Monday, October 10, 2011

Caribou Lake

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This year was a little different than a traditional Thanksgiving, in that Henry and Shirley were not able to join us, but we still went.

Instead we had other special guests! Karl & Bea and Dan & Jenn!

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We had Thanskgiving dinner, Supper Central style.


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Beautiful table! Delicious food.

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We also did a fair bit of lounging around.


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Some fishing and swimming.

And quadding, but I can't find pics of that.

Saturday, October 01, 2011

Harvest 2011

My entire post just got deleted. It was a long one. Sorry, but the second one is going to have a lot less writing.

We had a very hot and dry summer, which means that some things in my garden thrived, and other things didn't. The part that didn't was the tomatoes, corn, lettuce and carrots.

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Clearly, the part that did was the peppers.

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Lots and lots of hot peppers, which, as you can see Michael is very excited about.

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Oh, should talk about the carrots. Remember Mr Carrot Pants from last year?

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Well, apparently, he grew up over the winter. Haha. He also found a wife with pretty sexy legs.

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Apparently they had a busy winter and produced a whole family! Mom, Dad, baby and kiddo!

We had some other freakish carrots too.

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The twist.

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Chicken foot?

Oh, back to the peppers. Since Michael has been slowly but thoroughly enjoying his pickled peppers from last year, we decided to can them again.

Step 1: face the daunting task of slicing. all. those. peppers.

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Step 2: mixing them in my sink because I had not other vessel large enough.

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Step 3: Michael made a thing for the bottom of my pot out of coat hangers to keep the jars from bouncing.

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Step 4: Realize we clearly do not have enough jars and make a mad dash before Canadian Tire closes in 30 minutes.

Step 5: Admire the finished product. Wonder how long it will take to eat this many jars, since it took a year to eat the 12 from last season.

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If you like really hot pickled peppers, let me know...we're sharing!