As the year comes to a close, what can be said? It wasn’t a bad year, but it also wasn’t a spectacularly great year. What it was, was a FAST year! 2024 just flew by and I feel like I just didn’t have enough time to do anything I really wanted to.
You saw my knitting and quilting tally – but how did the rest of the year stack up? House-project-wise – not great. We’d hoped to renovate a couple rooms, and replace the garage doors. Neither things happened. Early on in the year, I decided I really wanted to throw some money on our debt before spending much money on the house.
Then I needed a new vehicle, then we went halfsies with our new back neighbour (Loki/Freyja’s dad) on cutting down trees and putting up a proper fence between our yards. Then the furnace went! So there wasn’t much of a dent put in the debt AND we didn’t do any renovations.
I did get the sun porch painted at least.
And it was so nice finally get rid of the last of the ugly red oxide colour that the previous owners loved!
The gardens, of course, expanded – with the biggest expansion in the area of edibles.
The food garden was wonderfully productive.
And while I feel like I didn’t spend much time in the yard, my pictures say otherwise…
I also had many wonderful highlights
Including finally capturing the hummingbirds, hatching monarchs, and making friends with an army of tree frogs!
We didn’t travel much, but there were dozens of thrifting adventures, and a trip to a petting zoo/plant nursery…
And I got a wonderful chance to experience and capture the Northern light, virtually in my backyard!
So while the year flew by a the speed of light, and I didn’t accomplish all that I’d hoped, it was still a year with many wonderful small moments. And I wouldn’t trade that for anything!
Wandering Cat Studio 
You’re definitely right. The year flew by. Welcome to the joys of home ownership. Sometimes it seems as if you spin your tires, trying to get ahead of the bills. Something seems to break/go wrong with at least one thing every year. But it’s still worth it.
You got SO much accomplilshed this year. I’m so happy for you and proud of all you’ve accomplished.
Blessings and hugs,
Betsy
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What a beautiful batch of pictures to end the old year and welcome the new one. Thanks for all of them, and hoping for a really new and improved year to come.
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Love seeing all your pictures of 2024. Your garden(s) is (are) amazing!!! Wishing you all the best for 2025.
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I think the year did fly by but I did spend 2/3 of it in bed–not my best year at all.
You did expand your gardens -both flower and veg!
I always have high hopes for the new year!
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Seeing those Northern Lights were one of the highlights of my year as well. I never thought I’d see them.
I hear you about the house stuff. We’ve got a leak in the ceiling and a bathroom that needs ripping out because of it and we’re just sitting here ignoring it. I was just telling The Mister we need to get on it before the price of lumber goes sky high because of the war coming between Canada and the US….wink, wink…lol.
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Even if you did not get everything accomplished that you had planned, I think you had an awesome year as far as projects, yard/gardens and house.
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You had so many pretty flowers!!
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