Parentheticals

And all the men and women merely vikings. We didn't write last leek because we were out of town on Monday. This post will cover two weeks. Tuesday the 26th Alison drove out to deliver the duckling to someone that wanted it. The drop off was successful, however we didn't actually deliver the duckling to the person that wanted it, but to the secretary of the office. Hopefully the guy got the duck and is now enjoying his new duck. The whole rest of the week was pretty much consumed by getting ready for the trip, and processing the remainder of the apricots. On Thursday we drove out of town to start our 21 hour drive to Lake Winnipeg. The kids were surprisingly good during the drive. Alison had a scheme wherein we stopped every three hours to let the kids play and then we gave the kids new and exciting toys at the end of each of these stops. The kids went through the entire trip there without nearly any screaming or fighting. I didn't believe it was possible. We als...

This week Alison has felt pretty good most of the week. We even got the entire house cleaned on Saturday for the first time in a long time. It was nice to have the house clean (even if it doesn't last very long.) Our gardens are starting to grow wonderfully. We stole some lettuce, strawberries, raspberries, chives, and other various plants from Sheila and Scott (they had some extra that had volunteered from last year). The raspberries died, and so did most of the lettuce, but the strawberries, mint, and chives transplanted like champs. We got a weed whacker last week, and tried it out this week (a little bit). It worked well. I still need to whack most of the weeds in the front yard. The funny thing is that the more weeds that I look at the more edible plants that I am finding in the yard. As of yet we have lambs-quarters, mallow, henpeck, alfalfa, blue mustard, shepherds purse, nettle, and I am sure that we will find other varieties edible as we look more. We have also found...