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Heather Cardle
- Feb 26
- 2 min
#FrameItFriday (week 9 season 4)
#FrameItFriday (week 9 season 4) Another Friday, another weird rambling by me. Isn't this a cool old stove? Have you ever used one before? This old beauty comes with the new place we bought. It holds court in the kitchen and is no longer hooked up. I can think of a few ideas to use it in a photo shoot, can you? In fact, this whole new house and property has awakened the creative section in my brain that has been dormant for years. It's not THAT long now and I sincerely apolog
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Heather Cardle
- Feb 19
- 1 min
#FrameItFriday (Week 8 season 4)
#FrameItFriday (week 8 season 4) I almost forgot it's FRIDAY! AGAIN. How's everyone doing? Anything new and exciting going on? Since things have opened up a tad here as far as the whole Covid thing goes we were finally able to use one of our 3 visits to go down to our new place before it becomes ours in 68 more days. It's about a 3.5 hour drive from where we currently reside. Of course since we've been unable to see family since November, we planned our trip to be able to pop
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Heather Cardle
- Feb 12
- 2 min
#FrameItFriday (week 7 season 4)
#FrameItFriday (week 7 season 4) My oh my it's Friday yet again and if it means anything to anyone, we're on the cusp of a long weekend here in Ontario. Does that even mean anything anymore? Long Weekend, hmmm. I have to ask google "what day is today" at least 3 times a week. I'm sure it's not an age thing, it's a lockdown thing. We've been walking a lot of local trails for the past 45 days, mostly they're the rail trails. In spite of the plunging temperatures, if you dress
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Heather Cardle
- Feb 5
- 2 min
#FrameItFriday (week 6 season 4)
#FrameItFriday (week 6 season 4) The wind is blowing, we’ve had a plop of snow dumped on us here in Brantford and my friend sent me this shot. It’s a view from her back deck of her bunkie, soon to be my bunkie. Ok, “our bunkie” but I call first dibs on what or who goes in there. 82 days to go. Today the MacBook Pro that crashed and burned TWO(2)days before the warranty was up, goes “under the knife” for screen replacement or something like that. My attempts to backup my image
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Heather Cardle
- Jan 22
- 2 min
#FrameItFriday (week 4 season 4)
#FrameItFriday (week 4 season 4) Counting. We've been counting here a la Maison (said in my best FordNation accent lol). One counter is decreasing (finally cracked 100), that is the counter that lets my family know how many days until we move. I don't know if they pay attention to it like I do but every single morning when I come down the stairs to the kitchen I lick my finger (I know, gross) wipe the number on the chalkboard off, blow on the chalkboard to dry my goober off a
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Heather Cardle
- Jan 15
- 2 min
#FrameItFriday (week 3, season 4)
#FrameItFriday (week 3 season 4) Eye spy with my little eyes.......so, we're in lockdown now and my exploring radius has shrivelled down to staying very close to home for my road trips. I've been remaining in our county for the most part when the weather permits us to go out for exercise and giddy up back to the homestead once we're done. I've been killing two birds with one stone (figuratively speaking of course)....go out for a walk and get our steps in and snapping a few p
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Heather Cardle
- Jan 8
- 3 min
#FrameItFriday (week 2 season 4)
#FrameItFriday (week 2, Season 4) Has it been a week or has it been a week? It has been a week. Now it's Friday, let's rejoice now shall we? I started a new puzzle but I haven't touched it since I got to the hard part, you know, everything that goes inside those the flat ones you use around the edge? The previous puzzle I ditched. It's going to a puzzle buddy of mine who has far more patience than me. I'm determined to finish the current one but not on a sunny day, so it may
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Heather Cardle
- Jan 1
- 2 min
#FrameItFriday (week 1 season 4)
#FrameItFriday (week 1, SEASON 4!) TAKE 2! (forgot to hit the 'save' button grrrr) HAPPY NEW YEAR! (YES, IT'S 2021 FINALLY) #StellaCat insisted I use this photo of her for the very first blog of the year and season 4 opener. She also had her agent contact me about putting together a 2022 calendar of her. So demanding and all before I've had my 2nd cup of coffee! She's telling me she has fans on this page and they're the ones insisting on a calendar of her. So for all you Stel
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Heather Cardle
- Dec 11, 2020
- 1 min
#FrameItFriday (week 50 season 3)
#FrameItFriday! (week 50 season 3) Well we did it again! My 3rd annual calendar has sold out (ok I kept a few for the family) but thanks to all of you we raised $500 and it's been donated to the St Leonard's Society of Brant RAAM clinic here in our city. I'm pretty sure they will find a good use for it and help some folks a teensy bit who are struggling with mental heath and addictions issues. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I've been consumed with packing, boxing, not so mu
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Heather Cardle
- Dec 4, 2020
- 2 min
#FrameItFriday (week 49 season 3)
