Stocking Up
I think the planets must have been in alignment today. On our way home from the kids’ gymnastics class, we popped into a store to pick up a few things, and wouldn’t you know it, almost everything I needed was on sale! A few of …
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Autumn Art
Aside from a few showers this past weekend, our fall weather has been unbelievable. As if the colours aren’t gorgeous enough in their own right, someone at a local park has turned them into a work of art. The leaves have been sorted by colour, …
Cottage Cheese Apple Pancakes
Is it just me, or do the pages in your cookbooks with the recipes you use the most always end up looking like this? If you’ve been reading for awhile, you’ll know that I have a thing for Mollie Katzen’s recipes, and this copy of …
Cookbook Spotlight – Scots Cooking
I recently took this book out of the library in my ongoing search for the perfect bap recipe. I have a real hunger for a connection with my ancestral roots, so a whole book of traditional Scottish recipes really appealed to me. I had a …
Garden Clean-up and Seed Saving
Bee is suffering from a cold today, so we stayed home from our regular Friday activities this afternoon. I used the unexpected free time to do some clean-up in the garden. I collected seeds from the various nasturtium plants (I love nasturtiums and have them …
Things I Love – Grocery Delivery
I have a confession to make – I do my weekly grocery shopping at 11:00 in the evening, and I do it while wearing my pajamas.Don’t worry, I’m not the eccentric woman that haunts your local store in her bathrobe and curlers, I do my …
Pears, pears, everywhere
A good friend of mine (the one with the ruby slippers) has a pear tree in her backyard that she doesn’t particularly care for. Luckily for me, she hasn’t gotten around to chopping it down yet, so I get an annual box full to do …
Happy Thanksgiving!
Today was Thanksgiving for those of us here in Canada, and I had grand plans of posting photos of our scrumptious meal (which we actually had yesterday), but unfortunately it didn’t survive long enough for that to happen. Instead, I’ll post some photos of what …
Wicked Witch of the East?
I was over at a friend’s house yesterday and had a good chuckle over where she keeps her gardening clogs. It looks like Dorothy set her house down in their back yard!