~Framboise Manor~: what a crazy weekend! (EDITED)

Monday, November 2, 2015

what a crazy weekend! (EDITED)

i don't even have a pic for this post because i can't find my camera and didn't want to use an old pic.

what a whirlwind of a weekend that we just had!!! it started with going to our friends' g&c's for a delicious turkey supper! when c makes turkey supper she pulls out all of the stops - sweet potatoe, mashed potatoe, 2 kinds of stuffing, garden veg, turnip and carrot mashed just the way i like - and my fave - gravy!!! she always strains my gravy because she knows i hate picking the onions out - she's so sweet like that! her mother v joined us, as well as our friends s&h. a lovely meal was had by all and we got to hang out with g&c for a bit after the others left.

saturday at noon we headed over to our friend v's house. we brought him potatoes and carrots from our garden and he gave me some beets and some beets that he pickled - he knows i love beets! his neice k came over and a bit of a party started - at 1pm in the afternoon! v offered jamie a beer and he gave me a bottle of his home-made raspberry wine. that stuff was soooo good! he's going to teach us how to make berry wines this year - we can't wait.

anyway - 3 bottles of wine later, a whole entire afternoon and evening spent chatting and enjoying each others' company and we are now late for the fourchu fireworks! ack! our besties b&c are going to kill us!!! we raced home, bird-bathed, got dressed and raced to fourchu! we got there just before the halloween dance was starting - whew! both me and jambaloney got to spend time chatting with b's dad p, who we love, and b's mom p, who we also love, and we were able to chat with a bunch of the older people from fourchu. most of them left by about 10pm and then we got on to the serious stuff - dancing. the dj was awesome and played a great selection of music. people who didn't know that i had already consumed 3 bottles of wine during the day kept buying me wine!!! at one point in the night i had 4 full glasses of wine in front of my chair!!! i had to keep sneaking the glasses to the bathroom and pouring them down the sink!!!

me and my besty c danced our butts off to our favourite songs and she and jambaloney danced to their favourite songs - we all had a blast! lots of people dressed up, although we didn't. i sat with k chatting and yacking - we really like chatting together. she is a young woman going to college and she is interested in many, many different topics.

anyway, we closed the place down and came home and crashed. yesterday after doing the chores that absolutely had to be done (feed cats, clean kitty litter, water greenhouse) we crashed on the couch and moaned and groaned and cursed our friend v for hours - bahahahah! jambaloney is over at v's house now setting up his new monitor. i had forgotten to take my pickled beets home on saturday so i am looking forward to when jambaloney gets home - i'll probably eat the whole jar in one sitting!

so we had an awesome halloween and we hope that you all did too! i'm checking blogs in a few!

(edited to add: i was just replying to comments on my previous post and now for some reason blogger won't let me reply?!?!?! anyone else ever have this problem?)

5 comments:

Frank and FernNovember 2, 2015 at 3:06 PM
I haven't had any problems replying to comments, Kymber. But you never know what the glitch is. Try again tomorrow. After you've had more rest......

Fern
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LL Cool JoeNovember 2, 2015 at 5:39 PM
Sounds like you were a right pair of party animals. Just the type of people I like to dj for! I would have found it very hard to tip that wine away! Ha.
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1st ManNovember 2, 2015 at 9:18 PM
What a great evening. I wonder if you don't have pictures because there were moments you didn't want to share, hahahaha!!! Seriously though, it sounds ike you had a great time. And in the end, that's all that matters!
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Sandy LivesayNovember 3, 2015 at 4:12 PM
Sweet Kymber,

It sounds to me you and Jam had a wonderful time with family and friends. Plenty of food, beer, wine, and music. What stays in Canada.....stays in Canada, that's why there's no pictures.....LOL!!!!

I hope you two get plenty of rest, and your week goes smoothly. Hugs and love to my best est friends/family in the world.
Your Friend,
Sandy
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PioneerPreppyNovember 3, 2015 at 7:02 PM
I get the no reply problem from time to time myself. It's like it hangs up and won't connect anymore.

