Out here on the coast we're enjoying great weather for this time of year. It's a little cooler than it was earlier in the week but still pretty nice for mid November. Looking ahead, it should stay this way for at least the next week. Hopefully Patti is enjoying a nice day today too, for her birthday. Be careful when you light all those candles!!!
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| Happy Birthday, Patti! |
The bad news is Lloyd is finished his construction job and doesn't yet have another to go to. The good news is, he now has time to get his building finished, or at least as finished as it's going to be this fall. It's still not completely closed in as yet so the next weeks nice weather will suit that purpose nicely. When he gets that finished, he's going to head to Ontario for a week or so, to pick up the rest of his 'stuff' that's still in Guelph. We figure at this point he may as well just wait till after Christmas and then start looking again for work, unless something happens to come along in the meantime.
He'll just get home and then it will be my turn. The kids school play is taking place on December 19th this year so I'm flying up that day and staying until Patti and James (and Meadow) and I leave to drive here on the 23rd. I'm not sure what day the others are planning on flying down but we should all reconnect sometime on Christmas Eve here on the island. That will give me a brief chance to drop in on a few folks for coffee (you know who you are, so get the coffee ready!!). I'll plan my schedule over the next month. I'll also have to make sure I'm all ready for Christmas before I leave as there will be no time when I get back. In fact we'll be going out to cut down the tree when as soon as we get here so it will be really last minute on Christmas Eve, but I suppose that's what the pioneers did - and that's what this will be - a pioneer Christmas, partly in honour of James' fascination with the War of 1812. So everything for our dinner will have to be locally sourced. That will mean lots of root vegetables and a locally raised turkey. We can handle that. James has requested Grouse for Christmas and a local hunter friend is looking into that for us.
Brenda called the other night to advise that they received some pork that had just been butchered. So she and Lloyd got together last night to try their hand at some homemade breakfast sausage. It went very well and the results were great. They just made a small batch but plan to get together again after Christmas some weekend and we'll all make a big batch of several types. Now we'll have great tasting sausages with no additives.
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| The initial mix of meat and spices |
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| "The Pisquid Sausage Company" |
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| The finished product |
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