wonton soup, cold appetizer plate, eggplant and fish with seafood are on the menu for thursday. Hopefully it will stop snowing long enough for me to get to town to buy the ingredients that I need.

weiners and buns over the campfire, only in the summer you say, not so how about on on the dugout in the winter.

ha ha ha ha, I can't stop laughing, Crystal's Kareoke machine is a blast!! ooooh and the ribs marinated in bourbon were superb.

We snowblowed the dug out yesterday, so we now have a big skating rink, well sort of a skating rink, the ice is a little snowy but not real bad. So all those people coming for christmas with skates should bring them. we have a tub and wood for a skating bonfire, we just need the hot dogs and buns. If the weather holds we could even play hockey.

Well, I have a job interview January 4th. Another part time position, if I am successful I will be holding down a total of five part time jobs at one time and I still will have time to plant the flowers and trees I need this spring and summer to make black pansy jelly and lilac jam. I wonder just how many part time jobs a person can have at one time, do you suppose there is a answer in the Book of World Records.

Happy Happy Birthday to Crystal, seven years old today. Happy Birthday to Angela twenty six years old tommorrow.

Peanut Brittle turned into Peanut Crumble, thats what we created today. A little too long on the stove, I think. A slight adjustment in the cooking time should produce the correct product.

wow, Debbie Travis Facelifit can come to my house anytime!! The last show was quite inspiring with the change from the frumpy family room to the exciting and modern family room with all new tv, and furniture. Ok, so who do I have to bribe to get the how to my house.

When is too much Star Choice, too much? When you get stuck watching Dawn of the Living Dead because you have the movie channels. Yuckk

ok, now I know why the average person no longer bakes their own Christmas cake. The prices of the indgredients, candied cherries, candied peel, pecans, slivered almonds, raisins, currents are simply out of this world. After considering the cost of labour and materials a loaf size Christmas Cake would be worth about $60.00, or at least $7.00 a piece. Hopefully it tastes relevantly as good as it costs.

Arianna has been making a surprise for Christmas for everyone. Her artistic talents are immense, at least on nine out of ten surprises, the other surprise reminds me of many round rabbit poops stomped on by Max the dog. Just a note to all those who will be recipients of these surprises, the rabbit poop surprise is actually for Arianna herself so everyone else is safe. The Food Network is on a holiday theme these days, the Italian family Christmas Meal being prepared today looks very appetizing with a great deal of variety from seafood to desserts and noodles. mmm yummy. I think I will serve Roasted Dandelion Root Coffee for Christmas, I 've found a great glass perculator thats allows the coffee aroma to permeate the house and the visual process of the dandelion root turning into coffee is also quite appealing. We will see how the die hard coffee lovers make out!!

warm weather is on the way, now we just need to fix the skidoo. plus four on monday thanks to some chinook from Edmonton. Hopefully this will help me to get my christmas chopping done by christmas. Essentially I still have all of my presents to buy.

Well, the ground outside might be white, but inside the house we are dealing with a case of pink, pink eye that is. Well it is off to the Dr. this afternoon, poor Crystal woke up with pink eye. I suppose that will also mean more days off from school, pink eye being highly contagious and all. Hopefully tommorrow we can watch something else besides shrek three times in one day. Her choice for tommorrow will probably be Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

Wow, what a lot of snow!! and more to come!! Looks a lot like Christmas now. I suppose Gerald out driving the grader at 4:00 a.m. this morning to try and clear the snow off of the road wasn't quite as pleased with the whole event the way Crystal, Arianna and I were.

ok, the Chrsitmas tree is decorated, the Christmas lights are on, the Christmas Santa is lit up, oh where or where can all the presents be, still in the store unfortunately!! Well, I must get to it, shopping we will have to go on friday.

Free sleigh rides for the kids, free hot dogs, juice coffee, door prizes for everyone and a surprise bag for the kids. A great community event in rural Saskatchewan sponsored of all things by the local co-op. It's days like those that remind me of why we left the city. Of course it didn't hurt when I won the cheese basket door prize!!

well, how about that, I was thinking about how nice it would be to have a job, one that paid real money, instead of using up all my money as seems to be occurring in our attempt to farm. of course the red clover syrup and the flower jellies are the exception and have indeed been profitable and will be even more so in the future. But in the mean time a job would be nice, and low and behold, the Smeaton Housing Authority is looking for a contract Manager. Well, I shall certainly throw my hat in the ring for that one.

ok, we are really into the flower thing now, we have a florescent light attached to the wall, hanging over the indoor nasturtiums to coax them to bloom. The nasturtiums in the mean time look like strings with flat circles attached to them, apprently they are leaves. The leaves taste good though, a bit less spicy then the flowers, I will just have to make some smoked salmon cream cheese stuffed nasturtium leaves for christmas dinner, if we are not fortunate enough to coax the flowers to bloom.

Ok, a phone in order for red clover blossom syrup. Fortunately we have about eight bottles of syrup left. Repeat customer, the life blood of the retail industry, hopefully we will have more of them next year at this time.

ok, two rooms down, one bedroom is organized and one living room, most of the stuff is put away some where. now back to the kitchen. Pansies were transplanted into pots today, we shall see how that works.