The GIRLZ have left the BUILDING ...
A SURE sign that SPRING is right around the CORNER ...
Even if MONSIEUR winter PROMISED to hit us tomorrow with a SNOW storm that could last a FULL week ...
Sometimes, he's SO full of it ... And my GIRLZ aren't NO liars !
After spending a LOOOOOONG day at the HOSPITAL with my PAPA for tests and MORE tests, I came back HOME at sunset to a pair of BIG it's-almost-spring SURPRISES ...
For the FIRST time in THREE months, the weather was WARM enough to let the door of the COOP open for the GIRLZ and ... The SAP in the trees is RUNNING ! It's MAPLE-syrup making TIME again !
YAY !
I have been very BUZZY lately working NON-STOP on commissioned PAINTINGS, print ORDERS and clay SCULPTURES lately ...
SO I am VERY thankful for my new SECRETARY who can reply to MESSAGES, type one HUNDRED pecks a minute and knows HOW to prepare a PEFECT cup of COFFEE ...
A line of STARS stamped in the SNOW Four-toe FOOTPRINTS in a ROWToo early for a SPRING SHOWThis, my girls KNOW ...
OH !
But a single CROW
This morning flew very LOW
Screaming at us HELLO !
Hey, FELLOWS !
Don't be so MELLOW !
Soon the GRASS will turn to green from YELLOW
When you live in Québec, IF you are open-minded, you are VERY lucky LANGUAGE-wise ...
Although the province is 81% FRANCOPHONE, English is VERY present and part of our daily lives, therefore easy to learn ... Same for ANGLOPHONES wishing to learn FRENCH ... And it is quite NATURAL to become BILINGUAL, if you WANT too of course ... Then if you are even MORE aware of the MULTI-ETHNICITY surrounding you, especially in LARGE cities and interested in communicating with the WORLD, you can EASILY pick up a THIRD language ...
I was born in a FRENCH-speaking family, learned ENGLISH at school and through reading, working and traveling to the US ... Then I fell in love with SPANISH through friends and music and multiple adventures in Mexico ... This morning, the POSTMAN brought me a belated SURPRISE gift from my friend Monique ... And when I unwrapped it, I started LAUGHING ... Now, I have NO excuse NOT to become PERFECTLY fluent in CHICKEN dialect too ... What a GRRRRRRRREAT and AMUSING book !
