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Hi Kids! Etta thinks she's from The Prairies! Hi again, Kids! Forgot to attach snaps with last message! Cheers, Patrizzio!
Up to find The Goils busy in the kitchen, preparing all sorts of things for this evening's dinner. Have a lovely Thanksgiving!! M 🦃💜 Thanks, Patrick and Cora Lee! No turkey tomorrow, ginger beef and spicy green beans at the Chong Quing Szechuan Palace, 12th & Commercial. xo, dj Love to you and yours Dermot Thanks Patrizzii. ..enjoy your turkey...Momma T Hello, Patrizio! Thanks for the card! Hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving as well. Best to Corinne and all the family! Deborah That was really nice, thanks for sending. Louise Hope you also had a nice Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving to all our wonderful family and friends. Trust your turkey and trimmings go well with whatever wine, (Riesling, Gewürztraminer, Pinot Noir, per esempio), you choose to pair your meal with. All the very best from Burns Street! Cheers, Chloë, Lady Dar, Patrizzio, Etta and Duke!
Happy Thanksgiving, Patrick! and thanks for the experience (I'm one who always likes to watch somebody bake). Jack and I think of you often and suppose you're enjoying Okanagan living. Vancouver is the poorer without you.
Best always -- Jane All the best from all of us here at Falcon Lake.
thx for the recipes. Look good but far too complicated and time wasting for me!!
Great happy thxgiving to you and Corinne. We're not even celebrating thxgiving mealwise here - I've been away kayaking and Phil forgot to get anything in.
I'm off again backpacking for 6 days starting Oct 23, down Grande canyon with a friend from here. Phil will be relaxing at home which he likes. hugs to you both from Gill
Happy Thanksgiving Patrick, Lady Dar and Chloe! We hope hope that you are on the mend Patrick. For our part, we our home in Summerland after a fantastic trip to Ireland with its beautiful countryside, rich history and wonderful people. To be sure, we are back into gardening--the harvest, the cleanup and the tuneup. Also, we have hit the tennis courts several times, but we will spend ten or so days in Alberta with the grandchildren before getting into our fall and winter routine. I will get a piece of our rhubarb plant for you perhaps as early as Tuesday when we are in Penticton on Tuesday. We will set a dinner date when we return from Edmonton. Cheers, Tim and Marian
Thank you sooooooo much for the Thanksgiving Card. Hope you both have a wonderful day tomorrow. Hope to see you soon. Cheers & Hugs from Hildegard Von Bingen. Thank you for the Thanksgiving greetings, Patrick. We had a big dinner today with our girls and families in Powell River, a beautiful mostly sunny day on the ocean. Hope you and Corinne are having a good weekend. Bruni and Tony Multo grazie Patrizzio! Have a wonderful thanksgiving xx
Thank You All / Patrick for greetings wish I were there with you all enjoying food and wine. A lot of things have happened here Firstly My dad has been critically ill and hospitalized and underwent heart surgery at great risk but survived and recently discharged from hospital to home. Secondly, same day dad went home I got servere pain on neck and Left arm, one week later after various tests and an MR scan I have learnt that I have TWO disc prolapses in the neck! Waiting for more treatment including referred to neurosurgeons but I think treatment will be conservative with out operation Thus a very restricted life here No swimning no knitting No computer No shopping etc. Now waiting for surgeons and will start physiotherapy. Bad luck. at least not malign disease. Only good thing now is I just had My kitchen and bath room renewed, so nice to be around home. Love, Margareta
This morning The Sisterhood were busy preparing food for Thanksgiving while I was the peeler and chopper of vegetables, then scullion with mountains of pots and pans and other utensils to load or wash. Lady Dar put the 14 lb turkey in our electric roaster and once it was on we left to go wine-tasting on The Naramata Bench, needing to pick up about nine more bottles for the case Chloë would mule back for Stefano. Hit Upper Bench, La Frenz, Black Widow and Terravista before we stopped at Three Sisters. New place, tasting room has only been open for a couple of months. Not overly impressed with whites but a couple of the reds show promise so will be curious to taste again when they re-open next spring, with latest vintages.
