WE just had the NICEST weekend :) I love three day weekends :) REALLY didn't want Lloyd to go back to work today :( it was so nice having him home....
On Sunday afternoon, I took the girls out on the quads for a while - it was fun - I rode on Lloyds big 4 x 4 quad which isn't so easy to ride lol and iisn't as nippy as mine, but was fun anyway! Once Jeff had left, we went to the movies to see Bee Movie! BRILLIANT!!! Such a GREAT movie :) I have a soft spot for bees anyway, but this movie was just so great! Totally recommend it! It was great how they showed what would happen if there were no bees or if the bees stopped making honey...
After the movie we picked Laurie up from his friends home and then came home and all had pancakes for supper :) Yummy apple cinnamon pancakes :) you just beat a tub of applesauce and some cinnamon into the pancake batter before cooking :)
We actually went up to bed at 8pm! We sat in bed and watched Big Fish on tv.....its one of Lloyds favourite movies....I must have fallen asleep before the end!
Monday Lloyd and the children had the day off for the Remembrance Day holiday. We went out for breakfast and drove along the new Anthony Henday Hwy to South Ed Common to pick up the cushions for the sofa...couldn't believe houw FAST the Henday is to go you anywhere! Fab! By the way if any of you want to know who the new highway is named after, you can look here: www.ucalgary.ca/applied_history/tutor/calgary/henday.html
After that we drove up to the Wild Bird General store www.wildbirdgeneralstore.ca to get a new bird feeder and some bird food for the Jays and woodpeckers that are still around......its such a great store....it has everything you could possibly want or need for looking after the birds in your garden! The store owner scared Sam so he gave him a rubber bat to take home as a sorry gift lol! All he had done was ask Sam his name ;)
We came home and then all curled up and watched Ratatouille. We had all seen it before except Lloyd, but its such a great movie, and we pulled out the Halloween candy box and had some of that (we put all the candy together after Halloween and it goes in a big box then we bring it out when we watch a family movie or if we have family games night)
After Ratatouille, Lloyd and I made dinner together - honey nustard chicken with mashed potato, asparagus, broccoli and cauliflower. I cooked the cauliflower in the casserole dish with the chicken and the sauce, so it tasted as delicious as the chicken!
My honey and mustard sauce is really easy - its just mayonaise, wholegrain mustard, a little honey and a little apple cider vinegar all stirred up and poured over the chicken breasts....YUM!We were in bed well before 9pm last night again....I wanted to finish reading my book on honey bees and Lloyd was watching something on tv and so it was just cozier being upstairs...
So today is Tuesday and it feels like a Monday. Laurence is home from school not well.....and at 11am I had a phone call to say Susannah wasn't well either...so I drove over to get her...they have been sat watching Tuck Everlasting.
Windstorms blew into Alberta yesterday and Edmonton had 90km an hour winds last night and this morning....trees are down and power is out in parts of the city...we didn't get it too badly at all though....Lloyds bbq cover blew across the yard but thats about it! It was very loud during the night though!
Amazingly though, the Chickadees are still flying to and from the bird feeders! Its amazing that they don't get blown away! They are just like Great Tits in the UK but a different bird...
My friend Samantha was due to go on her balloon ride this morning but no doubt it has been postponed again! Either that or she has been blown to the other side of Canada ;)
No other news for now...that I can think of! HAVE A GREAT WEEK EVERYONE!
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