Home!

I forgot how cold Alberta can be! It's not even -20 and I was wearing 2 fleeces and a jacket today. It's good to be home though. I'm looking forward to seeing friends and catching up with family. I'm heading up to Edmonton in the next few days for Christmas. After that it's back to Calgary for a bit and then I'm heading back to the coast on the 30th.

The last week at Capernwray before coming out here was nice and relaxed. The students (including my brother) left on the 8th. The next week was a bunch of cooking, cleaning, enjoying nice long meal times, working maintenance for a couple days and a Lord of the Rings marathon. One of the "highlights" was cleaning our 25 yr. old ovens. It started with just cleaning the inside of the ovens. That gets done every week. We kept finding more and more stuff to clean and by the time we were done we'd taken apart most of the oven. It took all four cooks the entire day to get everything clean. It was fun... as you can see.

This was just a general update on what's happening in my life right now. The next posts will probably be a bit more focused on either cooking or what I'm learning. Catch ya later and Merry Christmas!