technically today was the first day steph had off as the last 2 were the weekend. It was also heathers 2nd birthday. We started the day with homemade waffles covered with homemade syrup. Then we opened birthday presents. Aunti jen had got her a china tea set which was partially broken and some glass things with H's on them that are like little square cupholders. I have no idea. Also a gym bag shaped like a dog apparently just like or actually is one that steph used to have.
After that we got ready and headed out to butterfly world for heather. Not many pictures since it was 24C and 80% humidity inside causing instant fogging of the camera that never got better. Not a lot of butterflies, but heather liked the finches and little birds on the ground like quail.
The turtles she was ok with but all of the tortoise scared her a little at first. going outside to the frog pond we saw frogs but since they were well hidden and not moving I'm not sure if heather saw them. We also saw koi in the fish pond and heather was scared by one when it came to the surface and grabbed something to eat. While wandering the garden in the rain steph and I discussed building a pergola over the back patio possibly with planters acting like walls around the outside of it. Something to add some privacy back there.
After butterfly world we headed into the coombs market and bought breads for dinner tonight as well as a mini pizza for heather and some ham and cheese couisants for steph and I for lunch.
After that it was off to toy's R us for some presents for heather since she hadn't gotten any toys yet. We got her a few small plastic trucks like a dump truck and steam roller. as well A new pair of sunglasses and a small magna doodle thing for the car. Also a drip catcher thing that you can put your popsicle or ice cream cone in and it will catch the drips assuming you keep it upright.
Rod and vic came over for dinner and my parents and dave stopped by to drop off presents. Heather got a bubble mower and a green turtle sand box possibly more I wasn't there when they opened them. dinner was spagetti and caesar salad. After words we had icecream log.
rod and vic stayed till 9 and we talked about pretty much anything. They are seriously thinking about buying a new trailer in the next couple of days. we also took a look inside the furnace and figured out how to wire the UV light to turn on when the fan comes on. Rod is going to drop off a 24V 110 relay. I'll need to wire the light into it and the relay into the wall where the pump is hard wired. Also if he can find it he's going to drop off the GPS that plugs into a laptop for me to test with. I'm thinking about getting something like it going for trips into the woods. I'm not sure what I'll use for software and if I'll try the ubuntu laptop or the windows one but something free much be available. I wonder if I can get google earth to cache most of the islands data for when I'm way away from a net connection.
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Monday, May 31, 2010
steph's year off day 2
wow I didn't even manage to get around to doing an entry on my second day of try to record all of this. Doesn't bode well for actually getting an entire year in here does it.
Anyways Abe and Kellina came over to visit in the morning, we had sticky buns and fruit salad. Opened up the coffee they brought back from hawaii it's good but sweet. Not at all like the presidents choice crap I mix with hot chocolate each morning. lunch was left over chicken and buns. We did pretty much nothing in the afternoon. Steph napped, heather and I played on the computer, watched tv, destroyed the basement... Dinner was porkchops with mash potatoes and carrots. Really good I might add. After heather went to sleep steph and I watch "the men who stare at goats". It was funny at times but nothing spectacular.
After steph went to bed I was playing with streaming TV feeds online. I got a playlist for VLC of mostly british channels. kinda interesting but most of the crap on them was the same as here. I also discovered redtube live feeds in my searches. It's disturbing and interesting all at once. The couples stuff was the strangest. I can't imagine sitting around with my wife/gf/.. waiting for someone to pay a few bucks so that we can have sex then after it's done clean up and do it again. Really weird.
Anyways Abe and Kellina came over to visit in the morning, we had sticky buns and fruit salad. Opened up the coffee they brought back from hawaii it's good but sweet. Not at all like the presidents choice crap I mix with hot chocolate each morning. lunch was left over chicken and buns. We did pretty much nothing in the afternoon. Steph napped, heather and I played on the computer, watched tv, destroyed the basement... Dinner was porkchops with mash potatoes and carrots. Really good I might add. After heather went to sleep steph and I watch "the men who stare at goats". It was funny at times but nothing spectacular.
After steph went to bed I was playing with streaming TV feeds online. I got a playlist for VLC of mostly british channels. kinda interesting but most of the crap on them was the same as here. I also discovered redtube live feeds in my searches. It's disturbing and interesting all at once. The couples stuff was the strangest. I can't imagine sitting around with my wife/gf/.. waiting for someone to pay a few bucks so that we can have sex then after it's done clean up and do it again. Really weird.
