another project finally completed

so i finished Barbs birthday present, after i'd given it to her unfinished at her party, and for those of you who have recieved a unfinshed gift from me.... i don't think i'm ever gonna get it together... anyway maybe i should post the unfinshed one next to it, cause it too has a belated birthday writen all over it as well!

Maple syup sunday

a cold winter walk, oh wait its spring. the sun did stay out for several hours and made our walk delightful. the bitter wind kept us bundled up, but it felt nice anyway. lots of fun surprises, a pretty cross fox caught our attention and we followed him for quite some distance. an otter delighted us as it hopped across the tundra, a silly vole made us laugh.

my third Maple Syrup Sunday celebrated away from Maine. i will never miss a maine tradition! ah and this year i added an element! my 2nd favorite thing banana bread... made into french toast and smothered in maine maple syrup. i can't take the credit for this idea, but when i saw the recipe i could believe i had never thought of it. my favorite thing to have maple syrup on(besides icecream) and made out of my most favorite bread! http://www.wheatfoods.org/Banana-Bread-French-Toast.51.1.htm

the recipe came from Wheat Foods Council.

for those of you who know i'm not much of a cook, of course i didn't follow the recipe, it's the idea thats important. my banana bread isn't quite a typical one, considering i drop the sugar and oil in tradidtional recipes, but the latest thing i've been using is mace for seasoning... i hapen to have it because it is in one of my fish brine recipes, anyway the latest tin i bought had several uses for the spice i would never had tried....

SPRING???? not here

saturday morning, wow we got to see the sunrise. it's a big deal because it has been the coldest of the entire winter this past week. temperatures in the teens and winds averaging in 30's. and snow... ugh. St.Patricks Day was fun. i did a delivery of muffins to all the places of work in town. of couse they were healthy, and i passed out health information on "eating the rainbow" for national nutrition month, and "discovering a pot of gold" in the phytochemial pot of fruits and vegetables. eating nutriosously here is a challenge given we get a barge every two weeks and fresh food may be frozen and damaged, and very expensive, not allowing you to just purchase anything you want. so i try to encourage people and hopefully give ideas of ways to be healthy and care for our bodies. anyway we also had a dinner get together which was fun, Lucretia colored the mashed potatoes green and that brought me down memory lane... spinach salad, green lemonade, shamrock cookies, new england boiled dinner, carrot cake, irish soda bread, egg salad, and i made molasses guiness bread, which turned out to be just like brown bread so it wasn't worth the $4.00 can of beer... oh well. I will send and email out of shanes latest excitement out of respect to my non-hunting friends. Happy Spring everyone.

my new pets

we are laughing at this photo because today i burnt my upperlip and i told shane i looks like i have been botoxing, then we downloaded these pictures, and in my mumbling under my breath at shane with the camera my bottom lip is looking a little plump. anyway this is me waiting for my morning cup of java

here they are they have lived through the transition, all the way from fairbanks... so now i can name them. one has a big black stripe like a mowhawk, one has a brown nose and tipped tail, the one who just now is swimming funny has white tips, anyway yes they are probably just feeder fish, but not to me! oh mom yeh i've rearranged at least 4 times since youve left...

for you Isaac

special delivery from King Cove! shane dives in

they look good at this stage...

my winter get away

a LA sanctuary

heres to the future; hope, love, anticipation, and expectations in the blessings of our wonderful maker.

always making memories. So thankful for the opportunities to have given and recieved love.

halibut quilt finished!!

Thank you john and allyson for all the fun fishing! our freezers are full, our bellies full, and we couldn't be more thankful for friends like you!

late winter comforts

sun comming up earlier!! ahh

shanes idea of comfort food, ugh i can't believe he even photoed it...

a break in the weather, mountains peaking out!!!

hearty snack for heart health month

raisin chutney spread

whole wheat pita bread

lots of fun making these, but even more fun delivering to each business in town with heart healthy information. celebrating national heart health month.

thank you mom gras for the kitty flour towel, it was perfect for the many pitas i pumped out!

latest science project

Rainy Day. my plants are happy the days are finally getting longer.

cooking the milk, step one, my thermometer in place
7 hours on a heating pad, then into the fridge wow i did it!!!!!!!