Lindsay wrote such a wonderful blog about our past weekend that I needed to write a few words myself. Last weekend our visit to see Cathy and Albert in Lethbridge, Alberta was wonderful!
It started out with Cathy and Albert cooking up a delicious supper for us of Alberta beef fillet with fresh salad, fried dilled potatoes, roasted Creston asparagus and garlic toast – it was yunmmy!! Not to mention good conversation as well.
On Saturday, Lindsay and Jeff, Ray and Jane, Cathy and Albert and Bob and myself went golfing at a little par three course (for me it was more like a par eight course). Bob and Jeff gave me a few tips to improve my game – thank you, hopefully I will remember them as well as incorporate them. After golf we went to a much more elite golf club for lunch that Bob treated everyone to – thanks Bob! Then off to Christy’s (Cathy’s daughter) and her partner, Scott’s, to see their new show home (it is so beautiful! and big too!). Christy is pregnant and due in mid-late October – she is glowing with health right now! Back to Cathy and Albert’s for some more visit with Lindsay and Jeff. It was just terrific to see them – a fine day indeed! After Lindsay and Jeff left it was a race to the end.
You guessed it – how many Margaritas can we each consume. We talked Albert into making four batches and let me assure you, they were marvelous! Try balancing your Margarita while playing Bosse Ball. Well you can’t so you ask someone to hold your Margarita for you while you toss your ball. The men won both games.
Cathy, Albert, Ray and myself joined up and made supper. Mexician fare. It was great team work as well delicious food. The smokers, Bob and Jane, were suppose to clean-up but quickly snuck out the door for their smoke leaving the mess for us cooks. When I looked up at the clock when we all finished dinner it was 11 p.m. – a little late for dinner don’t you think?
On Sunday Cathy treated us to brunch – thanks Cathy! Then Cathy drove me around for a tour of Lethbridge – it is nice city. Off to Costco’s. Bob gave me $300 for Alberta beef as well as other good buys. I spent $294.32 on good stuff.
Bailey joined us on this trip and she was a good as gold. Bailey is such a polite and sweet doggie – I love her to bits!
If you go to our blogroll and click on our pictures you may find some pictures that Lindsay and Jeff took of the weekend ( Lindsay’s Lethbridge pictures)or you can look at them on their blog thesills.net .
I finished Wuthering Heights last night. So many people told me how much they loved Wuthering Heights that I really wanted to read it so I choose it as my turn of choice for my book club. Most people read it in high school but it wasn’t part of my curriculum.
It was indeed a good read. The first third was a little difficult to get through getting use to the old English but once I got use to the language and figured out who was who, I couldn’t put the book down. I will say that the ending was very predictable. I would have been more surprised had it ended any differently.
What a very nasty man Heathcliff was – the devil himself!!
Bob and I and my cousin Eileen and her husband and children (from North Vancouver) will be in Toronto (Scarborough) the same time this coming August.
My cousins, Gary and Kevin, have planned a mini family reunion and it is called “Buttfest”. My maiden name is Butt and so is Eileen’s and we have a lot of cousins that are Butts or have Butt blood in them. With shared emails and facebook connections it looks as though almost everyone is coming. A lot of us have not seen each other for over 25 years or even met their off-spring. My cousin, Barry, has done some Butt research and is hopefully compiling his work and will present some long lost history or untold stories or even secrets of Butts past. Should be quite an event. Looking forward to it.
Finally the gardens are planted. If I could just stay away from them for a wee while, I am sure they would do much better. Today I was pruning brand new plants (why? they are new plants) to get rid of any part of the whatever plant wasn’t prefect. I killed a perfectly fine Russian tomato plant. I was clipping off a lower leaf because it had a little yellow around the edge and clipped in too far and snapped the whole top of the plant off. What a jerk! If anyone else had done that to my perfectly fine tomato plant that had three tiny tomatoes on it – I would have ripped their head off!!! I was so angry at myself that I just left the poor lame plant to die a slow death in the baking hot sun. When I finished my Pilates and a short meditation I went out and got that sad little tomato plant and put it into a glass of water with a bit of plant food. Just maybe it will come back to life and grow some roots or at the very least not have such an agonizing death. Good thing we are going away for four days – keep this monster away from the garden!
I just finished a small bowl of cottage cheese with Canadianna Spicery Hemp Salad Lift sprinkled on top and it was very delicious! My friend, Patty, brought me back three different kinds of Canadianna Spicery mixes from her last road trip to Kelowna. Last night Bob and I had baked chicken legs that had been rubbed with Rock Creek Rub before being baked – very good again! Rock Creek Rub is a spice mix with a lot of my favourite spices in a sort of West Indian mode.
When I was looking out my kichen window the other day I witnessed a sad scene. Out of the blue sky a big crow flew into the covered porch of my neighbors out building – let me tell you that this crow was on a mission – it knew where it was going and why. As that nasty crow flew into the covered porch, out flew a much smaller bird (I think it could have been a robin) like it was escaping. Then that ruthless crow came out and landed on the ground and was obviously eating something. Sadly, I think it was the baby of the bird that flew out. After that gruesome crow finished its first course it went back into the covered porch for seconds. It was indeed a sad scene to witness.
I just tried out a new laundry detergent that is suppose to be environmentally friendly and I am very impressed!! It is called Natural Elements Purex 2X Ultra Concentrate. It is biodegradable and designed for the environment. Bye-bye Tide!
I got the fabric softener of the same name and impressed with that too!