Category Archives: kitchen

Possum Patrol

Here’s this goofy cat, pretending she’s a valuable member of home security around here.  Note the stalking lioness posture and the intensity of purpose. Funny thing is that once the temp goes below zero she seems to think she can conduct her surveillance from the comfort of the kitchen window. 

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Stare Down at Breakfast

This crazy cat has cabin fever! Her first trip into our new winter season was this morning, and she freaked! If I hadn’t opened the door, she’d have left a Wily Coyote style hole in it on her way through!  So she stalks me, she spends time glaring out the window. . She chases her toys, and then when she goes missing, I’ll find a big lump under the covers in my bed!! This is the stare down I got while making breakfast this morning. It might be a long winter.
 

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Teapot Sill Life

When we were young and working in Calgary, my sister and I lived together. This  teapot was a birthday gift she gave to me at that time.  Now 30 years later it is still my favourite teapot, used for special occasions.  This week, I had company who brought these flowers.  We had tea, and I’d bought groceries, thus the avocado on the cupboard.  All these events coincided in a “found still life” on my kitchen cupboard.
 

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Summer Kitchen

It’s so great to have a garden again, after several years without.  There’s something about being out in my bare feet amongst the vegetables.  This has been a fantastic tomato and pepper year, and this week I started canning both. The result was a “found still life” on my kitchen cupboard.  Anybody for pickled peppers?   

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September Song

Today’s painting is another attempt at a more direct style of using watercolour, with no drawing ahead of time and a one-stroke style of applying the paint. It’s still not the result I want, but I intend to keep on trying. 

The flowers are from the yard…a reminder that though the calendar says summer is nearly over, we still have lots of flowers to look forward to for a month or so anyway.

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A Nod to Summer

Big doings in the family this weekend, and I’m enjoying the festivities, so no painting today.  Instead, a photo…A Nod to Summer, because today there’s a change in the wind, and it has the nip of fall. This is one of the photos from pickling day and here’s my wonky little sunflower (the yellow one) from a blog painting a few days ago.  There’s so much difference between a painting and a photograph, and each has it’s charms. 

Happy weekend all!

Flowers & Pickles

 If you grew up in a rural environment and in my generation, then you know what August was all about! We would can and freeze, butcher,  harvest and pickle every garden and farm product we had on the place! Amongst all that we’d be making meals for our sizable family plus the haying crew or the combiners, depending on the year, along with whoever else showed up.  By the end of those summer days (some times around midnight) we’d  swear we never wanted to cook another meal, or wash another dish!
 No wonder I can’t let summer go by without making a few pickles at the very least. I did a dozen jars of dills last evening,(I was finished long before midnight) and this was the still life I “found” on my cupboard this morning.  

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Squash Blossoms

While I’ve been off to Calgary and Nanton, my little garden has been very busy…first we had all that rain, and now lots of sun and heat. The squash have broken through the chicken wire fence (rigged up to keep the deer out) and long tendrils loaded with blossoms, gallop forth by about a foot a day!  I’m into the recipe books looking for recipes for squash-blossom-anything.  Ideas anyone?

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XL Chuckwagon

Here’s another relic of the past.  The XL Ranch was across the Bow River from our winter pastures, and this old chuckwagon was still around when I was young.  The Centennial of the Canadian Cattlemen’s Assoc. in 1996 was good for anyone who still knew how to build these utilitarian units since many big ranches had new ones built to take on the big cattle drive across the British Block north of Medicine Hat that year. 

When the west was being settled, these kitchens on wheels rolled with the cattle (and the cowboys who worked with them), and the grumpy old cooks were the most popular guys in camp….famous for their talent with bacon, biscuits and beans.

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In the Spotlight

Kinda liking these pears lately….what can I say, they have personality.  Maybe I’m spending too much time in my own company.  I notice that I’m very easily entertained.

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