Long weekend

Well the travel-writing workshop got cancelled as the long weekend wasn’t a good date for most to attend but since there is interest the plan is to reschedule. This created a good chance to have friends over for supper on Saturday so the Capt. saved lobsters and I made potato salad, brown bread and chocolate cheesecake for dessert – which amazingly turned out considering I was forced to substitute many ingredients including Tim Horton’s hot chocolate mix as out of cocoa etc. – but we had a chance to catch up as we haven’t gotten together for a while. Made the morning come early as it turned out to be ‘a chance’ for lobstering but when mister couldn’t round up a crew he hauled as many traps as he could by himself and headed in. He had a poor start to the day as he left his lunch of brown bread/peanut butter and a banana on top of the bait he was taking and jumped down to haul the boat in to tie it up close and when he turned to pick up his lunch…found that the gulls had taken and eaten it and yes they picked the banana apart to open it.

And since food is such a topic - here are some sites with food for thought/ foods that make you happy / and foods that improve your brain power:

http://health.lifestyle.yahoo.ca/channel_section_details.asp?text_id=4239&channel_id=2041&relation_id=23720

http://ca.lifestyle.yahoo.com/food-entertaining/blog/beautyeatsbyrealage/441/foods-that-make-you-happy/

http://health.lifestyle.yahoo.ca/channel_section_details.asp?text_id=4525&channel_id=1008&relation_id=34879

The weather actually cleared this afternoon for a few hours allowing for dog walk, straightening of all the things blown around the yard and grilling of sausages for supper. Apparently the forecast had been for rain and fog and this is repeated for tomorrow. With the precipitation you can tell it’s a long weekend eh? All the wet is making the grass grow. The summer neighbours have already had their lawns mowed once and the ‘old place’ across the road is in need of a haircut. I have to say that I’ve gradually come to think of our former house as belonging to someone else and now just have a mild interest in their renovation plans and arrival etc.

I’ve just finished the book I’ve borrowed from the library entitled In Praise of Slow by Carl Honore. It is a wonderful read, which encourages stepping away from our frantic lifestyle. One of the sections on raising less overscheduled children suggested limiting them to three extra curricular activities each. I was blown away as the rule in this household was one activity each until the offspring could drive themselves. This still made for some hectic times as a total of four activities took its toll. Kids still need time to just be kids, play with Lego or play dough, build forts outside, read a book or have a tea party. No wonder folks lack creativity or think they require amusement every waking moment; they’ve never had the opportunity to entertain themselves. This explains the talented children who call me Mom as they were allowed to find themselves.

Just think, it’s Monday tomorrow and no thoughts of rushing off to work. Could almost pretend I’m retired if I really tried. What to do, what to do.