I'm glad the floor is easy to get too, and that I can feel it coming on. Allows me to "gracefully" descend to its sturdy, cool, embrace. Anyways, the kitchens cleaned, for what it's worth. ✊️ #pain #chronicpain

🌱 📸 Project Nasturtiums is going swimmingly. Green in winter is such a darn gift. ❤️ #garden #nasturtiums #homestead #plant #photography

🖼 🎨 📸 I'm slowly working on this painting over the last week. I dont usually do planned paintings, so this is a newish experience for me. Stovetop Soup Acrylic Canvas #wip #workinprogress #art #painting #acrylic #artsky #canada #canadianartist

🐦‍⬛ 🧊 🥶 📸 It's -14c and you know what that means... Ice, INSIDE! 🥳 🎉 🪅 😭 The Crows, at least, don't seem bothered. #crows #cold #noreaster

December 3, 2025 Hammond’s Flycatcher Background Paint: Lemon Yellow #watercolour #watercolor #painting #art #artYear #artSky #rollandpaint #OnlyBeautifulThings #BCBirds #birdArt #hammondsFlycatcher

3/12/25 - nocturn

Futurama taught me this gamble may pay off, though...

🐔 🍲 One of my favorite things to do is buy a ready-done chicken at the store, and the next day or two make soup from scratch. Absolutely therapeutic, and delicious results 😋. #soup #chickensoup #homestead

🐈 📸 I'm growing garlic, and cats.

Eating cheese is a biological imperative (for me)

🌱 📸 She long. She strong. She take over the upstairs bathroom, nothings wrong. ❤️ 👀 ❤️ I love this ivy. #ivy #plant #homestead

Gripping shards, ice shiver, movement warmth deliver. Winter snow, spring rain. Morning dew new again. #poem

🌱 🌸 📸 🍃 This Prayer plant is just vibing under the Growing light. Soon it'll need a new home! ❤️ #prayerplant #plant #leaf #photography #homestead

🐈 📹 🌞 Our cat, pining for the outdoors and sunshine. #cat #calico #tortie #videosky

📹 🐈 🥶 Current mood: #mood #cold #winter #cat #calico #videosky #catsky

🌱 📸 ❄️ 🌳 Morning photo today showing snow very lightly covering the ground. It's ok, though. I've started playing #StardewValley again - so I can garden year round! (And farm pigs for the truffles...) #winter #snow #cold #photography

🌱 📸 🐈 Growing flowers inside so the winter is kept at bay. Sweet Peas are a beautiful flower - Can't wait to smell their fragrances. Also our front garden, dying back for the cold season. Those echanachia flowers are a joy #bloomscrolling #sweetpea #calico #cat #catsky #garden

🐈 🌱 🌞 📸 Our cat, enjoying the sun amongst the various plants which call the kitchen table their home. Stunning, as always. 😻 #bloomscrolling #calico #cat #catalyst #photography

🐈 🌱 📸 🥶 Moved the indoor Sweet-Pea to the stairwell window. Hoping for some flowers over the winter, but we shall see. It has been trending colder - the cat and I need to snuggle a lot. She is always a fan when we light a fire in the morning. 😻 #plant #calico #cat #catsky #sweetpea #homestead

💐 📸 🌱 Late October and still gor some blooms. These tiny pink flowers really light up the brown all around! #fall #October #plant #flower #bloomscrolling #flowersky #photography

📸 🌱 This windswept Mint plant looks like a Bonsai tree. Bonsai Mint, anyone? 😄 🤣 #Mint #Bonsai #photography

🧄 📸 🌱 Fall leaves over the 5lbs of garlic. Make sure you remember to tuck them in, nice and snug. #garlic #garlics #fall #homwstead

Basil after 2 weeks —> after 3 weeks/ready for harvest 🌱🚜

Kalanchoe for #TinyFlowerTuesday 🌱

🌳 🍂 🍁 🌱 📸 Our beautiful trees showing us that winter is closing in. Each year this show is unbeatable. A glory to see, each morning. The sunlight hitting it explodes the colours, bright. #TREE #FALL #nature #photography

🌱 🍵 Mint. The final frontier. I am braiding mint. I believe, slowly, they will accept me as one of their own. #homestead #mint #braid #photography #leaves #tea #minttea

🏊‍♀️ 🏗 📸 Our inground pool was dilapidated when we bought the home. Now, itll serve us as a space for a fire pit and greenhouse, but first we wait for the fill to settle over the winter. Then, we plan. #homestead #pool #construction #landscaping

18/10/25 - nocturn

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