Town centre

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This is right in the centre of our town, and I've barely given it any thought until today when I was driving around with the camera?

Day out

I have a nice day out of the office today, one day after my birthday. So far, so good!

I'm catching up on my stored episodes of Battlestar Gallactica, which should help the Tivo some, it's been getting a bit full recently. I've got plans after this to grab my camera bag and go for a drive in the midday sun, it's bright and sunny out there, if a little cold in temperature today.

It's a nice day so far.

Weekend cooking

Every other weekend, or more often sometimes, we spend a day in the kitchen cooking.

This isn't just cooking up a quick meal, or anything like that, but serious levels of preparation, shopping, trashing out and cooking up.

As you may know, Dancer has many intolerances and allergies, which makes eating out tricky. Not only that, but eating out is expensive, less healthy and less convenient during a work week. So we cook up enough food so that we can take both lunch and dinner to the office.

Today we were marinating chicken breasts, pan frying potatoes, we had halibut, steaks, home made tomato basil soup, stew, mushroom soups, home made gluten free bread.

We started the first chop at about 2pm today, and packed away the last container about 10pm today.

This is what the interior of our fridge / freezer looks like after that kind of damage!



It's hard work, but frankly I love spending the time with Dancer in the kitchen, we put on a few movies (6 hours of the BCC adaption of Pride and Prejudice this time around!) and we usually get through a bottle of wine (to drink)

And we're set for the week. No more cooking now for another two weeks (we have a couple of things to finish up this turn though)

Poor grill

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After yesterdays lovely, warm weather, and us breaking out the grill, it only seems right that we get snow overnight.

It's MARCH, people! Snow should stop by now!

Grilling

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Quick, simple, snow still on the group, but it's time for the grill to be unearthed again!

Pet food recall

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/20/national/main2587087.shtml

As many as one in six animals died in tests of suspect dog and cat food by the manufacturer last month after complaints the products were poisoning pets around the country,

This is quite horrific, and we personally know of at least two people - one who's cat died, the other was seriously ill and ran up over $3k worth of vet bills. Both of them fed their cats foods that are listed on the recall list.

We are lucky, our guys only eat dry food, and while the company is affected, the specific food we have is not.

If you have cats or dogs, please go and check your food against the recall list, just to be sure.

I love my Craftsman

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One hour, 50ft of driveway, 5.5hp of snowblowing power.

Snow be gone!