Platt Discovery Cottage

passed time

March 11th, 2010

Here I am! 

We had work done on the house, which I’ve blogged about earlier and which I’ll post about in a bit.  Something happened and my internet was down for a couple of weeks.  It was frustrating and I was none too pleased with the contractor who caused the problem.  However, we had someone in to fix it and make it wireless to boot, so it all worked out and it’s back up and running.

I had a running list of posts I wanted to write once it was back up.  It got very, very long.  Dauntingly long.  And, I’m a “start where you are” sort of person.  So, I think I’ll adapt that and say that I’m going to “continue where I am”. 

I’m giving myself permission not to do the back-posts and start from here.  Rather liberating, particularly since looking at the list was beginning to stress me out.

However, there were a few things that happened that I’ll chat a bit about!

Fuss had another Little Diggers class.  One of the plants was an umbrella plant.  Cool.  The nursery had them make a beach scene and provided little animals for the students to choose from.  Fuss chose two alligators and a moose.  Not sure how the moose fits in.  The funniest thing about the scene?  Bug will come along when Fuss isn’t in the room and hide the animals in amongst the plants and stones.  Fuss gets all bent out of shape looking for them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fuss was so pleased he asked if he could be in the picture.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Also while my Internet was down the kids graduated from ski school for the year.  Fuss’ ceremony was in a dark room in the lodge and was crowded and totally disappointing.  Bug’s was on the slopes which was wonderful, as it was her first year so it deserves a special spot.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then she got a big hug and kiss from her proud brother.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

On the food front, this was the most stellar thing I made over the last few weeks.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I know!  It doesn’t look like much, but it was so divine I almost couldn’t save it to share at dessert time.  It was one of Martha Stewart’s Dinners at Home desserts.  All you do is toast some hazelnuts (I was supposed to blanch them first but didn’t have the patience and I think the skins actually added a rich flavour), stir them into a sugar/water cooked concoction and bob’s your uncle.  I couldn’t keep from picking at it whilst I cooked the rest of the meal.  (The final dessert had this over vanilla ice cream with chunks of dark chocolate as well.)

I also finished a few books.  Amazing how much time I had when I didn’t have the internet. 

The Pat Barker trilogy was phenomenal and all three books continue to live with me.  I love it when that happens at the close of a book.  The characters are so rich that they just stay at the forefront.

I also read John the Revelator by Peter Murphy.  Unless you are a huge fan of modern Irish Literature, I don’t recommend this.  There was nothing special about it and, honestly, it bordered on trite.

That’s it for now!  We are all caught up.  Onward…..

Enjoying the journey,  Amanda

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