Scrabble board

We dug out this Scrabble board which we bought in the summer sometime at a garage sale. It has the lazy susan board with little indentations for all the letters and the cool maroon letters as well.  We played a few games and I thought I should get a photo.  Scrabble is part of Christmas!! 

Looking forward to the family get together this coming week!!

Therese

Another 1970 crock pot

We bought this crock pot on our trip to Winnipeg.  I have been using my current green one to bake my sourdough bread and that is working so nicely.  I decided that when I found another one like it I would buy it so that I will have a replacement when the time comes because this one has been with us for over forty years so not likely it has LOTS of years left in it.  This one has the proper lid.  The one on the green one has a replacement lid which I purchased second hand years ago because it fit reasonably.  It was VERY dirty but a good scrubbing this morning has eliminated that and it looks pretty good.  The liner is in great condition though the cord has been melted a bit in one area.  I will use it once and monitor how that area reacts and we will see.  We may just cut off the melty part and put a new end back on. It always sits on the counter so I do not need a cord quite as long as it is.  So it will enjoy some time storage until I need it!!  Gotta love those 1970 colours!!

Therese

Puzzle with 2999 pieces!!

Brian has been working on this puzzle for more than a month and finally finished yesterday!!!!  Unfortunately, it is missing one piece!!!!!!!!!!!  Right there in the mountain area on the left!!  He used his large puzzle mat and it worked very well.  He was able to roll it up whenever we needed the table and it was easy to put it back into place. This one is very large and has elastic straps to keep it rolled up.  One of his buys at the Clive garage sale this year!!!!!  So this puzzle with 2999 pieces is going out to ensure no one else gets disappointed with one missing piece!!

Therese

CWL social meeting with a potluck meal

For our December meeting we decided this year to just have a social meeting with a potluck meal.  As usual the meal was excellent with lots of great food!!  We had a good turn out and it was very nice to have time to get to know our fellow members better. 

Therese

Christmas weekend at our house!!

 There are not a lot of photos of our Christmas weekened.  Richard arrived on Friday for supper after my Christmas card class.  Suzanne and family arrived about noon.  Kale and Mina were making bead angels just before lunch on Saturday which was crab dip for the adults and pancakes for the kids - win-win in everybody's book. 

Kale and I went outside to shovel snow which had been falling since morning and took the crazy carpets to the hill and had a wonderful time.  While we were out the rest of them made this puzzle and Richard headed home to check on his furnace.  We had turkey and all the trimmings for supper and when he got back we made up him up a plate of turkey as well.  He managed to diagnose and fix the problem in a short amount of time which was wonderful and is fortunate to have one of those thermostats that talks to your phone to let you know that things are awry at home.  We had some time to visit after the kids went to bed and played a few games of dominoes.  Breakfast was a bit split up because Brian had choir practice at 9:30 am.  The kids had pancakes when they got up and the adults had cinnamon buns.   The morning went by quickly and it was soon time for lunch when Brian got home from church.  We had turkey leftovers and you can see that Mina was enjoying cinnamon buns with her lunch. Shortly after lunch it was time for Suzanne and Sal to head home with the kids because it was still snowing and they had school the next day.

Richard stayed over another night and headed home in the morning in time to be back for his medical.  We started another puzzle in the afternoon and managed to get it finished before bed time.  This is one we have made before but is always interesting with all the tags and bags and so on!! 
It was a great Christmas weekend and nice to have family around the table and in the house. 

Therese

Christmas preparations

We are having Christmas early this year because we wanted to celebrate with Richard while he was in Canada.  We were lucky that the trees arrived in time for us to put one up and get some lights on it.  With a very busy week previous that is all we managed to get on but it was excellent to give us the feeling of Christmas when the kids and grand kids arrived from the city on the weekend.    Therese

Kale's birthday!!

We arrived just before lunch and were fed a great meal followed by cake.  The living room was very nicely decorated with a large birthday banner.  Kale is seven and Suzanne had made him a beautiful cake as usual!!  He had one giant candle which worked very well and was easily blown out!!

He opened his presents and we visited until it was time to head out.  He is doing well in school and made this book while he was waiting for lunch.  Very well executed and needed the long reach stapler to bind in the middle.  Suzanne wrote the caption and he drew the cats.  He is always creating and Pepere was helping with his cardboard creation.    Richard had just arrived the day before so we took the chance to visit a bit more over supper while the kids were headed to Taekwondo.  It was great to see him though it was a bit short as the weather was getting snowy and we headed home before it got any worse.        Therese