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piccata…

09 Wednesday Jul 2025

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today, we celebrated one of our group’s birthdays by spending the afternoon at Pine Ridge Hollow…

we drove out in a hybrid electric car and spent a couple of hours wandering through all the shops…

we followed that up with an excellent dinner at the restaurant…

our meal started with beet chips and goat cheese ranch dipping sauce, oh my, so tasty…

four members of the group had pickerel piccata while I had the lamb shank…

my lamb was braised and flame-grilled, came with tabbouleh, fennel slaw, whipped labneh, and a drizzle of chermoula… I had to look up a number of the items on Google but they made a delightful combination;-)…

everyone’s meal was delicious and just a touch different than expected…

the birthday “girl” had schmoo, while others enjoyed the frozen lemon meringue…

we conscripted a fellow restaurant member as they were leaving to take our traditional photo…’you can see we were having a lot of fun;-)…

a leisurely drive home ended another of our special days…

Mac…

25 Wednesday Mar 2020

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this morning I set up for a FaceTime meeting with a friend to see if we could connect a portable drive to her Mac…

we’d gone shopping for it a number of weeks ago and planned to meet in person to get it connected…

lots of fun as we tried to figure it out from a distance, lol… I know how the drive works but don’t have a clue about Macs…

we think we got it sorted out after a number of bumps in the road;-)..

we also talked about Google Photos, which I’ve been using for quite some time… it is free and easy to access from my phone or the computer… it is simple to make albums and to put photos back onto my phone if I need/want them…

spent some time proofing a document for my daughter, worked on my recipe book a bit and watched a few PVRd shows…

later I baked sweet potato fries… fried up some pickerel breaded with crushed potato chips… and made a tartar sauce…

it was all delicious and I enjoyed every bite…

Camping 2019, Day 2…

08 Monday Jul 2019

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another day has gone by…

up early-ish so that we could get in some fishing before the rain was supposed to arrive…

I sat patiently waiting for pickerel… sadly they didn’t want to play with me today…

the boys swam and there was some fancy kneeboarding…

we had an adventure going through a narrow section of the lake and found a new fishing spot with friends, but it was fairly windy so not much success… I did get to watch an eagle dive and rise up with a fish…

we headed back across the lake and while we were sitting out on the water the skies opened up… amazing how quickly the boys were able to get the cover on the boat and all fastened down… and of course, that is when the rain stopped, lol…

sky was looking mighty fierce though and when the thunder and lightning started up we headed for home…

poured for quite a while so there was reading and napping and phone games and board games in the camper…

rain stopped and we made a lovely dinner of bbq steak with baked potatoes, fried mushrooms and salad…

cleaned everything up and now one has gone fishing off the rocks with a friend, and the other two have gone to visit another site…

I am quietly drinking tea and reading… how lovely;-)…

Nutimik, day two…

12 Saturday Aug 2017

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started the day with tea and a book while the rest of the family slept…


last night as we were getting ready for bed we discovered dozens of spiders in the camper… the youngest had the eagle eye that would spot them, the middle one would catch them, while daddy found dudu coils in an attempt to smoke them out… my job was to shine my flashlight wherever they were spotted… we were all kind of creeped out but in the end managed to sleep… don’t think we will ever forget this trip, lol…

after a simple breakfast the younger boys, daddy and I went fishing while the rest of the crew went on a hike…


it was entertaining to see their process for putting on sunscreen…

my son-in-law caught a 26″ pickerel… it was very big and the only nibble we got but we had a fun time together…


after lunch the younger boys and I went on a short hike to the bridge that goes over the river/creek that we had fished on… it was a lovely walk, but hot…


now we are waiting for baked potatoes and kebabs for our dinner…

camping meals sure have improved over the years;-)…