BGMcKay 🇨🇦

@bgmck

Married for 20+ years to my best friend. He/him/Hey you Old truck mechanic, recently retired. Living in BC for a couple of decades, imported from Ontario. I grow food and flowers. Learning about native plants to help the bees. Solitaire witchy, pagan.

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BGMcKay 🇨🇦@bgmck· 13d

Donald Sutherlands character Oddball from Kelly's Heroes. White male with a red mustache and beard, wearing a WWII tank commanders helmet

BGMcKay 🇨🇦@bgmck· Jul 9

I don’t know what Ike the orange queen was doing but Cea just told her to not do something and go find the brain cell.

A large orange cat with a white throat is sitting in an orange sink

BGMcKay 🇨🇦@bgmck· Jul 7

My first time seeing Twice-Stabbed Stink Bugs. Cosmopepla Iintneriana P

Black insects that look like a shield with red markings

BGMcKay 🇨🇦@bgmck· Jul 6

Very nice. My first larger crochet project was also a baby blanket. Not as nice as yours.

BGMcKay 🇨🇦@bgmck· Jul 1

This is the way Ike the Orange, Queen of her domain eats from her food from her automated food dish. We have this machine to prevent Danu or Maisie eating Ike's kidney food.

BGMcKay 🇨🇦@bgmck· Jun 26

I’m in the parking lot of the Abbotsford Cancer Centre waiting for the person I drove out today for her treatment. After several days of dry, 30’C weather we are getting this. My gardens should be happy. Volunteercancerdrivers.ca

BGMcKay 🇨🇦@bgmck· Jun 24

Ready for the oven 😁

BGMcKay 🇨🇦@bgmck· Jun 24

I finally replaced my Danish dough whisk. This morning's bread mixing was so much easier. The pics are out of order. Mixing each bowl took less than 90 seconds. Hand mixing takes longer and I need to scrape the dough and flour off the sides of the bowl to mix it in.

A Danish dough whisk with a blue handle laying across a steel bowl with flour in it.

The bread dough partially mixed with the whisk

The flour mix with the water/honey/sourdough starter poured in. Before being mixed.

The dough mixed using the whisk. Note the sides of the bowl have less dough and flour stuck to them. The whisk scrapes the dough off the bowl quite effectively.

BGMcKay 🇨🇦@bgmck· Jun 22

Much nicer than my work. Bulky yarn can feel so comfortable. This is a partially completed blanket with 6 different Tunisian patterns. I feel better while crocheting but my watch sometimes tells me my stress levels are up. 😵‍💫

24 10 inch squares of Tunisian crochet in 6 different colours on a purple duvet cover. Each square has a black border. Grey yarn is used to join the squares.

BGMcKay 🇨🇦@bgmck· May 29

My go to hat for the last couple of years.

BGMcKay 🇨🇦@bgmck· May 29

3 stages of pan pita bread. In After rolling before cooking. In the pan after being flipped to cook the other side. On a cooling rack. I also baked 3 loaves of regular bread. All bread made with sourdough as the leavening agent.

Raw flatbread on a black and red silicone cooking sheets

2 pieces of pan flat bread
on a cooling rack

BGMcKay 🇨🇦@bgmck· May 24

First garlic scape of the year is a month or more early even though I planted 2 weeks later because it was so warm.

Fairly close picture of garlic leaves over dried straw.
The pale green/yellow stem in the lower center of the picture is the bud of a garlic scape.

BGMcKay 🇨🇦@bgmck· May 4

My annual post on this day.

BGMcKay 🇨🇦@bgmck· Apr 28

We have Anna’s hummingbirds that stay here all year. I have a heater for one of my feeders for the few nights it gets below freezing. This is a summer pic.

BGMcKay 🇨🇦@bgmck· Mar 5

Maisie the moo cat napping on my legs.

A grey and white moo cat napping on my legs.

Maisie the grey and white moo cat napping on my legs.

BGMcKay 🇨🇦@bgmck· Feb 20

I now has new Tunisian crochet hooks. Now what project should I do to start learning a new skill, as a fairly new hooker?

Straight and cable Tunisian crochet hooks, with a light grey carrying pouch on my dark blue sweat pants covered lap.

BGMcKay 🇨🇦@bgmck· Feb 14

We are at youngest grandsons house while his parents are off to see Lucy Darling for ❤️ day. The cat on my shoulder is Jean, the sister to Maisie, our wee terrorist.