Back home to put on stove timer for Chloë's cornbread stuffing and Lady Dar's sausage/apple dressing, what was left over after turkey was stuffed. Kitchen, in particular, was starting to smell pretty good as the smell of baking turkey wafted throughout the house. We had tickets for the 4:20 pm show, The Girl on the Train, based on the 2015 novel of the same name by British author Paula Hawkins. I'd not read the book but both Lady Dar and Chloë had. Although I found it a tad slow at the start, I was soon quite gripped by the unfolding events and revelations. Only niggling criticism I might have is that I would rather it had been set in London, where novel locates the story, as opposed to Westchester, New York. Still, I liked film and would recommend it.
Back home to find the fragrant bird was done to poifection so, assisted by a 2015 8th Generation Riesling, 12.7%, we set about readying rest of dinner fixings and once everything was done, we sat down to enjoy a veritable feast. Our dinner companions were Donald and Hillary as we'd recorded debate. One of the quietest Thanksgiving dinners we've had in years and must say that it was truly quite pleasant to have just the three of us around the table, savouring our morethan abundant, succulent fare. Sometimes, especially with back-to-back, large, noisy holiday gatherings, number of people can become rather tedious and overwhelming, even for an extrovert like me! Enjoyed another 8th Generation wine, this time a 2014 Pinot Noir, 14.3%, and must say I'm becoming more partial to this varietal as, historically, it has not been on of my favourites.
I was too, too full for dessert, either pumpkin pie, (Courtesy of our real estate agent, Gil Czabo, who passes them out to all his clients before holiday.), or pumpkin cheesecake cupcakes, (Courtesy of Lady Dar. I'm saving both for when we will be returning to more episodes of The Wire! [Have been meaning to watch this for ages so finally got around to starting last week.] Worked off some of the wonderful meal by cleaning up kitchen and putting away overlefts then joined The Goils in Rumpus Room to watch latest recorded episode of The Blacklist before retiring to read in bed. Am now glued to Jussi Adler-Olsen's A Conspiracy of Faith, third in his Department Q series. Grim but gripping!
Thanks so much for the newsy letter and the Thanksgiving card... Happy Thanksgiving to you all. Our friends arrived yesterday so we are planning our dinner for tomorrow.... we are looking forward to some warmer weather this week as we plan to golf on Tuesday and Wednesday this week...With this cool weather I have already used the slow cooker...:)..and have been wearing some of the warmer clothes that we left in the container! Another one of our friends is coming on Thursday so we will be busy!!! Keep warm and will talk to you soon..
Louise and Henryk
Dear Patrick and Corinne! Thank you so much for your lovely e-card and sentiments! I'll have a glass of Summergate wine in your honour tonight! Tomorrow my canoeing buddy Katy is hosting Thanksgiving dinner for myself and 10 others. So nice of her and should be fun! I'm bringing the whipped cream for the pumpkin pie.... I hope you are having a lovely weekend and will manage to have a turkey dinner with all the fixings. Thanks for the bridge post mortem, Patrick. I look forward to joining you this Tuesday. I'll host the following week! All the best, I hope the recovery is going well..... Pam
Hildi asked if I would send this info to my list. Consider it done! Cheers, Jim.
Take Back the Wild: Hello all, The Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) has received funds to sponsor conservation training for seniors in the Okanagan and Similkameen. "Take Back the Wild"is a new CPAWS-BC project to bring a diverse group of seniors together to talk about conservation issues and learn now to take effective action by running their own campaigns. Sessions take place over two weekends in November. The retreat-style training program is completely free. Please pass this information on to other people who might be interested and check out the poster and web link for more information on the initiative. http://cpawsbc.org/campaigns/seniors CPAWS did the same thing with youth earlier in the year, so here's an opportunity for those over 60 to learn skills applicable to environmental advocacy. Regards Margaret
Annemarie Bartlome Dear Corinne..dear Patrizzio.. Thanks for you answer..we let you know..if we have more information of our planed visit.. Greatings Annamaria and Rudi R
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