Sunday, May 30, 2010
home curing book at the library
after doing 1 minutes worth of hunting on amazon I found this book that my libary also has and I requested it
" Charcuterie : the craft of salting, smoking, and curing / Michael Ruhlman and Brian Polcyn ; illustrations by Yevgeniy Solovyev."
Funny thing is they have 4 copies(1 missing), I'm second in line for any one of them and the 3 that are checked out are in sooke, tofino and queen charlotte city. It's pretty rare that my requests are from that far away. I found it interesting anyways.
" Charcuterie : the craft of salting, smoking, and curing / Michael Ruhlman and Brian Polcyn ; illustrations by Yevgeniy Solovyev."
Funny thing is they have 4 copies(1 missing), I'm second in line for any one of them and the 3 that are checked out are in sooke, tofino and queen charlotte city. It's pretty rare that my requests are from that far away. I found it interesting anyways.
Steph's first day off for the second baby
Today was the first of 379 days off for stephany. As much as I'd love to say we're going to do tons of things and cram as much as possible into this next year and 2 weeks I have my doubts. a toddler and a newborn can't be the easiest to accomplish a lot with.
So since steph is 38 weeks pregnant and showing signs of being in early labor we didn't do much today. I got up at 8:30, steph slept in till 9:30 then cleaned the upstairs bathroom before having a shower and making breakfast (egg thingies with apples). Thanks to heather overflowing her diaper while playing with us in our bed we got to strip it down and do laundry today.
After breakfast we went to country club looking for a beater for stephs mixer. It's a morphy russel and not really available in canada. The mall was actually quite busy due to a kids fair of some sort. Anyways we ran into Jenny in her store the cooks nook and she doesn't carry anything like that. She did tell us that David was working an open house today and where. We continued on to batteries not included but they had never heard of morphy russel either. She was going to look into it and call me though so we'll see. I'm capable of searching the net for parts on my own but whatever. I also stopped in the source to see if they have a USB remote control to use with XMBC. they suggested future shop. When leaving for future shop we ran into Carolyn, her husband dean, daughter and 7 day old new daughter. God new babies are small and they grow up quick. Heather is 2 years old in 3 days and huge compared to that baby. Future shop had nothing that I could see and noone was interested in helping me since I wasn't drooling over an ipad. I'll have to order a remote online. I don't see the appeal in the ipad. Yes sitting on my couch reading web pages or watching movies would be cool. of course I can do that for a hell of a lot cheaper on my old crappy laptop. The only thing I can think of where it might be useful is for magazines. A very expensive magazine viewer. I'm not going to start paying for magazines though so it's a moot point.
We left country club and headed to visit david. It was nice, the house he is trying to sell wasn't. Good yard but the house smelled, was not the cleanest and was strangely setup. Add on's and changes and so on. $329,900. Good luck on that. Apparently it's not insanely priced and we just did very well on our house.
Leaving there we came home but heather would have none of it. So we grabbed snowy and the jar of honey bee lure and off to the lot it was. Stopped and steph grabbed stuff for lunch on the way. Bun's, salami, smoked chicken, some potato chips and a chocolate bar. $17. Prices seem to be up but I haven't looked into it closely. We got to the lot but the parents weren't there. they arrived about 15 minutes later having been at lunch. we hung out and talked then I re-baited baited 2 of the swarm traps. dad had pulled a nail from the third trap to turn it into a bird house since they seemed interested. I grabbed the top bars to bring home and then some chunks of plywood to make mom a proper bird house.
We took the long way home and then I made her a birdhouse. It's a simple thing I'll have to attach a photo later. I also finished the last swarm trap for here. It's mounted in front of the patio door with it's entrance facing south about 12 feet off the ground.
After that was dinner (chicken, carrots and some sort of noodles, probably a sidekick thing) then I continued laundry,cleaned the downstairs bathroom and did garbages while steph played with heather and read. Then bath time for heather followed by some books and then bed.
At 9:00 I left for groceries. I was craving prosciutto but it was $3.10 per 100 grams. This got me thinking I should make some at home. I've tracked down a book at the library and will request it. Maybe this is doable without dying. Not sure.
Came home half hour later and watched the oil spill live feeds. Lots of action from the ROV's but nothing exciting. They seem to be getting ready to cut the riser pipe off. That means top kill failed but the giant geyser of oil we saw earlier was a clue.
