It's a very frosty one this morning but we should reach a sunny 15' later today.
Hope all of you are enjoying your holiday - at least those of you who have it off. We're joining our friends Charles and Laura for dinner later today. Most of the meal will be VERY locally produced. Charles and Laura raised the chicken we'll be having as well as growing the lettuce for our salad, and the potatoes. I'll be bringing some carrots and sliced tomatoes topped with fresh basil from my garden. Doesn't get much more local than that!
It's been a quiet weekend but a productive one. On Saturday afternoon the weather was beautiful so we both worked outside when I got home from work. Lloyd's still working on sorting and organizing the mess in the garage. It's amazing how much stuff was crammed into the little shed that he emptied to store wood. So while that was being worked on I finished stacking the rest of the pile of wood that was outside. Now all the wood is inside, high and dry. Only took 4 years to finally perfect the wood storage but we're finally there. The plan next summer is to put another door in the back side of the small shed so that when the wood is cut, it can be stacked inside right away and the doors open all summer will allow lots of air to flow through being as that's the direction the prevailing winds usually come from. It should work beautifully. But this years wood is all left from last year so dying it isn't a huge issue.
It was great working outside in the sunshine and actually accomplishing some jobs.
Sunday was sunny and cooler but again, great for working outside. I did a couple of things inside while Lloyd headed back out to the garage. I spent the better part of the morning pulling up all the plants in the garden and picking the last of the tomatoes in anticipation of last nights frost. I know the tomatoes will ripen so at least some of them are saved. Some froze the last time we had frost so we lost part of the crop, but it's all good now. The rest of the plants were pretty much done. I cut the cabbages that were there and pulled the turnips up but they were pretty small. Lots of lessons learned for next year.
After some lunch, we watched a bit of TV with our tea, then got cleaned up and headed into town. I had to stop at the store before we headed over to City Cinema to see an interesting movie called "Haute Cuisine". We both really enjoyed it - but then it did have a food theme! Because it had an early start time, we were home again by 7:30.
This morning I'm making a dessert to take for dinner and catching up on some laundry. Lloyd will have to go into work tonight so we're having an early dinner so we can get home in time for him to take a wee nap.
Hope all of you have a great day!
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