Eight and half months later

A party without a cake is just a meeting.
Hope
Family

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As per my title, it has been 8 1/2 months since we have seen Meredith.  Far too long in my books and many hair colour changes later! We picked her up at the airport and thought we were picking up

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The Birthday Surprise for Ron

Hope
Brithday, Travel

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Ron LOVES coffee. A client at work was talking about the best coffee. So, I asked her what coffee she drank.  She told me gets it from Pilot Coffee Roasters in Toronto. Of course, I googled it and found that

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We’re on a Boat, Ya!

Hope
Travel

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We had the privilege and honor of spending the day with our long time friends Mike and Candice. We had a late start but that’s okay because we now have an open invitation to use a hot tub, with the

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Last Day in Ireland

Hope
Travel, World Police Fire Games

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Well, today was our last full day in Ireland and I have to say it will be hard to leave. We have really not seen near enough of this wonderful place but what we have seen has been remarkable. Today

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Galway and Retail Therapy

Hope
Travel, World Police Fire Games

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Didn’t have the greatest sleep last night.  This B&B was really noisy.   But, they did have a very good breakfast. After breakfast, we drove to Galway City Centre not knowing what would be open as, believe it or not,

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Leaving Rostrevor and Arriving in Galway

Hope
Travel, World Police Fire Games

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Our last night in Rostrevor, we drove to Warrenpoint. Ron, of course, wanted to celebrate his Gold Medal win. He wore his medal to dinner! We went to the Whistledown Hotel. This was the view of where I was sitting.

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Ireland/Carlingford

Hope
Travel, World Police Fire Games

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Today is August 2nd,  There, I got that right this time.  Yesterday I put the wrong date.  I am a bit mixed up apparently. Today Ron had to pre ride the course for his race tomorrow, so we didn’t get

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Baked Polenta with Tomato and Basil

Hope
Cooking

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I got home from work and saw this on Joy’s blog and decided I would love to try it.  One because I love her, two because it is vegetarian which I like to try more of and three because it

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Roasted Red Pepper & Feta Skillet Scones

Hope
Baking, Cooking

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There has been some excitement, anxiety, worry, stress, going on in our house and we don’t even have kids at home right now. You would think this would make me bake more but that doesn’t always work for me. First

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I’m back

Hope
Baking

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So we went off to BC for 2 1/2 weeks and it was awesome.  The weekend after we were back was my son Eliot’s 20th birthday.  So, of course this entailed some cooking and baking. I made these phenomenal biscuits

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Whatever am I making?

Hope
Smoothie

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Here are my ingredients for this recipe. Rather strange, wouldn’t you agree?  And by the way, that is a frozen banana in the front, NOT a sausage.  That would just be weird. Not sure what this will taste like but

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