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And Manitoba Highway construction made it so! We drove for two hours out to Morden to hang a fibre show in the community art centre there. Hwy 75 is all chewed up with two complete lanes gone in places, one strip being almost 20 k. Six people and two hours and the show was up. So we all went to a local B&B restaurant called Bella's Castle. A lovely lunch that we waited almost 40 minutes to have prepared (?) Then it was across the street to the quilt store. This is the same store from whom I bought the Kaffe Fassett fabric by mail just over a month ago. I went in to see if I could get a stripe to match and I did, as well as a bit more of a couple of the colours. ( I had only bought a 1/2 yd before) Then David went looking for some corn, which he finally found, to bring home for supper. It was back through the same construction and home. We stopped to buy me a small salad and him some butter for his corn, then home. I hope he enjoyed his corn more than I did my salad. That was one of the worst salads I've ever had!
While we were at the Gallery, I found a new "special" coffee mug. I broke my last one a few months ago and haven't found anything the equal to it yet. I asked David to buy it for me, while I found out what my job was going to be, and he did, as well as a new wine goblet for himself. My mug is redder than the picture hows, and his goblet is a warm brown.
So now we're both exhausted and ready for bed.
Your account of your trip made me think of the food we've had on such trips. Any bus trip that included an overnight (or two) would stop at roadside cafes for a lunch on the trip there and back. The leader and bus driver might get free food, but no-one else. An overnight bus trip to Shooting Star would include a food voucher of $5-10, with two or three options for using it. The "Red Eye" trips we took to Warroad would give us a food voucher for soup, sandwich and a one portion bag of chips. The sandwich was usually two slices of white bread and a slice of cheese, but the soup was homemade and often wild rice and turkey--wonderful. The best one we ever had was a Sand Hills. We still talk about it. We drove there and paid about $11-14, and weren't expecting much. But there was a bus tour in that included the buffet and we stumbled onto a full seafood buffet, including fried clams and salmon and all sorts of fancy rice and veggie dishes. We even had the chef come through offering us lobster tails. If I remember the desserts were excellent as well.
Club Regent no longer has a buffet, just a restaurant/sports bar (you've eaten there Beth) and a small selection of bar food, in a different location. There is an ice cream bar (best cheapest ice cream anywhere in town)and a McDonald's as well. We've had some digestive issues after eating anywhere but the ice cream bar, so rarely eat there any more.
Not much going on here today. I even found time for a nap this afternoon. We have a trip to Morden tomorrow to hang a show, and will be having lunch at a B&B restaurant with the other people helping with the hanging. We should be home well in time for supper, though.
Ribs and Eco printing for dinner you say..... Must have been quite a mix for you both - I know I have to exit our kitchen frequently when our two minds begin their own thing and want to create...not enough space to work together anyway haha! I assume the ribs tasted just fine.......
Another pleasant day for us on the bus trip yesterday. I mentioned that the contracts (between bus lines and the Casino) were being negotiated and so we found out the results. There will no longer be a free Luncheon Buffet offered. Instead the casino will load $10.00 onto your card to play the slots. As well, the current 1% offering of points accrued for money spent on the machines, will increase to 5%. This all takes effect in September. Many folks go for the Luncheon offer although I do not see that attraction. So it is expected many will now not sign up to go. The organizer of our Bus trip says that she needs at least 40 people to sign up and actually come, and if numbers dwindle she will choose to discontinue the Bus trips completely. (Maybe someone else might step up to coordinate but she will be out she says - she is also struggling with cancer and treatments, so maybe that is playing heavy on her mind) There were only 30 people on this particular bus and that was with first pickup in Sundridge, and then stopping in three other towns going South. So we signed up to go on the trip the end of September, but may find it cancelled. We'll take a chance.
A wee bit of rain last night but not enough to even wet things down. Harry has started to cull the tomato plants already which may help to pace out the work required in the Fall to clean things up, I hope it will not be a real chore again as it falls on me mostly and I am getting a bit tired of it all, I have to prepare for winter and snow removal and roof clearing etc so know the plants and pots have to be moved but to where? I have to trim back all the plants in the flower gardens as well so that I will be able to move the snow back off the driveway easily. Even talking about winter now sends a chill up my spine haha! My first job though starting today perhaps is to clear in the sun room at the back of the house to have room to place the indoor plants that will have to be brought back in soon - the nights will start to get colder so they will have to find refuge once again inside. One night last week it went down to 5 degrees overnight so that is telling me to prepare now!
So it is the last hooray as they say with the long weekend upon us, bringing s close to summer, and the schools back in business and yes, Pati, the leaves are changing colour here as well and falling.
Enjoy and take care folks.
