Now that I'm home and training is all out of the way for another six months, (yay!)
it's time to get back into the home mode.
A dab of peanut butter inside makes these irresistible!
Baking, cooking, packing lunches, the mountains, knitting, reading, getting cozy, the gym.
And, you know all the catching up. Friends and family (those guys are the fun part)
and all the paperwork and other types of things that stack up while you are away...
Like a closet full of recyclable items.
There are 14 units on 4 floors, making 56 units in our building.
With 6 buildings in our condo village we've got about 336 households
most likely producing just as much recycling as we do, which is all going directly in the garbage!!!
That's poor practice I think. It irks my citizen-of-the-world funny bone.
I really need to find out about recycling for our buildings.
Perhaps, if one resident organized implementation of bins, more than one household would recycle.
Hummm....
This afternoon we drove out to Canmore for a hike up Mount Lady MacDonald.
A bit chilly, but my hands were warm in my thrummed mittens!
We started on the flat river bed, went too far up the river, wandered back and then managed to find our trail entrance. The aftermath of the 2013 flooding really ripped a wide girth through the area and the sign was so tiny - about the size of the palm of my hand - but it was there on the right all the same.
We went up rather steeply for an hour and then came back down.
Beautiful views toward Canmore and a lovely trail with just a light snow falling.
We will return to finish this peaceful ascent another time.
Today looked as if it would be the last snow free hiking day of the season - weather
which I'm grateful lasted as long as it did!
We are pretty stoked about our couple's Halloween costumes :) It's about time we take out the Halloween box for some decorating and finish off our costumes for Friday.
Pictures soon!
I had to try the moist, fudgy and highly recommended BBC Chocolate Cake.
All the batter was meant to be baked at once, and since my regular pan was too small, I thought, what a good opportunity to use this antique looking bunt pan.
It's probably not actually very old since I got it from my mom.
But it feels antique. Especially with the olive green colour of the outside. And I like that!
It's got a thin ganache poured over it. Mmmmm sauce is delicious!
The recipe says to spread it between layers, which is fine if I'd used a regular round cake pan.
I think pouring it on is tasty nonetheless and quite
quick and simple.
Half the recipe was plenty for drizzling.
This is chocolate-y goodness at the finest.
Everything is pretty clean around here by now,
(a friend visiting told me it was like a hotel - just the standard I like!)
though this keyboard I'm using could really use a go... and the towels could use the old vinegar/baking soda remedy... and I suspect there are dust bunnies behind the fridge...
Aren't there always!
I have been reading. It helps commuting. A lot!
I read "Margot", by Jillian Cantor, a story of Anne Frank's sister had she lived.
A nice story, but a little slow moving due to the repetitive, unhurried plot building,
fair of a dreamy, suppressed young woman who'd survived unimaginable Nazi injustices.
As well I read "Orphan Train", by Christina Baker Kline, which was a much more well rounded fictitious, yet could-have-been story involving the intriguing (over) one hundred year history of New York's answer to homeless youth. I was completely unaware of this part of American history.
Now I'm reading this:
