It was a totally different bread... different texture but still very good and tasty. It would be a perfect bread to have with blue cheese and red wine - yum ! After I had removed it from the oven I brushed the top with a very light coat of virgin olive oil.
Early morning of April 1995, we found a very sick and abused little pup in our backyard. Someone had left her (probably for dead) in the ditch. The Vet told us she was around 3 months old at the time so we estimated her birthday being January 31. We nursed her back to health and fell in love with her immediately... she's been a member of our family ever since. She's the most loving, caring and affectionate dog I have ever seen. We know she's grateful to us for saving her life, and she shows her appreciation every single day. Unfortunately, her health is not the best this past year so we are enjoying every single moment we have with our wonderful Tabi. (I had a bad hair day and my shirt is inside-out).
Today was my first snow day from work of the season. I kept the wood fire in the furnace going so it was nice and toasty in the house... sure not the case out there. My big project of this snow day - clean my walk-in-closet. Man, why do we save all those empty boxes anyways !
When we got back... ahhhhhh, a nice cup of tea.
A very special happy birthday to my dear niece. Wishing you a fabulous, exciting and relaxing day. Hope you spend it with the ones you love. (Ghee, next time we're together remind me to take more pictures of you and I).
Found this set of 12 dish clothes at Frenchy's... how cute is that. They're American - July has our neighbour's flag.
Found the two first napkins at one Frenchy's two weeks ago and found the last two at a different Frenchy's today.
Dave removing more snow from yesterday's mini-storm.
Found this cute little holder at Frenchy's last night - I will use it as an incense holder. Which reminds me, I'm almost out of Nag Champa.
Oh, how I miss the ocean. At this time of the year it is more difficult to plan beachcombing excursions... only a few more months.
Stopped at Frenchy's tonight on my way to yoga class. Found about 4 yards of this beautiful fabric... I will add it to my stash. One of these days I will surprise you and post a sewing project made from this nice fabric. In the meantime, keep doing what makes you happy !
And to think that this morning there was not a single patch of snow anywheres to be found. Although, this beautiful fluffy snow is kind of pretty to look at.
It was unusually dark at 3:30 p.m. Friday afternoon. It looked like something was brewing on the horizon. Later that evening we had a thunderstorm. Not a speck of snow to be found on the ground anywheres... tomorrow might be another story though.
Saturday morning I was up bright and early (and what a gorgeous sunny warm day it was) getting ready for my workshop. Had this delicious steal cut oats before hitting the road.
13 hours of yoga - that's what my weekend was about and man am I ever happy and content... but I have to say - I have a few sore spots here and there but it was ALL worth it.
I am slowly getting out of my flu blahhhhh. Any health issue can put it's toll on the body - physically and mentally. For the 10 days that I was sick all I felt like doing was sleep. I had no appetite so I ate very little and nothing too high on the clean food scale. 
I wish everyone an excellent day tomorrow, and the day after, and the day after... For those that are running around, stressing out and missing out on so many precious moments, please slow down and for those that have slowed down - keep smiling.
My son bought himself this very cool and interesting version of a childhood boardgame - Monopoly. It is the electronic banking version plus it's the Canadian Edition, Wooohooo. Although I am very faithful to the original version I can't wait to try this one out. It has little credit cards and a banking machine... what has this world come to !!!!!
Next stop - a small logging village ''Margo''.
Our last stop was closer to home (less then half a mile) - an old saw mill that was made into a museum.
After three hours of local sightseeing we were hungry so we headed home to make a traditional acadian dish - ''fring frang'' (grated potatoes).
2008 was not my best ever new year's beginning with that nasty flu I got on Christmas Day but I can actually affirm that since Friday I am regaining my strength. Which I am going to need by next weekend. I have a two day yoga workshop and I am very much looking forward to going. The upcoming week I will mostly eat foods that strengthen my body physically and for my spiritual body I will do a yoga routine daily (which I usually do but had stopped on account of the flu). I am returning to work tomorrow after three weeks off (2 weeks vacation and 1 week sick days) which means I will get outside more with my walking 30 minutes early morning before starting work and an hour during my lunch hour.
Wishing everyone a healthy and joyful 2008 and may you make all your dreams come true.
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