Warning: Some bloody images ahead. Nolan was helping to prune the back hedge after lunch today. When he picked up the pruning shears, he received a cut that dripped blood through the house and soaked multiple cloths, so we decided to take him to North York General Hospital Emergency Department.
Cost of parts: $219.88+txCost of a new BBQ: $500+tx and up from Home Depot. Make: Broil-Mate (aka OMC, Onward Manufacturing Company) Model: 735269 Our BBQ is approximately 10 years old. We upgraded to stainless steel grills pretty soon after purchasing it, and Neil has previously replaced the thermometer and igniter, but otherwise it has been […]
Long weekends are for trying out new foods 😀 The recipes for the filling and icing is from Felix’s chocolate cheesecake. The crust is from this recipe, with the following tweaks: increased butter to roughly 120 g reduced brown sugar to 36 g reduced white sugar to 20 g reduced chocolate chips to 100 g
Got a message today from one of the friends who lets us use their pool saying that they opened their pool and we were welcome to use it. They would ensure only one family at a time would be in the pool at a time. Of course, the kids wanted to go even though it […]
Having observed the kids out and about the last couple of years, the neighbour two houses down (Ivan) asked if they would be interested in some paid yard work on his property. Well, that was an unequivocal ‘Yes!’. And then they got to work. While chatting with Ivan, Nolan told him that if he bought […]
Neil took Nolan and Lara to Downsview Arena this morning to get their Pfizer doses for 12 and up.
Over the years, I’ve looked into making soap but the number of finicky steps were always too daunting. Not for Lara though. She did the research, organized the endeavour, and executed the steps; and we now have homemade soap. Along the way, emulsification, saponification, and exothermic reactions were discussed. This is the recipe she used. […]
Slide show for one of his gifts [click the arrows to scroll through]. Hugs and kisses all around!
Felix wanted to make his birthday cake this year, a chocolate cheesecake with chocolate icing. I used this recipe for the chocolate wafer cookies for the crust. Tweaks were:– halved both sugars– increased butter from 113 g to 120 g ish We used this recipe for the cheesecake. Tweaks included:– removed all the sugar in […]
We’ve made Byron Bay Chocolate Chip cookies a number of times. Recently, Lara had been talking about making cookie balls instead of slicing the cookies prior to baking. Today, she put that into action.