Biggest effort was raking, mowing and blowing leaves (again). Enough of that crappy season chore. Brain fart cleaned the oven door in & out. Ha. Too much kitchen time yesterday, so today is all trivial stuff. The clock is ticking to pick up an Italian Beef for supper (free). A batch of Kahlua is chilling for evening sipping. A good weekend.

It's a beautiful day! We both slept in because he went fishing last night and I stayed up waiting until he got home, safe and sound. We've been raking, trimming, washing windows, laundry, changing the sheets.....such a day inspires activity.

Paco, the little cat boy, thinks that it's a purrfect day to keep track of the sunbeams all day long, moving all around the house to find the best sunbathing opportunities.

Great minds think alike! It's so cold that I set out some frozen brussels' sprouts to broil! That will make the kitchen cozy. Tomorrow I plan to run the oven's self-cleaning feature for the same reason.

Friday I roasted a half of a leg of lamb I had downstairs in the freezer. Best lamb I've ever roasted; there was nothing in the pan with it and just a rubbing of fresh crushed garlic, olive oil, cracked pepper, and salt on it.

I kept the oven slow, 325 degrees, and checked it with the meat thermometer. Took it out at 135 degrees, let it set a while and then sliced it. Oh yumm. Perfection.

I'm packaging it into 1 lb. bundles and freezing it for soup, "lamb and potatoes," or a ragout after DH gets home from the elk hunt.

It's so good I may set the other half out, too. Lamb and potatoes, Spanish style, or lamb stews are my very favorites!

Not much. I'm making Raven's crusty bread but that doesn't count for anything because it's so darn easy. I will be doing some laundry today. Haven't even unpacked my suitcase from our trip last week. (Been home since Friday) I think I might do a little work on my closet, also. I did start switching around but have lots more to do.

Church ... including memorial for a guy who was in Sunday school with me and whose family chose no funeral and no memorial ... born before the United Church of Canada was formed from about 70% of the Presbyterians, the Methodists and the Congregationalists in 1925 ... which I missed by 4 years.

Was bound for the second church, for coffee hour, thought I'd missed most of the veteran's remembrance at the cenotaph, but saw the parade coming, so went there, then to the legion hall for refreshments and had a visit with a local Member of Parliament whom I know.

And now am here yakking to you folks - city central library open for a while on Sun. afternoons Oct. - May or so.

ole joyful

I've spent the last 3 days slowly cleaning, and I just keep finding things to clean! The whole house needs a good deep clean. I'm waiting on my husband to let me know when he and his friends will be heading over from shooting trap and having lunch. I'll have cold drinks and snack for them while they hangout. I might make some quick breads to take into work this week, and get some of my cupboard cleared out.

Chilly day here. Did some cleanup on my weaving supplies area and painted a small table there. Spent 30 min. on the Nordic Track. Ate a quick lunch and have been outdoors doing garden cleanup. Still debating what I'll make for dinner, but I will definitely try something new and the oven will definitely be on! :O)

At last the low humidity has passed and my flaky skin is healing. A cool moist breeze sure is helping. Today I'm doing small tidy ups-you know, the little things you keep meaning to get to. Something's wrong with my leg and with that and the broken toe I thought I'd ask about them in a separate thread.

I've been pulling some of my fall and winter clothes out of storage and getting them washed. Also working on some organizing projects around the house.

Baking sounds lovely. Your bread looks delicious.
I am totally redecorating my bedroom. Been working on it a couple of weeks now and am finally done removing things. I took off the wallpaper and took up the 25 year old carpeting and pad. Going to paint the walls and put down plank flooring with an area rug. Today I primed the walls. My first time painting alone. It wasn't too bad though. My husband always did the roller and I would cut in the edges.

Rose, how exciting to do a bedroom rejuvenation! It'll feel like a brand new haven when you're all finished. I enjoy prepping and painting....bedrooms are the most fun, I think.