So did you ever get to see fireworks?
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kymber here and talking about jambaloney.

i've always called him my angel. my rock. my best half. the best part of what i have always wanted to become.

he has a soul as big as the biggest mountain, he is strong, he is in incredible physical condition, he is 51 and yet most people think he is under 40. he is humble and modest, charming, gorgeous and will help anyone with anything at anytime. he never grumbles and only every now and again complains or is a tiny bit cranky (nothing that a hug can't fix!). he can cut both sides out of 70 tires in minutes, build raised beds from scrap wood that he drags out of the forest, weedwhack 800ft of our road down to the river, and haul more wheelbarrows of dirt, mulch, rocks and seaweed than is probably medically-advised. he's learned how to braid, make bread and no one makes better rice - not even the chinese. he supports my every, crazy endevour. he went 44 years without a driver's license and got his license after being trained by my crazily-wonderful french canadian friend in 2 weeks. she never stopped talking the whole time. in french.

he has biked everywhere his entire life, at one job he biked 24km EACH WAY. that's to and from! 24km to work AND 24km from work! oh and just accidentally has an honours degree in philosophy.

i believe that he is Our Lord's most beautiful and perfect creation. but i might be biased. he can very accurately shoot a ben pearson cougar re-curve from both the left and right. and his aim is dead on.

he is bow-legged and only 5'7", but has the most incredible eyes. and a tiny mole on his upper lip. he writes the most romantic "insta-poems". he tells me he loves me several times a day. he calls me "babe" and "honey". and he means it.
he loves hot sauce and spicey things like cayenne and banana peppers, he buys (or now picks) me flowers, he left a lucrative, high-paying IT job and his family to follow me here to this remote little island. he builds me shelves and washes all of our laundry with me by hand.

oh and he was baptized Anglican. and was an alter boy. sheesh. somehow, through my intervention, i am turning him into a pagan-christian-fundamentalist-confuscian. look, even i can't figure that out!

the name jambaloney is a nickname that i gave him over 10 years ago. he still uses it. he can be reached at "jambaloney@gmail.com". he loves comments or emails. and he loves me.

if i were given the opportunity to wish one thing for the world - i would wish that every woman on the planet had a jambaloney. i know that i could save the world this way. i have friends who have asked me to clone him. i am trying. believe me, i am trying. one day i will perfect the science involved, and when that happens, i promise all of you a jambaloney.

i love him more than...breathing, lobster, boiled dinner, fresh bread out of the oven, bugging out, singing back up for Madonna (ok...i made that one up!), fresh sheets on the bed, a glass of red wine after a long day, sunflower seeds, lavender, growing my own potatoes, T.S. Eliot, dancing, my babies (who are really just cranky old cats!) and the Bible.

i love him more than i love Framboise Manor. and i really love Framboise Manor.

About kymber

(this pic might seem odd. trust me, it's not. 20 yrs ago kymber went shopping with a girlfriend from the military and bought this dress. then she hooked up with that girlfriend recently. they caught up through email and one day kymberz friend mentioned that specific dress. kymber said she still had it (kymber still has her prom gown for crying out loud!). the friend did not believe it. so we had to take a pic of kymber wearing the 20yr old dress for her friend. kymber always likes to add accessories...and well, we had the bunny ears laying around. ya know, cuz everyone always has pink bunny ears laying around. ok, that's it...i am out of here! jambaloney)

what can i say about kymber?? A LOT!! most of it will have to wait for blog entries ‘cuz i just don’t have enough space here to do her justice…

so i’ll have to do my best… first and foremost, kymber is my partner and i will love her forever. she is the best partner anyone could ever have, i am one lucky guy!! she is 46, she is sweet as can be, smart as a whip, super cute, exceptionally feminine, strong as an ox, honest, kind, empathetic, wise, an amazing dancer, a master wit in speaking and writing….i could go on..i will!

at 5’ 1’’ she packs a wallop – a true force of nature - she is a master gardener and chef and spent 10 years in the Canadian Military – she has done 2 tours of Alert (the north bloody-cold pole). she is a UN-certified Korean linguist and spoils our 2 cats rotten. she also spent 12yrs working in the federal government, as a communications analyst at SolGen (now PSEPC) and Fintrac. she loves nature in the true sense of the phrase..the wildflowers, insects and birds here at framboise manor keep her entranced and captivated for hours.

anyone who is her friend knows that she will stop at nothing to help and heal, dedication and loyalty are an integral part of who she is and she is dead serious about anything she puts her mind to. yet she maintains the most delicate touch and a smile on her face always, never afraid to live and love no matter where and when.

she is the most genuine human being i have ever met! and she has encouraged me to embark on the most crazy and exciting adventure i could imagine… thank you babe - i sooo love you!!!

(and she can be reached at kymberzmail@gmail.com)