The girls were watching some cartoons and I decided to make muffins this morning. I had only used the convection microwave one other time. This was going great until we couldn’t find the rack required for convection baking. After looking everywhere, I enlisted everyone to help me. We were all lifting and crouching in search of the specific rack until I finally found it under some cans. Phew! I thought maybe we had gotten rid of it and I would have just had to cook the dough in a regular microwave. They came out pretty great. Not quite as crisp but moist and delicious.
After some important tasks of switching our residence and researching schools a little more we decided to go rent some canoes—Anna calls it canozing. <3 We packed up some snacks and headed to the marina, booked some canoes and we were off! We went to a cove and the girls swam but I wasn’t excited about this one because the mud was too squishy and it made your shoes come off in the water. We have needed shoes a lot of the time because the shores have been so rocky they really hurt. So we headed out again to a more rocky beach. Although rocky, it was easier to walk on and the rocks were beautiful oranges and reds! I loved canoeing. The girls had a great time since we stopped along the way and they could bob in the water in their life vests. This is a great way to visit places without having to deal with other people and worry about Covid while swimming. Keith did a lot of bailing of water for some unknown reason.
Back at the marina we had some pretty great ice cream and fed the fish before heading back for a lovely night fire.
Things we did:
- Keith worked
- Watched cartoons
- Used the convection microwave to bake Whole Wheat Banana Muffins—the whole family pitched in to find the rack required for this feat
- Researched schools for the girls and landed on virtual again this year but since I’m job-less right now their “Meet the Teacher” is going to be a little anticlimactic (me).
- Went to the playground
- Rented a canoe for 2-hours and canoed around Pomme de Terre SP Lake—we visited a little cove and saw two different kinds of tracks (a big dog or deer and racoon maybe?), we visited a big, beautiful beach with orange and red rocks, we visited a rock wall (where I sat on the rock and held the canoe in and I think I could bit by bugs on my butt like 10 times)
- Had ice cream at the marina
- Fed the fish
- Built a fire
- Took a shower in the private campground shower with Anna
- Did a load of laundry (we are now those people that remove other people’s laundry from the machines to use them believing it is just as rude to hog the only washer/dryer by not picking it up
- Anna and I saw a deer
- Dinner: Rao’s Four Cheese sauce and spaghetti with salad
- Smores
- Stayed up late until it was dark enough to see the big dipper and read a book outside
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canoeing shall now forever be called canoooozing.