celebrating kitchen power tool acquisions

We have been without a working food processor for some unknown number of months now, and finally decided to do something about it this week, since we were in the big-box store part of town picking up supplies to run electricity to one of the sheds. For the most part food processors look more or less the same as they have since I got my first one back in highschool, but sometime reasonably recently someone in the industry came up with a brilliant idea: The one we purchased has a drawer built into it which has slots for all of the blades and graters. Yes, indeed, we were willing to pay just a little more to have a safe place to store that stuff where it would be easy to find and not at all in the way.

Having purchased the new toy it was necessary to buy some ingredients yesterday so I could play with it. The result was a lovely ( Spinach-Roasted Garlic Sauce )

mystery gravel

While we still had lord_kjar's dad's tractor here this summer one of the things he did was expand the parking area by the house, and level out the part of the yard that used to get deep mud puddles when it rained. In the process he unearthed a fair few medium sized rocks which got piled in a heap next to the parking area, and just left there. If they are needed for the earth cellar we can move them later, and if not we can use them for other landscaping, or, just have a pile of rocks. We haven't really paid much attention to that pile, other than adding to it now and then over the course of the summer's project time.

Today, when we got home we noticed that, in addition to rocks, there is also a coating of gravel on that pile. Gravel we didn't put there. Looking closer at it we see that mixed into that gravel is a bunch of maple leaves. We don't have any maple trees on our property. Looking around a bit more we could see tire marks from our tractor frozen into the dirt on the part of the driveway we have yet to spread gravel over, and on the part of the driveway leading up to the parking area, we could see tire marks from a very different tractor, with much different space to its treads. Therefore we know that whomever came into our yard and dumped gravel on our rock pile did so a at least couple of days ago, before the dirt froze.

What we don't know is who put it there, or why. We sure would have liked to have been here when they did, then we could have suggested that instead of mixing gravel with the rocks it would be better to dump it on the new part of the parking area, which could use some gravel...

In other news my calender is looking rather full the next few weeks. Not only is stuff still very busy at work, we will be doing lots on the next few weekends. This weekend it looks like we will host the party for the choir at our house. The following weekend we drive to Umeå (four hours south) for an SCA dance event. The weekend after that we drive to Skellefteå (two hours south) to help lord_kjar's little brother move to the new house they just bought. The weekend after that we might participate in another Lavj, and the one thereafter I fly to France to visit linda_linsefors.