It's So Quiet

The kids are in Victoria this weekend, so I can get caught up on a few things - like blogging.

I had a blast making sandwiches this week! I got to make extra ones - clubhouse, Monte Cristo and a delicious bbq chicken pizza. I may make that bbq sauce my next recipe post. Next week I am the salad queen.

I still have my stupid cold/bronchitis but it seems to be getting better, despite a minor relapse this week. Poor Skyla girlie dog has a cough too. I've been sneaking her pills into balls of Cheez Whiz but she isn't as enthusiastic about that treat as Cuinn, so I'm not entirely sure the pills are going where they are supposed to.

My car seems to be working well these days, last weekend we took Ry to Victoria and got back again without any problems. Good thing too, since Niko and I both left our phones at home.

We spent last Sunday doing yard work. We pulled all the slash and broken branches out the trees and burned it. The Hydro crews had been going through and cutting the taller trees on the easement for years and not disposing of the slash. Last year Mum made them come and chip it. It is a major fire hazard so we are trying to haul it out before it gets too dry to burn it. The really fun bit is all the little blackberry suckers wound around the branches. I look like I lost a fight in a cattery.

The overhaul on the greenhouse is coming along slowly (like anything else John does, but at least he is out of Mum's hair for a bit), it's looking less like a refugee camp and a little more tidy. The plastic and tarps were all mismatched and torn, so it looked very, uh, festive, in the wind.