Left-over

What a week!
It is starting to get busy at work. I guess I'm not the only one who hibernates for the winter. The snow birds are back from the south, the cottages are opening up, tourists are starting to show up and outdoor functions are being held. This all adds up to more customers in the store.

Since our cake decorator had to leave early yesterday due to a family emergency I was called on to decorate some cakes today. I'm out of practice so my nerves and creativity was challenged.
I'm not sure if I did very well. The first customer said their cake needed more color which I offered to add but they didn't what to wait. The next customer seemed pleased. One out of two isn't bad but not good.

For the pleased customer I mixed color in the white icing. I mixed too much and so I had plenty left over. Today, we also had out of date Angel food cake, Kirk's favorite. All of a sudden I got creative. Charged myself $2.99 for icing and cake container. Kirk is a Happy Camper.

Gone Fishing

Since the weather is warming up, my time of hibernation is coming to an end. This means less time to post boring information of the happenings in our life.

Kirk is taking this time to catch some fish. Actually, he caught one yesterday. When I came home from work, he was so proud to announce he caught his FIRST bass in Canada. It is not in season so he had to release it. He hopes today he will catch trout. He is on a mission today. Because yesterday was just a half hour stop to throw a line in the water. Today, we have poles, tackle box, thermos of coffee and cooler with ice to store fish. The excitement it too much.

Should he catch something I may take pictures and add to this post. In the mean time I think this picture is what the fish are suppose to look like.

Pizza Paddle

I have been searching for a pizza paddle. This seemed like an easy task. Wrong.

While living in NC I never needed one because I always used a beer box to move the pizza in and out of the oven. We always had empty beer boxes and the boxes are thin, flexible and yet strong. They worked great. Of course now the boxes are used to return the empty beer bottles. As in Canada do as Canadians we recyle.

I tried searching the local stores for one. Hang that up. I tried the internet. I found them but no shipping to Canada. It did find a Canadian site that explained how to build one out of wood. This is good. It seems my days of purchasing items on the internet and having it delivered in a few days are becoming limited. Most sites are USA with no convenient delivery to Canada.

Then eBay had an aluminum pizza paddle for $9.99. Ok, we have aluminum. You can take it from here on what happened. (Kirk built a Pizza Paddle)

I made Pizza. Kirk and his visiting buddy in the shop loved it. It must have been good because his buddy asked for one to go!

We have BIG Rabbits around here!

I don't know if you can see the rabbit on the lawn. It may show up if you click on the picture to make it larger. The reason I took the picture is that the rabbit looks like it is as large as the dogs.

Now, if we could get it to eat more grass we wouldn't have to cut the lawn so often.

My Garage?

Ok, I can't help myself. I have to show you our garage. Or should I say "My garage" (for now).

Years ago when we were building our garage in NC, I was told that I would always have a place to park in it. Wrong. The parking only lasted for a week or two and then Kirk's tools and equipment took over. Then we added an additional carport for the van. I got to use that for a few months. The Jaguar need to be protected from the weather. The saying is true that the old vehicles get to park inside and the new ones outside.

As you can see, at this point in time I still have a place to park. I will try my best to keep it that way. Time will tell. This is blog will be the only official record and anyone who can remember this day.