Merry Christmas to Everyone!

Merry Christmas to all my blogging friends! I wish you all the best, health and happiness. Thanks for joining me on this ride! With love, Eva

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Happy Halloween, another scary story and Unconventional Chicken Paprikas

It’s the eve of Halloween and we’re getting really excited about our fast approaching trip to Morocco. There are so many things still to do, like packing, for example! Not withstanding, I promised a scary story, the final installment. So here it is… Sadly, my dear Dad was jaundiced from owning a home because the [...]

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Apple Crisp and another spooky story

When it rains, it pours! We’re so busy at work (not complaining!) and I’ve just gotten a huge freelance project that needs to be completed before we leave for Morocco, AND we’re hosting two dinner parties on the weekend on Saturday and Sunday evening! Call me crazy but I actually get invigorated when things are [...]

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’tis the season to be Scary…

In honour of the upcoming festive holiday season, I thought I would present some past photos and share a couple of scary stories. Oh, did you think I was going to blog about Christmas? Hmm! Halloween is such a fun time of year. JT and I usually have a pumpkin carving contest, we decorate the [...]

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Escargot en Choux at the cottage and the new landscaping, just in time for snow! :-(

We live in a small area into Toronto called Bloor West Village. It is still considered part of the city, but it’s not down town! We are about a 10 minute drive to downtown, or 20 minute subway ride, or 30 minute bike ride…you get where I’m going with this — we are very much [...]

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The new windows really brighten things up – not at all food related

We finally bit-the-bullet and had new windows installed in our 1928 Craftsman-style home. We had intended on doing it with the Reno 4+ years ago, but then we reached our saturation point of spending; not exactly a budget, we just got sick and tired of spending money! Glad we waited though, because it seems that [...]

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Christmas Tree

We bought the tree last Wednesday at Ikea ($20!) and had tasty meatballs for dinner. We decorated on Thursday. We’re ready for the season’s celebrations!

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Halloweeny

Halloween was a bit of a bust this year; we could barely give away our pack of 70 candies. Near the end we were just pouring them into the bags. The weather wasn’t great either (wind warnings and chilly) and to top it all off, we actually had a black out for about an hour [...]

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The harvest and my craft

Here are a few shots of our lovely tomato harvests…we are getting about 5-10 every couple of days. Although entirely home grown organically, I am rather disappointed in the lack luster taste, they are OK but not great. My Craft. We had this old window which used to be a mirror in our house at [...]

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Build Day 6 – The Home StretchMo

Today is Canada Day, therefore everthing is closed (thank goodness we stocked up from The Depot, the LCBO and Metro!).  We got off to a great start and skirted the back of the deck. By 12:30ish we had the arbour up and capped. Lunch was a tasty wrap and a tower of tomatoes and buffalo [...]

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