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There’s a Lethal Weapon marathon on. there are lots of movie marathons on tv, but a Lethal Weapon marathon is one that you really can’t argue with. mostly because it’s from the time before Mel Gibson turned into a total batshit crazy dipshit.
we took Barnard to the off leash park today. as obvious from the above picture, someone wasn’t allowed to be off leash the whole time…
I got a small load of lumber today because one of Aimée’s oldest friends is moving to calgary and asked if we wanted some wood. we’re also taking care of his humidor until he gets settled down there.
a very basic and important tenet of Manimalism is that you should never, ever refuse free lumber. especially when you have tie straps waiting in your truck for just such an occasion.
we had all the parentals over for easter dinner yesterday. my sister and her boyfriend are in Maui. I didnt know they were in Maui until Aimée told me last week right after my sister texted her that they’d landed safely. I told her next time she has to take us.
all the parentals had a good time and good food.
i smoked two chickens because SMOKED CHICKENS.
Aimée made a roast chicken in her Emile Henry because roast chicken always tastes better in french cooking dishes. and mashed taters. and rainbow quinoa. and asparagus. but I contributed SMOKED CHICKENS. don’t forge that.
there was a pre-dinner Skype chat with New Zealand. I would like to go there because New Zealand.
Friday and Saturday were spent with Marty, Jamie, Ally and Supa Lee. and Supa Lee’s friend Dale (aka Shrek) and his daughter Kesley at a Calgary Roughnecks lacrosse game. I’d never actually ever really watched lacrosse before. when you’re used to watching hockey and you’ve reffed roller derby, you kind of take a while to figure out why they aren’t calling all the elbows and cross checks and full out dive bombs. I laughed when they introduced the team and the goalies came out because all their equipment makes them runs like a really fat kid.
Bernard got to come with us and Supe Lee fed him lots of chicken jerky. the aftermath of this was that Bernard’s farts smelled like chicken noodle soup for a day.
if you’ve never wondered what that’s like, you don’t need to start.
we also went to the Silk Road Spice Merchant. we came out with several new jars and a Le Creuset mortar and pestle. I may have also just submitted another order online about ten minutes ago to get some other stuff…
like truffles. REAL TRUFFLES. ok, not the all the way black truffle that you see on tv, but still, whoe Black Winter Truffles. and actual black truffle salt. and whole tumeric. and whole star anise. and nigella seeds. and anardana. this adds to the garlic powder, steak spice, black cardamom, whole nutmeg and cinnamon sticks we walked out of the store with.
I WILL BE A SPICE EXPERT.
EX. Per. TUH!
oh, when we were at the off leash park today, we came around a bend and heard geese. turns out these two Canada’s had invaded an eagle nest on top of a telephone pole. I thought that was weird since I’ve never seen geese in a nest that high. I’ve never seen geese sitting on a telephone pole either.
but the cool thing was that there were two eagles and one was pretty pissed off and dive bombing the geese while they were standing in the nest.
it was all SCREEE! honk HONK! SCREEE!!!
kind of like the Red Baron bit that Snoopy does but not at all.
that bit scared the shit out of me when I was a kid…
my mom made me peanut butter bacon cookies.