After we said goodbye to our house guest Mark, who moved back to Lloydminster this morning (see previous post under ‘general’), we started our first camping trip of the season! We wanted to go to Buffalo Pound or Last Mountain Lake … » full post and pics!
For the past 4 months we had our friend Mark staying with us, as he had been transferred to Regina, but was still trying 
to get his house in Lloydminster sold. Long story short… 2 weeks ago he was asked back at the Lloydminster branch and since he still hadn’t … » full post and pics!
Last night there has been a cougar sighting IN the city (the first ever!) only 2 km away from our house, by the Conexus Art Centre at the Wascana Lake. About 10pm, a city bus driver radio-ed in a description of the animal, saying he was quite familiar with what … » full post and pics!
We have all 2009 pics online now. This is not the complete list: we already posted many albums in our weblogs, like the camping weekends and the family visit vacation, but here are the photo albums of 2009 that we did NOT post here yet!
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As spring is around the corner and the snow is melting (but you never know, we can still get new snow!), we went away for a weekend to Moose Mountain Provincial Park. We’ve camped there before and had breakfasts in … » full post and pics!
Right now we’re in full Olympics mode!! The openingsshow in Vancouver was fantastic and made us so proud to be a Canadian resident!! And thanks to our wonderful neighbours Mike and Alison we finally have the Olympic mittens too now! As for the games… Dutch speedskater Sven Kramer has Gold … » full post and pics!
SPECULAAS SPICES MIX
mix ground:
90 g cinnamon
30 g nutmeg
30 g cloves
10 g star anise
10 g coriander
5 g white pepper
5 g ginger
5 g cardamom
ALMOND PASTE
150 g ground almonds
150 g sugar
1 egg
zest of a lemon plus … » full post and pics!
RIP Melissa
Our hearts broke when we learned of our friend Barbara’s daughter Melissa’s unexpected passing at age 23 of a lung embolism. No one should ever have to deal with something like this, but Bar least of all. She just had a hard year after getting a new kidney, … » full post and pics!
Happy Holidays everybody! Click on the card to see the big version!
Our second year in Canada was fantastic! We enjoyed the winter wonderland in the first months, sadly had to say goodbye to Spooky (who was almost 22 though!!), and by the time it was March we were ready … » full post and pics!