Busy as a…

by Carol Browne on September 2, 2010 · 2 comments

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I took this photo yesterday in Yaletown. As I was wandering around looking at all the glass buildings, thought, “Whoa. Is Yaletown ever sterile.” A few blocks later I found a large mass of lavender bushes absolutely buzzing with bees. So much for that thought.

I’m just taking a little break from all the chores before we head out tomorrow. Malcolm (for reasons unknown – maybe because he’s nice?) offered to take us to the airport at 4:30 am. WHA? I don’t get it either, but who are we to turn down a free ride to the airport before the crack of dawn? Incredible. We have house-sitter extraordinaire, Lorne Snear, taking care of the kitty boys while we go gallivanting with the Blue Jays. While the bathrooms are mostly clean, he’ll have to ignore a rather unpleasant yard full of dandelions. But hopefully he’ll just watch the TV and not even look out in the front yard. Here’s hoping.

Next time I check in, I’ll be in Oshawa or Whitby – home of the giant Super Walmarts. I’d better get packing. I can’t forget any Christmas cakes or camera lenses. Or my toothbrush. Wait. What am I saying? We can always go to Super Walmart for toothbrushes!

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I don’t know about you, but I’m using Cynthia’s design this month for my calendar. I am a BIG fan of her tiny houses art.

By Cynthia - little houses September 2010

If you like it too, download it by clicking on the tiny houses above and you can have a cute little neighbourhood for your desktop for free. FREE!

If flowers are more your thing, you can find some fuchsias (by me!) or a big dahlia (by Robyn!) or a giant sunflower and blue, blue sky (by Scout!) or have one each for a week!

Happy September, everyone!

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Puffed Wheat Squares – part 2

by Carol Browne on August 31, 2010 · 0 comments

in Edibles,Family and Buddies

Continued from the last post

Once you’ve got the chocolate mixture bubbling for a couple of minutes, it’s time to take it off the element (or fire!) and add 6 to 7 cups of puffed wheat cereal. I know the recipe card says 6-8 cups, but 6 1/2 cups makes a nice, heavily coated batch of squares. So, add in your cereal:

Stir it in until it’s nicely coated. If it’s too runny, just add more cereal!

Get out your 7X11 inch glass pan – or any old pan, but this recipe fills this pan perfectly:
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Puffed Wheat Squares – part 1

by Carol Browne on August 31, 2010 · 2 comments

in Edibles,Family and Buddies

I’m pretty sure my mom typed up this recipe card. My sister snuck it out of mom’s recipe box and scanned it in for me. My favourite part of this recipe is, “When bubbling remove from fire…” I wish I had a cauldron to make this recipe in. This step-by-step guide to making Puffed Wheat Squares is for my cousin Andrea and my Uncle Bill. This way they can follow the following steps and have a successful Puffed Wheat Square experience. There are a TON of photos, so I’m going to break it into two parts. Are you ready? Okay, first thing, gather your ingredients – all 6 of them.
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Avant-garde

August 30, 2010

Me: (Proudly) Hey Mike, Kelaine told me she likes how my photos have taken an avant-guard style with the toy camera. Mike: *Laughing* Do you know what that means?!? Me: Yes. *shifty eyes* I looked it up and…(I’ll leave out my answer because it was wrong. Even after I looked it up the day before. [...]

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It’s our anniversary – in soft focus

August 29, 2010

We did it! This was us 12 years ago today shortly after we had officially tied the knot. We got married at the United Church in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia. Our photographer took many photos of us – some of which he used a soft focus filter on his film camera OR he just rubbed some [...]

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Underbelly

August 28, 2010

I was reminded that I sneakily took this photo last month through the screen door while Donner was taking a nap. Donner is mostly black, but he’s got a white patch of fur on his tummy we call his “bathing suit area” because it’s underwear shaped and it’s right around the part of his body [...]

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With the greatest of ease…

August 27, 2010

What an exciting day I had today! Over at the fancy new cbc building, a trapeze act put on a free show at lunch time. I had both my cameras with me. Sadly, I didn’t bring my long lens, so I wasn’t able to get my favourite close up shots, but I did my best [...]

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A Rescue Mission

August 26, 2010

A few weeks ago, my cousin Andrea wrote to me about her experience making Grandma‘s Puffed Wheat Squares: We made 2 batches on Christmas day and one looked like puffed wheat floating on motor oil and the other looked good until you picked them up and then they fell apart and you got stuck with [...]

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More happy accidents…

August 25, 2010

I’ve decided to take your advice/lovely comments and look at this film stuff as happy accidents. Thanks, guys! Also, I love the thought of having a huge old camera with a blackout blanket over my head while holding up a huge flash that goes “POOF!” when it goes off. I would also be wearing a [...]

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