Leida

I had an absolutely marvelous weekend. It was the Canadian Thanksgiving, and I was taking Group Fitness Foundamentals Course with Choreography component in my bid to become a fotness instructor one day. We worked out a lot, and got to learn a lot of stuff, like fitness music beats per minute, and cueing… mainly it was fun!

It is also bitterly cold here, and we had a fresh dump of snow - the first snow came in on the morning of my daughter’s birthday about a week ago… It’s would be whickedly beautiful, if we haven’t had such a short and cold summer this year. But, as usual, here, the trees turn from green to white.

We also did have a very healthy turkey dinner that even my husband can cook (and he did, in a sense!). I skinned a cheapo whole turkey, seasoned its abundant breast with lemon pepper, and loaded it into the slow-cooker. The small slowcooker got loaded with chopped sweet potatoes, coconut and pecans. My husband then flicked the appropriate switches, and the dinner was ready when I came back home, save for gravy, a bit of mushing and topping the potatoes with mini-marshmellows. I am going to make stock from the left-over turkey.

We’ve also got 2 lovely pumpkins. Believe it or not, the store run out of canned pumpkins, so I got one for making pumpkin-cream cheese squares I promissed my husband. It’s easy to process, actually, I just cut it into 8 or so large chunks, and I microwave each for 20 min, then mush it, boil it up with a bit of sugar and salt, and put in sterilized glass jars to be stored in the fridge. I have a feeling we’ll have a lot of pumkin favored breads, muffins and what not over the next few months.

A beautiful Thanksgiving, yes. The only dumper is that I managed to pull my back when we were unloading the groceries, and couldn’t take my daughter out on Monday afternoon because of it. I am keeping my fingers crossed that it heals quickly, and I can work-out again. I am planning to do a gentle stretching routine tomorrow morning… and will build up from there.

I still can’t believe how cold and snowy it is, and it’s only mid-October.