Blue and white and white and white days

From the front

Looking from the back

With more snow - snowing

Snowicles - snow on the icicles

Looking from the front

Overloaded tree

Veg Food, Bday Cards, Renos status

Closet in 5th bedroom

Bday cards: Hilde, Boris, Amanda, Danny, Marlene, Karen, Nicola, Carol and Keith, Naomi and Dave, Ed and Bev

Regular veggie dish adding 8 more years to life

Wall between bathroom and bedroom framing

1. Not everyone knows about Boris the intelligent, shy mischievous brown bear who in the last two years has made his home in the area. This year as well as sending a card he sang Happy Birthday and left the message on the answering system . Then he erased it before I could play the recording to visitors. Mostly he just moves tools around, hides things occasionally and seems to be a measuring tape collector.
2. Birthday cards like Christmas cards I love to receive and leave them up for a while for company. I will put the Christmas cards up in the summer.

Symposium Milton Amanda's Masterpiece Modified

Monday Milton Symposium special burger $3.75 maybe my last meat ????

Starting to prepare the vegetables

Soup at the Symposium

Eggplant, Zuchini, capers, parsley, mushrooms, oregano, 2 cans diced tomatoes in the pot

Stirring the Pot

Referring to Amanda's recipe online we substituted Penne pasta for tuna steaks

with Penne and pumpernickel

Start of a chili day

Beautiful Birthday Party celebrations

After blowing the candles

The start of a wonderful day when Ed and Bev and Dave and Naomi took Karen and  I to lunch at the Thai restaurant

Blowing the candles

My wonderful friends Dave is off camera

The game from Indonesia  Dave is miming who?

Looking up, Gus thought film star was one word, he was wrong!!!!

My Birthday cards and help books

One of many presents from Karen ( lots of Valentine chocs amongst others!!!)

Firsts, Coffee, 6lbs, Laundry, Symposium Guelph

First Coffee with new $20 Sunbeam Coffeemaker from China via Walmart

First laundry wash in new laundry watching to make sure temporary overflow works!!  it did

First time for a while within 6lbs of my light heavyweight fighting weight of 168 lbs  (Tiger Bob in my dreams)

First time in Guelph Symposium opposite Stone Road Mall

Really great meal for two for less than $40

First time people pictures were not good so showed the place instead

Gus daydreams, laundry room start, 5th BR closet

Danny throws a snowball

The start of the cement trail with footprint

The Trail

Where Gus stopped daydreaming and noticed the  cement falling out of the bag

Staring the new Laundry room space left for sink

The built in to be closet for the 5th bedroom

60th Duodecimal Birthday Danny Surprise Boris Sings

The largest slice of chocolate cake I have ever been served

The Master says many years ago as a kid there was a shop in TO  serving similar helpings

The apprentice and Master in Angels Diner Guelph wonderful  surprise and meal

I thought I was going to spend my Birthday happily talking on the phone and contemplating maybe even reading some book while looking at the beautiful countryside.

My first call was the beautiful voice of Shelley singing Happy Birthday then a chat with the RexMeister  before they left for the cottage, followed by a long chat with Karen and then another rendition of Happy Birthday from Nicola in her oh so cold flat. Unfortunately insulation is a concept foreign to England.

 Then I was just settling down to my grooming when a Birthday call came through from Danny. It was interrupted by knocking on the backdoor I thought Will and Colleen might have ski-ed over or Boris had come in person - BUT no it was Danny calling on his cell from behind the door Ha Ha . What a lovely surprise he came bearing a Home Depot gift card gift and an invitation to lunch. So as above we went to Angels Diner which is owned supplied or something by Cindy Lunau's daughter Andrea - have to call Cindy and tell her how great it was!!

In the meantime Amanda had called when the phone was busy and we were out. As it was getting late I thought the calls had come to an end, but then another surprise Boris called and sang Happy Birthday. You all may recall last year Boris sent a Birthday card. For those who don't know much about Boris he is a mischievous very talented neighbourhood bear. We love him but he is annoying. He has a thing for measuring between us we own six measuring tapes, but sometimes Boris manages to hide four or five. He is a real jokester and also manages to hide other tools in plain sight But we love him nevertheless and thanks for the Birthday wishes Boris.!!!!

A vegetarian masterpiece by Gus Cooking and cleaning storage

While the masterpiece is cooking the cleaning can be done

Here are the convection oven settings bake 350 F 30 mins

Cooking in process

Cooking and cleaning completed parallel processes

The meal in process note wine or water can be used to accompany instead of beer

6 portions going into storage, 1 eaten and 1 for 2morrow

A vegetarian masterpiece by Gus Preparation

10 Final layer is two and half cups cheese topped with one thin sliced tomato

2 One and half cups of cheese is placed over cooked rice  in a baking dish greased with olive oil

3 has 3 layers cooked rice, hot banana peppers, one and half cup shredded cheese

1 On the  cooked long grain rice  are a moderate amount of hot banana peppers, adjust to suit taste placed in a   baking bowl smeared with olive oil

4 Two cups of sour cream

6 Three sliced zuchini are cooked in boiling water simmered 5-10 minutes

5 Sour cream is mixed with chopped parsley, oregano and half a onion and half a green pepper  chopped

8 And topped with the zuchini slices

7 The bowl mixture is placed over the  first cheese layer

9 One tomato is chopped into thin slices

Ingredients are 4 cups shredded cheese, 2 cups sour cream  1 cup of long grain rice which is cooked usually with two cups boiling water (or see package cooking instructions) 3 medium zuchinis sliced, 1 tomato sliced, half green pepper and half onion chopped bunch of parsley chopped tablespoon oregano some olive oil.Makes 8 servings, preparation time half hour, cooking time half hour in convection oven  at 350 F standard ovens may take longer. Degree of difficulty moderate.For questions please use comments. For cooking  storage and cleaing p;ease see next post.

1 On the  cooked long grain rice (boiled then simmered for 20 minutes or use package cooking instructions)  are a moderate amount of hot banana peppers, adjust to suit taste placed in a   baking bowl smeared with olive oil

2 One and half cups of cheese is placed over the banana peppers and cooked rice  in a baking dish greased with olive oil

3 has 3 layers cooked rice, hot banana peppers, one and half cup shredded cheese

4 Two cups of sour cream

5 Sour cream is mixed with chopped parsley, oregano and half a onion and half a green pepper  chopped

6 Three sliced zuchini are cooked in boiling water simmered 5-10 minutes

7 The bowl mixture is placed over the  first cheese layer

8 And topped with the zuchini slices

9 One tomato is chopped into thin slices

10 Final layer is two and half cups cheese topped with thin sliced tomato