So really all I got done today was a birdhouse and a swarm trap. Prosciutto at home sounds crazy but probably doable. Steph seems game but I'm not sure if she'll stay that way with meat curing in the basement ;)
So since steph is 38 weeks pregnant and showing signs of being in early labor we didn't do much today. I got up at 8:30, steph slept in till 9:30 then cleaned the upstairs bathroom before having a shower and making breakfast (egg thingies with apples). Thanks to heather overflowing her diaper while playing with us in our bed we got to strip it down and do laundry today.
After breakfast we went to country club looking for a beater for stephs mixer. It's a morphy russel and not really available in canada. The mall was actually quite busy due to a kids fair of some sort. Anyways we ran into Jenny in her store the cooks nook and she doesn't carry anything like that. She did tell us that David was working an open house today and where. We continued on to batteries not included but they had never heard of morphy russel either. She was going to look into it and call me though so we'll see. I'm capable of searching the net for parts on my own but whatever. I also stopped in the source to see if they have a USB remote control to use with XMBC. they suggested future shop. When leaving for future shop we ran into Carolyn, her husband dean, daughter and 7 day old new daughter. God new babies are small and they grow up quick. Heather is 2 years old in 3 days and huge compared to that baby. Future shop had nothing that I could see and noone was interested in helping me since I wasn't drooling over an ipad. I'll have to order a remote online. I don't see the appeal in the ipad. Yes sitting on my couch reading web pages or watching movies would be cool. of course I can do that for a hell of a lot cheaper on my old crappy laptop. The only thing I can think of where it might be useful is for magazines. A very expensive magazine viewer. I'm not going to start paying for magazines though so it's a moot point.
We left country club and headed to visit david. It was nice, the house he is trying to sell wasn't. Good yard but the house smelled, was not the cleanest and was strangely setup. Add on's and changes and so on. $329,900. Good luck on that. Apparently it's not insanely priced and we just did very well on our house.
Leaving there we came home but heather would have none of it. So we grabbed snowy and the jar of honey bee lure and off to the lot it was. Stopped and steph grabbed stuff for lunch on the way. Bun's, salami, smoked chicken, some potato chips and a chocolate bar. $17. Prices seem to be up but I haven't looked into it closely. We got to the lot but the parents weren't there. they arrived about 15 minutes later having been at lunch. we hung out and talked then I re-baited baited 2 of the swarm traps. dad had pulled a nail from the third trap to turn it into a bird house since they seemed interested. I grabbed the top bars to bring home and then some chunks of plywood to make mom a proper bird house.
We took the long way home and then I made her a birdhouse. It's a simple thing I'll have to attach a photo later. I also finished the last swarm trap for here. It's mounted in front of the patio door with it's entrance facing south about 12 feet off the ground.
After that was dinner (chicken, carrots and some sort of noodles, probably a sidekick thing) then I continued laundry,cleaned the downstairs bathroom and did garbages while steph played with heather and read. Then bath time for heather followed by some books and then bed.
At 9:00 I left for groceries. I was craving prosciutto but it was $3.10 per 100 grams. This got me thinking I should make some at home. I've tracked down a book at the library and will request it. Maybe this is doable without dying. Not sure.
Came home half hour later and watched the oil spill live feeds. Lots of action from the ROV's but nothing exciting. They seem to be getting ready to cut the riser pipe off. That means top kill failed but the giant geyser of oil we saw earlier was a clue.
So really all I got done today was a birdhouse and a swarm trap. Prosciutto at home sounds crazy but probably doable. Steph seems game but I'm not sure if she'll stay that way with meat curing in the basement ;)
Saturday, May 29, 2010
Intro, for myself since no one else is reading this and I'm not going to advertise.
I decided to create a blog to act mostly like a diary for me. I've got a year where Stephany will be home as well as myself and thought it would be interesting sometime in the future to see what we did.Time really has been flying lately with this entire pregnancy flying by so hopefully writing it all down will at least make me think about where the tie has gone.
Also I tend to randomly get ideas. Some good, some bad, most totally non interesting and pointless, but many of them repeat weeks to months later after I thrashed some of it out. Being able to search and reread what I had figured out might save me some time.
Also I tend to randomly get ideas. Some good, some bad, most totally non interesting and pointless, but many of them repeat weeks to months later after I thrashed some of it out. Being able to search and reread what I had figured out might save me some time.
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