A crazy day. Fall is fast approaching, and leaves are falling more and more all the time. I really wanted to try my eco-printing once ore, so decided that if it weren't done today, it would be too late. A quick breakfast and I was out gathering leaves from all over the neighbourhood, with my white wicker basket over my arm and and my clippers at hand. ( wonder what the neighbours think--don't care) Got two bundles tied up--a little looser than the last time--and set up my "cauldron" ( canner) on the stove with the timer set for two hours. Turned around and there was David cutting up the ribs we bought to make Daddy's rib recipe. Now, I believe that it isn't a good idea to mix utensils used in my crazy stuff with cooking utensils, but this time I was really caught between a rock and a hard place. Then we discovered that we had no onions, so David headed off to the store and suddenly I was making B-B-Q ribs. A bit of a juggling act until I could get the ribs into the oven, to brown off, then to in the sauce, that had been cooked on top of the stove (along with the cauldron of eco-printing), and then into the slow cooker. Unfortunately, despite my best effort, this printing didn't turn out much better than the one last week. Out of 5 bundles of printing I got one really good print and a lot of marginal prints. The special fabric I use isn't cheap, and I don't think I want to pursue this again. I have enough coloured fabric, if not printed fabric, to make a hanging, and that's what I was aiming for, so that's it.
Later, when I was finally able to get down into the studio, I discovered that one of the fluorescent lights was out. Unfortunately, when we tried to fix it, the actual fixture broke. This means getting an electrician in to replace it, and we both have a hunch that it isn't replaceable in the same size. Ka-a-aching!
I don't know if I mentioned that the squirrel(s) have found that earth in the flower gardens that has been dug up and weeded is really good for digging very deep holes in. Anytime David sees this, he patiently goes out and fills them in, but we mentioned to each other, in passing, that it is the nature of squirrels to dig holes in the fall to bury seeds. We've had a lot ( a lot!) of rain lately and haven't been out in the garden, but this morning when I was searching for leaves I noticed what I thought were sunflowers sprouting in the garden with the Lady Slippers. Yep! A whole bunch of Sunflowers almost 8 inches high. So, David has patiently weeded those out as well.
Last evening, just before bed, I watched Lat Homely House, and heard her refer to a series of videos where she described the process of making a journal, so I searched them out. I was quite interested, but her description of the process was so painfully detailed repetitive and slow, that I couldn't finish any one of the four. I do plan to go back, and find my way directly to the description of the stitching of the thing together, but I don't think I'm going to be making any journals her way.
And now we're both exhausted after a busy day, so I wish you well, and look forward to hearing form you both again.
Glad to hear Pati ...peace of mind is what I am paying for monthly for the Geek Squad - protects the computer and helps by phone when there is a problem. It is worth it for me as we always seem to have some issue that I have had rectified by phone - they "take control" of the computer (scary). The only problem is that the Geek Squad has no jurisdiction for our third party Service Provider ( Ontera) so I have to deal with them separately if it is a modem issue which has happened several times.
A wee bit of rain all day yesterday but it really did not amount to that much precipitation overall. I'll see today if it made a difference in the garden.
I get my hair cut this morning - always a reason to celebrate haha! And then to Casino Rama tomorrow on the bus. I am looking forward to the trip - it makes for some excitement. Now I must check to see if the dear old pensions have been posted and then pay some bills. Always a treat at the end of the month.
Hope you get on to the blog soon Pati and that this unfortunate experience will be rectified to your ongoing satisfaction.
Take care
I'm in the Gallery this afternoon, and have discovered that I can access the Internet. Having made the decision to spend money on our internet problem, we have bought a one year plan with the Geek Squad that will have someone come out on
Wednesday to set our two machines up, and then unlimited access by phone for the rest of a year. We really can't afford it but then our peace of mind is priceless. So, by Wednesday evening, we should be back in business. Thinking of your both.
...but Harry is intimating that he wants to cut down the crabapple tree tree in our yard that died this year. It is one of the very first original trees we planted and produced beautiful apples for most of it's years. it is by the fence between our yard and the Dutch neighbours which mean I am sure I'll have to go into their yard to be the "assistant" cutter downer. I need to get an electric cord out from the house to the tree so I plan to put it out the back door - it will reach because it is the one I use in winter from the house to the greenhouse. Hope it goes well???
You and I are both cleaning up by the sounds of it Cathy. In my case I tackled the kitchen yesterday. Started with my shelf of Tim Horton mugs which I like to switch around occasionally just for variety. But then my ambition extended to the little pantry cupboard and then to the cupboards under the counter and by then the day was done except for a little time I call "happy hour" for myself. I bought a bottle of white wine some time ago and have a little glass most every day ( not every day) and celebrate "happy hour" .
I received an email from my friend Sue who is again organizing a Luncheon with some of 'the old girls" for late October. I always look forward to these get togethers just to see them and enjoy some wonderful talk and laughs. Each has her own life style - all completely different from mine by the way, and I often just like to sit and listen to their stories to appreciate 'the other side of life" so to speak - do you know what I'm trying to say? I come home refreshed and alive and ready to jump into my "life style" again so it really is a positive experience for me.
Tomorrow I go for my hair cut ( not too soon either haha! ) and then to the bank to turn in our rolled coins for paper money to take to the Casino Rama on Thursday. I have not save too much this onth in coins but I may supplement my takings and top it off a bit but I will never spend more than I take so I have some control. I am looking forward to that trip as well - it is like an 'escape" isn't it??
Well, some breakfast, then on with the day. Take care