A small black and white moo cat sitting on the shoulder of an older white man who has a white beard and wearing dark glasses

A small grey and white moo cat sleeping between my blue jean covered legs.

BGMcKay 🇨🇦@bgmck· Feb 7

So much for going out to buy yarn. It works out as the Team Canada women's Olympic hockey game is on. They are playing the Swiss.

A small white and grey moo cat sleeping between my legs. She has her head tucked down.

BGMcKay 🇨🇦@bgmck· Feb 2

Our anniversary party. This is the second time we've attended, but the first that happened on Imbolc

The banner for a combination Chinese new year and Robbie Burns day.
It has a man in a kilt with a Chinese dragon head. Plus a rearing horse against a red background with Chinese lanterns

BGMcKay 🇨🇦@bgmck· Feb 1

23 years ago Cea and I had our handfasting in New Westminster's Central Park. Still going strong. Happiest of Imbolc blessings.

A woman in a white gown with dark robe with medium blue liner, standing beside a taller man with a dark shirt with black and yellow sleeves under a dark blue robe.
The background is green trees with bits of pale grey sky peaking through.

BGMcKay 🇨🇦@bgmck· Jan 22

Cea and I have created a wee monster. It started when she offered Maisie lox. Then I offered her cheese. She now expects both if we have it out. Today I was getting some cold mashed potatoes ready to fry. Some fell on the floor. Maisie ate it. This is why I call her a meow dog.

A small grey and white moo cat looking at the camera. She is wearing a black collar with 2 rows of white dots.

BGMcKay 🇨🇦@bgmck· Jan 19

I have no idea how Maisie finds this position comfortable. She often sleeps between my legs but this position is new. She also sleeps by my knees or hip in bed. I am her human.

A grey and white cowcat sleeping curled up between my legs.
I have dark blue pants and am sitting on a easy chair with the leg rest up.

BGMcKay 🇨🇦@bgmck· Dec 30

Ike the orange princess likes to walk around the edge of our hot tub. Cea tries to convince Ike to just sit on the filter cover. So far Ike has not fallen in. She also sits in the sink.

A large orange cat with a white throat sitting in a white sink in a white counter top.

BGMcKay 🇨🇦@bgmck· Dec 27

With temps below 0'C I took down the large hummingbird feeder and put the heater on the small one. This Anna's hummer was happy with the warmth. Video taken on my Pixel 8a

BGMcKay 🇨🇦@bgmck· Dec 14

I can tell cea is not watching the front security cam. I haven't been voluntold to remove the web.

BGMcKay 🇨🇦@bgmck· Dec 2

When I wouldn't let Maisie chew on the yarn she curled up on my legs to sleep. I was watching an Earthless video and crocheting a scarf for a group that is donating to old people.

Maisie the grey and white moo cat sleeping on my legs as I crochet. The yarn is Caron Smash Cake Blackberry. A mix of bright and darker colours.
My paints are black and my socks are blue with thin white and yellow stripes criss crossing. The toes are yellow.
On the TV is a backlit guitar player.

BGMcKay 🇨🇦@bgmck· Nov 20

The view of the Vancouver Giants game from the Sapphire box of the Langley Event Centre

Watching a Vancouver Giants hockey game from a corporate box. The Giants are in red and black uniforms. The Lethbridge Hurricanes are white with red.

BGMcKay 🇨🇦@bgmck· Nov 5

Danu waiting for an ice cube to magically drop from the fridge. Alas, no ice cubes this morning.

Danu the tabby cat waiting in front of a stainless steel fridge waiting for an ice cube to appear.
He usually comes by when one of us is getting water or ice from the dispenser in the fridge door. No one was getting water this morning so his waiting was in vain.

BGMcKay 🇨🇦@bgmck· Oct 18

#Caturday In the morning Massie will snuggle beside my legs while I do my morning games and reading.

Massie the grey and white moo cat doing her usual morning nap on the bed against my legs. She is sleeping on a purple duvet cover against the inside of my right calf.

BGMcKay 🇨🇦@bgmck· Sep 28

Cat Saturday Pictures from our cat sitting inlaws. It's been 2 days since we left. This is Maisie the moo-cat's first time without at least 1 of us home in the morning. She has been hiding from Leslie until today when she allowed herself to be picked up and petted. She purred.