La la la la....Lemon

My weekend may not have been as exciting as yours, but it was still a good one.

Bought a Meyer lemon tree yesterday.  I'll be happy if I can keep this alive and actually use the lemons on it.  That's the plan anyway.  What's the best way to remove dirty water spray marks from leaves?

Had a nice outdoor dinner of bread, cheese and potato salad last night. Came across this guy.  I'm a snake fan.

Totally skipped fireworks the other night.  I'm not really a fireworks person, I think most people are, sorry for that (not really).

Talking about lemons reminded me of this:

 

Photo Show

Show went REALLY well, we had HUGE crowds, in fact it was crowded for the entire time the show was opened and then some!

This was our promo in the local arts and entertainment paper:

Before the crowds came, me doing the final set-up of our video loop.  My photos are to the right of the video screen.  I appear to be one-legged below!  Thank god Cyndi took some shots because I didn't take very many!

First screen of the video loop:

People starting to arrive.  The clock hit 8 and a wave piled up the stairs!

Another shot including my photos to the right, before the crowds came.

 The chalkboard wall was well-received!

Hiding out at the back of the space where the couches, food and drinks were!

And these are just random kittens from Saturday.  I could just eat that little orange one up.

Do you remember when my blog used to be interesting and exciting and full of intrigue?  You don't?

Me neither.

Femme Fatales

The photography exhibit is coming up, here's the postcards I designed for it, I think they came out nicely:

It's shaping up to be a good time; food, wine, burlesque dancers, lots of art.  Hey, if you're in the area drop by and join the party for a bit!!

The Evolution of the Black Bean Taco

There's not much I miss about not eating meat except for tacos.  Man, do I love tacos.  And nothing is worse than a fake taco, you know, the kind stuffed full of nasty old soy fake meat.  (I absolutely hate vegetarian and vegan fake "meat" dishes, we have a vegan restaurant nearby that I won't eat at because everything is "mock" chicken this and that and it's just awful in my opinion).  But I've come up with a taco version that is, in my opinion, even better than a greasy beef taco and I can almost guarantee that if you served my version to a meat lover and didn't tell them, they would NOT know the difference. It was a pleasant surprise to discover that it was both delicious as it was (a black bean taco) and as the best mock meat dish I've personally ever had.

It all starts with a box of Sol Cuisine spicy bean burgers.

I cook them up and break them up as I do so.  The box comes with 4 but 2 is tons.  I swear the texture starts to become just like beef once you get going at it.

I then add about a 1/2 cup of water and a 1/2 pack of taco seasoning to the cooked bean burger "meat" and stir it in.  It's incorporated really quickly, no need to simmer.

Then, you just build your tacos (tell me that doesn't look like ground beef)!

I like salsa and cheese first...

then tomato and avocado on mine.

Oh, and I'm a bit of a sour cream addict.

Seriously, if you are looking to get even a tiny bit healthier in your diet or just want a good substitute for a once a week non-meat meal option, you won't be disappointed by these if you like tacos!  And they aren't really all that healthy right?  Kind of like vegetarian fast food really, especially if you use the taco kit (like I did this time, sometimes you want fast and easy)!

Friday Night Lights

occasionally we do still go out.  This was Alan Gregor.  The place was getting pretty packed even though you can't really tell here and I had to stand on the ledge along the bar to see anything, so yeah.

Here I am, always locked and loaded with the gripping content!  You didn't think I was going to review this or anything right?  Because, well, I'm not.  We went, we drank, we saw kind of thing.

Feathers and Fading Followers

Changing the URL of this blog has effectively killed 8 years of established blogging and yet surprisingly, I don't particularly care.

Also, I bought this for my new phone, I think it's pretty awesome.

Darrick is away for work Mon - Thurs and will be now for the next few months.  I have to confess, it kind of sucks.  Tonight is trivia and it looks like only Colleen and I will be going.  As we are normally a team of 6, this could be a problem.  Guess we'll see how we do.

Figuring

I guess there's a point where you life kind of mellows into a sort of everyday nothing
that can't be right
but it looks like that's what happens
I don't really want it to happen to me
but it might be too late
or I might be too old
see?
even now, I can't figure things out.

Change is Coming

So I think I will be changing this blog yet again.  I'd like to devote www.photolocity.ca exclusively to my art and photography and use wander-further.com for the blog (I've owned that domain name for a year now and not used it, typical isn't it).  I guess I'll start by changing this to wander-further.com and build a new site for the photography.

I suppose changing the domain name of this blog will nullify all the work I've done in building links and whatnot but this needs to be done.  Some parts of this blog are quite frankly purely assinine and not representative of my work.

I've started the process so please take note that this blog will be at www.wander-further.com  very shortly (approx. 6 -12 hrs)

THANKS!

Know What Happened?

well, remember how a few posts below I told you my image was short-listed as a finalist in a photo competition?  Guess what?  I won the amateur division I was in!  Yay me!

For Sale

So here's the part of selling your home that is not fun.  The stupidity of the expectations of potential purchasers. In the past couple of days people have:

a. Been convinced there was a massive leak in the condo due to the filter sound emanating from the aquarium that would have been the FIRST thing they saw as it is RIGHT IN YOUR FACE when you come in the front door. And seriously, do you REALLY think we have a constant, running water leak draining somewhere in the unit?  SERIOUSLY?  You genuinely ARE that ridiculous?  Because I think we would have drowned years ago if that were the case.  SIGH.

b. decided I have too many "knick-knacks" (thanks for the decorating tips and by the way, none of my STUFF is for sale so use your mind and look beyond my vases and books)

Oh christ, there's more but why bother?  And yeah, yeah I KNOW that people are STUPID and cannot visualize anything anymore without it being rightthereinfrontoftheireyes so I'll play the little staging game but seriously. Tonight I will be packing our things up and basically living with a bare minimum of items around us because as with so many things in life apparently there is  RIGHT way to do this even if everything is very clean and mostly organized, so fine.

This is stressing me out.  I have to drag my packed boxes up to my sister's house since I have nowhere to keep them.

I really hope this is over soon!

so yeah, it looks like a whole week went by there.  After all this time, I'm just running out of steam here.  You know, it happens.

Birthday Soda Pop

I've wanted one of these for awhile now. And just a couple of days ago I was talking about it again. Little did I know that Darrick had already ordered one and it arrived yesterday!

Yes, a Sodastream!  I never drink pop but now I can make my own healthy pop out of any kind of juice!  I think I want to make grapefruit next (we have elderflower in the fridge already, yum!)

The Continuing Saga

Just found out one of my images is short-listed for the photography competition at THIS  festival.  I swear, suddenly I am super busy with all of this, I wish I'd started doing all this sooner.

At the same time, it's all a bit stressful, I'm someone who looks very calm on the outside, but on the inside I'm constantly churning with stress and anxiety.  It's getting better but still, need to work on controlling it!

Don't want to talk about the home search/sale for fear of jinxing.  Will update when I have good, solid news to share.