Ann’s Weblog

Having company for supper… yippee! I love having friends over. We’ll have chicken which is marinated and barbequed, roast root vegetables (sweet potatoes and yams), asparagus with Hollandaise, and some other dishes for dinner. For appetizer: SUSHI! We don’t make any sushi with raw fish, however. Ours has pollock or real crab, shredded carrot, asparagus or avocado, sometimes omelet, sesame seeds. NEVER raw fish.

Since it was our friend Sharon’s birthday LAST week, and we were all too busy to celebrate, tonight we’ll have birthday cake and ice cream. I MOSTLY cheated on the cake: bought two “uniced” cake rounds at the grocery store from the bakery section, and then iced and decorated at home. The rounds looked perfect, so if the birthday cake TASTES fine, I think I’m onto something. Somehow doesn’t seem as “bad” as buying a ready-made cake, although I’ve never faulted anyone for THAT either!

While Gary was washing the kitchen floor this morning, I went out and moved a bunch of plants around. I moved perennials OUT of the greenhouse until there was extra space in there, then moved an extra table in, and moved plants back INTO the greenhouse. The freezing nights have really done a number on perennials that SHOULD have looked good in their pots by now. They’ll survive, but the growth keeps freezing down. I’ll still try to take a few to a community yard sale on Mother’s Day, and then have my “big” spring plant sale on May the 13 and 14th. That’s life, though, and gardening in the “north”.

I’ll go back to kitchen duty, and later tonight, check in with the Garden Chat room.

~Ann

This is the view of Mount Robson that we see on our way to Jasper.

Took Susan to Jasper for her summer work. We had a fantastic lunch at a Mexican restaurant in that town, then discovered that we’d locked the keys in the truck!

All it took to solve that problem was a phone call to BCAA via their toll free number. Less than an hour later, a scary-looking dude with an affable personality showed up in a big old boat of a car with a loud muffler, and NO automobile club or service station decal. However, since he took 30 seconds to “break into” our truck, and then had the appropriate paperwork, we thanked him, and went on our way. Susan remarked that he probably had some PRE- EMPLOYMENT experience with opening vehicles without keys!

Then, after dropping Susan off, it was back home for me! I feel so tired, but part of it is missing my daughter. And my other two daughters, too. Well, there is a ton of work to keep me busy and my mind off that. And a great hubby too, for company and assistance.

It keeps freezing at night and doing damage to the top growth of the perennials. I need a bigger greenhouse. Hubby suggested I put another table inside the greenhouse, and of course that’s a good idea, but it takes a little TIME, and getting around to it. I have to move dozens of plants outside before I have room to maneuver a table in there. Maybe I can move this job up on the list.. because it’d be worth it to have the plants come along faster! If they keep freezing down, they’ll look like nothing I can sell in two weeks.

Am getting pretty weary…

Thanks for checking my blog. Be good, everyone, or else be good at it!

~Ann