Tuesday, October 31, 2017

Happy Halloween!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Today is one of the Man's favourite days. He will be off trick or treating with our human cousins. Lady will stay home with us, not that it matters as we get 0 trick or treaters out in the country.

Here we are in our costumes for the parade. Be sure to go to Murphy and Stanley's and Oreo's to see everyone looking spooktacular.

We present - Phod the reluctant Geisha! 



Maybe if I smile this will be over sooner



and Angel Hailey!
I am always an angel, not sure this is a costume! 

Saturday, October 28, 2017

Caturday - Halloween Style


Also be sure to go to Arty, Jakey and Rosy's blog for the annual No Tricks Just Treats for Shelters.


They are asking all their Blogville pals to help their own local shelter and to join there comment-a-thon. So comment away!

In honour of our dear friends, to help our local shelter we made a monetary donation.










Friday, October 27, 2017

Flower Friday - Fall Style

We join Rosy for Flower Friday. We don't have any flowers but keeping with our fall theme this week we are sharing the foliage in our back yard.





Same tree a week later!






It is the prettiest time to live in the hills! This year I guess because of the weather the leaves are more yellow and orange. there are very few reds.


Thursday, October 26, 2017

I Thought We Had Been Bee-ing Good?


The Bumble Bee said to the Lady Bug: "If there was one in the house I would pee on the rug, to make up for the humiliation of this task. Who thinks this is fun and cute I must ask?"

The Lady Bug said to the Bumble Bee "Shut up, stay still and you will see, she will soon grow bored and put the flashy beast away. We will get lots of treats so it won't be such a bad day."

Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Shopping Around The World - Pumpkin


We are excited that the Lady got her act together and shopping around the world was actually something Lady can cook (thanks Phenny for picking something in her wheelhouse!).  For those of you who don't cook, if Lady can make this it is super easy. 

You need:
Stock/Broth - Lady likes to use vegetable as she is eating less meat.
Pumpkin - Lady is way to lazy to cut up a pumpkin so she buys a can of filling. She gets 100% pure pumpkin.
Cream - Lady uses a can of coconut milk instead because she is on a low dairy diet.
Garlic (optional) - Lady has already minced garlic (that is how lazy a cooker she is)
Curry paste or other spices - Lady likes a little curry paste for kick
Salt - a dash will do
Onion - Lady used about half the onion - she is picky about how she likes her onion (man as we write this we see how complicated all her food stuff is)
Oil - Because she loves it and it is healthy she used avocado oil this day, but you can use whatever you have

What you need

More of what you need

Here is how to make it:

Dice the onion and brown it in a pot with the oil. This is the hardest step we promise. 


Dump in all the other ingredients.



Stir and let simmer. Lady usually simmers it for about 30 minutes.


There you have Lazy Lady's pumpkin soup! 

Lady didn't get all the prices but she guesses the whole pot was about $10 Canadian (the pumpkin, the coconut milk and stock each being between $2-$3 plus the little bits of the other stuff she had). The pot makes up 4 lunches for her, so that is like $2.50 per serving (or $1.98 US and 1.68 Euros at the time she prepared this post!)