Thanksgiving

 We had 10 people to dinner, our usual crowd on the Thanksgiving Monday.  I went looking for my cook from frozen turkey breast on Sunday and of course they were all out, and not having 3 days to defrost, I had to buy a fresh bird.  They cost about twice as much as the frozen, but what a difference!  The meat was more tasty and it seemed like there was more than on our usual frozen bird.  We had lots of leftovers.  I made curried buttered turkey on Tuesday and it was fantastic.

Jimmy and Brittany

                                                                       Exhausted from cooking!

                                 Troy and Michael

                                          What a fantastic dinner!  Yummmm

                   Nicole is so excited about the dinner.  Every one is enjoying the tasty food.

Candiana in Cloth

As if I don't have enough quilting projects to keep me busy, I have decided to take an eight month class with Dianne Stevenson called Canadiana in Cloth. She was voted the Canadian quilt teacher of the year for 2010, so to be able to take a class from her is an honour and something I just couldn't turn down.  At first I just signed up because she was teaching it, I didn't really have much interest in the quilt, but after the first class, I was hooked.  It is a three hour class, once a month, for eight months, and is it a combination history lesson, show and tell and block patterns.  We are to make out quilt represent our vision of Canada and reflect our own personal history.  Our homework was to make four maple leaf blocks (which are not yet done) and we were given some other block patterns which we can do, or not.  At the Langley quilt show in the spring I took some pictures of the Canadiana quilts that the some of the Langley ladies had made.  I am looking forward to my next lesson.

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Joyce's Birthday

We had a lovely hot! day for Joyce's 80th Birthday party.  Mid August and it was a scorcher.  We borrowed an pop up awning from a friend and we have a tarp garage we were able to put up so everybody could sit in the shade.  It made it bearable.  I had my fridges loaded with veggie, sandwich and fruit trays and pop and of course my outside fridge, which was loaded, gave up the ghost the night before. I woke up to a pool of water in the carport, some soggy trays and lack of refrigeration. Fortunately, I had a small air conditioner in my computer room and I was able to blast it down to 60 which gave me a cold storage room.  I was able to keep everything nice and cool until it was served.  Thank God the rest of the party went a little smoother. 

We had about 50 people attend and I know that Joyce had a great time and enjoyed her Birthday.  A lot of people gave her scratch and win tickets, that kept her busy scratching for days.  The Birthday cake had melted a bit in the car and was a little lopsided, but I don't think anyone noticed.  The party went exactly as I had planned it, an elegant tea, on a beautiful day for a special Birthday.

Mini Water Can Jigsaw Puzzle