Jun 22, 2006

Dinner Menus and sleeping on the keyboard

I used to read the blog of a lady who lived in Ontario, on her own with her two cats...in an apartment in the city....and every day she would write what she was cooking for dinner........she had a big following for her blog.....I think her name was Wren or something...she was at TBlog....

Anyway, I loved reading about her simple dinners...it would always be something like 'Tonight I had new potatoes with a chicken pot pie and some green beans' that kind of thing....but it was like calm in my day...a little something you could depend on :)

Anyway, thats why I post what we have for dinner most days. Because its dull and uninteresting and comfortably reliable :)

Lloyd emailed me yesterday from work to say how much he loves to read my blog and see the pictures.....he says it's 'thrilling' which makes me laugh because if you go to my very first post in this blog you will see that I did say it would be terribly boring. We lead a very dull and uninteresting life...we are total homebodies and totally not into anything exciting and 'different'. But we're happy the way we are...just don't blame me if you fall asleep reading my blog ;)

Such a boy!



My little Samsam! He had so much fun outside today! He loved being at the playground this morning and then this afternoon he was in his element....paddling pool, sand.......and he LOVED having the hose on him - even though the water comes straight from the well and is FREEZING!!! he just kept shrieking and laughing and wanting more!!! Chris was shooting him with the water gun as he loved it so much...and he sat in the paddling pool for a while despite the cold! The of course he got in the sandbox wet and ended up covered in sand......but he is always so happy to be outside.....digging in the mud, collecting stones, playing in the sand......my boy!!!

A day outdoors






We spent the day outdoors today. This morning Chris had an exam so we went into town. After dropping him off we went to Broadmoor Lake to the playground. We met N with her kids. She had brought Timbits which made Sam happy!!! It rained a little but not enough to stop us having fun......N had to leave around 11am so we then walked around the lake, saw all the baby ducklings and goslings everywhere...sad that there is now a bylaw stopping us from feeding them. The kids had races around the lake etc.

We picked Chris up after his exam and then drove over to N's house to collect the motor. She has kindly given the engine of an old lawnmower to Laurie so he can fix it and put it onto a bike and build his own bike or gocart with an engine etc etc. We drove home with the windows wide open as the gas fumes were very strong!

When we got home we had lunch and then we all spent the afternoon outside. We filled the paddling pool, had the water table out and the sandbox too. The kids had the water guns for a while and played on the trampoline. They each had a freezee and while Abby had the scissors to open hers, she decided to cut chunks out of her hair! Yikes!!!! Actually she didn't do too badly as she cut both sides so at least they match while they grow back ;)

Laurie sat and read an article about unschooling with Lego...and then decided to look on Ebay for some Lego. I cleaned up after the dogs and paddled in the paddling pool, watered my tubs and flowers and took lots of photos. I read some of Renees magazines and played with Sam who was carrying and dumping sand everywhere, and generally getting into mischief (as always!!)

Lloyd is almost home now...we're having sausages in onion gravy for dinner with mashed potato.....followed by waffles with strawberries. Yum! It should go down well as everyone loves my onion gravy...I caramelise the onions for AGES!!!!

I forgot to write about last night! We had an early dinner of lemon and pepper cod with my home made cajun potato wedges and sweetcorn. Chris had to be at the library for his training at 7pm. We dropped him off and then went and strolled around the farmers market. The kids had some money each so went off to spend that....Lloyd and I were trying to decide whether to buy some Elk antlers......we thought they might look nice placed in one of the flower beds....or hung above Lloyds workshop door.

After the farmers market we strolled around the lake and then spent a while at the playground. Abigail didn't like the sand in her shoes. We hung around the swings with Sam and Abigail while Laurie and Susie did more shopping at the market. It was such a nice evening. 22c and so sunny. The lake was really busy.

After that we collected Chris and got home for just after 9pm. When we went to bed around 11pm and couldn't believe how fast the evening had gone but it was really nice.

British and proud of it :)



My Mom sent Chris a pair of shorts/ trunks from back home. They have the Union Flag on them and he loves them :) I managed to get a photo of him in them...he doesn't like to have his picture taken very often ;) I said we HAD to send Grandma a pic of him in them ;)

Nature in our own back yard :)






I'm so snap-happy with my camera right now, that I have RSI in my hand :( I've been doing research and it seems to be very common when people first get a digital SLR like my NIkon...it's so heavy to hold...so I've been learning to hold it better and have been using my little point and shoot. So my pics aren't as good but they will have to do!

Halo


We spent the afternoon outside. I was lying on the quilt chatting with Chris and we spotted a sun halo. I wasn't sure if the camera would pick it up but it did! Isn't a great image...the halo was actually a beautiful rainbow...kind of like a winter sundog. We found the following site that tells all about them:

www.atoptics.co.uk/

Very pretty!
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