Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Low pressure ad nausea I um


Safe to say that we are under a large stationary low pressure system, and will be for the next several days.
The long weekend was a washout literally, light to heavy rain, fog, not the best of times for anyone camping or gardening or hunting or trying to get to where you want to go.

We have not had a plane since Friday and the choppers operating in the area have been grounded also.
Sunday was so bad that we did not even venture out with the dog, not a good idea either as in the evening Siutik decided she had had enough of this inaction and took several fast runs around the inside of the house.
There was a little break of just light drizzle so we managed to get out for an hour yesterday. With no chance of planes I let Siutik run along the airstrip, lots of new smells and sights along there.

It was also a good day to make some bread; I did several loves of honey whole wheat, turned out very light and tasty.
With left over dough I did a thin crust pizza and a couple of calzone like thingy’s. I used some left over mash spuds with left over meat from the Sunday BBQ ribs. Mixed this with several different chesses like feta, havarti and fresh caribou mozzarella and some herbs.

Ok it was not caribou mozza, but it was fresh. Like fresh several weeks ago, in one of those packets full of water, keeps pretty good.

Any way it was a good meal on such a crappy weather day, the white wine helped it along too.

On our walk to the shops on Saturday we came across three of the military personnel mentioned in an earlier post. Of course they were taken with Siutik and had to play with here and mention their dogs and how they miss them.

One of the group had a Scots accent; he was a three piper of the Royal Marines.
When I asked what part of Scotland he was from he expressed surprise that I had picked up on it.
Long story short, he was from, and had lived in, some of the towns of south east Scotland that I had visited back around 1981.
The conversation was going great guns until this sergeant of the Canadian contingent dragged him away to meet their obligations.

1 comment:

Shammickite said...

MMMM that pizza looks good.
hehehe had to larf about the dog doing a hi-speed run through the house. I was puppysitting this weekend and it was pretty rainy outside... puppy did exactly the same thing!