Saturdays

I just love Saturdays, especially when they are nice and warm and there's work to do outside!! 2 Saturdays ago, I was over at Nelson's (Kelly was gone for a couple of days) and started raking all the old grass off the yard, then we had a hamburger fry for lunch! Was SO AWESOME to finally grill burgers and enjoy eating them outside! Eating burgers inside just isn't quite the same! Anyhow, after lunch Tamera and I took the jeep to the neighbors to pick up some fencing supplies and check out a water tank for the horse. Back at the house, Kelly had called and was back and needing to be picked up from work, so picked him up and then we all went out to help Nelson build a bigger pasture for the horse! It was definitely one of the better days of the year, so far! :) Mostly just because I could be working outside barefoot! 

Now this last Saturday we were in Kenora at Kelly's folks. And they were needing to get a spot cleared out in the woods ('bush', as they call it here in the north country) for a septic field. So Kelly got to spend all day in the bobcat or trackhoe, which he absolutely LOVES! And I got to cut and load firewood. Plus I walked up the hill to where we were working a couple times, so by the end of the day I was starting to feel a little sore! But it was totally worth it! For supper we cooked over the fire. Mom made potatoes in her dutch oven and I made blueberry cobbler in mine, which ended up getting very well-done so had to scrape off some of the blackness! Ben had wanted wieners so that was the meat! It was a great way to end an already great day!

Now it's been raining all day today, and I think it's suppose to rain tomorrow some too, but I'm hoping for sunshine and warm days again very, very soon!!

Strawberry Pina Colada Smoothie

Last night we had are friends, Mikey and Tiff, over for supper. Kelly wanted to grill something, so I picked up chicken legs. Wow! He did a great job grilling them! Then we had ceasar salad and cubed, seasoned sweet potatoes to go along with it. It was quite a delicious meal, if I may say so myself. But then we think we always need dessert when there's company over, so... What should I make?! The Co-op in Rosenort makes a recipe each week for folks to try and of course if the recipe is really good they convince the folks to buy the ingredients for it! Last week it was just mixing strawberry daiquiri, pina colada, a banana, and ice in a blender. I never tried it, but heard that it was really good. Well, I really didn't feel like banana flavor so I came up with the following:

Frozen Strawberries

Strawberry Daiquiri

Pina Colada

Fresh Pineapple

Ice-Cream

Blend until smooth adding more of whatever flavor you would like!

 Super easy and very good! 

It would be awesome for a summer party! At least I was impressed, you can try it and let me know what you think!

Me Again

Today is another cloudy, rainy day in Southern Manitoba. That's about the same as Tiff always saying, 'It's another windy day in Western Texas'! I truly hope this year doesn't end up being like the first year we were married! It seemed like it rained all summer and the worst part was that it only got to 80 degrees once!! But on the bright side, I've heard it's suppose to be a very hot summer! So maybe!!! 

Thursday night we had our 'Heart Sister Tea and Revealing'! It proved to be quite interesting! Us girls did most of the food and decorating so ended up being at church most of the day. We had collected people's cups and saucers, some teapots, doilies, and lanterns. After seeing some of those amazing tea cups, I almost got inspired to start collecting, but what would I ever do with them and were in the world would I store them?! For food we had mini cheese cakes (oreo and raspberry), fruit kabobs, crackers, cucumbers hollowed partially out and filled with dip and topped with red pepper (totally looked like sushi :), and then hot tea and punch. There were a few of the ladies that had figured out who their heart sister was, but for the most part everyone was surprised. The best one was that one of the Grandma's had her daughter and she had never caught on!! All in all it turned out to be a fun evening!

Saturday Kelly and I went to Winnipeg. Mostly so Kelly could go and look at grills which I told him would be his birthday present this year. We ended up coming home with The Big Green Egg, so we'll see if it's all it's cracked up to be! We tried a couple pieces of chicken on Sunday and those were great, now tomorrow we're going to have some friends over and try steak! 

Other than that life has been quite normal. I'm getting fat and really should be sewing instead of doing this!! I took a couple weeks off from sewing, but now the need is starting to get a little more serious, so..... That's what I'm doing this afternoon!

Later!