To ensure you are in the loop., I shall respond to the email rather than
onto the blog tonight. The blog can be very finicky but then for whatever
reason, settles in and allows you great freedom – so please keep trying.
We went cranberry picking today on a slightly rainy but hot and humid
weather day. We got about 16 cups of cranberries and two kuchens later, very
delightful to eat! This means I tested the oven and it works very well. Also
cooked two squashes we bought at a market and enjoyed for supper. The route into
the cranberry marsh is about 2.7 km but very pleasant in spite of fear of bears
and piles of bear poop in the trail. I also encountered a snake but thankfully
it kept out of my way. We shall be going back in a week or two to pick some more
(hallejulah!) so I shall try to enjoy the walk in and out – I do not enjoy the
picking and never have !!
I made ketchup the other day – it is the most delicious sauce I have ever
made – great recipe and I loved to make it and now eat it! Took some time to
reduce it to ketchup consistency but well worth the effort. Every day we pick
buckets of tomatoes and the table is full again. Running out of different ways
to use them up and yet they keep piling up! Thank goodness the cucumbers are
waning. Apparently, we may be going to Kirkland Lake again next week to take
some more corn up to the “family” ! Yeh, yippee!
I enjoy my treks down to the lake with the dog – sit at the water and dream
– what a waste of time you might think – no, it keeps me going! Funny how the
most mundane things can and must amuse me – quite a life, eh?
I picked up the latest Steve Berry novel at the library the other day so
have put down the Clive Cussler book I was reading, and will concentrate on this
book so that it can be returned on time. They had a survey to fill in and in
doing so my name is in a draw to win an Ebook so I hope I might be lucky – may
be same as the lotteries – ie no luck . Did I tell you that the the North Bay
Council is deciding after a public meeting whether to go ahead and accept the
chance to build a Casino in North Bay. With my latest experience at Shooting
Star in Mahnomen, I might consider a trip to two if it does come into being. It
would be closer than the one in Orillia (Casino Rama) and might be a bit of fun!
Well, time to bed down and read a bit. Tomorrow it is the weekly trip to North
Bay again to shop. Although we did go into the Bay today to get gas – the
cranberry marsh is close to North Bay. We got some more bird feed as well, so I
can cross that off my To Do list for tomorrow. Take care
I am having trouble getting into the blog again, but I have
survived my first week back. I went into
work this morning because fees change tomorrow and they had to make sure the
accounting program was working. They
said about 2 hours. I was done in about
40 minutes. Oh well…. 4 hours on a call
in. I got 15 jars of salsa made
today. With Jalapenos and cayenne
pepper. A mite spicier than last
year. I made pickled eggs for Jim ‘cause
there is no way he will eat this batch of salsa. I got 7 jars of ripe cucumber relish and 9
jars of zucchini relish made, too. Now I
would like to sleep!!! We were given some apples, so I think I will freezer some
apple crisps. Then they will be there
when I crave them. Tonight is comfort
food. Goulash and mashed potatoes! I guess I am grateful for a lot of
things. Family, friends and
fun!
You
are never alone with a hippo in your
pocket.
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