Life as it should be.

Busy with sprucing up the house the past week. Have nephew outside scrapping and painting the Eves, plus other odd jobs.
After doing a bit of preventative maintenance on the furnace I have been painting the kitchen walls and the kitchen cabinets. Just the top cabinets to do, it’s a slow job, what with so much stuff on the walls to remove and put back, doors to remove and sand, get it all cleaned up each day ready to cook, but it is starting to look great.

Had the little family up for their anniversary on Tuesday, cooked up my second last leg of lamb, did the usual Oz style roast potatoes, had some Oz beans and peas, washed it down with my home made piesporter, very nice indeed. Oh yeah, had Nain blue berry cobbler and cream to finish it all off.

Picked some of the pansies and a poppy that are still miraculously blooming in the front of the house, made a nice centre piece for the table.



This is a picture of my mother in law, Verona Winters. We are not sure of the year it was taken, but it shows where Fran’s good looks come from. Verona is on the right. Picture is from the late Bella Lyall collection.










I see Alex Baumann is being brought back to Canada to work on developing the Olympic program. http://www.cbc.ca/sports/amateur/story/2006/09/26/baumann-canada.html
One of the few positive things coming out of Ottawa these last years. Why they let him go down under years ago is beyond me, Canadians do not correlate intelligence and common sense all too often in developing elite athletes, of foreign affairs for that matter. Alex has a little bit of an Oz twang, hope he keeps it, it will remind the powers that be of their past follies.