If you did'nt plant a garden this year... visit a farmers' market, it's such a nice feeling.
OMG this doesn't taste good (not to us Canadians anyways). But I know it's because we were not brought up on this stuff. We have dishes here in our culture that no one else wants to try so I perfectly understand that the people from Australia love this spread. I just had to research the stuff on the internet to know what it was made of. Check it out.
Something I rarely do (I've mentioned this a few times before on this blog) is bring the flowers from my gardens inside the house. I prefer to leave them outside and admire them in their natural beauty. However, seeing this summer has been a season of abundance and that we have blooming flowers overflowing everywhere - I brought these in yesterday.
Taking a break (check the hairdo).
Playing in the warm salty water.
A tiny live crab eager to hide in the sand (see my shadow in the water).
This is not the same crab (no, we did'nt cook that tiny crab). It's an empty shell we found on the beach.
Don't you think this picture looks like a painting ? Dave took this picture, he probably wants to paint it on canvas.
Hope everyone is having a good week so far.
There has also been a lot of outdoor's embroidery work being done. I am part of a pin cushion and needlebook swap and my swap buddy is Rachel from New Zealand. I've completed the pin cushion and I am now working on the needlebook (sorry I can't post any pictures because Rachel checks my blog).
When it's too hot in the woods where we live we take a break and go to the ocean where there's always a nice breeze.
Last night Dave wasn't playing music with his band so we made a fire in our pit and just plain enjoyed ourselves. Check the white socks ! I needed those to ward-off the mosquitos from eating up most of my ankles.
Today we went to a local festival where we found yard sale items (and of course we just had to buy a bag full), loads of seafood to eat, live music and a lot of people we had'nt seen in a long time so it was a pleasant visit.
Tomorrow I am going on a road trip with my friend Clarisse (aka Clo) to Halifax in this :
We stopped at a few yard sales... here you will see a nice wall-vase and antique cookie cutters I found for $2.
Another yard sale find (and the best find of the day) was this whirly-wind airplane made from Coca-Cola cans.
It's difficult to have a weekend go by without posting about our gardens...
Potato plants are doing very well.
And this morning we get up to this... but we sure needed the rain.
I had enough left to make these yummy muffins tonight - as I am typing this post, they are cooling on the rack.
Strawberry season is almost over here in the Maritimes. Now on to the next berry !!!!!
Dave and I made it to the BBQ we were invited to yesterday at Morris Island. There was a ton of delicious food. It's fun to spend time with friends. They got a new baby cat the day before - how cute is that. His name is Max.
We were up bright and early this morning (Saturday) doing all sorts of stuff outside. We went to the Farmer's Market in Belliveau Cove then we came home... prepared everything to roast hot dogs on the open fire (hot dogs were for Dave).
We put more sawdust in our fruit garden. We planted these last year - raspberries, blueberries, currents and grapes.
Had to put this guy out... the crows are keeping an eye on those blueberries.
Our newly planted strawberry patch... only a month old.
Cherries.
I made this pound cake with chocolate glaze.
After we had cake, we went to the beach to fetch a pail of sand to put around our fire pit.
I made BBQ for supper tonight - ground organic chicken cheeseburgers (no pictures) and these yummy homemade clam burgers on toasted whole wheat buns. It was the first time I made these and I will certainly make them again.
And finally... I made bread.
Hmmmm, did I miss anything. Nope, I think that was it. Tomorrow we are heading to visit friends and have a BBQ. I'll post pictures (if I remember to bring my camera).
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