FROZEN!

It’s a FROZEN Friday Five over at RevGals! 1. For The First Time in Forever: Tell us about a magical first snow day – for a child, a transplanted southerner, or maybe you have a great story from the first snowfall in your area this season. I usually love snow days, the sense of being safe…

Last Year’s Dirt

Those are the words that sprang to mind as I opened a bag of candy beets to cook them for supper. We get a box of fruit and vegetables each week from Taproot Farms. This week we got beets! One of my favourite veggies. As you can see from the picture, they still had a…

Change is Good! Right?

“I don’t plan on changing anything while I am at St. Paul’s,” I said to my husband, shortly before I began my six month supply position with them, “It’s not really my role in a six month appointment.” “Really,” he says, the words drawn out a bit skeptically. His skepticism is valid, I am not…

Friday Five – Lucky 13!

It’s Random Friday Five over at RevGals.   1.  Folklore has it that 13 is unlucky.  Some rabble rousers think that 13 is lucky.  Do you have a lucky number, lucky “thing”, lucky anything that goes wherever you go? I have a ‘lucky’ button that it usually in the pocket of my robe when I am…

Friday Five – They Say It’s Your Birthday!

Over at RevGalBlogPals, the questions this week are all about birthdays! 1) Are you a cake or pie person? What type do you savor on your big day? Definitely a cake person. Devil’s Food Cake.  2) Growing up, did you have a favorite “birthday meal?” How about now? I don’t remember a favourite birthday meal growing up.…

Friday Five!

The Friday Five questions from RevGals:  Besides cookies, muffins, and ice cream, what’s something chocolate chips are good in? Ah… my mouth, straight from the package when I need a chocolate fix! But also this cake, there were chocolate and toffee bits between the layers.  Besides official holidays and your birthday, what’s the best day of…

Quack!

I‘ve been everywhere, man. I’ve been everywhere, man. Crossed the desert’s bare, man. I’ve breathed the mountain air, man. Of travel I’ve had my share, man. I’ve been everywhere. The Dastardly or Dreadful Duck hasn’t been quite everywhere, but he’s been around! And it must be male with those bright colours. It all started Christmas…

Unfriending or Unfriendly

Over at A Church For Starving Artists, Jan Edmiston, writes about the challenge of making friends after a certain age, especially when you are in ministry. I agree, having been ordained at the age of 45 and sent to a village, 1800 kilometers away from friends and family, it IS a challenge. While not geographically…

Friday Five – Brrr!

Over at Revgals the ‘Friday Five’ question is How Do You Cope With the Cold? I have discovered how much warmer I stay when I wear boots! This may seem pretty basic but for a number of years I had heated underground parking and it’s been an adjustment to parking my car in the driveway…

Leek & Potato Soup

I ham bone Olive oil 2 leeks, sliced thinly 2 large potatoes, peeled and diced Celery salt Pepper I used the leftover bone from our Easter ham; it had been refrigerated, so I was able to scrape the fat off it before I put it in the pot. If you are making this soup immediately…