2022 Update

    This blog has been neglected. Here it is November and I have not said anything since January. So I think it's about time I did. One image from the months missed should do it.

February - Winter was still with us.

March - The skies were blue and the sun was warm.

April - Cherry blossoms came out in a delightful display.

May - We had a most spring with clouds moving in on a regular schedule.

June - Summer started to get hot and dry.

July - With the warmer and hot weather came the summer tourists.

August - Brought us beautiful landscapes and family.

September - We say lots of birds and the od snake.

October - We had very nice warm days with fantastic cloud formations and still lots of bugs and birds.

and November - And now with half the month left the weather is turning cooler and the days are getting shorter.

Remember to take the road less traveled. Until next we meet.

 

 

First Major Snow Dump

 Today was a snowy adventure. We had a couple of places to go.  

The first thing was to get out the shovel and clean a path to the car.

The golf cart has had it's cover on for a while now

The Big Red Dually is shown the amount of snow with more to come.

 

So off we went through the deep snow. The highway had been cleaned but not the side walks.

Most of the road traffic was four-wheel drives. So I had to keep my wits about me where I could go and not go.

The first destination was Saffron and the owner had his walk all clean for your arrival.  

Checking that the coast was clear over the snow bank we went. 

The destination took us across the street to fill our lauder for the long winter ahead.

So until next time keep your shovel on the ice and your head up high. Have a good 2022.

A Macro World

 From Chaos to Order Nature offers so much for the soul.

Zeroing in on the details.

In every season, every root, every leave, every seed, there are actions waiting to be had for the next season.

Appreciation for details as seen by a camera brings reality to who we are and to what the abundance of nature has to offer.

What Energy, Space, Consciousness and Choice does my body and I need to have total clarity and ease. 

All this is in nature for all of eternity?

Until next time Remember to "Discover It and Live It".

Dad's Favorite - Bacon, Sage & Onion Suet Pudding

"My father was born in England and moved to Canada with his parents when he was 6. His mother must have shown his Canadian bride how to make it as it was one of his favorite dishes. Dad was the carver at the head of the table and would make one cut in the center of the loaf and then ask "Who wants an end piece?"

The following is by Steve Gale on his blog Nueva Cocina.. 

Bacon, Sage & Onion Suet Pudding: I went to visit my mum this weekend and she surprised me by serving this suet pudding for supper. She has be...

Method:
Roughly chop the bacon and gently fry until starting to crisp and colour. Remove from the pan with a slotted spoon and set aside. In the same pan with the knob of butter, fry the onion until soft and golden. Mix the onion, bacon and sage together and add a good grind of black pepper.

Fill your cooking vessel with water and bring to the boil.

Mix the suet, flour and salt together in a large bowl and add just enough water to make a soft dough. Roll into a rough rectangle on a floured board until 0.5cm thick. Spread the bacon and onion mix evenly over the pastry leaving a 1 inch margin all around. Wet the edges of the pastry with water and roll up the pudding like a swiss roll taking care to seal the long edge and the ends. You should end up with a giant anemic looking sausage roll fully containing the bacon filling. Holes will let in water so make sure the pastry is really well sealed.

Carefully roll the pudding in the muslin, twist the ends and tie with string. Carefully drop into the boiling water, cover with a lid or foil and simmer gently for 2 hours making sure the pudding is fully and constantly submerged. Top up the water periodically if needed.


After the cooking, gently remove the pudding by holding the ends of the muslin and allow to rest on a baking rack for 5 mins - this allows excess water to steam/drain away. Unwrap, slice and serve with onion gravy, proper mushy peas made with dried split peas and buttery mash.

Relocating to our Snow Bird RV Site

 C86 was vacated early in the morning so we had a good early start. 

Randal and I went to the office early to say we were moving and to ask if the big pile of garbage that the last tenets left by the site y picked up. 

Between Randal loading the truck and I the cart we made 10 trip to bring the stuff over. With the children playing on the road, trailers, boats and trucks it was slow going.

The traffic was heavy with 100 units leaving and 100 coming it. 

The trailer was to last thing we planned to move .  At 11:030 the rental company arrived and wanted to get into the site. They had 30 other rentals to move in. 

By 12:30 then neighbour from next to N55 came to help move the trailer. We were finally out and over by 1:30pm. 

C86 was completed ruined died grass, infestation of puncture weeds and garbage. 

It was not until close to 3:00pm by the time the trailer and steps were in position so we could put out the slides and put on the power to use the A/C. Finally we were able to relax.

Plymouth Rock

Saskatchewan Farmers, are rare breed, they’re the only ones with enough rocks in the fields, old vehicles in the yard and time on their hands to think of putting them all together and making their own Plymouth Rock.

Back in 2012 I wrote the statement you see above.

How it came about was only by accident.

Lorraine, my wife and I had driven to a small town north and west of out then home in Regina Beach. Craik, Sk. was known for a restaurant/golf club house that was an eco building made of straw-bails, using solar electricity, and composting toilets. The builder and owner rented the meeting room for events.
After one such meeting to go home we decided to take a different route from the regular busy highway. So we took the first grid road east. All of southern Saskatchewan is made up of a system of roads, 2 miles x 4 miles in a grid. 

Fairly soon on the journey we saw a large open stubble field with an old car standing in the middle of it on a pile of field stones.

Being carious and having my camera with me we stop and walk the distance to the center of the field. I could not recognize the make of the car. Old Fords and Chevrolets were common here on the prairies. Even right up close I could not tell as there were no logos on it at all. So I walk a 360 around it taking shots the whole time.
After getting back to our car and showing the digital images to Lorraine, we continued home along the grid.
Checking the images on the home desktop I still could not find an answer to my question “What was the Make of the car?” 

             
I sent an email to my brother to get his best guess. He figured it was a Dodge or a Plymouth and settled on a Plymouth. His reasoning was “ That only a Saskatchewan Farmer has enough time and sense of humor to make his own Plymouth Rock”

So until next time remember to "Discover It and Live It".