I spent this morning reading the last in the Maze Runner book series. Played some on-line games, put away yesterday's white-clothes laundry that was still in the dryer, then met Alex (my son) for a movie. We saw Interstellar. Good movie. He took off as soon as the movie ended, meeting a study group that he was late for because of the movie. Came home and ate a homemade naked burrito. Started a new book, Dr. Ben Carson's "America the Beautiful". Bought it a few months ago and only now starting it.

Have to work tomorrow, so I got some things ready for it...water, a coffee mug to heat water for instant coffee. I missed three days last week due to an eyelid infection. On antibiotics. Just hope I have the time to stop and put them in every 4 hours.

Ooh, that sounds irritating, kath. Be sure to throw away all of your makeup, if you wear any.

Ooh, that sounds irritating, kath. Be sure to throw away all of your makeup, if you wear any.

I have been knitting booties for my son's soon to be nephew while watching reruns of Downton Abbey. Next, I am going to wash the patio windows before dark. It rained last week, and we needed it, but I had just washed the windows that morning! Washing windows is my version of a Rain Dance!

Rhizo, no makeup...haven't worn any in a few months.

I went to church. After the service, most of us went to the basement for a delicious lasagna lunch. From there to the women's basketball game with a group of friends. A very enjoyable Sunday. Read the 2 Sunday papers after I got home.

rhizo, please come prep and paint here!!! :)

I went for a nice brisk walk this morning (1 1/2 hours) and got really chilled. A hot shower warmed me up. I am also doing research for our local history society of a house at which several hundred seances took place early in the 1900s. The family who lived there was headed by a respected doctor who initiated the psychical researches, as he called them. There eventually was world-wide interest in the phenomena displayed during the seances, including photographs of strange appearances and table tilting spelling out messages. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was one visitor to the home who experienced a seance. The gist of this all was communicating with people "who had passed to the other side." All phenomena were verified by notable community members and affidavits signed as to the authenticity of photographs, etc.

"The gist of this all was communicating with people "who had passed to the other side." All phenomena were verified..."

Surely you don't believe this, do you?

Nice looking bread, jasdip.

I have vowed to bake all of my favorite cookies this year, so today I went shopping and bought all the ingredients. Then this evening, I rode my horse. I have made myself a promise that I would ride her every day for a year, It was almost dark when I got her saddled but I rode for a few minutes anyway....plan to ride a lot earlier tomorrow.

I don't believe it at all, Snidley. The phenomena were verified by respected community members is what the voluminous records tell us. However, from our stance today, we don't know how rigorous the observations were, whether the observers were unbiased and whether modern scientific methods were used. From their appearance, it's not hard to conclude that the photographs were altered.

It's interesting that this seemed to be a time of detecting the supernatural and "seeing the formerly unseen," such as the apparently real 1917 Cottingley Fairies photographs which Sir Arthur Conan Doyle accepted as genuine. The women who as young girls took the photographs have now confessed that they are fake.

Here is a link that might be useful: Cottingley Fairies

marilyn_c, baking your favorite cookies is a great idea -- which ones? But riding the horse every day for a year might be a tough promise to keep..... why put so much stress on yourself?

Yesterday....I finished the basement demo in the rental. I tore out the rest of the firing strips and loaded them in the truck with a few ceilng tiles and hauled them to a dumpster....with the dumpster owners permission.

Then shopped for Bali mini blind mounting brackets, they came with the wrong ones. Grrrrr...... then DH used the basement bathroom....and it almost over flowed....got online and researched Roto Rooter ....

For lunch we went to a "Shop and Save" grocery store.....all Spanish patrons and "things" for sale....picked up lunch....

For dinner, made baked potato wedges to go with the fish sticks. Threw Temtation Tumblers for the cat to entertain the bored kitty that was left at home all alone aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaall day......lol Then took a loooooooooooooong bath....

The day before I was shopping @ The Restore....and a board fell on my forehead....left a knot the size of an egg & dark circles under my eyes....now it's black & blue...but almost gone....YAY! Haven't gotton hurt working, but I got nailed shopping....lol