Happy birthday to my mom!

Happy birthday to my mom.

This will be a long post, we can say in honour of her birthday.

I had the day off today. I went to pick up some groceries at Giant Tiger. On the way there I ran into Diana who was on her way to meet Lisa. A few minutes later I ran into Tanya who was on her way to meet her mother. It was funny that I saw them both at about the same time as I thought they might be meeting together it was that close, but it was evidently coincidental.

The reason my garden smells nice:

The reason my desk at work smells nice (thank you gift):

Today I made the best Chef's Plate recipe so far- Cheeseburger slider salad:

 Cutting up a mini cucumber to make pickles:

Making quick pickles!

 Making the sliders (mini patties):

 Cooking the sliders:

 Sauce for the salad- mayo, olive oil and leftover pickling juice

 Making croutons:

 The croutons were cooked in the same pan as the sliders and they absorbed all the leftover juice and toasted up quite nicely.

 Cooked sliders:

 Putting it all together- salad + sliders + pickles+ croutons + YUM!

After dinner I went to the Kingston House of Prayer. Spora was evidently playing. It was nice to see Jeff again. The meeting is in a very small room so it is hard to be as reclusive as I like to be.

James had soccer tonight and they won 15-0.

Tomorrow is James' big clarinet performance at school. In honour of Oma of course!