It’s kinda like cooking. Only different. You follow a recipe, you have to put the ingredients in, in a certain order. You have to put correct amounts in. You have to mix it correctly. You don’t want it too thick, or too runny. You don’t want to have it sit there too long before using [...]

My brother in law Gary loves kites and between my sister Heather, and Gary they have a few sport kites (a sport kite is fairly maneuverable, controlled by two lines and flown with both hands). Earlier in the year, Heather, Gary and I headed off to the Rosebud Kite Festival. Who’d have thought that they’d [...]

I got some red silver beet given to me that I really need to use. Wasn’t sure exactly what to do with it, so I made a “layered pie” with it. A couple of layers of stew and a couple of the silver beet with some pastry on top. Tasted pretty good, although given it [...]

I haven’t been doing much cooking lately, but here’s a few offerings. Scones – Had to make some scones to test out the jam I made the last couple of weeks (blood plum and strawberry). See here for the scone recipe. Of course that’s the homemade strawberry jam that I made the other week running [...]

So a little over a week ago I made some jam and after that said I was done for jam making this year. But some good value jam making strawberries were a bit hard to resist, so I decided to give it another shot. 36 punnets of strawberries (minus the rotten ones which was probably [...]

Back on new years long weekend, I was down Drouin way with my brother. One of the days we spent looking around the Noojee area. I think the day we looked around has been about the hottest day of the year, but the photos don’t show how hot it is! Underneath the ferns though and [...]

Blood plums would have to be one of my favourite fruits, which goes all the way back to when I was a kid and we’d go out to nan’s and eat the plums straight from her tree. Nan would also make plum jam, which would also have to be my favourite jam. Nothing beat Nan’s [...]

Well, the time is finally here. The last few days of my 6 weeks in Uganda are about to come to an end. And yeah, sadly it’s only taken me about 534 days to write a blog post about it… Ewww, that hurts… After my last ministry engagement, I had about 1 and a half [...]

Last weekend a friend who I’ve known for years tied the knot. Part of their honeymoon was a secluded getaway in a cottage style farm. In this case, secluded means you don’t have somebody to cook for you, so the cottage was equipped with a simple kitchen so you could prepare your own meals, self [...]

So this post will wrap up the last Sunday I had in Uganda. I was due to preach at Barnabas’s church and Mike at the early service at Life Ark Church. Both were good services, the girls at Barnabas’s church gave a lovely rendition of an old hymn while the rain absolutely pelted down outside. [...]