Monday, April 28th - another successful Pancake Breakfast in the bag!

It's a chilly, rainy  3' this morning but the howling winds make it feel more like -3' and that's pretty much where it will stay for the day. It's not looking to get much better till towards the end of the week. Spring is really resisting hanging around this year, and we are so waiting for it. Actually Saturday wasn't bad at all - a bit warmer and some nice sunshine. Sunday was back to cold and damp.

After work on Saturday, I stopped in at the Rec Centre to see how I could be of assistance but Brenda was already there and had everything done, that could be done, that far in advance. We had gotten together on Friday evening to measure out the pancake dry ingredients and put them into individual plastic bags. Then all that was required to do was add some eggs and milk and whisk away.  We still were not sure just how much we would need so we just kind of guessed and then added a couple more.
On Saturday afternoon, she came over when Lloyd was putting the beans together. We helped him by chopping up onions, and measuring out the needed ingredients while he first  prepared the raw beans in the pressure cooker that we had set soaking the night before. Once that was done, she headed home and we decided on what to do for supper. We opted to go to a local golf course down the road called Peakes Tee, that has the most amazing hamburgers! They aren't part of the burger love campaign but they really should be. They had a large special burger that  Lloyd enjoyed and I had their usual Volcano burger - a bit hot but very delicious. I still insist they make the very best burgers around.

Sunday morning we were up early to do a final check on the beans, and to pack up what we needed for the breakfast. I met Brenda at the hall at 8:00  and we got to work, although most of the work was already done. Shortly after, people started arriving to help out. By 9:30 we had pancakes being flipped by several people, eggs being scrambled (Lloyd'd domain besides the beans) and and sausages being turned in the ovens (Pat did a great job for his first time out).  Promptly at 9:45 people started filing in and soon the place was filling up with hungry church goers.  It all ran like a well oiled machine and in no time at all, everyone was sitting down and enjoying their breakfast. In fact Will and Bernie arrived at what they thought was an appropriate time only to discover that everyone was leaving and breakfast was being cleared away. They arrived just in time for some food. They underestimated just how efficient we were going to be this year. I managed to get some photos in the kitchen but then forgot to take any of the crowd as I was serving eggs in the buffet line! I'll have to be better organized next year.

After breakfast we met at Brenda's to make some notes on what we need for next year so we're not scrambling around wondering "What did we do last year?" Well done Brenda, you did a really great job!  And also thanks to everyone who helped in the kitchen as well as those who brought baked goods.

 I'd like to say that the rest of my day was just as productive. Such is not the case. I came home and went upstairs and had a lengthy nap for an hour or so, then came back downstairs and watched some TV. I had lots of things I should have been doing but the cold damp weather outside just made you want to curl up in front of the fire and the TV and stay there. And that's precisely what was done. When Lloyd woke up from his nap, he joined me and that's where we spent the rest of the day. I suppose it's okay to slack off every now and then.