An adventure and lunch

But first----Lunch

Yes, a flying trip up to Neepawa to pick up the chickens and turkeys that we ordered.  They arrived unexpectedly yesterday. A beautiful fall day, and much better than maybe driving through snow in a couple of weeks.  But--another very windy day. David had quite a time keeping the car on the road on the way up.  We went through the best part of 1/2 a tank of gas just getting there!  We had said that  it would be a flying visit, but it turned out to be a little more flying than I expected--I don't think we spent 1/2 an hour there!  David really wanted to make sure we got home before dark and we made it around 4:00.

On the way up we noticed an "open" sign at the pottery, so stopped in on the way home.  We have wanted to get one or two more small covered casseroles for awhile now, as the ones we had are slowly cracking beyond use.  Well, I guess we arrived at the end of day 3 of the sale.  We found more fibre art than pottery, and no sign of any covered casseroles.  Just as we were about to leave David spotted one on the table behind the cash desk, and remarked that it looked like exactly what we wanted.  She then said that it had a rough spot and if we wanted it--she would give it to us!  Say what!?!

Of course, then I felt obligated to buy something,but we honestly couldn't find anything that we wanted--and we were prepared to spend the equivelent to the price of a casserole.  So we ended up buying a coffee mug to go with my collection, but now it's home, I see that it really doesn't match.

It must be a long time since we were out that way.  They are building two huge overpasses on the West Perimeter just North of the race track.  This is obviously a major project and the signs predict that it will take two years to finish.  It's also interesting to see the development going on in Headingly.  This is definitely a growing community.  There are housing developments North of the highway, for as far as you can see.  There is also water in most of the creeks and rivers--not common at this time of year.

The trip home was much easier.  The wind still howled but it was a tail wind.  It must be fall--there were an awful lot of roadkill.  And a lot of idiots on the road.  But overall, I'm grateful today for the washrooms at Tim's in Portage, and a day spent in the company of my husband