#FrameItFriday! (week 49 season 3) 4 days to go and it can't happen soon enough! I feel like I've been sitting in a doctor's office, hours past my scheduled appointment time waiting to get in. Stella Cat is in heaven with all the cool places to nap though and you know, if you have a cat, they ALWAYS make it about them. I've taken my camera with me every time I've gone back to Wal-Mart to pick up yet another stack of storage bins. Have I taken any shots? Nope. I guess I bring
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Heather Cardle
- Nov 27, 2020
- 1 min
#FrameItFriday (week 48, season 3)
#FrameItFriday (Week 48, season 3) My daughter and I hit up the local Christmas tree farm (Merry Farms) the other day. Getting a little festive fix amongst the sweet smell of the trees, a huge roaring fire and a few cute farm animals. They're careful about the social distance thing and throughout the week, you can just "walk in". The weekends however you have to make a reservation so best to do that to avoid disappointment. A slight blanketing of snow would have been the icin
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Heather Cardle
- Nov 20, 2020
- 2 min
#FrameItFriday (week 47 season 3)
#FrameItFriday (week 47 season 3) Occasionally I navigate slippery rocks and tree roots to get to the place where I lay on my belly and take "that shot". It's getting up from taking that shot that's even trickier. Sometimes I just lay there and admire the view but I'm also thinking to myself "how the heck do I get back up without falling into the drink!" Know what's funny, not funny about this shot? About 30 mins after I took this my camera fell off it's strap AGAIN! Oh an up
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Heather Cardle
- Nov 13, 2020
- 3 min
#FrameItFriday (week 46 season 3)
#FrameItFriday (week 46, season 3) Hey where are all my Scorpio calendar buying friends at? How do you like what I picked for you to look at the entire month of November next year??? I've got more calendars to sell and if you celebrate Christmas at all, these would make a GREAT gift. $20 CDN shipped to you. Send an e-transfer and your mailing address to me at: heathercards@hotmail.com
*Don't forget the profits from the sale of these calendars are going to support a mental h
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Heather Cardle
- Nov 6, 2020
- 2 min
#FrameItFriday (week 45 season 3)
#FrameItFriday (week 45, season 3) This past week we've been extremely fortunate to escape for one final visit to our beloved #StudioNorth. Parting is such sweet sorrow but on to discovering new sunrise and sunset views. Time for another family to enjoy this sacred place. If you live in southern Ontario, this past week and for the next few days we will be blessed with warmer temps and lots of sunshine. I've managed to explore some back roads that I'd not been down, hike alo
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Heather Cardle
- Oct 30, 2020
- 2 min
#FrameItFriday (week 44, season 3)
#FrameItFriday (week 44, season 3) I do believe I've taken a million steps since last Friday and I'm disappointed that I don't weigh 125 lbs because of having taken said steps. I haven't picked up my camera in a week. I'm suffering from digital withdrawal. I've only taken the odd iPhone shot (such as the one you see here). I see snowflakes falling outside my kitchen window and I have to make a grocery run shortly so I'm dragging my camera along with me and taking the back roa
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Heather Cardle
- Sep 18, 2020
- 3 min
#FrameItFriday (week 38 season 3)
#FrameItFriday (week 38 season 3) I'll bet you this photo, that quite possibly this has been the craziest nerve wracking stressful week some of you have had in a long time. I know because I've communicated with a few of you and you've all told me what crap you've had to deal with this past week. So if you know me and my expertise at fixing things. You know my tool box contains a kitchen butter knife, a roll or two of buck store duct tape and tiny bottles of crazy glue (that a
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Heather Cardle
- Aug 14, 2020
- 3 min
#FrameItFriday (week 33, season 3)
#FrameItFriday (week 33, season 3) Well, we finally got away. In fact, we still are away and it's been outstanding weather. Road trips have been replaced by early morning paddles. I'm not an early riser but have managed to get up and out on the water a few times before 8am. In the nature world that is a bit late but we still managed to hit the motherland of wildlife on a couple of mornings which was super cool. Yesterday though we went out and saw pretty much nothing but the
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Heather Cardle
- Aug 7, 2020
- 2 min
#FrameItFriday (week 32, season 3)
#FrameItFriday (week 32, season 3) Sometimes the camera gear sits and rests. With the exception of it joining me on a bike ride and some real estate photography, my gear had some time off. Most of this week was spent assisting my husband with some long overdue projects. You never truly complete the "to do" list now do you? Something breaks from wear and tear or you decide you want to upgrade. On that note, the same goes for me. No, I'm not broken and although I'm sure parts o
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Heather Cardle
- Jul 31, 2020
- 2 min
#FrameItFriday (week 31, season 3)
#FrameItFriday! (week 31, season 3) Well if it isn't another Friday and the end of the month of July, halfway done summer. Sorry, tis true. BUTTTTT it's a long weekend for some of us folks. By now us newbie covid gardeners should at least have produced one red tomato right? (asking for a friend) I was out the other day inspecting the successes and massive failures of my first attempt at a legit vegetable garden (all 0.0000125 acres of it). Mostly I was hoping to see at LEAST
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